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Show January 11 1935 frUar. 1& TOy-Ih- e, AIMfc PAGE HIRES Scenes and Persons in the Current News rrr w ETVgClTD7u7 fJEQy vodiik V ,.V. 00AHtyki Zt V. : ..." Uf NEW YORK. The tug of couttnu-tburlesque fills more than a dozen theatres in greater New York from l - """i 1 until m. midnight. Some of their electrle t(as on 42d u Street are gaudier than the pretentious . ! uorle houses. Many old vaudeville regulars are now burly fans. The favorite coryphees of bur-- 2 le8(lue have more than followings the average stags star. Indeed, a number have brought back the door John In the makeup of a stage visiting hind from Hickory Corners. The boys from small towns go for burlesque queens. Such fascinating sirens as Gypsy Lee Rose. Evelyn Myers and Maxine DeShon are reputed to receive more mash notes than any chorus girl on Broadway. Whilst most of the epistles are from hinterland of the Ill be wearing a carnation and carrying a newspaper type,1 they are torrid. The piece de resistance of burlesque rowdy-dowdis, of course, the strip dancer. While a few are exhooch twisters of the carnival shows, the depression has given the fleshy pyrotechnics many comely and statu csqne girls who might otherwise be In high priced revues. mtu te Ih. U li. .( U Swutytourtli Hamilton Field Air Base in California hot-spor- - I u. - ' -- x r 7. 7 -- A y ' 'f ' 11 n 1,1 va 4h- y The ghost of D'Artagnan bannts New York again. Such a prominent maitre darmes as Bela de Tuscan has declared more sword duels are being fought at sun-uthese days than in several decades. There are a half dozen fencing schools in midtown and students hare found the sword an excellent tool for repairing social and business disputes. The duello is easily kept secret and rarely fatal. Two clashes this winter failed to reach the press. M ? 'l r "1 , ' 4 I Si " t. ' V- . pT - ''! . -- dj JJ - H 1 1 -v . - LV r !Jj p yLAi 4 The. Metropolitan opera, scrubbed clean of its whorls of grime. Is now a neat tan and for the first time in years presents shining facade. The new splendor has attracted many street hawkers to the curb, some old timers but a few who seem abashed at making a living in a way for which they appear so wholly nnsulted. Depression misfits! AIR FORCE CHIEF Abraham Lincoln in Indianapolis i - !J( i yrj, V A - Along the library wall of West 42d street among street salesmen Is one faithful percheron, a Balrnrfathera ; v V' V v r- i1 t - Ole Bill, who has been selling hook-obow ties of horrendous colors during my time In New York. He moves from lower Broadway to and the Bronx, a stained and seedy pilgarllc who sits beside bis display without soliciting. Yet he tells me that during the years he has been able to make a living without appeal n mid-tow- n IN to charity. Roxy, transferring his showmanship to nearby Philadelphia, removes, it is hoped only temporarily, the most vivid theatrical personality of his period. With exception of the Paramount, he has shaped the destiny of every big movie house in Manhattan. He was the originator of the richly garnltured type of stage Lieut. CoL F. M. Andrews, who spectacles that now prevail. Like ks been named commander of the most pioneers, he has suffered the scorn of the pathfinder. But has lewly organized general headquar- never given way to despair. After Jers air force. the usual type of Jolts that the SUCCEEDS BIFF JONES amusement world suffers, he dusts himself off and Is back with a grin for the next encounter. Roxy wont stay down. leaniro bleld once carried by Henry n of France has Unseam of Art, New York, and la among the recent accessions to the collections, parale w"y the exhibits MetrPlltn y 4 j s $ umum;3K T This new seated statue of Abraham Lincoln, In bronze, designed by Heniy Hering, New York sculptor, was dedicated In University park. Just south of the World War memorial in Indianapolis. Someone tells me Ed Wynns This cactus, located on the desert and the flutey uptake laugh nine miles from Phoenix, Ariz, Is said to be the largest In the world. are enormous exaggerations of his It Is 40 feet tall, has SI branches or mother. Wynn used to m I m I e arms," weight ten tons. her when neighbors called not SET NEW RECORD only to the delight of the good So-o-- 1 1 I r Tuning His Motors for Record Try lady but her friends as well. Jo ?ns Women Get Taste of Army Life v Vi - s o-o when he began searching for some new approach on the radio he recalled these characteristics and they clicked. Jack Pearl got much of bis soda pop splutter from a cobbler whose shop was near bis home on the East Side. W. C. Fieldss My pretty pigeon and the like are a take-of- f on a throaty actor he used to mow In his early repertoire days. Bernle lloore, Louisiana state university freshman coach, who has been appointed head coach for Huey P. Longs pet Tigers," succeeding! Lawrence Biff Jones. The latter resigned after an argument with the b!h - '- Hrf ' v--V -a Klngflsh. Working for Mars Although a small percentage of 1 --x-Of course, too, there is Chaplins the product of the American arms mlgnon walk that he picked up from industry is exported the shipments s bandy man around a London cab from this business amount to shelter. And- - Leon Errols gutta per- - more than $15,000,000 annually. The eba leg was a mimicry of a rum- - rtlcles ahlpped are mostly slrptanes soaked blighter in an Australian pub. and airplane motora, ammunition Laurence DOrsay got his monocled and machine guns. vacancy from a dour old clubman who used to call on his father every Raymond Delmotto, French aviaWhere Pearls Are Feand , tor, who whizzed around the regula- Sunday. Oysters are invariably associated tbt Mj four-la- p course at Istre with pearla, but it la rarely that ot aPaa may get better appreciation of the tion an speed of 312 average at 1 s France, on Lex- snch highly prized gems are found man around in Japan The aoldlera an kindling be hiinb,1.Sbanl8 brothers who may to miles per hour to break the worlda avenue was telling about the in tbo common species. The pearl Women-- . 7 Ieclaly selected members of .the Japan National land planes. The pre- ington of his father a number of system, so mnch sought after, occur for record of ,eaRu death wers invited to make a thorough inspection ptttk inf" are vious record of 308 miles per hour years ago, He died In the flue sea- - . snly in warm and tropical seas, Pisan,. ur regiment at Osaka. Here some of the womenmasks late Jimmy J was held wedally around Ceylon. them are shown bow machine guna and gas demic," he said sadly. ""64 Syndsit, Im. 0 ttS). 0 j 1 1 I -- J- - s' w Sr j j Although there is so Indication that Harmsworth challenger la in offing, Gar Wood, peer of all speedboat drivers, will not bo found unprepared should ono bob np. Wood is increasing tbo power la bis huge Mias America X motora, and Intends to try for a sow world record in Florida some time this winter. The photograph show Wood looking over the superchargers of bis motors. Ho has Increased tbo speed of these units to provide 800 horse power more to each of tbo four big motors, ' making s total home power of 7,600 for the craft, the most powerful power plant ever attempted In s boat the |