Show WHO NEWS THIS WEEK by LEMUEL F PARTON JEW EW YORK it I 1 Is s perhaps lust just N as well that crosby balge Is a bachelor he drags home patent models including a corpse preserver hog bachelor has catcher burglar odd alarm an early hoe printing gadgets MB dentists press a chair a machine machin agun gun an egg beat er a an n engine a steamboat a pret ze zel I bending machine and to 0 o on and on the patent office models had been bee n gathered by the late sir henry wellcome on e an and d kept at his estate in packing cases mr gaige bo bought u them A friend ot of this writer remembering with remorse he bought a birthday present f for or his wife stepped into an auction room he became confused and bought ten barrels of tin cookie cutters it almost broke up his home mr gaige will have no such trouble mr balge was born the son of the postmaster at skunk hollow N Y and became a broadway theatrical producer with a acre estate at pe peeks e ks kill on the hudson where he indulges his taste tor for such as the lie above but with were more discrimination than this ensemble suggests he Is a gourmet with cook 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 ile he has cattle folds and bre breeds e ds 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 as a bibliophile and a cook one of the best cooks in the world wold his friends say all these concerns are merely extracurricular extra curricular in his 29 years on broadway he has theaters hit off of his full out of red share of successes for 29 years built three thea and kept steadily out of the red in columbia university he wrote the 1903 varsity show Il I llusia lusla 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 headed into the show business with a fast running start ills wo life is the fulfillment of every commuters dream ile he Is of clerical almost monkish mien of somewhat austere countenance with octagonal vince pince nez and like all epicures epi cures 81 abstemious in all things saving cuch ch things as patent models he wears red white and blue suspenders and Is very fussy about his handkerchief pocket he always has the tailor sew a button on it AN N ATTACK of laryngitis gave margaret sullavan her big start lee shubert saw her in three artists and a lady at princeton a and n d sore bore c throat TI I 1 broat rushed backstage back stage gave G a V e start with a cc contract n tract to screen ace you yo have a voice olce v just like 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 lit bit of luck which in miss sullivans Sul lavans career offsets embarrassing entangle ments la in some same 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 he new film three comrades and miss bliss sullivans Sul SuH lavans avans performance therein her story has none h up from poverty success r she is the daughter of a pr i 1 family of norfolk va a de jdant dant 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 tor 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 feature service |