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Daily News from New York, New York • 32

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DAILY NEWS. MONDAY, MARCH 19, 1934 32 WW9mm 1 -yl By SIDNEY SKOLSKY. The Cossipel Truth Palm Springs, March 18. THE ACADEMY" awards met with the approval of Hollywood, there being; practically no dissension The Academy- went out of its way to make the results honest and announced that balloting; would continue until 8:00 o'clock of he banquet evening; Then many players arrived late and demanded tha By JOHN CHAPMAN. JOE SCHENCK, the movie big' shot, had one of his visits to Paris recently.

He has been there a lot, but has never been able to do very much with the French language. This time he put up at the. Hotel George Cinq. For a while he had a tough time getting home after a night out, because he couldn't make the taxi driver understand the address. "Otel Zhorshe Sank" it would be.

Toward the last, though, he got home every time. He just iold the driver, "Hotel Joe Schenck." Patrick's Day, in addition to being the birthday of my adored stepmother a girl of my age was also the anniversary of one Frank (Bring 'Eni Back Alive) Buck. Mr. Buck paid for the Frrnik has been off in the tropics again, making feet of film which in edited form will soon be released, at "lYild Cargo." If you can get it out of him he has the vxual line about beaut-stalking in the jungle getting the tiger or something out on a limb and dropping it into a net by sawing the limb in two with ritte, and that sort of thing. Bnt a more human drama that Frank has to tell might titled "Getting Ali Back Alive." Ali, Buck's 1 Malar boy in a number of expeditions, recently came to New York and is now on his way back home.

Ali is glad to be coin sf home, though he had one hell of a time here. Fur the St. Louis and other zoos Buck brought back a great wild cargo, and at Singapore he put Ali aboard the shut bringing: the animals. Ali, an unspoiled native, had right to vote bo voting continued until 10 o'clock or for two hours after the ballot boxes were supposed to be closed It was King Vidqr who said: "This year the election is on the level" Which caused every one to comment about the other years Although Katharine Hepburn wasn't present to receive her Oscar, her constant companion and the gal she resides with in Hollywood, Laura Harding, was there to hear Hepburn get a round of applause for a change The number of votes actually cast for these highly-touted prizes are kept a secret, but if you must By ED SULLIVAN. Men and Maids PAAL ROCKY and Tallulah Bankhead were license-hunting last week but she called it off Rudy Val'ee's newest diversion is Frances Stewart, of the Palais Royal choir Joe Lewis, the clown, and one of the Straus clan of Chicago are preacher-bound Janet Gaynor's biggest yearn is a movie actor, but it's hopeless he-, married British actors in Hollywood petitioned Herbert Marshall to reconcile with Edna Best, claiming his actions would tfamage all of them Roxy opens at Paramount.

Boston. March 30th. rating $5,000 for his exclusive end on an S- ticket Jack Kirkland and Jayne Shadduck. who will be married Friday, leave Saturday for a honeymoon in Spain George White, the ax tor. and Lois Eckhart have resumed the old romance Hepburn's shipboard peeve can be traced' to the fact that her "Spitfire" did "ess than $75,000 at Radio Citv.

and was aired after the first week. Three big American acts, Ethel Barrymore, Frances Williams and now Cab Calloway have flopped at the Palladium, London, so no more will be booked Miriam Hopkins, dissatisfied over her radio script in a recent broadcast, refused to go on until they threatened her with a $40,000 damage suit Merry Fahrney, Chicago heiress, got mixed up in the Nancy Carroll-Bolton Mallory fireworks as a publicity stunt for her bit in "Cleopatra" Mae Clark is getting plenty from Phillips Holmes for that auto accident that sent her to the hospital, and a beautiful friendship has ended Edith Craig, Richy's widow, and Archie Gottler, are serious C. B. -Dillingham and AI H. Woods, who have had tough breaks, were the first to-be invited to the Sam H.

Harris-George M. Cohan dinner. Dial E-R-T-S-2-V" and you will get a real giggle! As a result of the "Rasputin" suit in England, Anthony de Rothschild "4, 8- I i Will Rogers "He Should Have Cot Prize." never worn more than a sarong (Malay for shorts) in his life. Buck instructed the skipper of the ship to get Ali some red flannel underwear, a suit and an overcoat in Port Said not so he'd look civilized, but so he'd keep warm. Something interfered and the skipper forgot.

Ali got into the wintry Atlantic with no more than his middle covered and began to feel the cold. On board they outfitted him with some thin cotton khaki pants and a sheepskin coat. Buck met Ali at the boat in New York on a below-zero had American agents at the "House of Rothschild" premiere here to guard against slander, but they cabled back that there was no basis for action The Dufrenne hillina. in Franrm. nn.

nf I ri GREAT theatrical scandals i of time, the details of which were plenty messy, Z. was hushed up completely Eddie Carr omitted hi "Git Along Little Dougie" sketch because Mary Pick-ford was at the Central Park Casino Fridav nisht. and she 4 Vivienne Segal know there were only about eight hundred votes cast. A number of photograph of the actor and actresses you will see in the paper and magazines seated at a front banquet tables are partly phony. There was a side room with a special table all set up and a the stars arrived they were rushed info this room There they posed seated at the table and you will tee stars sitting together who didn't sea each other for the remainder of the evening Example: A photo of Gene Raymond and Dolores Del Rio at the tame table The real prize of the evening should have gone to the toastmaster, Will Rogers, who was at hi funniest He kidded the star and executive plenty He said, among other things, that if Sam Gotdwyn could make a speech before Harvard, he (Rogers) could address an academy And that Harvard had wired for a translation of Goldwyn's speech.

CHARLES FARRELL and Virginia Valli are again denying that rumor Not one of the Earl Carroll gals really wants to return to Broadway They are all angling to take screen tests Radio Pictures first purchased the screen rights to the novel "The Fountain" After many authors tried making a screen" adaptation, ihatflrm gave up and sold the novel to Metro Metro had a number of writers working on it but with no success So they decided to sell it And they sold it back to Radio, Which is again trying to make it into screen material. Sunny Joy Ingram is an unusual person She is the only girl in Hollywood who doesn't want to bet a movie star She is the head waitress at the Fox commissary and i better looking than many of tha stars that she direct to a table She ha been offered screen tests and every director who enters the restaurant offer her a role in a flicker She ha turned them all down She insist he wants to be an actre, not a movie tar Her ambition i to be in a play on Broadway Instead of taking a job in picture he i studying with a small theatre group in Pasadena and has been promised a part in a Broadway production. ALICE FAYE'S new constant companion is Nick Foran, who will be a hit when "Stand Up and Cheer" is released Although Mae West has just started work on "It Ain't No Sin," Herbert Fields is already busy rehearsing her next flicker It will be a musical Du Barry in the manner of Fields "Connecticut Yankee" The real tip-off that Douglas Fairbanks intends to reconcile with Mary Pickford is evidenced by the fact that he canceled the services of a press agent who was hired for tho special purpose of combating all the yarns which have been in Pickford's favor The most attractive sight in Hollywood these days is Judith Allen in that low-cut gown on the "Witching Hour" set A colored actor named Sleep'n Eat was needed to play a part in a flicker The studio discovered that he was in jail So they got him out of jail for three days and he played the role with guard standing watch. iy. it was iase in the afternoon and Frank just had time ia; Ali into a taxi and rush him to a big department fct.ti tiiv minutes before closing time.

You've got to keep this store opert until we get this br outfitted," said Frank. Around dinner time Ali marched forth in heavy underwear, socks, shoes, a beautiful blue suit, an overcoat, a muffler and a hat. Unable to talk English. Ali lived in a hotel arte with Buck and took his meals there, except when Frank personally escorted him somewhere. All's biggest experience was going to Billy La Hiff's Tavern, where white waiters waited on him.

All his life Ali had believed that white men were gods and masters, and here was one of them bringing him food. Even so, the Malay boy was glad to leave this dump of a town and head back to where it was warm. Most refreshing spot iv town and what a godsend it will on hot Summer days! is the plaza in Rockefeller Center, which turned on all the fountains on -Saturday ftr the first time. John D. O'Civie Virtue (begging At Graham's pardon) poises his shiny gold hide over Manhattan's sweetest mess of bnrblina water.

Things That Lead to Emotional Crises: c--Please see the credit manager." drama league wishes you to address them next Tuesday, Miss Le Callienne (or Miss Barry- was plenty The Betty Waterman rapture has chilled Harry Ander-. sons lad. Eddie, and that Lucky Strike model Have Smoke in Their Eyes. PRIM HARVARD went gay with a sex questionnaire last Billy Rose's "Crazy Quilt" panned by the critics, will clean up $250,000 (it's now in its third year) Marcella Johnson and Paul Mendoza are Cutting Up Touches at Palm Beach Vivienne Segal is in town and back in circulation again Get a load of Lil Tash-man's Russian sable cape, that's sump'n Ben Furr, Westchester columnist, will wed Rae Ninfo this month Jewelers who are melting $20 gold pieces will be Federal-raided The Billy Rauchs (he's in the Casa Loma band) expect Sir Stork The 42d Street Association should decorate Joe Fitzula, Selwyn Theatre sup't. (He had to be putmotored after extinguishing the blaze in the Crosby Gaige offices) canceled Jimmy Durante's night club dates for box-office reasons Mrs.

Stotesbury has okayed the Jimmy Cromwell-Ruth Hannigan attachment The Nat Lans are Talking It Over Because of the expected visit of Sir. Stork, ali profile shots of Sally Filers will be eliminated from her next picture Mary Iwis, who houses 14 dogs in her suite at the Ritz. now has 19, five dachshunds arriving this past week Edward G. Robinson and Director Eddie Mayo are Drawing on the "Dark Tower" set, Robinson insisting on more closeups Ray Mayer makes his flicker debut in Fox's racetrack yarn Peter Arno, after rehearsing a revue on the Coast for a week, called the whole thing off Ken Murray can't play New York theatres, wife-trouble Micky Alpert and Catherine Rand are blazing Evelyn Nesbit. at Atlantic City, is penning a book which she will peddle to the talkies Eddie the Chei Folies band, and Bobbie Hall are romancing.

THE COAST is gabbing about that songwriter who sends weekly presents to that brother-team here (one of them may go to the Coast next week to be with him) Gene Geiger may get back Longvue for $27,500 Joe Moss is trying to get Abe Lyman to open the Belle-vue-Stratford at Phillyfor him Melvin Block and Anita Wangrow will wed May 8 Buddy Rogers' band left tearful girls at the station, Neila Goodelle and Peggy McAllister moanin low, but Ray Baird took Dixie Dunbar with him in the act N. T. G. and his Paradise show-will rate at London's Dorchester House. It will cost the Rockefeller's exactly $250,000 to do "White Horse Inn" with-Harold B.

Franklin Arch Selwyn Franklin, incidentally, has Elizabeth Bergner under contract for his first American picture Last week was a big one for Phil Harm, the band maestro: his 2-reeler won the Academy award, and for the first time since it opened, Palais Royal turned the corner and netted Ben Marden a The Park Lane will buck the Chatham Walk with an outdoor restaurant D. A. Doran's wife died on the Coast over the week-end Mary Kirk Brown is in town J. Warren Kerrigan, one of the heart-thumpers of the silent era has a small bit in "Palooka" Sam Goldwyn's trip, to Russia is.off, Walt Disney is HUNfrER IS CONTEMTEB WITH ANV FOOD- SLEEP WITH ASM more)." "Lissen, Mr. O'Ryan, you can't talk that way to ma." "Just cut it the way you think best, barber." "I'm going to read 'Anthony Adverse tonight before going to bed.

"Please, I've never felt THAT wav about you. JIMMIE DAVIS. A reporter on another New Y'ork newspaper had' occasion the other day to send to the morgue for clippings on the sinking of the Lusitania, according to Bob Sylvester. Ths office boy galloped back with the information that there were no clippings under "Lusitania." A search was begun (for every newspaper, of course, has clippings on the ship). While the entire staff was quickly going crazv it was near deadline they looked under "Disasters." "Marine," "Torpedo" and almost every conceivable classification, without success.

Finally somebody routed out the woman efficiency ex iter who had recently reorganized the morgue. The lady adjusted her glasses, snorted and led the frantic staff to a file cabinet. "Here it is." she said with disdain, "right here under Sign reported by L. on the gate of a small home in Yonkers: Beggars, Peddlers. Beware of the Wolf at My Door.

IK hod plenty of fun the other night at Charles Dilling-hint's rer-ne. "Xew Faces." The show was amusing in a yawng. fresh. Gaieties" way; bnt I hid eren more fun watching some of the Broadway regulars the audience. It has been a long time since a reme of this type has hit town, and the regulars were t'rr-hhf worried and covertly watching one another.

Thy didn't know whether it taottld be good form enjoy "tflCVUiteeS iraOT. 1MI Sidiatt CftTiijk BEo- wearing a patch over his left aye He Was hit in the eye with a ball while playing polo Tommy Jackson, who ha been detective in practically every flicker mince he played the role in "Broadway," will -be a gangtter for a change in "Tha Thin Man" Virginia Peine Lehmann i scheduled to get that divorce within two weeks Jack Mul-hall, who with Dorothy Mackaill was one of the acreen' big love teams, is trying a movie comeback via a small part in the West flicker tCanrrlcM 1M fc Km.

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