| Show I IN NEW NEWYORK YORK I By Dy PAUL HARRISON NEW YORK Oct 19 His ID-His His lantern- lantern jawed awed honor John Patrick OBrien O'Brien hasn't been getting about in public lately in spite of the thc fact that hes he's supposed supposed sup- sup posed to be engaged in a campaign for or reelection as mayor of New York City It seems that he has got to brooding brood brood- ing lag over the boos and the Bronx cheers that shriveled his pomposity on previous appearances such as the thelast thelast last two prize fights and the N R A parade Thousands saluted him disrespectfully disrespectfully on all those occasions but the parade brought forth the thc most phenomenal outburst of negative en en- launched since the Cherry Sisters retired from the stage At the time Mayor OBrien O'Brien seemed half hal inclined to overlook the sentiment senti senti- ment meat and to be c content with the fact that after all all this was the greatest amount of attention that ever had been seen accorded him Since then however however how how- ever his chin buttoned shoes and peculiar little scuttling gait have lave furnished no no more comedy relief re rc- lief at public functions True John Patrick has attended to toa a few outdoor chores such as laying a Tammany club cornerstone or r presenting presenting presenting pre pre- medals to the kiddies kiddies' who wrote essays on fire ire prevention But Buthe Buthe he doesn't add his squat bulk to the crush of celebrities at th theater ater first nights And when the world series opened at the Polo Grounds er sent word that he was too busy to come up and throw out the first ball bali The fans were disappointed They reflected re reo that O'Brien's rapscallion pred predecessor Jimmy Walker wouldn't h have nave ve acted like that Jimmy would have lave been on hand with a grin an ingratiating little speech and a flask of Scotch Had there been boos he would have made the most of them LIBBY'S BACK People on Broadway For the thc first time in many months month LIbby Holman Reynolds has come back to the Main MainLine MainLine MainLine Line and the first thing she did was rush backstage at As Thousands Cheer to embrace Clifton Webb pal of her Little Show days das She's much thinner and tanned deeply from swimming swimming swim swim- ming at her private beach at Watch Hill Hlll R. R I. I Rumors persist that shell she'll appear in a show early next year Aimee McPherson who tried togo to togo togo go vaudeville instead of revivalist provided a theater here herc with the worst business it has ever written in red Ink And down the street at another house Big Boy Hutton completed com corn the family Hop flop as a torch singer That pretty niece of at Paul Whiteman Whiteman Whiteman White- White man has one of the thc bachelor Vander Vander- bills talking to himself A Mae West number in the new Follies is being built around I Ia a chorus girl named Alice who looks and talks startlingly like the sometime come siren Trying a night club comeback and apparently finding it fun Gilda Gray isn't going to follow her new Venezuelan husband to his diplomatic appointment PLAY DOCTORING One of the best plays here hereabout is 15 Men In White and it takes place Inthe Inthe in inthe the various departments of a great hospital All during rehearsals painstaking painstaking pains pains- taking attention was paid to technical details Surgeons were called in to show the actors how to flourish hypodermic hy by- needles scalpels and the like The cast east spent a whole a-whole day visiting visit visit- ing inga a New York hospital All AU manner of medical medical and and laboratory equipment was wa-s purchased for props Well the theother other night Just before curtain time one of the actors cut his finger very severely Spouting blood he stood there in what looked like a fully equipped modern hospital while 20 white-clad white physicians and nurses milled about in panic not knowing what to do There wasn't a drop of disinfectant tant in any of the hundreds of bottles And it certainly wouldn't look right they agreed to step before the curtain and ask whether there i iwas was a doctor in the house Finally the thc wardrobe mistress brought a roll of gauze from downstairs capably bound up the wound and the play went on |
