The Washington times., 1937-05-11
THE VOICE OF
Broadway
BY Louis SObOI-
Weekend Odd-Ends!


Weekend Odd-Ends!
DR.. Erma Lublinsky, Nazi exile,
leaped to her death from hotel
window the other morning. An
eminent compatriot, also victim
of Nazi persecution, was not as
successful in his attempt to leap
from a window of the Edison Hotel.
Once he was the outstanding Gre
ator and manufacturer of book
bindings in Germany. He confided
all this to the man who had the
room adjoining his and limited
darby he had come to the end
of his resources. Tomorrow" he
said, cor the next day or the next
I'll open that window - ana
therell be no more trouble in this
world for me-" The neighbor notl-
fled the hotel management, which
came running UP only to find the
door bolted. They broke through
and found the man on the window
ledge ready to jump. Pinned to a
cushion of the bed was a note and
$11 in ST bills. This is all the
money 1 have left in the world.
said the note. please take SO.
which 1 owe for my room. Please
distribute the remaining So in tips.
Everybody has been nice to me IN
this country"
Tragic irony: Paul Jeans,
editor of the Miami Tribune,
went I'D to Tallahassee to lobby
for a bill which would require
the penning Of cattle to keep
them off the travelled highways
q growing menace to Florida
auto travel. The campaign sue
cessful, Jeans started for home.
He was killed when his car over
turned at high spectator hit
ting a COW!
Seems to me there is a para
graph in the brothers Of so-called
celebrities who have gone ahead
to click on their own. Teddy
Hart is becoming a stage and
screen ace without the aid of his
famed nbrettist-brother, Larry,
who collabs with Dick Rodgers.
Zeppo, once the patsy of the
Marx brothers quartet, eased out,
became a booking agent whose
yearly earnings equal (and last
year surpasseO that Of Groucho,
Harpo and Chico. Bob Crosby,
Bing's younger brother. is taking
his place in the orchestra world
=. Henry Anton is gaining a Ger.
tain measure of fame for his
yarns about swing musicians, ap-
pearing in the S. Eve. Post, Col
ler's and other mags. he Is the
young brother of CartooniSt Will
liam Steig. Ira Gershwin does
as well as a librettist as George
in the melody field. i. Kenneth
MacKenna as an actor and 10
Mielziner, ace scenic designer,
had the same ma and pa. Harry
Revel MACK Gordon's song-writ-
ing partner) and Billy Revel, the
eccentric dancer of Moore and
Revel, do all right in their sepa-
rate endeavors. Come to think
of tit is a paragraph.
Jack Pearl explains why none
of the Broadway cOlumnistS are
members of the New York Pub
lie Library. Seems you have to
give two friends as references.
Dear Louis Sobol (writes Ben
nett Cert, head of Random
House,: The final pay-off on that
45c royalty you heard about is
that the single copy that it
covered was returned for credit
three days after the check was
mailed!
Charles Washburn, one of the
better publiciStS, who lately has
plunged into feverish literary &C
tivity, has just authored COM
prehensive tome tagged press
Agentry," in which he describes
the vagaries of the esteemed gents
of the Fifth Estate. Strangely
enuf, it makes for fascinating
reading and I am not at all sur
prised to hear that Columbia may
adopt it as a textbook for its
journalism course. Washburn re-
tells the story Of Anna Held's
famous milk bath engineered by
Ziegfeld and the thousands Of dol
lars worth of free publicity it in
spired. Then, aptly enuf, he
calls attention to Earl CARROTS
variation of the same stunt-dlp-
ping a nude girl into bathtub OF
champagne. Here, too, plenty o.
publicity NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. pub
ncity!
Fragments of the weekend:
Most of the depOsed strip gels
have been signed for Atlantic
City-and So. America - The 5
Kewpie dolls now appearing at
Leon & Eddie'S in the afternoons
weigh the calendar year-19S7
lbs. Barbette, famed trapeZe
artist remember him in Billy
Roses "JumbO"?), is paralyzed