Show I r N N N A n t r 0 11 n I L tJ r f Mit I 1 u m 1 iIi Aging Actors Would W uld Rather Strut in in n Poverty on on Broadway Than Live in Comfort in the Hinterland V NE EW YORK The Tha Tho vanity of of the actor which all understanding under under- standing Is more apparent apparent in lean times Umes than when the harvest is 13 good Cc of Tho poso o prosperity is a affected af at- to tp a a. greater great great- er cr d degree sioe when I tho player has bas nothing m more 0 r e a ethan 0 than a a. hole in his hla r pocket than when ho h has s a a seasons season's contract With a n nc c contract at hand he he can 1 bo be 0 truly nonchalant and andon andon andon on top lop of ot the thc world With no 10 prospects nr ir around und tho the corner he ho feels the necessity of putting on the brave bra and big front and and BO fo o struts cockily t with cane 8 spats tS and trick vest even oven though his collar may be slightly worn and his shoes hoes down don at tho heel Not so long 40 ago one nc of tho the many theatrical charity organizations had occasion to make aka a a. check of Its moro more elderly pensions This Is or organization oi- oi I maintains a n. country homo for tOl aging performers It had figured up the weekly cost of keepIng keepIng keep keep- Ing each inmate and offered them the tho chance chancO to remain remal or go forth into inlo Broadw Broadway Y n again on 01 an income of oC 12 or or whatever It Jt was vas per week At least half halt of ot tho the old timers chose hose to strut their favorite highway high way ray ag again l 1 using ushii tho the ft tc w dollars for tor a a- cane and a n. trick cravat nt S I 5 Filth lilIth is strangely missing from the Broadway bills this season teason Perhaps I should have ve said happily mi missing rather than strangely No show has h s o opened ned this season s ason which depended upon ulon vulgarity or dirt to keep it ath alive And Ancl though tho Uio year ear is still young things thinG's looK fairly hopeful For the thc past two o years cars the P were forced to tu step In from time t 10 tP time and call all all' a n. halt At times the tho hO limit in meaningless meaningless' 1 seemed C to have been reached A n a J. J few instances instances' the thiO advertising Gg G g gained from arrests brought out crowds of ot shock-seekers shock and kept alive worthless pieces until the trials had settled matters Several were were such bad plays that they co could ld not have hae survived without the convenient raid raids The most risque e scene cono of If theseas the season casOn seas n occurs In St Strictly Dishonorable Diction Dishon but it Js is turned so amusingly amus that tho the curtain d descends on laughs rather than blushes I S S S The chorine it would woul seem seem Is at t I last 1st finding her hc heart Some time Ume has passed since any my myo o of the girlies married a 3 bl big sugar daddy a rich mans man's son a a. nobleman nobleman nobleman noble noble- man or or a 3 social figure To ro be ho sure since that Wall Vall street crash a gentleman of ot tho the market Is no noon longer on er a J. J golden pickup At any rate tho the notices of chorus hor s weddings which have reached this desk during the past few eov months months' have shown tho the girlies marrying fellow performers In their companies piano llano thumpers in tho the orchestra or pro- pro people Y encountered in their rounds of t tho the night life A A. ANew New York B company sent re recently re- re to Chicago With a a. musical J production uc on listed I I four tour marriages within the troupe V. V In tho the Manhattan Manhat Manhat- tan ranks the gentlemen of at Tin Pan Fan alley ay tile the en entertainers en In the tile cabarets tho the song Bong and dance men men all nil the tho r rest feat t of at the theatrical appear at last to be bo getting a J. J break brenk with the tho beauties Just to show how how far this thing has gone sone one of the loveliest of the ladles adje of ot the ensemble even cen married marrie a columnist I I refer reCer to the tho Glad lad Mark Hellinger el match late UH summer Rummer GILBERT SWAN j Copyright 1929 Service Inc Itic |