Show iT - THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE SUNDAY MORNING ’JUNE 21 1931 t t i Glorified Bad Men Now From the Circle to the Square1 again now per cent 4k JACK LA sr Idiosyncrasies — Peggy Sweet 33 n! IP Capone’s i 'I- - i Mr Belasco Rends a Chair Limb from Limb at Rehearsal asco even the name disintegrated The The theatre organization disbanded that bears his name will prohably have to be sold to pay the cash bequests Ben Boeder for forty years BelaSco’s general manager is uncertain as to future activities San Francisco made a handsome gesture in a publio memorial to its distinNew York the guished native "son stage of his great endeavors and most glorious adventures went to his funeral and forgot him overnight I can seef the old man now On a Summer day in the deadly heat in his clerical collar and alpaca suit bulldozing troupers one minute gently directing and instructing them the next 1 can see him stopping the rehearsal cold then deliberately walklooking around ing over and wrecking a chair into temper out I can splinters to get - thefire-axe off the back see him tearing- a wall and chopping a hole into a flat of new scenery then turning on a mechanic to say : “I told you three times to have that tree painted over to show knots in the bark — now you’ve GOT to have it S- t & ii Nails a Professor Hera off 100 Saga of the Thrilling Sick-Be- d College President Who Signed Away99 His Last Hours Willard Mack says that Sir James Hopwood Jeans the British astronomer who says few people live on the stars Richard should come to Hollywood B Harrison the colored actor in “Green Pastures” 66 years old never missed a performance in more than 650 and lectured and wrote throughout Paul Nicholson recently engaged after a long absence in a film role was the first legit actor who ever was screened That was in 1897 when Wallace McCutcheon turned out a film a day 600 feet of slapstick on a roof Phocion Howard says Sam Friedlander says “You don’t know what tough times are till you eat Wednesday’s breakfast And when Actor Friday night” Damon Runyon was invited to dinner by a house manager he replied: “I’ll eat with you — but as a newspaper man actors if I am reliably informed don’t the catf who wrote that Pegjy Hop-kiJoyce !$ 43 years old has a drop of manhood in his ignoble system he will meet me by the old jnill at midnight and I will tell him what I think of him with any weapons of his choosing I prefer typewriters — my kind or It wouldn’t make me boil so if it didn’t happen that I have knowh Peg exactly 17 years for I first met her at a birthday party given to her on May 27 1914 in Chicago when she became 16 she was in the Follies Surely she wasn’t cheating on her age at 16 1 had breakfast with Peg again on May 27 And they’ll pay eat” 1 " On a WOR philharmonic program a bugler was io blow and another back in the wings was to blow a tediously rehearsed echo Three times No echo After the program as the director screamed to know why? — why! a stage hand barged up and chortled “They was a nutty musician back here who wanted to blow a horn an’ bust up the concoit but I chucked ’im out” Jack Oster-ma- n at the Paramount Hotel Grill on Rudy Vallee to get does a take-of- f hisses— then "announces that Rudy Sevestaged it himself and loves it ral big Chicago playboys in town going around in professional circles Anyway going around in circles Jimmy Walker never missed a day calling Harry Reichenbach’ during his illness The Broadway beauty culture colleges give examinations diplomas and class-pin- s That makes the lobbies of the buildings campuses Einstein a belated anecdote relative Margaret Parker Comely “Baylor ’31” Grad Who Prices Her Sheepskin Signed by the Dying President 'M going to die in the saddle Don’t worry about me I’m not going to quit until my fingers stop working” The massive Texan who said those words was talking in the heroic tradition of the Old West He might have stern-code- d g been one of the quick-shootin- n of a generation good anxious only to acquit himself honorably in the face of the enemy before a bullet took him Instead he was Dr Samuel Palmer Brooks president of Baylor University and his lingers worked not on the trigbut moved a ger of a fountain pen laboriously across the diplomas of his idolizing students He didn’t want to disappoint this year’s graduates What he feared was no bullet but the ravages of abdominal cancer He had been given by his physicians two weeks to live There were 468 diplomas ready for his signature and he slowly painfully signed day after day— in the face of the warning that every time he scratched with the pen he hastened his death depleted his ebbing resistance Which proves that the pen can be mightier than the pistol not only in works performed but as an instrument of dramatic heroism In a hospital three miles from the quiet campus of Baylor President Brooks propped up in bed a framework fixed across his body was handed diploma after diploma He signed and rested signed and rested The stack of sheepskins on a table nearby rose bad-me- ago of nothing reveals was introduced to er fixed" 'i m! - - V h ‘ v' - I can see him bawling out Jack Dempsey in a rehearsal of “The Big Fight” and Dempsey saying to me at lunch : “I’Ve knocked out at lot of big men Jack but that little old guy terrorizes - jf me” tit' ? 'fV vv 'X That was Belasco He was my friend seem to be the only one in New York who remembers I Broadway Exodus A :VVZ7- - - Dods Sittar Showing Bath Whiitlinf and Balow Har Nail Split from tha Forca when she became 33 The inpublished before famous libel had that when she was 32 Morever I have been in Berkley Va near Norfolk where Peggy was bom I went there to gather data and dig up some old baby pictures when I was scouting material for the first biograwhich I phy of the beautific blonde Marrecord— birth her saw authored I 1898 27 Laugh bom May Upton garet 1931 bh Sitting in the new offices of Goldsmith Goldblatt and Hanower successors to the famous Henry and Fred Goldsmith Broadway lawyers when Broadway was Broadway I looked out upon Fifth Avenue and contemplated how the Broadway Village is being dismembered A few years ago the District had its own lawyers doctors dentists preachers merchants the inhabitants went to none other the practitioners had no outside clientele Now they are scattering — to Park Avenue to Fifth Avenue to the Empire State building and the actors shop in department stores instead of their specialty shops which catered to their sui generis demands Broadway can’t support the actors What theatres any more as it used to there are still open are mostly picture palaces So like the little lad who used to start off bravely with his pack in a bandana handkerchief to go out into the world beyond the Broadwayites are thatoffl Peg was looking very when I visited her the other man-destroyi- mid-da- y In pajamas trim and slim a cheerful little eyeful she smoked a cigarette and had her coffee 'A gorgeous orchid corsage arrived— no card She wondered whether it could have com from her new Chicago millionaire— ha was in town but she wasn’t seeing him “Just an orchid digger” I observed and she almostlell off the bed laughing “Sure” she followed up “a lot of me to ruin jennies wouldn’t put it past tiara to a a from a man for anything sandwich Right now I’m digging four shows a day in the heat and taking down my modest $6000 a week in Soon 1 will dig $3000 vaudeville week for six months on the radio for a in a soap organisation I intend drama at the same time on Broadway baby-blu- e to-di- g market hasn’t been very good for me lately and I’ve been digStreet brokers ging deep for the Wall versa One of the richest “The digging instead of vice men in America is giving me the rush I and I’m giving him the runaround— don’t mean the nice Chicago boy whom 1 r“Is thadiggingl Yet I di?ddur for another keep getting cigarettS-wI- tb dignity It Was Belasco— Helen Gahagan Belasco’s last star wound up the institution which for 60 been building years the old maestro had until Its spires piercsd the - theatrical heavens “Tonight or Never” could have run out the Summer But Miss Gahagan who is worth millions in her own name wanted to go honeyShe wouldn’t have moon gallivanting showman done it had the been alive With that everything that was Bel- - - gold-mount- LEAVING HOME Broadway’s Children Are Wandering Out Into tha Grant World Soaking Fortuno and Facing Fata scattering along the roads of traffic to- ward new marts of trade Artful Dodges - The Dodge twins went into bankruptcy but no one has hitherto gotten the unique cause Here goes: The main punch of the 6lster act is Beth's whistling She is one of the few no reed The professionals who usespinky-nails splits air pressure on her two the nails and makes the fingers raw Of couldn’t that Beth so it late got painful work With a big production to pay no other out She’s okay was there off his strength remained Here was new-da- y d heroism and courage in Texas State of old-tibravery on tight-lippe- the range Commenta- tors thought it significant that in 1931 the same respect and idolatry should be lavished on a college president which once was reserved for men who lived—and Wkons Another Luoky Baylor Co-E- d Dr Brooks Did Not Foil— Doo Jackson Campus Beauty On a trip ta of 1916 Europe last Summer he Injured him44 self lifting heavy baggage and never recovered An operation revealed his disease a few months ago and his final ' heroic illness followed Samuel Palmer Brooks will be long remembered among other Texans who iT have carried on the glorious end J&t will be remembered too as an example of the fierce American desirt ‘ for education which recognises no obstacles Some of this flame was caught nf''f ' from his mother who was always ambitious for his education and who died on his sixteenth birthday He was a grown man almost befort he resolved to devote the rest of hit life to his mind Already his muscles were hard and his courage was proven He was working in a on the range section gang when inspired by a sudAurelia Brooks the Presiden vision of his mother and a memory dent's Daughter Who Rushed of her hopes for him he threw down his pick and started to grammar school ’s Home by Air to Hsr He had just passed nis 22nd birthBedside day—and started in the first grade Saving his money he entered Bayloi died — by their gunB University Academy in 1887 working Pat Morris Neff former and going to school alternately H Governor of Texas and roommate of President jothls diploma and was graduated in Brooks in college days at The year after his graduation hs Baylor came to be with his went to Yale for his A B returned to good Old friend to the last “Hold my hand" the Baylor to instruct when he had it and then went again to Yale for his sick man asked and Master’s degree In 1902 he gave up Neff took a Yale Instructorship to become presithe wasted fingers dent of Baylor— founded in 1845 while tenderly in his own TexaB was still a republic Attending physicians were amazed that their President Brooks' life was a testimonial to the fact that it is possible for patient held out as did They a boy to begin without advantages long as he had feared that the exeven without exceptional perhaps ertion of affixing the scholastic talent and become one of signatures would clip the leading educators of his time — and In death a state and national idol days from the scant Hs was always deeply religious a fortnight they believed was the outside limit fitting attribute in the president of a enof the educator’s Baptist university Mora than once he durance But Presiuttered opinions which strongly redent Brooks was minded his hearers that his own father buoyed up kept alive had been a preacher He was fond of by his unshakable purreminding his students of their spiritual side and urging them with quiet pose He watched the stack of signed diplodignity to devote more time to it mas mount with elated “The preacher” he said not long Meanwhile the hospital clock before the end “has all to gain ana fervor ticked Inexorably nothing to lose by becoming well-in- -' formed about every subject of interest Surely he couldn’t last beyond a hundred signatures But he did Surely he to the public who attend his ministries couldn’t drive his frail energies past It is imperative that be has public rethe second hundred He did Texas spect “Ministerial leadership is not milihailed its professorial hero with exAbsence of fear of ong-horn cited adoration The physicians awed tary deacons should not caude thefastor by the display of bravery which was to become a boss 8weet persuasion keeping death at bay began to wonder Is the product of real culture whether sheer power of will could tri“The late Dr Russell H Conwell umph over the deadliest malady to once told me the difference between which the flesh is heir oratory and elocution He said that if Three hundred and thirty-ninone called a dog and the ddg came to Then President Brooks died suddenly him it was oratory but that if the He had done the impossible already dog ran away it was elocution” He had almost beat back death with a And now amid the mourning for heroic gesture Texas’ professor hero who stuck by his Allen W S Dr Baylor’s dean was pen until the end that impleelected acting president and signed the ment mightier thanproving the remaining sheepskins while gloom pervades all Waco4 Baylor is the oldest university in over the loss of its beloved college Texas Dr Brooks had been its presipresident several hundred fortunate dent for almost thirty years Under his recipients of diplomas bearing the auspices the enrollment had grown Brooks signature are having their from 700 to 8000 Only recently ho prizes framed “I want it for my grandchildren” raised half a million dollars for the one pretty co-e- d said the other day as school and liquidated Its debts she selected a heavy mahogany frame A firm friend of Woodrow Wilson for her precious sheepskin Dr Brooks was a member of the Peace Commission 7' ' TAMARA Tha Littla Rviiiu Ukuisle Thumbar and Croonar Whoa Night Club and Radio Hitt Ara Followed by Triumph at Ona of tht Brightett Patches in “Cracy Quill” Mary Pickford and was charmed with her After she left he inquired “Who Inwas that very sweet little lady ?’ surgent vaudevillians who want to the N V A Club selected as He their leader Henry Chesterfield Louis (Voice) Sobol is the satisfies only nightlife columnist who drags the frau all over his beat Tex Guinan has barred forever from all her menus French fried potatoes and English mut- ton chops Theatrical Press Representatives of America out in a serious and strenuous campaign to restore "the road” Campbell Casad is the T P R O A mouthpiece Press agent for the press The plan is to work Chamagents bers of Commerce Rotary Kiwanis Lions’ Clubs in 808 cities to provide that if representative shows are sent out representative audiences will patOn the other hand the proronize ducers will be canvassed to supply such Industries directly afattractions fected are also being urged to come in such as railroads hotels restaurants and collateral theatrical workers such musicians house atas stagehands The boys will go on tour and taches do the missionary stuff in person not Actors’ through the mails alone Interstate Equity is in active accord Commerce Commission has pending a e petition for return of the party-ratrailroad fares for travelling troupes A national board will be formed as a permanent body with representatives “Save from every industry interested A camOur Stage" is the slogan paign button has been mado with “SOS" on It to symbolize the slogan Buttons on sale and the emergency to help finance the movement Augubto Brandt Venezuelan composer who conducts the WOR Salon Orchestra got a scroll from his country for writing the1 “Bolivar March” habit on a Mary Nolan in a milk-whit- e milk-whihorse along Central Park Bridle Path draws many a gasp Nancy Canoll lives right near tne park but spends her leisure in the bathtub She is if you don’t know it s niece of Billy La Hiff ye landlorde of the "Tavern Chop House Billy denies that the name should be Lahiff though that’s how thy do be sayin’ it In Ire- That’s how my old pal Ed Laland hiff who was a big politish in Chi But it's okay by me handled himself either way as long as Billy is Billy— he can’t change that part of it Hero-Father- pul-mot- or te OipTrifbt MSI lntcOuttaui Swcvra ' Above Louisa Binnt Popular Girl Grad of Baylor This Year and (at Right) President Samuol P Brooks of Baylor Whoso Loyalty to tha 1931 Graduating Class Mad Him tha Tsxas Idol All-Ti- 160—161—152 Sixty a day at first There was an air of tragedy about the cam- slowly pus Students stood quietly about in hallways conversing in low tones as though any noise might Each find its way to the sick room morning a crowd pressed about the bulletin posted in the administration building giving President Brooks’ latest condition Two hundred 201 202 ’The room in the Central Texas Baptist Hospital was banked with flowers Telegrams calls from notables and in the educational world and all the professions kept an extra operator busy Mrs Brooks was constantly by Aurelia A daughter the bedside at graduate of Baylor and studentWaco Columbia In New York flew to to be with heisfather during his last hours Two hundred and fifty 261 President Brooks 252 — the pile grew winced with pain but his eyes were glowing kindly Students passing one another on the campus demanded “What news of Proxy?” “Condition unchanged" was news from the hospital each day the ' Once President Brooks fainted Restored by drugs he smiled and went on with his task His students loved him and each graduate would prize that familiar scrawl at the botton of his diploma He would not fail them while long-distan- ce Ina Orssi Bril In -l- e! -- Blbl IttsmS ' |