Show IN NEW YORK By PAUL rAUL HARRISON NEW YORK July 19 The 19 The police ot of Manhattan f maintain a squad of dapper dandies who wh do nothing but butcheck butcheck check heck up on the scores of tawdry dance halls halIs advertising beautiful hos hostesses teases They have found that most such places are controlled from the underworld under under- world and that many of the hostesses working under assumed names are no better r than they should be The girls' girls conduct both on the dance floors and andin andin in n the darkened booths where they assiduously try to lo lure their patrons are re flagrantly unmoral Hundreds who vho once were clean young oung aspirants for or Broadway stage careers have sunk Into nto the sordid oblivion of dime-a- dime dance ance dives Such establishments arc are little ittle more than clip joints where unwilling males find themselves taxed axed 6 or more an hour a a a NOT TOO FORWARD Most Alost of them are arc like that but not riot all 11 Broadways Broadway's for instanCe instance in in- stance tance stanCe is a startling exception exception-a a stronghold of propriety a primrose path jath to mass production of ot make be lieve romance Three thousand peo- peo pie plc lc can and often oUen do prance about its ts huge floor and sit at tables on its glittery mirrored terraces Hostesses dont don't launch themselves at t the neck of oC each incoming male They Tiey sit by themselves in one corner of f the main lounge looking as imper onal as so many evening gow window winlow win win- dow low dummies Resolutely they endure the he selective stares of ot the men pa pa- rons smilingly they acknowledge the formal ormal introductions managed by their heir head hostess patiently they accompany accompany ac- ac company their strange partners to the ordeal of the dance a aa RENDEZVOUS OF ROMANCE ROl Real romance comes to Roseland sometimes There are at 1 least ast a dozen ozen marriages a year ear among the host hostesses ses and now and then a real Cinderella match One little tittle blonde married a motor magnate Gloria Gould wed a financier Archibald R. R Graustein president of the International Paper and Power company found a bride there here in Iii 1929 Miss 1929 Miss Claire Patton Pallon of ofEl ofEl ofEl El Paso Texas Another hos hostess Romaine Romaine Romaine Ro- Ro maine Fleming married a brokers broker's son Ruby Keeler once was a Roseland dancing partner and it t was here that she he began attracting attention with her tap steps Its It's said that Lila LUa Damita Da mita used to do dp a feminine Haroun l coming comin In alone and unrecognized unrecognized unrecognized un un- un- un recognized to frolic with the crowd George Raft won a solo dance contest in n this hall in the da days 8 before he achieved stardom Ethel Barrymore's son on John Drew Colt has hu been seen in the stag stas line And Prince of oC Siam danced often with a certain Roseland charmer before disapproving ing lag word was WilS cabled from Bangkok All manner of oC stories circulate about the antics of wealthy Foxy Grandpas who patronize the place Even now theres there's an oldster who comes in nearly every Tuesday night gathers 10 giggling hostesses about him dances a few minutes with each one passes posses out 10 10 bills hilts and t takes his dignified departure a a a GIGOLOS IN MINORITY Times being what they are the hostess hostess host host- ess business no longer Is scorned by work out showgirls For hostesses average about 35 a week which is ismore ismore ismore more than the wage of many a terpsi terpsi- chorine There are gigolos at Roseland Roseland Rose Rose- land too but a n melancholy minority American women arent aren't yet reconciled recon dIed to the idea of oC hiring male partners part ners explained Ralph de dc Villa boss gigolo But we manage to do quite well at the matinee tea dances |