Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1938-05-12
By L. L. STEVENSON

City Life: After 10 p. M, those
who would dance in the Trianon
room of the Ambassador must wear
formal attire. The other evening
about 9, Phillips Lord showed up in
a neat dark blue suit. Having dined,
he desired to dance, but the formal
hour had struck. That didn't stop
him. After a conference, the head
waiter turned his duties over to a
captain and retired behind screen
with Lord. When Lord came out he
was wearing the walters Tuxedo,
tie and vest and was quite regulation
except that the head waiter weighs
about 220 pounds and Lords ton
mage is considerably less. Despite
the room thus afforded, he drew ap-
plause from a number of specta-
tors, including Mary Brian of the
movies. The head waiter stayed
behind the screen until Lord fin
ished dancing He didn't kick. The
rent of his evening attire brought
him SIS dance.
Neighbors: An uptown family
made vigorous complaint to the
building superintendent because
each morning at about when they
were doing their best sleeping, they
were awakened by overhead noises
which sounded as if the family up
stairs were putting on tumbling
act or at least the Susie-Q in most
violent form. The family upstairs
maintained stoutly that at 5 a. m.
they too were sleeping, so there
could be no guilt on their part. Just
when it looked as if one of those
apartment house feuds was about
to be born, the more or less dis
tracted superintendent took a hand.
At 5 a. m. he was on watch and,
hearing the tumult, dashed upstairs
and pushed the bell until he got re-
Spouse. The family had been asleep
all right. So soundly asleep that
they hadn't heard their fifty pound
bulldog taking its morning exercise.
Hint: Speaking of dogs reminds
me of Hugh Gray's Buddy, who
was a big fellow mostly airdale
and, weighted with years, passed
away some time ago and is now
sleeping peacefully on the banks of
the Aspetuck. When the Grays lived
on Riverside drive, Buddy was an
important member of the house
hold. An entertainer in a way, he
would sing whenever Ruth Gray
played Buddy" But he was set in
his ways, and so when his bedtime
came, about 10 p. M, if guests were
present he would become uneasy
and show Enthusiastically a desire to
be taken out. If that had no effect,
he would go up to each guest and
opening his mouth, yawn prodig-
ously and noisily. And he'd keep
that up until he got action.
Memories: Theater incidents
like to think about: All the scenes
between Dudley Digges and Peter
Holden as Cramps and Pud, in ION
Borrowed Time" Imogene
Coca's burlesque of 'Our Town" in
"Who's Who" Ed Wynn COM
pletely surrounded by dogs in "Hur-
ray for What" The engine cab
scenes in Casey Jones" the
quiet, genial style of Frank Craven
building word pictures in "Our
Town Sir Cedric Hardwicke,
the canon, carrying in Bridgid Julie
Haydon), the servant girl, after she
had been stoned by a mob i.
Robert Speaight's reading of his
lines in Murder in the Cathedral
:. Gertrude Lawrence's last scene
(when she snaps a lead penciD in
Susan and God" George M.
Cohan in "Td Rather Be Right"
saying to Robert Less, "Take law,
Cummings"
Names: Alan Kent, of WNEW,
supplied me with this list Of swing
terms for various musical instru-
ments: Violin, scratch box; piano,
box or ivory crate; accordion,
squeeze box or push noise; saxo-
phone, hook tube or pipe; trumpet,
satchel; trombone, gobble horn or
slush pump or smear tube; drums,
suitcase or thunder skin; guitar,
pork shops; bass viol, doghouse;
tuba, grunt iron; clarinet, night
stick or squeeze; flute, whistle thing.
Risky: One of the local radio sta
tons has new amateur hour, per-
forming pets-singing dogs, cats
and mice. Parrots are barred. They
sometimes used the wrong words at
the wrong time.
a Bell Syndicate. Service.