| Show I IN NEW NEWYORK YORK I By B PAUL HARRISON HARBISON NEW YORK YORK Meanderings Meanderings Harry Kemp Cemp the hobo poet well wen anyway the he itinerant poet is back in fri Greenwich Greenwich Greenwich Green Green- Village A few years ago he was one of the he veteran Bohemians who deserted the he quarter on account o of ot high rents and a bourgeois invasion Rents are loW ow again and the Village is welcoming welcom welcom- ing ng its long haired prodigals prodIgal Kemp the he tramper life is writing another another an an- other oilier novel Incidentally not all aU of the Villagers are paying rent these days some of them hem are squatters The technique is iso isto isto to o find a house that has been vacant for or some time tune get in by one device or another generally through the back ack door have a key made and take possession If It the owner comes around with a policeman the Uie squatter claims to have rented the house from froma I Ia a man who said he was a renting I agent With old unprofitable build build- ings which are owned by estates though the agen agents seldom come I around One such place on Grove street has been occupied for nearly a year free of rent and interruption by two parties parties parties par par- ties a writer and an actor SI Sightseers Sign Sim The Empire State observation tower tow tow- er finally has bought it itself el a registration registration regis regis- book and the guides stationed sta sta- there no longer have to answer so many questions about bout where all the visitors come from There already already already al al- al- al ready have been sightseers from 47 states and 45 countries and it turns out that only one visitor in ten is a aNew aNew aNew New York resident One of the strangest handout lines in n town forms every morning down on Park Row From to jobless men gather there to receive the help wanted page of ot a newspaper extra proofs of ot which are printed specially for or them Women Permitted It lt has been about 30 years since women were permitted to enter the Union club oldest and most exclusive sive of gentlemen's clubs in New NewYork York The only exceptions were wait walt who were employed for an un un- comfortable year during the war and the widows of ot deceased club presidents presidents dents who were escorted with due ceremony to see their husbands' husbands portraits por por- traits hung Now that the organization tion has moved into its new building the house committee has decided to have ladles ladles' days Fannie Brice who's stealing the show in the revived Follies Fol lies and for more money per week than most people make in a year isn't as thrilled as the day 23 years ago ngo when Flo Plo himself took her into his Follies at 75 a week after after atter af at- af- af ter shed she'd been getting 35 as a musical comedy soubrette What with the inroads of Hollywood Hollywood Holly Holly- wood and the demands of ot a good theatrical season there arent aren't any beautiful and arid talented girls left on Broadway Or so at least wails B. B G G. DeSylva the firm producer who's going back handed empty-handed after a two weeks weeks' search for new faces along the gay way Musical Family The pride of Tin Pan alley right now is the Tobias family which has three song writing brothers brothers Charley Charley Harry and Henry Henry and and a fourth named Milton Nilton who's beginning to take an interest in the game Charles wrote In Jn the Valley of ot the Moon When Your Hair Has Turned to Silver Somebody Loves You and anda a lot more Harry contributed Sweet and Lovely and Im Sorry Dear to the hit list and Henry is the author author au au- au thor of Katinka and Along Came Love Maybe Mabe youve you've forgotten that Yes We Have No Bananas was written in 1922 and by a pair of ot unknowns named Frank Silvers and Irving Cohn Conn They made each eachon on the piece and Silvers apparently took his share and lit out for Tim Tim- At any rate Cohn who's who now an orchestra leader hereabout hasn't been able t to find him CohnS Cohn S says the banana song was done as a stunt for their orchestra and that neither had any idea of ot publishing it until the publishers themselves finally convinced them that it was a hit hH I Copyright 1933 NEA Service Inc The |
