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Show NIGHT CLUB PROWL YIELDS BIG NAMES ' ByLOlIS SOBOL Snspshots at Random! Morris Gest and Hannen Swaffer arm-in-armjt into the Wal-idorf Wal-idorf Wednesday night, solemn-panned and in their strange funereal : garb, looking like two black crows who have dipped their faces into ja sack of flour. . .Journalist Swaffer, incidentally, calmly assured a ! friend of mine that when he traveled with the royal people, he drew more cheers than the king and jjuejeiL "They know me bet- ter." he insisted. Dsvid Selsnick's light-drink shindig shin-dig for piqusnt Janet Gaynor at "Twenty-One lured divergent per-" sonalities from all strata auch as Millionaire John Hay Whitney. Publisher Pub-lisher Henry Luce. Playwright Clare Boothe Brokaw (his wife), the Fred-rlc Fred-rlc Marches. Mrs. Warren Leslie Jr.. Grace Tlbbett. Jack Buchanan. Gene Fowler, Ramon Novarro. Zebra-striped Kl Morocco (with the market up a few points) la Jammed to tha doom with male penguins and IhHr-eye.fllllng dee-olrttcd dee-olrttcd companions- . . Interesting Inter-esting twosome at the bar la ths white-haired but youthful Edward Ed-ward Stettlnlus, Jut elevated ta the chairmanship of the board af 1 . 8. Steel. In a aerloua huddle with a college mate whom he hadn't seen ainre Virginia daya namely, the impulsive Bogart blei awain of half a doxen of the town's prettier ehowgele, Tha James Farleys with .Sidney Solomon Burns and Allen, Harry Bannister with a blonde reminiscent of Ann Harding. Nathan Strauss-are Strauss-are a few who crowd into the Glass Har, new adjunct of tha Belmont Plssa, where Ethel Shutta. nervous but in good voice, makes her auspicious auspi-cious debut. . . . Earlier we Invade the French Casino for another inspection in-spection of an act which still leaves us breathless the knock-down Apache antics of husky Lucienne end less husky Ashour. . . . Portly Mack Gordon chants while Partner Harry Revel accompanies on the piano, their latest ditty creations, 'several of them destined for the No. 1 spot in the nation's weekly hit parade. Herbert Marshall shares table at Sardi's with (iertrude 1-aw-renre and Frank Lawton and tha diacusaion touches London theater. thea-ter. . . . Sylvia Sidney, with a 13-lnrh feather in her brawn alpine al-pine hat, an S-inrh clgaret holder and averslsc dark glasses, trie te remain obscure with Gilbert Kahn aa her escort at the Cotton 1uh with the connivance of two captains atationed at their table ta ehoe autographrra. |