Show it NEWS THIS WEEK by LEMUEL F PARTON PAR TON K NEW N JEW YORK it is perhaps just hiar as well that crosby gaige 13 a bachelor he drags home 20 patent models including a corpse corpse bachelor has ha preserver hog catcher h b burglar odd irm alarm an early ei gadgets hoe printing 1 l press a dentist den tista I 1 I 1 chair a machine gun a an n egg beat y er an engine a steamboat a pret f zel bending machine and so or on f and on the patent office models had been t gathered by the late sir henry well come and kept at his estate in packing cases mr gaige bought them A friend of this writer rement remen tfx bering with remorse he bought a birthday present for his huy w wife ife stepped into an auction room i he became confused and bought bough tk 0 ten barrels of tin cookie cutters it almost broke up his home mr mra gaige will have no such trouble mr air gaige was born the son ot of the postmaster at skunk hollow N Y and became a broadway theatrical producer j with a acre estate at peeks V i kill on the hudson where he in j I 1 bulges his taste tor for knickknacks knick knacks such as the above but with more discrimination than this ensemble suggests 7 he is a gourmet with cook I 1 books in his kitchen has a de machine shop where he makes art objects is a master of viticulture and a maker and connoisseur of beautiful wines s he has cattle folds and breeds blooded cattle a printing plant where he prints typographical knockouts knock 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 merely extracurricular extra curricular in his 29 years on broadway he has theaters hit off his dijt out of red share of successes for 29 years built three the thea 1 i and kept kepto steadily out of the red in colu colum bia university he wrote the 1903 varsity show I llusia I 1 I 1 he got a job with the late elisa J beth marbury famous play broker reading plays at ten cents an act i he saved his money and headed into the show business with a fast running start his life is the fulfillment of every commuters dream H he a is of clerical almost monkish mien of somewhat austere countenance with octagonal pince nez and like all epicures epi cures abstemious in all things saving such things as patent models he wears red white and blue sus 1 penders and is very fussy about his handkerchief pocket he always has the tailor sew a button on it N ATTACK of laryngitis ga gave v 0 AN margaret sullavan her big abigt start lee shubert saw her in three artists and a lady at princeton a n d dj sore sor e throat rushed backstage back stage gave start with a contract B to screen ace you have j voice just line hike ethel barrymore he said she explained that it was merely laryngitis but 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 i in miss sullivans Sul lavans career ony ong y sets embarrassing entangle ments in some of the te most blab s orate 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 ali miss ss Sul sullavan lavans s performance therein her story has none of the U up from poverty success ss routine S she he is the daughter of a prideful fam family 0 of f norfolk va a descendant 0 ot robert E lee her journey journe aey 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 surnce summa 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 W 4 widely circulated around hollaw hollywood w it would start all the extra gir ga sleeping in a draft 0 consolidated news features feature service |