Show IN NEW YORK it By PAUL HARRISON NEW YORK Sept 6 Wonder 6 was wasl expressed In this space recently that George M. M Cohan hadn't been persuaded persuaded per perU to write a song to whoop up the N R A drive Well Mr Cohan i. i Is Writing one one although although it may only take Lake the tho form of some new lyrics to his great war ditty Over There Incidentally the original manuscript of the la latter song tong 1 is in the government govern ment archives at Washington as one of f the treasured official documents The late Leo Feist music publisher sought ought the song outright from Cohan tor or and later gave the manuscript manu script to the government Cohan in inurn urn turn gave the to war relief relict I organization a. a BERLINS BERLIN'S FIRST BACKER Broadway l Is popularly supposed to tobe tobe tobe be peopled by a lot of sentimentalists but ut sometimes it forgets individuals who have played important but obscure ob ob- ob- ob roles in its development as ac a aay acay ajay jay cay way The other day for tor instance there herc were small items item about the death leath of ofa 01 a retired sportsman named I Henry Watterson at his summer estate es es- es tate late near Saratoga Spring As A a matter o of fact Watterson was the discoverer of Irving Irvin Berlin and thus was partly responsible for lor the change In tempo of Americas America's popular music In the days dRYS when Berlin was a pretty terrible performer and nd absolute absolute lute unknown as a composer he was making the rounds of Tin Pan alley with his first pl pieces es and being lau laughed hed out of the tho very best offices Watterson who had managed the Crystal Palace theater and then become become be be- come a music publisher in a small way vay decided that ragtime had a chance of catching on on so he accepted Berlins Berlin's early efforts Then came Dorando Alexanders Ragtime Band and others also the firm o of Watterson Berlin Snyder In 1912 Berlin broke away and formed his own company I THAT WAS C CHINATOWN IN TOWN Incidentally one of the places where Irving Berlin u used eci to sing In those early days is going coing to be re re- re Its It's the Mandarin in Chinatown China China- town bright and romantic spot o of the Bowery s some me 25 years ago George White today's producer of the Scan Scan- dais danced there too and there were many others The waiters walters all wore queues the food was genuinely Chinese and the atmospheric thrills w were we're re real Now of ot course therell there'll be chop suey and a jazz orchestra and if it you see an on Oriental slinking around a corner with a dagger in his teeth you may be pretty sure ure hes he's just justa a stooge for the management For all that the district could use another good restaurant Right RightS now the Port Arthur and the Chinese Delmonico's Delmonico's Del Del- monico's are about the best most of their erstwhile rivals having moved up to the Broadway belt and rIght Into the capitalistic clutches of Chin and Lee These two gentlemen have made themselves quite wealthy selling and which they deliver regularly to hundreds hundreds hundreds hun hun- of restaurants and also sell in inthe inthe inthe the numerous places they have come cometo cometo cometo to own by now Chin and Lee live in Greenwich Village instead of China- China ct town And y the way neither neitha of j them ever eats eab mein or chOW o a e Jj MAKE tAKE HOT SPOTS SlOTS PAY 3 J. J Most of the gawdy dance and palaces are arc controlled by of Chinese bankers and who also deal largely in the concessions of ot other kinds of nig n clubs and restaurants You'd be zu sur in fact to know how man swanky hot spots have been 1 i entirely by Chinese cat capital The rae first major invasion of Broad Broad- j way by the men was wa w wh the Palais Royale became the clOr Many of ot the best bands in th country today played there at one S' S time or another Guy another Guy Lombardo PV i Whiteman B B. B A. A Rolfe Ted I Lewis Jg Ted Waring and so on The place pros pored and it still docs doc does and and and tho Chi Chi nese nose proprietor now goes under the name of Mr dOr d'Or Next to feel feel feH Oriental domination was the old Del montico's at Forty-eighth Forty street aS and Broadway It already had f failed ailed dis mally under four lour different night club managements and once hart had had- borne the of Paul Whiteman i But the Chinese made a success ss W of it f from the start 4 |