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Show "IWCOINFOR" OLD IDEAS IN NEW YORK CITY i NEW YORK, Feb. 2 (U. P.); any millions of dollars are spent ery ,week by New Yorkers and sitors to New York the majority issibly by the later in search of version, but this golden torrent is ught by so many would-be diverts diver-ts that a new idea for segregtil- g some of it; is valued as fa, gem ' ' highest prieer"" An enterprising youth wlio has a ally original idea may become ch almost over night, but Broad-ay Broad-ay has been prospected so long and ligently that previously undisclos-l undisclos-l nuggets are about as rare as the terstellar ether. However, every now and then me one does pop up with a scheme hich Is oringinhl enough or new lough or even old enough to be re-trded re-trded as a small nugget. Most of iese recent ideas have had to do ith the post war mushroom growth ! night clubs which have become ren .more numerous tha'n theaters -d which provide a much faster ltlet for the diversion seeks money. Two of these most recent off-rove off-rove small gold mines because they re so old. The first is to sell art-ertising art-ertising space on the backs of leatre tickets. This though remunerative, remun-erative, provoked some protest from . -roducers, one of whom set up an utcry because the $11 tickets to his mbltious offering were being dese-rated dese-rated by the advertising for a 25 ent article. The other is the plan of Anne Nichols, who has so far made a umber of millions out of her play, ibie's Irish Hose, to send out a tent oad company in the spring so that 3wns too small to provide a theatre lay have the privilege of seeing it. hades of Uncle Tom's Cabin. |