Show J r New Yorks York's Bright Light Belt Continues to Crawl Uptown Now Its It's the Historic Old Casino Theatre That That's Closing NEW EW YORK YORK The The tide ot of change chango is carrying the future futuro Broadway up Into the Seventies Within the tho week another of or the 11 i i grand rand old pla playhouses play play- I houses in the Thirties has rung down the thc curtain and tho last word wordIn In film palaces palace t has just opened fi t- t In Seventieth S Seventieth 6 V e n t 10 t h Sr street Indicating that the Columbus Columbus Colum Colum- J bus Circle limit has las b been n crossed and that Bro Broadway Broad Broad- dwa d- d p wa way Is heading r north north- ward When the old C Casino savo up UI tho ghost host In street practically all nU that thal Is left of ot the theatre belt of ot another ft ori eri L had passed Meanwhile the tho Kittles s get ga gayer er and gayer tho racketeers open their penny catch concerns blocks away from tram str street et and the tho lights go blazing up the high high- way a S 55 The Casino died died at al tho the ripe old age ago of oC 47 17 years ears Sentimentalists trl trl 1 M to keep It Il alive o to tho the half century mark but tile the inroads of ot eat i-eat estate expansion hastened its end This if Ie you OU please was the theatre theatre theatre the the- atre atre In which Lillian nus Russell cn first became amo qu queen en of or stage world worl Her Het beauty became the tho toast ot or those dear dead days and the old grandpas limped across a nation for forone or orone one look Jook at nt a fl figure uro which today today- to say tho the least Would least would seem Ama Ama- A Arid And III this too If JC you please e. e was wasa as asa a day In which the leading ladles were er very much ladles ladies and ver very misleading they misleading they did not nol dance neither did the they wiggle wig or Jazz step They were prima donnas In a big wa way A Arid And d what th they y nm may have ha lacked Jacked In prIma tile the they mado made up In donna S S S P Perhaps If It you OU brush up your our I memory a bit bIt you'll recall Floradora Floradora Flora dora doraS with the tho sextet that rocked rockel the front fro pages pases bid and gained not mere publicity but bul a a. historic place In tho the story stoy of ot the theatre j Not ot only dl did l tho Tell Toll me pretty maiden tune tuna become the tho big torch number of ot Its time but the tho Floradora girls aro are still remembered remembered reme-m- reme when half hale of ot b bau- bau au- au U ties s aro arc for forgotten Dear ear old grandpa may tell you OU what the they looked like and whether 01 or not th they deserved the reputation reputation reputation tion they achieved Perhaps by this time halt half them arc are grandmothers th themselves Cs Some married millionaires millionaires million million- aires alres and s ome some Just dropped out out of sight S S S SWell Well cU tho the spot pot potI nn anyway nna a this was u upon on which first saw a. a tho the light of ot night I Then canto came Mark Mario Tempest Imported im- im ported from rout England The fhe same I Marie lJ by tho thio wa way who ho Is at the I moment playing In London in The Second Mrs Irs Fraser I a part lart taken In New York b by Grace Grice George But ButIn In those thom days das Marie wore tl tights Now No her role Is that of or an elderly housewife S SS S'S Arthur came caine in with musical shows In recent years ears one operetta af after after nt- nt ter another r W was S born there It was thin thC home ot of the Mg bIg hit of The Vagabond King of ot Blue Blu Paradise 0 o f Tho U Des Desert c s e crt r t tSong Song Sons of ot Francis Wilsons Wilson's youthful days dag in Er of Vivi 11 I enne Segal's de debut debut debut de- de but when she was aM fresh from school U It Intro Introduced EdW EdWynn Ed EdWynn W Wynn nn and Francine Fran Fran- ED cine cinc YN and a l. l doz dozen n others S S S But everything c south of ot 4 nd street has suddenly became part of the lie downtown belt helt Tho Broadway Broadway Broad Broad- way 3 which was wa Broadway has surrendered surrendered sur sur- ur- ur rendered to cloaks and arid suits SkI Skyscrapers Sky Sky- scrapers now rise rillo at every ery corner The th theatres atres creep crep Into the side street treet and the talking pictures ar arIn are In complete control ot of th the brightest H lights GILBERT SWAN SVAN Copyright 1930 NEA Service Inc |