Show 11 I A I In n New York j Y NEW YORK YORK Not perhaps that that it makes a great deal of ot difference but but Jeritza the operatic star Is Isan an expert at card tricks and generally generally gener- gener ally aUy performs performs' a af afew f few Vat at her ler teas j V at I t And an advertisement advertisement adver adver- f sentient reads a l Cravats fro from m contented s silk I ilk 1 k norms nd Richard BenC Ben- Ben C sett lett the actor is a s said to dye his mir lair each time he lle heUts henas lag nas a new role Katherine Cornell GI C our own particular particular lar favorite actress actress actress act act- ress carries a clause In her contract allowing her to purchase a 20 per cent Interest in in an any play in which she stars Who said theatre people had no business sense Astor hotel tablecloths have to be specially laundered because of the pen and ink figures left by Broadway managers managers man man- agers who each noon figure up their tablecloth profits James W. W Dean onetime conductor of this column missed a train to Baltimore Baltimore Baltimore Balti Balti- more the other day because he de depended depended depended de- de on New York clocks no two of which keep the same time But then hes he's been away so long hes he's forgotten how careless New New- Yorkers are concerning time operatic version of The Tho Sunken Bell Is the most successful novelty the Metropolitan has uncovered uncovered uncovered un un- un- un covered In many a year And Tony Sarg the marionette king has just unveiled his annual Christmas window show which generally costs a big department store way up in the tens of thousands A couple of seasons ago musical I comedy chorines became ladies ladles of the ensemble insofar as the Manhattan Manhattan Man Man- hattan theatre programs were con con- con con- I But Charles B. B Cochrane who brought This Year of Grace over from Lunnon tells me that he has invented the word to explain the status of his girlies That is to sa say they're half dancers and half actresses They must have havea a stage education that makes them eligible to important roles if and when the opportunity offers That is Is they are talented young actresses who gain their first stage experience via the chorus Girls in the high class British musical shows he tells me me now must have havea a a stage education that makes them eligible for prominent roles if and when the opportunity arises It is not sufficient that they look 1001 either eUhel beautiful or dumb or that they ther syncopate SJ when the tho or orchestra orchestra orchestra or- or chestra tunes up Most of them are equipped for the serious drama but use the chorus as a stepping stone I It t i Far below of Manhattan drop the roots of the new ers ISome i iSome Some of these stretch from three I I Ito to six stories under the ground I Now a five or story six-story building I has been considered a neat little structure In most towns Yet there are dozens dozens' of new steel giants with this number of subterranean floors It is possible for instance to find finda a strange and Incredible world be beneath he- he neath the first floor of the New York Life building Descending suddenly down some five stories the mechanism which makes a tremendous tremendous tremendous trem trem- building click can be found Upon the lowest floor Ioor is what they term the tube room Jt is a sort of pneumatic terminal where tubes roar and rumble as the containers shoot through them Tese tubes weave in and out like the grotesque pattern of a futuristic painting Dozens of men keep keel the containers in constant operation for each office is equipped with a chute and several hundred offices may be dispatching carriers at the same moment GILBERT SWAN V. Copyright 1928 NEA Service Inc |