Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-12-13

NEW YORK, Dee. ia decade OF
10 ago a rich New Yorker used nis
influence to bar an immigrant (who
had clicked in a big way down IN
Wall Street) from residing on the
same exclusive block. Whether n
was because of the foreigners reli-
any rate, when he learned that tho
prospective neighbor had had him
barred, he determined to live there.
and proceeded to fight. The locale Is
Eighty-sixth street nes Fifth ave.
nue..
Several months later ne successful
ly put over the deal in some way and
erected an elegant two-story dwell
inc right next door u his unknown
enemy and engaged a noted sculptor
TO seulp some art over the front en-
trance. Now, when you inspect ne
art work you observe the likeness or
the owner facing his neighbours man
sior- The miniature statue reveals
> man t~humbiug his nose.
In Fewer Words
They quote Frisco. the clown, Is
observing: "Thc Broadway night
clubs arc clieking-or do my ears
hear iccks."
Have You Had Your Irony.
Tou probably cot a rough idea on
how this corner goes for anything
ironicai. II is our greatest passion.
Well, we were just rcminiscing back
TO a year or SO ago. when the PARK
Central hotel opened. II wanted to
attract attention, end engaged Nat
acha Nattova, the tiny d~anseusc, to
climb its tall radio towers in moth
Ing but "A brassicr and trunks. Ths
day before she climbed the manage
mcnt got cold feet, fearing an accI-
dent TO the lass for which they might
be held 10 blame.
But Nataeha wen ahead with .he
stunt, drawing great crowds tn
broadway, few knowing what or who
was risking u life and why. She did
high kicks on the way up, back bends
and other acrobatic stuff practically
IN the nude, and IL was n chilly day.
But Nataeha got no publicity oct OF
IL, nor did the hotel, for not a news
paper was notified.
Now the hotel il pretty we'll known
in New York. II was in one Of its
rooms that Arnold Rothstein was
laid low with what some people joc-
ulsrly say was a piece of a certain
Fiftieth street restaurants chess
cake.
Add Rackets
The new racket in music publish
ing circles Is the theme song. Song
writers hsve dropped everything 10
write theme songs for pictures, since
the phenomenal successes scored "
such picture tunes as "~Jeannins,"
Angela Mia" "Diane,'' sonny Boy
etc. According 70 II. "A. Rolfc, songs
used 10 consist OF a verse and a cho-
rus. Now the formula is 81 bars
of melody and Grcta Carlo. II "A
even reported that a ~well-knowr
songsmith is at the moment writing
2 theme song TO a set Of X-ray pic.
lures OF the liver OF a famous movie
magnate. And when you see a fell
low carrying a camera on Tin Pan
Alley these days. its a 10 to 1 he's
a song writer. The first thing pub.
fishers ask Of writers nowadays ia
Does your song screen wells"
BY Way Of Report
IL appears that you cannot believe
everything you read in the papers
after all. The companionate idea al
marriage reported existing between
Fannie Hurst and her husband
Jacques Danielson, with whom she
was supposed 10 have breakfastcc
twice a week, is just SO much
whooee.
The exploitation gag was prompt
ed a few years ago when a newspaper
publisher who had confidence in the
authors ability decided to make her
internationally famous. Before
starting in her serials in one OF his
magazines IL was broadcast that the
newly weds lived separately and
were uitra-modern. The story land
cd on every front page in the world.
clinching her fsme. Az a matter on
fact. they are inssnely jealous IL