Show BROADWAY AND MAIN STREET Bogey and Pandas Were T Tame arne Compared to o. o J. J Brutus Booth BoothBy By BILLY ROSE There was a lot of ot talk on Broadway in recent weeks about the incident at the El EI Morocco l club where Humphrey Bogart was caught with his pandas down and to hear the prissy boys tell it unless Bogey stops acting up hes he's a cinch to finish behind the well- well known eight eight-baU Well so but I wouldn't bet on it It Its It's my belief that i if anything anything anything any any- thing his daffy didos will help his pulling power at the box office very much as they helped John Barrymore W. W C C. Fields and other talented screwballs who had the nerve to do what the rest of us only daydream about I And dont don't let any timer old-timer with braid on his Ws vest tell you that th the a entertainment entertainment entertainment entertain entertain- ment business 7 l wouldn't h have a v e tolerated a f. f Humphrey Bogart BoBart Bo Bo- I Bart gart in the de dear Pi i dead days According According Ac Ac- t. t cording to the fJ u RI record the nn an antics tics of yesterdays yesterday's yesterdays yesterday's yester yester- days day's s stars tar s. s make our pres pres- Wily lly Rose Koso ent crop of performers performers performers per per- formers look as pale as a ghost who has just seen a man For easy example take say the great tragedian Junius Brutus Booth Booth Booth-a a name to conjure with and make faces at JUNIUS BRUTUS RUTUS was born In England a few years before the century made its bow and bythe bythe by bythe the time he was 13 a servant girl had accused him of being the father father fath fath- er of her out-of-bounds out baby During During During Dur Dur- ing the next four years among other things he took a crack at being a sailor a sculptor and the husband of two ladies without the cu customary tomary divorce in between None of this stunted his growth however because by the time tune he was 20 he had become one of the great stars of the London stage He appeared at Covent Garden as Richard III and the following season season season sea sea- son at Drury Lane as lago Ingo to Keane's Othello And unless the record is lying his success was so great that a group of envious actors actors actors ac ac- ac- ac tors started a riot in the theater and tried to burn it down stage Offstage Junius Brutus even more mor spectacular than on an and if i Lauren Bacall's husband had bad been sampling the flesh and of 0 Piccadilly at the time lime chances are his capers wouldn't t have hatle rated a after morning thought Booth so goes the story made so many passes and arId passed out so many times limes that finally at atthe atthe the Ibe insistence husbands of oj bartenders bartenders bar- bar tenders and bobbies he be packed and aud to New York Here he proceeded to revolutionize revolution revolution- ize most of our acting techniques and despite the enormous quantities quantities ties of water wa water ter he consumed he never let his audiences down At Atone Atone Atone one matinee he was literally carried carried carried car car- ried into the theater and while the manager was splashing water on his face the customers began to yell for the show to go on Annoyed by th their catcalls th the tragedian stuck his face through the curtain and roared Im m drunk now but in ten minutes Ill I'll give gitt you the Iho greatest King Lear you ever saw And he did Another time he went into a pawnshop to borrow 10 pledged himself as security spent the tenner tenner tenner ten ten- ner on Jersey applejack and then as per promise came back and squatted in the pawnbrokers pawnbroker's win win- dow until his manager redeemed him One night while playing Richard Richard Richard Rich ard III he suddenly decided to revise revise revise re re- re- re vise Shakespeare's script a and n d when it came to the duel scene inthe in inthe inthe the last act he began slashing away at the young actor playing the role of Richmond The episode ended with his chasing the kid out the stage door and several blocks down the Bowery AS THE TIlE YEARS leapfrog Booths Booth's capacity for nu nutt came something of a naC nates nai end and any theater fc U scheduled to play generate the day the engagement r TS 14 Stories about te the I Ious ous crackpot were repeated every pot-bellied pot stove stove wonder For instance while t tan an ocean voyage the sip the spot where an actor E Conway had committed k I 1 drowning Junius Brutus appeared on deck and je jeH have a message for Condove Con Coni Cony ZI y dove overboard And for t tt to i 30 minutes he played iri I with the sailors who jum jumped i fish him out I II I In n his finale years Ytm Boast I up the study of Buddhism developed so grist great a I inflicting death that h hi be r ts burst into inlo tears if f to step on a hug bug HI Et a camp campaign gl J ing ng and ami while on tour loar mi 4 enraged at 41 the tbt s I killing of oj birds b hI be bus her I cemetery plot an and held bell t i J I ss for some pigeons a ahad had shot I Despite all this jinks hi-jinks aila cl ai i ila la however he was quite I a it i man and the 10 children he he were devoted to him ly the final curtain on theof the te teof c cof of the inspired looney iN fh killing was that one of his John Wilkes Booth was Ct ten who assassinated Abraham r Lr I |