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NEW YORK. June s.-The Rialto
SCOTS the impractical dreamer. But
when success comes and Broadway
blinks the dreamer's name In letters
Of fire. well. that is another story.
Two years ago shy young man In
impressed tweeds set hopefully from
morning until night at the outer gates
of the producers.
His persistence finally won and he
carried to Garcia an idea. Now he
will meet producers only by appoint
ment made days In advance. He
swept along with him to amazing
success an unknown producer who had
merely given him a kind word when
the world offered its piquant rebuff.
Wilson Mizner coined the phrase
"hard-boiled." He was speaking of
the Rialto. Even the secretaries and
Office attendants appear to delight In
hurting the barbed verbal thrust. The
reason is that most producers who
have gained eminence came from a
world where each man was for him.
self.
Little George White was a ragmuf-
fin of the race tracks and danced for
dimes on the east side i. Sam Harris
seeped up from the Bowerr and Irving
Berlin pounded a tinny piano In a
Chinatown saloon. Al Woods fought
his way from tenement humbleness-
and so 1t goes all along the line
The personnel OF the producing end
OF the theater is backgrounded with
the atmosphere OF gangland's give
and take. The theatrical Office as
sumes that every visitor has a burglar
Kit on his hip. And they fiaunt their
warning. TRY to get it"'
For instance in the office of one
producer is a sign reading: Mr.
Blank will see no one." Yet l hap
pened to be there one day when a
lady with painted charms and cryptic
face arrived. A half dozen doors
swung open in a rush. She was the
star-and you see she had made the
producer money. And that Is the
magic key that opens the Rialto's
stubborn doors.
Touching upon things Thespic. a
bon vivant with pompous front
stood under a hotel canopy as the
theaters were emptying the other
evening. From a stage door came a
flock OF chorus girls.
What time Is it?" a friend ask cd
him.
About midnight" he replied.
They've unieashed the alimony
hounds"
The daylight saving schedule
seems 10 be confusing even to Tin
Pan Alley. The most popular of the
waltz songs in the supper clubs is
one called Three o'clock in the
Morning and all the clubs now cl Sc
at a. m.
We seem unable to turn from the
atricals in today's Offering. StIi
enc cannot help but notice that the
summer revue triumph lid not i'm
port foreign stars this year They
selected Gilda Gray from a supper
club and Gallagher and Shean from
the two-a-day and featured them.
Most of the English and French I'm
portations during the past few years
have failed miserably to excite the
spectators
In the midst of our mental fog
gerry over something to write about
comes letter in a bold hand say
among other things: you taIk abort
New York as if nothing ever hap
pened elsewhere. I'll wager you
were never off that stuffy. silly is-
land. There are men on the crack
erbarrel who know more of life
than your wisest Broadwayites.
You have a seeing eye anil It is a
pity to waste your talents on such
foolish city. Travel and see some-
thing new"
Business of searching the rail-
road folder for the next train 10
Redbank n l.