OCR Text |
Show Past of Characters: m Susie, the hag who Midnight SB ... She haUntS V was one of Broadway's claims she ' g . The glamour gal da hefty lady-boun gin-mill, wh . breS an Alley's song-scrib- ' . who grind out Amer-bling Amer-bling cynics who g 1CS S Z 5 Street barkeep who ' t Ktrflies with sleight-of-entertains rarBes bar. hand card t icks. rpf wereatsentiful they've just fn rr, of -ahorses Lfred sh'-shine gal near Grand Central Staion The Uniin Square soap-boxer who neddles carrot juice as a healthier health-ier V" "ppitv Park Avenue bookie who accepts bets only from the snobbish set. ..Tlie poet who squats near the East River in the 50s all daj - comPTS VerSeS which he gives to children Crowds of dc-nothings huddled near corner cigai stores tensely watching watch-ing a nickel-matching contest. . . The exclushe tailor in the New York Stock Exchange. ... The Mulberry Str;et puppeteers one of the city's mo arresting free shows. Workers in subway change booths who rarely take their orbs off books th.y read, while mechanically mechan-ically dishin,' out jitneys. The miserable matinee idol who totes a torch for a .'amed actress, usually mobbed by cl.iwtographers. The peanut stanct man whose stand is covered with photos of celebs autographed! . . . The prune-faced lady (in the Fifties) handing out slips of papxr" with Scriptural passages on them. . . . Sidewalk hawkers who sell books, mags, ties and kitchen utensils. One-man department stores. . . . SJeuths in railroad terminals keeping keep-ing their eyes peeled for muggs with police records arriving from the hinterland. . . . Ladies who put a coat over their nighties and take their pups for an airing every dawning dawn-ing along Madison Ave. Quiteso, Quiteso: Ted Breton reminds re-minds us. that Maurice Barrymore loaned his presence to vaudeville for one consecutive 3-day run. It was at the Olympic in Chicago. . . . One matinee Maurice dashed off the stage and into the manager's office. . . . "See here!" Maurice see-here'd. "I cannot continue. They just don't get me. I cannot please your audience!" Manager George Castle calmly comforted: "Don't try. Just draw 'em in. The nobodies on the program pro-gram always give the show." Worse'n the Electrio Chair: Jack Haley was listening to a newcomer in Movietown, who was discussing international events. . . . "The worst moment I ever had," he said, "was when I saw Gromyko walk out on the U. N." . . . "Then," said Haley, "you haven't really lived. Wait'll you see Louella Parsons walking out in the middle of the preview of your first picture!" Bob Benchley was also Irked by literary pirates who aped his yarns He brushed them off this way: "Anyone who is stupid enough to steal ideas isn't smart enough to steal the good ones!" Americans who have recently returned re-turned from Spain Inform us that the Spanish undergrounders have launched a campaign of ridicule similar to the one that flourished in Germany when Hitler was in pow-fh pow-fh F'!xamPle: Night after night toe walls in an industrial section of Mdnd re daubed with anti-fascist 2 'T- In vain fte Spanish so diers hunted for the authors of ra d ge;, ne day'atl"d and of to. ol Sldler Wrote under one of the slogans on the wall: "Why dont you do it in broad daylight you cowards?" uao,"t.ni, dly there w" '- are too v, fy' but ln &e Jtlme we lows!" Parading wlth y" lei! whbTlier? W8S a" Ptimist woj w f good wiU Peace anH y bu'ld a wor'd of were Cf, prsPer"y- But there Wm Z When traS news left "hAenfheewa8Wa0 W" WUh Br-mutter Br-mutter i,depr"sed herd him aos and winT', Started ,rom happens in V! d chaos- Wht toSr'Vrrmrch""63 at st sight Men,,, Ught ' lova L"mh tel" . that Europe', ecom, dom'ntod P"ns nowTa.e""0,10' El'r-aboutu. El'r-aboutu. "c J , standnrd Joke trate" theyCsaytr!?S 'hl"i conoen-and conoen-and '"natic asyium," lilnR J"ils are fr the ZTl, Th8 former a rnarkeHhe Z, th" "ho don't." r are fr |