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Show miw Milium mil i ii i iinwnrurrm S?,y mmtorjnw?iiMxii&misjzttriiasas SBaaaoMMmaaraBiManHSHM ycV iiwiibhhhiimi iininiiiHinn ruraim BEVERLY HILLS Well all I know is just what I read in the papers, pa-pers, or what I run into doing some outside scouting for Mr Roose- velt. Had great trip back East week or so ago. Have a daughter daugh-ter in school in New York in Westchester, and Mrs Rogers had gone back a week ahead of me on the train, then when I had the time I hit people that will draw anything at the box office. Jimmy Durante, late of the movies, is now in a dandy good show there. Well he is supposed to come back to pictures pretty soon, and Lew Brown, and Henderson are having a hard time finding some comedian that will replace him. Why in the old days if any of us that was featured in a show left it, they could call up a dozen out of the audience that was just as good. You see now with no vaudeville, I mean real vaudeville, high class houses, playing to the very best people, peo-ple, well now there is none, and there was your training ground for talent. There is where every comedian come-dian was trained. Every vaudeville bill was full of clever comedians that on a moments notice could step into a musical comedy. No sir the loss of old vaudeville was more than just the loss of seeing see-ing the show. Taking away vaude- ville was just like taking the high school away, and want the pupil to jump from grammer school ' to college. Then too, too many actors made the mistake of p!ay-ing p!ay-ing just on Broadway. They not only wore t.hemsplvps nut. the plane. Went by the Salt Lake-Cheyenne-Chicago way, this' time. All lines are good. They have to be, and they art making plans to put on faster planes. When they get that extra fifty miles an hour added, making at the least 150, why that will cut off one third of the times, and those few hours are the ones you want cut off. They are all eventually even-tually going to two and one motor, instead of three. Oh, say aviation is no more a thing to use. just so you can brag on the trip. Its. to be ashamed of it if you dont take it. Course the trains with the stiff competition com-petition have helped their rervice too, and they are rolling palaces. 1 have never made a long buss trip, but I am goin to some of these days. I hope they dont scare me rs bad to ride in one as they do when they fly by me on the highway. Well now a bit about the trip. New York was just going up and down in their feelings with the rise and fall of the stock market, just like one of these old time movie heroines whos bosom heaved and sighed according ac-cording to the heavy drama in the scene. There is a thing In our American Amer-ican life called the New York angle, that is that' everything is based on speculation. Their idea is that the Country must rend the stock market mar-ket report every morning before it can gnaw into the old ham and eggs. Well the market was as a whole doin, pretty good, and so they all felt better than I have seen them in a long time, but Lord the old town is not what it used to be. Course thats a sign that I am getting old. Thats the first thing the old timer of a place says, "Well Broadway aint what she was when I was acting act-ing on her." And by golly she aint. j Show business is show business no more. There is 95 legitimate theatres thea-tres and only 20 of em occupied. No outstanding hits that everybody talks about, and with the musical shows, they all say, "Well we cant get the talent" They cant find the there, but they meant nothing on the road. No one knew them. Thats how Jolson become so popular pop-ular in the old days. Al was smart He would always duck out of New York and play everywhere he could. He played many a one nighter in the very heighth of his tremendous popularity. He would draw anywhere. any-where. But its not only the lack ot great shows. Of course taking Zeigfeld away from Broadway was Just like taking up the sidewalks. He will never be replaced. There was just one of him. Aint you glad you lived j in an age when you can tell your 1 grandchildren that you. saw Ze!g- ' felds shows? But what the loss is is i the looks of the street itself. It used j to have class did old Broadway. Now its a street carnival. They will be j selling fish out'n front of some ot the places. They have barkers out hollering for everything. Ah she Is a great old town, but lis not "Us old ! timers town." But I expect we look ! just as seedy to it, as it does to ns. ' Everything is about equal In this world. O If S3, Uc.Kiui: Sduu, 1mm, |