Show I IN NEW YORK By PAUL HARRISON BARRISON NEW YORK YORK The The first rule for sue suc- cesS ess along Broadway is Go it alone Tho The theater is full ll of temperament and jealousies and the Gay Lane itself is is full of ot prejudice and vacillating loy- loy altier Partnerships in the vast Va ma inn of cases just dont don't work For example of the 35 or more shows show along the rialto just now not not ot one Is the presentation of t any partnership of long standing William A. A Brady Jr r. r and Dwight Deere WIman WIman WI- WI man have separated the latter to become become be- be come ome highly successful as an independent inde- inde pendent producer Sam H. H Harris and George M. M Cohan once constituted a famous team now Harris Harr has hu three lit hit shows of his own and Cohan Conan is acting cling for the Theater guild Lee and Lake Shubert In 30 ye years rs were responsible for more than plays lay Yet after the firm floundered into nto debt it was Lee alone who bated bat bat- tied ed through bankruptcy bankrupt to regain his old Id prestige All AU of ot such broken alliances would make a long list lirt But there is one onether other ther that lends point to the Until little more than a year ago the strongest triumvirate in let Tin Pan alley included Le Brown Ray Bay Henderson and Buddy DeSylva They seemed to o be the sole exception to Broadways Broadway's partnership no rule for success Also they icy were closely associated with George Jeorge White who depended on them for or most of th the the- tunes for his Scan Scandals dais als The music m men n boasted that they they'd never contributed songs to a how show that wasn't a a success On the opening night of the last Broadway roadway Scandals however however Mr BroWn irown and Mr Mi White traded socks that lat were were heard around the theatrical he went 5 smash Brown and Henderson stayed together long bong enough to produce Strike Me Pink last season and then drifted apart part Some movie moguls came along looking for production and musical talent Brown Henderson DeSylva and White were all hired d separately to work f for r Fox Films in Hollywood Mid Arid so o. o whether they liked it or not they found themselves together again Their Hollywood interlude over Brown and Henderson now are planning plan plan- ning a New York show together and it is rumored that DeSylva will join them later later- Broadway is wondering whether its it's true and if it so how long it w will ill last lastA A f few years ago J Jed d Harris retired at at the age of 30 He had produced a dozen hits including The Royal Family Family Fam Fain ily fly and The Front Page at one time had several shows running simultaneously and enjoyed an un income of about a week Shot with luck that youngster He rot got out of the same just before betor the plague of locusts hit the land and went abroad with his books and unfinished manuscripts I Said hed he'd never return I Harr Harris l i is a changeable fellow though Once hed he'd gone to Yale where he tired of ot his classes and took to reading omnivorously by himself himself- After Alter two years he decided he didn't like Yale He became a hobo and bummed his hi way to Denver In InDen Denver Den Den- ver vex he changed his mind salad about hobo hobo- ing fag and talked himself into a new suit of ot clothes and a job lob as editor of a news and art magazine e. e Four months of that and he was bound blind baggage for New York He shoveled coal ona on ona a trip round passage to Europe He became an m actor and wh when n he had hada a nickel la Isi his hl pocket he e tho thought t noth noth- I I ing of walking out of 60 a jobs jabs because the playS playS- weren't being produced produced pro pro- to suit him Finally he announced announced an an- himself as a producer produce and strangely rangely enough his personality and principles had made such an impression impression sion hereabout that financial backing W was l. l given him His HI shows paid from the start Some of them made for tunes So what So Harris is 19 a changeable fellow and is back on Broadway He figured this would be a a good season and hes he's s 's helping to make it so His first venture The Green Bay Tree I is 13 a hit He brought Katharine Hepburn Hepburn Hep- Hep burn bum from Hollywood for The Lake And he has a third play coming up Mr Air Harris is very lucky Like a fox Lox a |