Gossip Friday: Where Shall We Eat?

Since I’m in Hollywood this week, here’s an item form 1934 on where the stars eat in Tinsel Town:

Well, you must be hungry. Should we stop at a drug store for a sandwich? Or, we have the choice of three famous restaurants–the Brass Rail, a beer parlor once owned by Zeppo Marx, which has been a haunt of picture people ever since; Perry’s, Hollywood’s newest restaurant; or Sardi’s, where caricatures of celebrities line the walls. At the latter you might see Jackie Cooper, Will Rogers, Eddie Cantor, Charlie Chaplin, King Vidor and Jetta Goudal, who go there all the time. The most persistent Sardi fans, however, are Busby Berkeley (the maestro of group dancing) and his bride, Merna Kennedy, who have Table No. 9 on the aisle reserved all the time, morning, noon and night.

Oh! You want a malted milk at a drug store! One step in any direction and you’re there!. Speaking of drug stores, Dolores de Rio and Clark Gable love to shop in them and all the stars are in and out several times a week. All the feminine stars go in at one time or another for perfumes. Yes, and soap. And toothpaste or powder. Even commonplace things are done on Hollywood Boulevard…