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

NEW YORK, Dec. ia decade or
so sgo . rich New Yorker used ais
influence to bar an immigrant (vho
had clicked in q big way down in
Wall Street, from residing on I'll.
same exclusive block. Whether u
al because Of the foreigners reli-
zion OF manner, We do not know. At
any rate. when he learned that ths
prospective neighhor had had him
barred, he determined to live there,
and proceeded to fight. The locale Is
Eighty-sixth street nea Fifth ave-
nue..
Several months later he successful
IN put over the dear In some way and
erected an elegant two-story dwell
ing right next door 10 his unknown
enemy and engaged q noted sculptor
TO sculp some art over the front en-
trance. Now, when you inspect me
art work you observe the likeness of
the owner facing his ~neighbcr's man
sion. The miniature statue reveals
. man thumbinE his nose.
Tn Fewer Words
They quote Frisco, the clown, a.
observing; The Broadway night
clubs are c~lioking-or do my ears
hear lccks."
Have You Had Your Irony.
lou probably rot q rough idea on
how this corner goes for anything
ironical- IL Is U greatest passion.
Well, we we're just rcminiscing back
to a year or so ego. when the Park
Central hotel opened. Il wanted to
attract attention. end engaged Nat
scha Nattova. the tiny danseuse, to
climb it's tall radio towers In moth
ing but a brassier and trunks. Tha
day before she climbed the manage
rent cot cold feet. fearing an acct
dent to the lass for which they might
be held to blame.
But Nstscha vent ahead with chs
stunt, drawing great crowds in
Broadway, few knowing what or who
was risking a life and why. She did
high kicks on the way up, back bends
and other acrohatic stuff practically
IN the nude, and IL was a chilly day.
But Nstscha got no publicity oct Of
IL, o did the hotel, for not a news.
paper vas notified.
Now the hotel IL pretty we'll knevn
in New York. II wss in one Of its
rooms that Arncld Eothstein was
laid low with what some people Joe
ularly say was a piece OF n certain
Fifticth street restaurants chees.
cake.
Add Rsckets
The new racket in music publish
ing circles is the theme song. SOM
writers hsve dropped everything 20
write theme M for pictures. since
the phenomenal successes scored oy
such picture tunes rs "Jeannine,"
Angela Mia" "Diane," Sonny Boy
etc. According to r. A. Rolfe, song.
used TO consist OF a verse and a cho-
rus. Now the formula is SO bars
Of melody and Greta Carlo. IL Il
even reported that a w~ell-kno~n
songsmith " ne the moment writing
p theme song to a set Of X-ray pic
lures OF the liver OF a famous movie
magnate. And when you sec a fell
low carrying a camera on Tin Pan
Alley these days, its a 10 to 1 he's
q song writer. The first thing pus-
fishers ask OF writers nowadays is,
Does your sons screen wells"
BY Way or Report
IL appears that you cannot believe
everything you read in the papers,
after all. The compsnionatc idea al
marriage reported existing between
Fannie Hurst and her husband,
Jacques Daniclscn, with whom she
was supposed to have breakfaStsd
twice a week, il just 50 much
vhoccc.
The exploitation gag was prompt
ed a few years = 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 u was broadcast that the
newly weds lived separately and
were u~ltra-modern. The story land
cd on every front page in the world.
clinching her fame. As a matter Of
TACT, they are i~nssnely jealous OF