Show or-I or N W O RIi P PI J If r lJ a J I I 1 fiMi- fiMi n r rr m IL L I J A Jr IP oraa There Are More Ways Than One of Getting a Good Broadway Broadway Broadway Broad Broad- way Run for fOl the Benefit of Hollywood NEW XE YORK YORK Time The jingling gold 1 of oC tho the talking pictures has le led 1 many manya a a. desperate Broadway producer to keep kerp a t. t sinking play hilay afloat longi r rafter of after tor r it should 1 have o gone bone to th time the I bottom botton Hollywood being be be- V v V In Ing wa way out omit where where I. I jIt j L It if Is I is often improved im proved pressed e 11 by time the ii length lenth of or time tim a a. a I liH 1 drama ama remains f V I I alive I l I I 11 s sV W V WI h i id c h h 11 has a as s J A brought about an 2 fYI jr 1 amusing racket II I f famon amon among those thos wisp lse f t f white way gents I I with an amm eye e on the time holly Hollywood wood v 0 0 tI market Ct It is a neat little stunt Blunt mon known mo n a as the head tax Tho The modus operand i I IP is simply as aR follows Tho Time Tho pro producer arranges arranges ar ar- ar- ar ranges to have havo a largo number of oC passes sent tent about to places where large numbers number of clerks s. s steno stenographers rn- rn and amid white collared help hell arc employed Tho recipient of tim the passes being human fr frequently is inclined to 10 boast of hi his Imis free Cree seats lIe He invites a girl Irl friend nd to go 0 along But limit when i ho ito arrives at the time lox boK office to turn th the bits of paper In for or seats scats th the ticket ven vendor informs him him that there thero Is a 50 cent head hea tax duo due on omi each ticket As s s a matter matteI of fact there Is no such thing timing But Rut the time lie he is getting ettin boob thinking something for or nothing docs not hesitate to pay time thC dollar for h two o oI I seats seals If H ho but knew seats seat for this production arc are generally going beJ begging at nt cut rate rate- places And tho time house is being filled with transients tran at four bits per wr head In n addition addi addi- tion tiomi to tho tIme draw 1 raw from rom tho time cut rat rates i Thus a show which has no reason rea i-ca- son somi for Cor survival I 1 I manager to lU run umi II along alon- for 0 four or five o months and andi give i ithe the time appearance of cf being a t sue sue- Us U's s 's If H anyone cam eu cared to investigate ill gate t the they would find tho house fairly 1111 well filled 4 earl each night How is a 1 stranger to know that it Jt is Js padded w with ith h head tax ta tax bozos bOZOR And before Ion long H are arC being made malIc with J I Hollywood lull fur for a drama that ran rl four months on oad Bi-oad-a Broadway 3 it or not but hut tone one of or tho timo gold old brick bu buyers from Crom rout the west roast coast separated with OOOO for 0 just such a worthless bit it of drivel tin tin- other dany da day thay Any ny one omme oC of a dozen good oo ori original story lol scenario boys could have turned tome out a n thousand times better IrO product for tenth one time the cost But for foe one reason or another Hollywood Holly Holly- wood t has hns a n tradition for playing time tho boob hoob to the time Broadway way wise Iso bo boys s 's Oh well well well- S Speaking of or plays S 'S nail thin timings things Street Scene tho time prize winning drama di of or a year ago o enjoyed its five ri hundredth th performance the thC theother other othmer evening Which 1 Ins begins to place it in the time ranks m-anks of or those fabulous fabulous fab fab- ulous hits rl Irish Rose and amid more recently Shan Strange o Interlude Our Broadway 1 press pres agents b the thC a way continue to J e down vim a reputation for Cor bull building infamous fa falsehoods S. S rime Tho modern day a vintage takes flight flicht at the tho slightest provocation pro and amal generally winds up UI in some purposeful Ul O ven cn tur ture Within the season sea sea- f j If I have observed ob uh- son I I I 0 I served er S Sid Sidney i I n a C y 3 i 1 I leave l time the r I ranks i-anks of Rail Earl t Carroll oil to become Ii I f.- f. a rL Broadway col- col I t I Howard Id I i Benedict will go o into o training with I I I tho hav having In ing had hod a J haV ball bail yen these thes many years jears a 18 Tom Ton Toman Van an D left loft tho the sid side ido of or Gilbert Gil A Abert t bert l 1 Miller iJler to produce hi his o own n show Out of or a aRlue Blue Rlue Sk Sky Arthur I Kober obel has s ma made c quite a for himself a as a writer of magazine mag an and 1 newspaper art t articles J I Howard of or tho MOM tG lila film offices has done lone verses for toi a couple of or revues ues Don Clarke 13 I I of the same lam 0 office hat lisa turned out two t novels novel and had hall ono one of or them Lou Barretti for tor t the tho hI talkies lc Sa Saimi 11 I telli once l' l right z hand haull man for Cor Al 4 Wood has his S volume of verse on 00 tho tim market Nat aL Dorfman collauo- collauo 1 0 of r. on tho various numbers uj anil I. I FJ iva Leslie's International Blatt's mystery sten drama the timO Subway Express is iN one of or S SW years year's hits hilts Copyright 1050 B. Service 4 l |