| Show Walter Winchell ON DR BROAD BROADWAY 0 A 0 WAX WAr Copyright 1932 by Dally Daily Mirror Inc Portrait of a Man Talking to lo Himself Im I'm getting annoyed listening to the local ocal yokels who continuously prate about the past glories of Broadway They bore you through the night Into the yawning awning with their prattle about what tho Grandest Canyon Used to Be and how little of it there is 15 left They swallow their brandy between gulps of reminiscences and LAMENTS once these get started OLD LANES LANE'S youre you're in for br a good professional I PASSING ASSING whine They build up the glamour of Rectors and and and until you begin to feel that you oU were born a few years ears too late to enjoy life and that the best tiling thing you OU can do dois dois is 15 to curl up and be sorry for your natal tardiness ness Iv Ive I've e listened to the best talkers of this fading generation for tor ten years and for a n long longtime longtime time they had me ne crying with them Every speakeasy bar became a walling wall The Theold Theold old street isn't what it used to be No sir Theres There's nothing left but orange Juice hutches and cheap exhibitions of nude paintings and haberdasheries haberdasheries haberdasheries haber haber- with eternal out of sales The theater is dead The big stars arc all working In Hollywood The Tile personality of ofa a street that once was the crossroads of the world has dwindled to that thai of sideshow Oh well vell it was too good to last for long How Bow about another brandy I But the chorus is 15 moaning low Somebody Somebody Some Some- body put pennies on their eyelids and the money isn't big enough for tor them to pocket So they go through their life half It is hard to feel teel the pulse of Broadway If you haven't a pulse of your own And its it's hard to know Broadway if youre you're going to limit BROADWAY it to a few buildings and side streets A STATE Or to the tawdry stores that OF MIND line its us pavements or to the ugly structures that hem It in Or Orto Orto Orto to the chiseling halfwits that comprise a good part of its every-day every routines Or to the down- down the at 1 who have been shunted from city to city and finally wind up with the Big Crowd But that isn't Broadway and never has been The factor that these wallers wailers miss entirely Is t that at Broadway never was simply a street Broadway is a state te of mind an attuning of oneself to the vast surge of forces that seethe for recognition Broadway is New York and therefore therefore therefore there there- fore one of the most important creative centers of the world a a a If It you want to know how alive the old stem is let me introduce you to the young blood that comes pumping its way into the Main Artery every day Theres There's that little lass from New Orleans who galloped shod full into town for tor two roaring weeks She writes a gossip column in ill one of her local papers and her idols are the big columnists of Broadway Beneath the soSHE soSHE soSHE so- so SHE FEELS brim of her hat there Is BROADWAY a youthful face t e that longs for the theOF theOF theOF OF TODAY steaming existence of New York She isn't more than 21 but she has a keen sense of proportion and a fine understanding All I know about Broadway is what I have read and been told by those who visited here she confessed This is my first trip and I am plenty excited about it It And Broadway Broadway Broadway Broad Broad- way is just what I expected Big open and full of promises that you ou have to collect But ButI I like it ft Its It's glamorous Why after three days I feel Its as though someone had injected dynamite dynamite dynamite dyna dyna- mite into my veins I Ive I've ye read all about Broadways Broadway's Broadways Broadway's Broadways Broadway's Broad Broad- ways way's past and Ive I've perused a thousand stories abo about t the so-called so knell death-knell which prohibition rang over its long trail But to one who lives livesa a n. thousand miles away these dead pictures of the past mean nothing You cant can't feel them any anymore anymore morel more but you can feel teel the present scene I doub doubt very much that Broadway means as much to you who live on it as it does to those who seldom seldom seldom sel sel- sel- sel dom or never get here The glamour and in influence influence influence in- in fluence of Broadway has seeped into every village In the country a a a That's why Im I'm tired of listening to the deadheads deadheads deadheads dead dead- heads who still consider themselves part and parcel parcel par par- cel eel of the street The directions that Broadway Broadway Broadway Broad Broad- way travels change constantly but there is no doubting that Broadway is relentlessly active And restless wholesomely restless 4 a a aBut But the street noises of Broadway Now theres there's an entirely different sUbject Once you heard the general clatter of subway rumbles automobile screeches and shrieking of newsboys Ann And vou Wf were er r thrilled bv by its nitch and fever But ii Lc today a a aten a te n ten minute l te stroll fr from the L CL croSs cross crossing ing at third Fifty down to second Forty-second street leaves you limp with its meaningless cacophony e a a a aThose Those street beggars are getting more and more demanding A social worker said yesterday that 95 per cent of the lads who stop you with a a. plea for enough to buy something to eat are phonies And that there is no reason for men mento mento mento to be beg on the str streets ts for food because there are sufficient food-distributing food agencies to feed them all |
