| Show 4 i Z 1 1 t I 1 hy mr AL S I 1 nc york N Y variety is gen brally conceded to be the itce anice of life on broadway itis itis practically a vital ingredient i if ones life is to attain a goodly span ol of years yes rs witness the number of chorines small time actors and other professionals of the arts aria filling jobs as waitresses models salesmen or even sandwich men r cati just until my agent gets me the part I 1 want vant 11 ever notice how much ford maddox ford resembles a sealyham Scaly ham abe lyman the orchestra leader confessed the other day sail said he had bad been trying for weeks to pick the first three numbers in that radio hit parade and never even crime close to it his secretary who cant even play a zither hiss has selected the top songs three times in in a row being a reporter is not always a handicap two of the towns most prominent news hounds were recently caught in a gambling raid quick as lightning the boys slipped their police cards in their hat bands whipped out paper and pencil and got away with the bluff george jean nathan has written a play 1 the avon flows which vt is to be e produced shortly wonder how this most of critics will take raps at his own brain child i twenty bearg ago today gen genial I 1 P papa joffre was parading up fiatoa fifth avenue a neveria never to be forgotten scene w with it h I shouts tears and the rippling cir ing flame of many flags stour reporter a young man than then got himself hoarse shouting vive la france fiance and would have fallen fal lerf out a window atop the famous old cafe st gall harry sladon the proprietor got avice like grip around his apple motorists beware hunt ington west virginia cop named shorty is doing much to keep visitors away from that otherwise pleasant city short shorty y wi will I 1 I 1 swear you were doing 50 just because fie he like the shape of your nose C G of C better take notice I 1 last years menace was keep the reds out of the white ho house use and now its who will play scarlett ohara on the screens screen FOR stop worrying the player was s hosen chose nIong long ago but its been a great buildup build up and cost nothing to put over bill robinson Robins onist is return returning ipg to broadway for a vacation cat ioni 1 the great old hoofer may while his time away doing a dance or two at the cotton club the young man who sells illustrated programs r in the lobby of the winter V inter garden where beatrice lillie and bert lahr costar co star in the show Is orf on 11 is thinking of ari writing ing a book or giving ae lectures coures on h how w to tell new yorkers from butof oufa of downers towners he knows because thousands t hou sands of each file past him every week and some of them cant help talking it seems that the new yorkers yorke rs regard these dukes broadway for program hawkers as handy butts for wise cracks and sometimes as suckers for trickery whereas the people from scranton syracuse and Middle middletown towns consider them friendly counsels the local folks for example ask him how much he makes off the racket A frequent remark is no sale I 1 cant read and sometimes there are gems gemson of wit such as you the headwaiter head waiter here of bowhers towners on the other hand ask simple touching questions will my ticket stub get me into the ini night ht club upstairs or does bert lahr wear a mask or Is there just a show here or do you serve food beyond these queries about the show there are i many about the town tell me a good god hotel brother do the subways run all night thus cht winter garden duke gets to know his fellow men and he likes it sometimes he says im more interested in answering the questions than I 1 am in selling but blit I 1 suppose no new yorker yorke is going to believe that theres the whole difference the broadway parade |
