Show NEWS THIS WEEK by LEMUEL F PARTON NEW YORK it is perhaps just L as well that crosby gaige is a bachelor he drags home patent models including a corpse preserver hog bachelor H has as catcher burglar odd alarm an early gadgets hoe hoc printing press a dentists chair a machine gun an egg beat er an engine a steamboat a pret zel bending machine and so on and on the patent office models had been gathered by the late sir henry wellcome and kept at his estate in packing cases mr gaige bought them A friend of this writer remembering with remorse he bought a birthday present for his wife stepped into an auction room he became confused and bou bought lit ten barrels of tin cookie cutters it almost broke up his home mr gaige will have no such trouble mr air gaige was born the son of the postmaster at skunk hollow N Y and became a broadway theatrical producer with a acre estate at pecks kill on the hudson where he be indulges his taste tor for knickknacks knick knacks such as the above but with more discrimination than this ensemble suggests ile he is a gourmet with cook books in his kitchen has a de machine shop where he makes art objects is a master of vitice viticulture and a maker and connoisseur of f beautiful wines he has cattle folds and breeds blooded cattle a printing plant where he prints typographical knockouts knock julock outs in limited editions a huge library with reference books and is distinguished both bath as a bibliophile and a cook one of the best cooks in the world his friends say all these concerns are merely extracurricular extra curricular in his 29 years on broadway he he has has theaters hit off his ful out of red share of successes for 29 years built three theaters and kept steadily out of the red in columbia university he wrote the 1903 varsity show I llusia he got a job with the late elisabeth marbury famous play broker reading plays at ten cents an act he saved his money and headed into the show business with a fast running start his life is the fulfillment ot of every commuters dream ile he is of clerical almost monkish mien of somewhat austere countenance with octagonal p pince ince nez and like all epicures epi cures abstemious in all things saving such things as patent models he wears red white and blue suspenders and is very fussy about his i handkerchief pocket he always has i the tailor sew a button on it 0 0 AN N ATTACK of laryngitis gave margaret sullavan her big start lee shubert saw her in three artists and a lady a at t princeton a and n d sore throat rushed backstage back stage gave start with a contract to screen ace you have a voice just like ethel barrymore he said she explained that it was merely laryngitis aut b ut the excited mr shubert listen there was nothing to be done about it so the helpless girl was signed for five years that was a bit of luck which in bliss sullivans Sul lavans career offsets embarrassing entangle ments in some of the most elaborate flops in current stage history today she is at the peak of her career as critics turn cartwheels and back flips over the new film three comrades and miss bliss sullivans Sul lavans performance therein her story has none of the up from poverty success routine she is the daughter of a prideful family of norfolk va a descendant of robert E lee her journey to boston to study dancing was indulged as a passing whim but there was considerable family eye rolling when she switched to the theater and began adventuring in summer stock on cape cod and way points her father got her home once but only for a short time it is to be hoped that her story wont be widely circulated around hollywood it would start all the extra girls sleeping in a draft Q consolidated news features service |