Salt Lake Telegram | 1930-01-27 | Page 15 | In New York

d I t 1 J I N A V J JO J O n I a Iad 7 m 1 1 r ik- ik I- I I m The Town Small Boys Generally Get the Gravy on Broadway th the Breaks Come if You Wait Long Enough NEW NE YORK YORK Once Once more its it's the small town boys bos who vho are aro walking awa with ith the away Broadway gravy When hen the current seasons season's toll ton tollIs tollis tonis Is taken it will be found round that thai a ayoung ayoung young oung man from Emporia Jan Kan has clicked tho the biggest biggest big big- gest est office box-office smash of the year ear This young oung man manIs manis Is Brock Drock pember- pember 1 ton ton whose ca career career career ca- ca I reer began when t 7 I lie W was vaa UI ousted kl I from Emporia I colle college e. e At the moment i his ca cash h I L register resister Is clinkIng clink clink- I In Ing too merrily to f give him an au op opportunity op- op Li LiAnd to en engage en- en gage gase In vain re regrets re- re grets And since ho he's hes s sprung tho thu surprise stir sur prim prise of the season and slipped the years year's yearns rs r's wow over on the big street streel heres here's a little something about the youth from front Kansas Came Caine a newspaper family And while seeking a college degree went to tu work for tOr tho thu Ken Kan Record He lie was 18 18 and Coffey Coffey- villo ville was still stitt close enough to tho the frontier to Involve the tho necessity of carrying a a. gat sat rather than a flask on ones one's hip When hen his university decided It ii could get set along ver very well without him ho lie moved to the tho UnIversity University UnI- UnI of or Penn Pennsylvania ht aJl and took tooka a Job with the Philadelphia Bulletin Bulletin Bulle Bulb tin on the side Returning to Kansas he got sot his first Inside squint at nt the theatre b by criticizing drama for tOr tho the Emporia Gazette Wherewith he was Inoculated with the theatre fever fe and antI nothing would do until he had landed landed land land- ed ell on Broadway Wherewith herewith hc he got ot a chance chanco to cover shows for the theold theold theold old Evening Mall But Burns Mantle who remains today as ns guardian of or the dramatic wa wayside caine came along and got his Job Pemberton Pem Pem- berton however found his way Into he drama departments of or other papers and thus encountered Arthur Hopkins Thus did he ho slide out of the aisles and Into the theatre theatre thea thea- tre ti-c Itself 0 Now comes a romantic break ono one of ot those things s that Just will happen in Broadway if Ir you jou ou wait walt long IonS enough and are aro lucky luck Hopkins had been preparing ono one of or his finest productions Tho productions Tho Jest with an star all-star cast which Included ed Carlotta Monterey Montere she who recently became becane Mrs Irs Eugene ONeill O'Neill and Gilda One morning Mile came excitedly Into the office and found foun Pemberton sitting silting there She had hadIn hadIn hadin In her bier hand the manuscript of or a anew anew anew I new pia play and was raving raving- about it i Sho She insisted that read U. U No she sho would read It to him It him It was as she insisted grand elegant and swell The rhe pla play was the Ule famous corned comedy hit Enter Madame Pemberton joined her Jubilant parade He rushed to Hopkins with the script Hopkins admitted Ilk Ilk- iii InS Ing It but he was too loo bus busy at the mom moment worrying ng about John lIar Bar production production production tion of Richard III HI Barrymore as Bi recall hit the thc celtIn cell cell- In Ing and the box office worked overtime giving back mane money So quito by accident Pemberton Pember- Pember ton found himself a producer And Enter Madame a added to his undernourished bankroll Along Jong came Lulu Bett Belt and he took another another anther an an- other ther chance with equal success S S S Slie's Hes He's had 20 O plays s 's but Strictly Dishonorable Is b the near nearest t thing thins to a 11 mint mint And out o of ot his experiences both up UI and down own his credo on Broadway Broadway Broadway Broad Broad- way Is this Around Broadway they never give 1 0 you OU credit for wantIng want ant Ing to do fine They jud Judge o you ou only by success If IC you OU dont don't succeed youre you're a a. sap ap sap GILBERT GILDERT SWAN Copyright 1030 InO NE NEA Service Inc a