Show I IN NEW NEW NEWYORK YORK II By PAUL rAUL HARRISON NEW YORK July 29 Most 29 Most of Broadways Broadway's celebrities had amazingly inauspicious beginnings John Golden for or instance one o of the most successful success success- ful ul tul producers once was vas a bricklayer and and even was a member of a construction construction con con- ruction gang cane on a theater in which some ome of his plays later appeared And George Gershwin who was born GC George Bruskin in Brooklyn used to tobe tobe toe be e a half starved halt starved song in Tin Pan an Alley His next job was in a vaudeville act in a 1 cheap movie house and ind he lasted exactly one performance perform- perform ance nce ance It was only a few short years ago that hat Ethel Merman was flailing a typewriter type type- writer Titer in a realty of office f ice And now she's starring tarring in fri Take a Chance the musical hit that has moved to Chi Chicago cago ago Samuel now known as Roxy is an ex-bartender ex and a former ormer marine Rosa Ponselle vaulted from rom the vaudeville stage to the Metropolitan Opera company And Mae Mac West was a vaudeville acrobat acro acro- bat at George S. S Kaufman after atter bein being eing fired tired from at least half halt the newspapers news news- papers apers of New York and Washington now ow has become the foremost director director- playwright in the American theater Eddie Elkins the orchestra leader graduated ted from a dental college Fred Waring took a degree in m architecture and nd George Kelly the playwright once nee was a civil engineer Constance Con Can stance ance Bennett used to be a rialto nalto chorus lorus girl Arthur Hammerstein longed to be a prizefighter and asa as asa a sparring partner was clouted around by y most of the o of that day ay C 00 RELIGIOUS NEW YORK Little notes on the big town It has las more than theaters and movie houses with about a third of them dark ark at present night clubs most or of f which are re losing money pub Uc lie c dance halls specializing in the sucker trade and more speakeasies often orten estimated at over than the thc ic mere 57 federal enforcement men menan can an shake a stick at New York is is more religious though than you'd think hink for tor it has hag 2800 churches of every very sect and denomination including ing ng Buddhist and Mohammedan and they hey have a total membership of at well over vcr over a million More than a third of the people here are are foreign-born foreign and its it's difficult cult to find a native New Yorker It has las more Italians than Rome more Irish rish than Dublin more Germans than Bremen remen and more Indians than Tishomingo Tishomingo Tisho Tisho- mingo Okla OkIa It contains one t tenth one th of all alithe 1 the jews In the word and there arc are exactly Cohens in the Brooklyn Brooklyn Brook- Brook lyn yn telephone directory alone New York Is a n center of oC higher edu cation as a matter of oC fact of one of ts its college collego campuses Is 13 on the forty- forty second floor Ioor of the Woolworth building building build build- ing S The town dotes on Its public monuments and statues which if it laid end nd to end would probably look more more astonishing than the they do at present Real estate here is worth which doesn't mean that taxes are arc re collected on any such amount A A. new business starts up approximately approximately every 14 minutes and another an an- other her goes broke z almost as often Every very 62 2 seconds a passenger train pulls in to discharge part of visitors that arrive every day at least half of whom know now more about New York than do New Yorkers The traffic problem keeps everybody everybody everybody every every- body on the jump although the time spent by pedestrians waiting to cross Fifth Filth avenue at Forty s second Forty nd street totals days a year Somebody Somebody Some Some- body is born every eight minutes and theres there's a wedding every 14 B minutes Each hour and 15 minutes though somebody applies for a divorce or hops off olf for lor Reno |