Salt Lake Telegram | 1930-01-26 | Page 26 | In New York

AI n J a J I f N I ICI IC l I vt ItC rJ ri-ji ri n 7 r tiff N i A Bit of Gossip About New York Notables Notables and a Swell Way of Keeping Dry in a Hard Rain Ju Just t for a Dime NEW YORK YORK Notes Notes from a weeks week's scrap crap book book George George GershwIn Gershwin Gershwin Gersh Gersh- win tho the composer wearing earing the tho largest white bow tie ever er I beheld while conducting the orchestra athis at al his his his' hit show a Strike Up the Band And Harold Ross from whom I used to borrow quarters n. n and n nIce vice Ice versa in the theold theold I old da days s 's when we were waterfront reporters in San Francisco GEORGE Into the theatre with B Beatrice Lil- Lil lie who when she he isn't being tho the best test feminine clown In tho the theatre Is 18 La Lady y Peel Sho tells me mc incidentally that be ut at the head of tho the cast when th the tho Fox Introduce their nature color process In The London Revue ue Percy Hammond one ona of ot the towns town's critical deans bade goodbye goodbe to his newspaper post when he went abroad the other da day clay And tho the Herald Tribune Is scurrying scurry scurry- ing Ins around for a new critic It will probably bo be Gilbert If it they can get him away auay from his present nt tabloid contract William Wil Wil- liam newest J of or Manhattans Manhattan a columnists who stepped Into Mark 1 rf spot recently was press agent for tOl J Earl rl Carroll when ho homade homade made the switch Sign painted over a a. neighborhood church hureh Nobody ever er got to heaven b by believing that tho the sky's ks the limit A bent man walking through the swank swanky Fifth avenue 1 crowd crowdS wearIng wearing wearing wear wear- ing about his lila neck a crudely printed print prInt- ed square of or car cardboard board reading I Ince nce need l work Anything that pays a a. living wage w Two dowagers descend from their limousines ey eye him uncomfortably for a n. moment and observe Well cil ell my word Thyra Thra Winslow tho short story storywriter storywriter storywriter writer who makes betler one line criticisms in lobbies 6 than most critics do in columns Tho zip cutie culiC Doris CarSO Carson Car Car- SO son who SoPs slops a a. hit show with her hel dancing and who got ot h her hr r chance chano Just a year car ago J O when she was understudying under under- studying Ruby Eerier Keeler Mrs rs Al Jolsen Jolsen Jol- Jol sen Ben and Mrs Keeler F Felt Fell lit Dl w A AThey They hey Wi s Ct t the b tIC breaks More lon long skirted chorines Just like hike the good old days But the they do look funn funny somehow An old fashioned umbrella mender wending his wa way through the streets ets ringing his crack cracked d boll bell Which reminds me that shop windows nr are showinG shoeing a a. now not contraption contraption con con- which will give the umbrella um um- brella a run rim for Its mone money Its It's made of weather proofed cardboard cardboard cardboard card card- board and fits upon the hat extendIng extendIng extending extend extend- Ing out over tho shoulder and held hek In place against tho the wind by a 3 ci extension It can call callb b 00 carried handily In a a. largo pocket nn and tossed away alsay after afler the shower tho the card marked it 10 cents Leo who looms as ns the theno no next t Jazz band wow and puts al nU all the gymnastics gymnastic into his conducting at nt tho the swanky P Park a a. r Jc Ic ClU CasIno Frances Shell Shelley 1 singing that grand J torch t tun u n a t Can This Be De Love Lo And while on the subject of or orchestras or oi- 01 he tras j Jazz a z z I bands an and such I Ive I've Just learned that Rudy d of oC prewar days is iss t s till stilt about Gone tione Gone but hut not nol forgotten Broadway knows know nm hm no more but bul tho the radio does He Is Duillio and ho hosa sa was tho fellow who played for the Y ernon Castles and tho the late lale Mau- Mau rico rice and alt all tho Iho other the ballroom favorites of or another generation Ills His ragtime band was a rage rase In Europe wh when n the tho first t. t rumbles of war were wera beginning to b be be- heard called back bank In JE him hini II Pars Paris and London Loudon Tho The Yankee ragtime band Time was u when ho had t four twenty ragtime orchestras wandering over tho Am American scene Ho Ito broke brokA the Broadway record for popularity having fourteen bands Playing on tho the bit big street at the samo flam time lime Ho He was a veritable trust trU But ho knew his roadway Broadway So Ro tie he got ot out before It il went back on him lie lit Jumped Into tho radio broadcasting business when it was young and ho lie directs programs toda today d GILBERT SWAN SAl C Copyright gt 13 1330 1430 S Service j In Ine Inca