EtiOXGIEffig BEVERLY HILLS Well all I know Is just what I read in the papers, pa-pers, cr what I see from here to :y :'-V-,' m hither. About ten days ago, Mrs Rogers and I were going Into New York. (By train as the weather had me riding the rods about that time for several days). It was late Sunday afternoon. after-noon. We was coming from Washington D. C. I was going in to broadcast from there that Sunday evening. You see you got to kinder let em know a little lit-tle in advance where you will be on these broadcasting Sundays so they can sorter make arrangements. We hadent been in N. Y. In a good while. We had nothing to do but broadcast at seven thirty, and that gave us the evening to ourselvs. We got into our hotel about six thirty. Dident intend to go and eat till after the wind jamming. Got to the studio, which was a real theatre, with an audience of three floors of people, and a big orchestra sitting on the stage. Well I hadent any more than walked in the place till I was booked for a benefit performance, there was some kind of a combined charity broadcast by both companies, Columbia Co-lumbia and National, for the musicians. musi-cians. It was to be around eleven, so I told em I would be glad to be there. Well then I come from my broadcasting broad-casting and I hear of another show. Its a big benefit for the Actors Fund, a fine charity ably sponsored for all these years by the beloved Daniel Frohman. Well I was tickled to death to go there. Here I havent been In town over 30 minutes and book myself my-self two shows. You never get so old that somebody dont want you at a benefit, and they have always got audiences too. I do know that N. Y. people are the most liberal and they always fill a house for a good cause. You see, Sunday nights are the benefit nights on account of the actors ac-tors being idle, and they can get the theatres for the show. First actor I met was Charles Winninger, who has become immortal as Captain Henry of Zeigfelds "Show Boat" on stage and air. 1 was with Blanche Ring in a musical show called "The Wall Street Girl" twenty years ago when he and Blanche got married. Well then out of the theatre and met an old cowpuncher friend, Charley Char-ley Aldrich, who used to ride bucking buck-ing horses in the stage show "The Roundup" with Macklyn Arbucklt starring. Who should we run onto but Lillian Lil-lian Shaw, the stages best character singer. Played in vaudeville with her for years, and she was a star in my first musical show, one called "The Girl Rangers" at the Auditorium in Chicago. That was in 1907. Wow, 28 years ago! Lillian looked great. John Bunny the first movie comedian, was in that show. The chorus girls were all mounted on horses. (That is 12 of them were). Reine Davis was the star. It was a beautiful show, but too expensive. Then who comes over to the table but Roscoe Turner, and we had to cross and recross India, Persia, Per-sia, Mesopotamia, as I had flown that route too. And who do I hear is there of us old timers but Miss Geraldine Far-rar. Far-rar. We worked for a year on the same movie lot for Sam Goldwyn in 1919. She was always a remarkable remark-able women, the most pleasant, the most considerate, consid-erate, and the hardest working I ever saw in pictures. pic-tures. Now who can sing like her today ? Then we went up to see our dear friends the Fred Stone Family. Betty says, "They will be in bed." 1 says, "The Stones are show people, peo-ple, they couldent sleep before midnight." mid-night." Fred has gone to Hollywood Holly-wood on a fine movie contract, and he will make a hit for he can do anything. Where on the American stage, radio or screen is there someone some-one we compare with what he meant to the theatre? They dont develop people like that anymore. They have no place to develop em. Well as we were driving home mighty late for the Rogerses, Betty said, as we talked of each we had met that night, "Isn't it a shame that not on our whole amusement fields have any of these a successor." Everyone of them today can walk on a stage and show that when they learned their trade it was a profession and not an accident. People who have spent a lifetime perfecting the art of entertaining people, then to have the whole stage profession snatched from under -hem, and ship your entertainment o you in can. Brave hearted people re theatrical people. McSaught Syndicate. Inc.