Salt Lake Telegram | 1927-12-16 | Page 12 | In New York

IJ In New York T i NEW YORK Youth Youth supplies the perpetual fuel with which which- Manhattan Manhattan Manhat Manhat- tan keeps alive its many fires Oldsters grown a bit weary cynIcal cynical cynical ical and skeptical sit back and manage or direct the blazing young oung talents that sweep in from eVer every Each train plants at Pennsylvania or Grand Central station station sta eta tion a new supply of kindling for forthe forthe forthe the sacrificial altar Some are embers embers em em- bers bars and ashes within a few weeks a a. few supply a alight aUgh light t that for a brief time is seen about the world Whether it be Broadway or the Bronx the Battery or the Bower Bowery Wall Vall street or West Vest street east si side J Jor or west wet side the Idea young prevails prevails pre pre- vails though generally under the guidance of an older hand which shapes the final pattern S S S Youth it is that throws itself into the movements that bring revolution le tion to stage art or literary world Youth builds the little theatres antI anil gives roofs to 10 the Eugene ONeill O'Neill and the John Dos Youth lives in a garret gariet and eats at lunch counters to bring out those half halt mad mild little publications which one day grow into a literary movement move move- ment Youth walks tho the streets without a bed to provide the galleries galleries' of the side streets with ideas that shock and revolt the Youth does not care Only In New York will you find tind this for only New York offers otters the this size and space and kinship Of f strange young oung id Ideas cas S S They are arc not always stran strange e. e Frequently youth burning with endless end end- less Jess energy directs its talents toward successful goals and finds itself reaping rich rewards within a short time Young men just t touching to their thirties buy seats on the Wall Wallstreet Wallstreet street exchange Or they bang the pianos of Tin Pan Ian alley with new tunes lunes they rattle off ort th the rh rhymes hes that make the he popular songs they write the plays s 's and the books and the magazines they crash the I business world and they bring in innovations innovations innovations in- in into the world of ot mone money S S S Charting a a. seasons season's work in the theatre you will find that Oscar Hammerstein Jr has composed another an an- oth other r operetta Barely over his thirties he has made himself a millionaire with successes such as Rose Marie Iare You will find that Bartlett Cormack a young newspaper newspaper newspaper news news- paper man from Chicago has written written writ writ- ten the best crook play of or the year that Ann Preston Bridgers a recent graduate of Smith college has written written writ writ- ten Coquette an art outstanding Broadway hit that Noel Coward an English youth still in his twenties twenties twenties ties goes merrily on turning out dramas that Glenway Genwa Glenway Glen Glen- wa way Westcott a mere stripling from Wisconsin has written a prize novel that Hart and Rogers but a afew afew afew few years out of or the colleges turn turnout turnout turnout out the best musical shows Broadway Broadway Broadway Broad Broad- way has seen in years that lads well under 35 head the New Playwrights Playwrights Playwrights Play Play- wrights groups groups- And so it goes goe New names I ne new faces new ideas I They play the eternal melody to which Manhattan dances They I supply the fuel for the man many fires more than 40 GILBERT SYA SWAN I Cop Copyright rIght 1027 1927 NEA Service Inc