| Show I TIll In New York J NEW YORK Oct 6 G. notes from p. p a. a ramble about Man hattan l The rehear rehearsal al season in tull swing Theatrical boils bolls over like Uke th the soup of a n nee neg house wife Hall hail gp is at a premium Tired actors r cite their lines Une-s to a dark b b rhall r- r hall room Plays must b. b whipped into shape The season is in In full tull swing Minutes count cOUO Customer f curse cura intruding Jewis Directors tear their hair and anil air fall faIl into cold sweat at the thought of the nearness of opening night One by one the t theater dark darl and deserted in the summer rJ months blossom with bright dec elec tiie lights I The mill grinds all over the town The vacant hals halts and end lOdge rooms of the Bronx the East Side downtown uptown wherever yo jou o turn In the uPPer Fifties eastward Lexington avenue l L la 3 contrast glare like Uke ree red lights in a political parade On one side th the j dusty halls where gather the hard hand voiced chorines of the burlesque houses Yesteryear they were were gay gay with the songs of Germans Germans Ger- Ger mans and Austrians Beer flowed from kegs as 11 Lh the wedding parties came for dante dance and nd cel celebrations lod Todd the hams of the show game come corns comeIn comein in knots to rehearse ur r third rate road shows J Just across the street spring up the new little theaters Here in a ballroom famous J for tor It Iti Bohemians revels one of or the T ij alan sian modern holds n. n drama A few fw doors away a school of the van varl ous arts of the theater ater Young society throngs throng's the tle cIa clasi elasH rooms In front are lined d expensive cars caN Rolls Rolls s strange foi forego maltes maires The debutantes are learning to toj dance and to design o ojust On OnI just must roust have a career I there days So democratic you OU know r I And again crossing the street the timers old-timers of vaudeville lean leal underneath the the ham harri tree making wise cracks cracks' abou t their trade and about the newcomers to the a And again down t the he street th the thit coarse woman and girls guis of the b bur burlesque r lesque circuits slouch In tp the ea en trance to att attend their rehearsals re re- I IThe The whole scale of or the tIre theater may be run heie here w hm a 11 few ft blocks Ideal Idealistic i 1 dream and experience sq squat at side aide by side I They'll all be on the ther i way b the tire time Ume the first SUU snow flies Young art will be begg ng a 1 hear ing and the hard boiled ladies ladles of the Jhel e burlesque circuit will oe ne en engaging an the eyes of the drugstore cowboys Its It's its it's all aU in the making now SWAN SAN Copyright 1326 1926 G. G NEA XEA Service Inc lot |
