Salt Lake Telegram | 1933-06-10 | Page 4 | In New York

I IN NEW NEWYORK YORK I By PAUL FAUL HARRISON NEW W YORK June Summer ID-Summer- time ime meanderings seventh Forty street Remarkable how cheerful those hose at liberty vaudeville folk remain remain remain re re- re- re main who gather along the walk bythe bythe by the he Palace theater Helen Mor- Mor gao gan an Revealing as she gets out of ofa a taxi that she isn't wearing stock stock- i lags second Fifty street A doorman polishing brass pauses to shine hinc up the shield of the cop on the beat George rge ONeiL O'NeiL Talking bout about how much he wants to get gd backo back to o Provincetown The young poet poet- novelist playwright playwright hates the city its crowds and the movies The Haa Ha- Ha Ha a brightest of the light Orchestra Or Or- chestra hestra and show folk drift in late latend and nd furnish gratifying entertainment gratis Manfred Lee A former fonner publicity man hes he's the Ellery Queen whose detective elective tales you have been en read read- lag Ing ng Must be glad to know that his books are arc selling about as well wel as tho those of S. S S. S Van Dine the thriller scholar Madison avenue at noon Three workmen have builta built a little fire in the hole they've been diggIng ging in the street and are arc squatting squatting squat- squat ting ing about it broiling a steak The theater being remedied clod for movies A woman still in her thirties will manage it when it il opens pens Her name is Chelle Janis an musical x-musical comedy actress who tried producing and failed then bravely started again as a theater cashier Times Squares Square's foreign newspaper stand tand Crowded with cosmopolites seeking kIng world news in native jour jour- nals nw Heres Here's a story in the London Sunday Dispatch about Americas America's banking holiday says our living standards reverted to those of a hundred hun- hun red died years ago ado surgeons per per- formed major operations in the homes of patients canned goods were coveted prizes at society's bridge parties Maybe l some subtle sultie manifestation of the thc British sense of humor S S Keeping pace with the renaissance In n close harmony Sweet Adeline is being heard a lot these days But nobody ever lifts a stein to the famous farnous fa fa- fa songs song's composer or expresses sentimental curiosity about whether It t was written to a girl named Ade Ade- line inc Well the man who wrote the lyrics Is Richard Gerard Husch now a mid mid- aged die clerk in the general fice lice on Eighth avenue working from I 9 to 5 and quietly commuting to I and from his home in Jamaica But 30 years cars ago he and a friend named Harry Armstrong who played the I piano used to foregather at O'Connor's OCon nors nor's saloon on Greenwich avenue There they'd sing and play the old favorites and they also began tomake to tomake tomake make up songs One of ot the latter was called Sweet Rosalie inspiration for which had been furnished by a real Rosalie a vivacious brunet O'Connor's O'Connor's OCon inor's nors nor's customers always applauded the ditty so Husch and Armstrong decided de it had possibilities and arid submitted submit- submit ted ed it to publishers At that time the lyrics read Sweet lie ilos-a-lie my my lie a when shadows fall tall loves love's calling me me- me But the publishers didn't like the name Rosa Rosa- lie Je suggesting it might be easier casler for quartets to bear down on the consonants con conS of a name like Adeline So Husch rhymed that with the now familiar fa Ia- for lor you I pine and the song was accepted Only his first and middle names names Richard Richard Gerard ap Gerard ap appeared on the song For one reason and another payment pay pay- ment w was u delayed for lor three years Then Husch received a flat sum of By that time however he was working in the postal service and was married marrIed but but not notto to Rosalie