| Show 1 Ii In New Yorki 0 NEW YORK Some years ears ago a herd held of Manhattans Manhattan's trained seals as they term special writers writers- found themselves in Shelby Montana Mon Mon- tana with a a. lot ot of tIme on their hands thanks to an apProaching worlds world's champIonship fight Those with memories for such things will recall that they found a a. certaIn Patricia Salmon appearIng appearing appear appear- Ing In a tent show and conspIred to set get the youngster a a. chance on Broadway And sO It befell that In Inthe inthe the course of time Patricia left the tent show world behInd and was wearing her ten gallon western hat back of the bIg time footlights After that came a a. vaudeville engagement en- en s and one thing or another C C S SVery Very well The other night I 1 II I dropped in on the danCe derby which Is the terpsichorean equivalent equivalent lent ot of the cross country bunion race One of the fIrst starters was Patsy Salmon It If she wins vins she's back in the big lights again for her little hour haul Theres There's no beacon Jt It would seem that casts a a. more mono alluring alluring al- al luring glare than the spotlight S S C Milton Millon Crandell who conducts these derbies from California to Maine 1 Is a a. sort of C. C C. C Pyle ot of the dance worM world And nd he tells bells me that when It comes to rhythmic punishment punish punish- ment you ou have to get away from the big cities The town small gIrls are true daughters of theIr barn dancing For instance Marlon Jacques the national titleholder comes from Elkins West Virginia A group ot of wisecrackers were talking about a a. certain Ritzy estate on Long Island Why hy its ls so RItzy said sald one that It if youre you're worth leSs than and are caught on the grounds they'll arrest st you for va- va grancy a S S S SA A waiter waller In one ot of the mid Forty couvert charge chargo palaces has turned out to De be an embryo embro author who who has been doing this work vork that he might have a chance to study types lie has a notebook filled with quick verbal sketches most ot of which I Iam Iam am told are not exactly flattering Last winter the janitor of the apartment house whereIn this writer dwells tUrned out to be a young artist who refused to surrender to commercialized drawing The Thedoor Thedoor door boy at the Waldorf AstorIa turned out to be a student for tor the ministry Thel gent who guards the portals ot of the Paramount Paramount Para Para- mount theater turned out to ho bo the forthcoming forthcoming- husband ot of a a. bankers banker's d daughter In Biloxi Miss and was painting pictures In him 1118 odd hours The taxi driver who drove droYe me to toa toa a movIe opening the other night turned out to be a student ot of music making his W way 1 1 daily expect the office boy to turn out to be the lost long Charlie Ross Or perhaps they're all Lon Chancy Chaney The get rich chorine of this particular season Is one Donna Rosa After Atter a year three struggle In the chorus someone gave her a General Motors tip In the days when tips were worth mone money She staked her small earnings on margin mar mar- gin and let the winnings rIde from day to day When the boom was over she was worth nearly a quarter of a a. million She was rail alJ- Ing for Europe when I 1 saw MoW her for the first time the other day day-a member ot of Ruth Eiders Eider's part party Lets Let's see what was It Ruth Elder did I GILBERT SWAN Copyright 1928 NEA EA Service Inc |