Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-12-05
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CAvALCADE
5lnm By Louis SoboIn@IE
Dorm Mem Org Lane!

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THIS IS the way 1t was
10 years ago: England had
refused blond Sandra Ram
beau a visa TO accompany her
Egyptian prince fiance into his
sacred realms OF Nepol
Manhattan was preparing for
riotous Repeal Day celebration
-. The Drought (sic) was over
. We reported a conversation
with Leon Enken, host of Leon
e. Eddie's He was pesSl-
mistic about Broadway under
repeal t.. The glamour and eX-
element would be gone, was
his lament At the Stork
Club, Bill Corum returned from
a phone call saddened-word
had reached him that Bill Nc
Geehan had just passed away
Rudy Vallee was the star
at Joe Moss Hollywood-with
Alice Faye singing with his or
chestra occasionally -.
LEW LESLIE brought in a
new edition Of "Blackbirds" 49,.
We observed among the First
Nighters, the Jules Brulatours,
the Paul Whitemans, the Irving
Berlins, the Morris Gests, Ned
Wayburn. Peggy Fears and
Belle Baker We took Lee
TO the Mayfair's Saturday night
revcl 49, Joseph Schenck was
there with his new movie find,
Grace Poggi (she failed TO click
in the pics, however. despite the
build-up) =. Lita Grey Chaplin
was preSent-but not her usual
escort, Georges Carpenter
The rumor was that Gary
Cooper and Sandra Shaw were
secretly wed 80.
NAOMI SHAW wrote an
obituary for prohibition for our
colin, emitting IL "Notes on the
Passing OF a Dear Friend"
IL started something like this:
"Good-by, little speakie, 0ood-by,
II Uas nice while IL lasted, and !
shall always remember, With
sighs and a tear
The days when toe all quafed
that good needle beer
The Casino de Paree theater
cabaret opened, among the en-
tertainers being Max Baer and
Bee Palmer One OF the
towns visitors was Horace '.
Myers from the British West
Indies, who told IN his own the
DRY Of the six stages Of IntoXica-
ton: i--Jocose; 2-Verbose:
3-Morose; 4--Bellicose; s
LachrymOse; 6-ComotOse
We added n 7th--Rum-nose.
We THOUGHT Il uorthV Of
comment that Joan Crawford
had entertained at dinner both
Frdnchot Tone and Douglas
Fairbanks Jr. . With repeal
here, the Official NjrcrS' Man
nal 1Cos out-listipg I 200 cock
tails, f-ecs, punches. etc.
Hollywood iCds reporting n big
romance betlceeH Grctd Gdrbo
and Reuben MdmoaljoH
Mary Pickford poked her head
INTO oar office "Pn hoUHg
picture taken on roller skates
-Udnt a copg?" she asked
The s1loonkespers iCere proudly
displaying their ueW liquor IL
ceHses "Ifs 1conderful,"
most Of them insisted, "to be
able 10 look a federal man IN
the eve" We trent Deer 10
the CaSino-OH-the-Pdrk, r7n bg
Sidney Soiomon-dnd there ice
reported as guests Mrs. James
A. Farley, George S. kaufman,
MdriIyn Miller and Don AiUa-
RADIO. the irving Berlins and
WooilCorth DondhUe.
PAUL WHITMAN gave a
concert at the Metropolitan
Opera House-and no one APP
plauded louder than white
mustached Otto Kahn =. A
smart audience gathered at the
Ethel Barrymore Theater 10 in
spect "JeZebel." which was bow
ing in with Miriam Hopkins in
the lead Kay Francis Gre
lated something of a sensation
cas- she sweut down the aisle
and fater she was mobbed by
the youngsters in quest Of her
autograph-to the amusement
OF Ina Claire, Will HAYS and
Conrad Nagel I'll. Mike Roman
off was host at Jim Moriarty's
Marlborough House At the
Casino de Paree we found Billy
Rose, then managing director OF
the cabaret, RECALLING a table Of
guests with some StorieS-the
patrons being Philip Barry,
Donald Ogden Stewart, Dorothy
Parker, Robert Benchley and
Jock Whitney Katharine
Hepburn opened in The Lake
and the critics were unanimous
in branding il a dull and in
effectual play Kay Francis
and Kenneth McKenna were
ready 10 call their marriage n
day =. Doug Fairbanks Jr. was
denying he and Gertrude Law
renee were planning TO wed.
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