The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1926-10-21
IN NEW YORK,

New York. Oct. 2i--Evcn the pie
nnrcsquc push carts which crowd the
streets Of New York's east side
threaten TO succumb to big business
and efficiency methods.
IN times agone n push cart pro-
prictor was q potential merchant
prince getting his start along the
curbstones.
( Today scores OF these colorfui
business enterprises are owned BY
syndicate or single individual. The
peddler is reduced to a salary bnsis.
an! the wage is not sufficient to in
sure any degree Of independence.
Furthermore. such group ownership
/ makes it difficult for the individual
to compete. The large holders can
purchase stock in vast quantities and
cut prices.
One of the largest owners, who is
, said TO control several hundred push
, carts. seldom secs the east side and
maintains big offices in the uptown
belt. His real interests are in Broad
way and recently he opened a gilded
night club on his east side profits.
A notice comes to my desk that the
chorus men of one Of the big Broad
way music shows have formed a foot
ball team and challenge any amateur
group to winter games.
Don't smile? Mayhap a change is
overtaking the chorus boys. In three
musical productions this season
nave noticed number Of "he-men''
'yncs and. am told. the public is
demanding such. That they are
difficult 10 get is perhaps due to
established beliefs that the chorus
was no place for "hc-men." A couple
Of football victories--if any-would
DC invaluable propaganda.
The co-author of one of the two
hiTGest box office smashcs of the
broadway season. with a cut Of % per
cent Of the profits. continues at his
Job Or stage manager of another
Success does not strip the "back.
stage' Of its lare. Those who have
once been in this strangely artificial
little world just back Of the sidewalks
q" no find it easy to break away and.
once breaking away, they seldom
stay away.
In the preparation of this play.
which deals with night life of Broad.
way. the producer decided that the
original script needed "peppinr up"
and sprinkling with more broadway
pattcr.
The playwright called in TO do this,
and whose work, it is held, saved
the SHOW had never been in a night
club. The writer Of the original
script. on the other hand. had been a
night lifer for years and had gone
broke spending. And there you are!
An electric sign tells me that
.abie.s Irish Rose" soon is to have
It's zOOOth performance. A six-year
run. wag suggests making it a
landmark and letting it 60 at that.
IN the company that presents it..
four members felt that since thew
were together all the. time ANYWAY
they might as we'll be married. One
of the couples has a two-year-old
child. Dorothy Grou. who started her
stage career in this play as q flower
girl, was II years old when the run
began. Now she is old enough to
step out and play parts.
A man who is an "offnial wei.
conner" for the suit and cloak trade
has had to attend 40 times--not
through choice, but because visitors
demanded to see 1t. He is equipped
to undcrstudy every role in the piay.
he says.
GILBERT SWAN.
Copyright. 1926. NEA Service, Inc. }
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y to be used in an attempt to solve
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