New Britain herald., 1930-04-11

New York, April Il - Thoughts while strolling: Radio artists who go in for Valentino sideburns. Those fake twin sister who dress alike and coyly glance back as they pass. l.. M. Gianinni the banker. A Lexing- ton avenue barber shop offers a free manicure" Elsie Ferguson in a mink coat going into a Child's.
 Marc Connolly, Pittsburgh, Pa, boy, who made good in the city. Rarely sec a picture of Mrs. Grover Whalen. Monday crowds spending the luncheon hour in" parks--read- ing and munching chocolate bars. A linen shop displays sheets cmbroid- cred with quotations. Funny, how beauty experts arc almost as home ly S ColumnistS.
 Children don't seem 10 have croup any more. Amelia Earhart up in the air again-but on a bus top. An Ole Clo' Man who plays tunes on q conccrtina to attract trade. Mme. Binney, who revived the corset Whats become of the phrase: That's priceless" Mansions ali unboarded for summer.
 The sun beams. Birds chirp. And girls are in summer ginghams. Pale looking people who patronize veg2- tartan cafes. A certain glamour somehow to theatrical hotels. Joe Leblang, the cut rate king. He fur nishes room where dramatic critics may write reviews.
 The newsboy evangelist of West 42d street. The spread of continu- ous burlesquc. George White always skips along as though on his way to a general alarm fire. Fly-blown shops with glass jars of candy OH display out front. Greeks who wear flamboyant shirts. And oil their hair.
 Mugs about the Garden who talk in husky monosyllables. Women with baskets on their heads going to Paddys Market. Com mbination fish stands and pool halls. Inarticu- late children who stand about dark ened railways and seem unable to play Old men with dry nervous coughs.
 The Aphrodite Hat Cleaning Salon. Faces that peer out from the curtained windows of drab boarding houses. Wall paper of spotty gray green. The smell of boiled cabbage and lysol. Solid white poodles. Nothing heightens squalor so much as a gas house.
 A new wrinkle in theatrical bally- hoo is to be tried out shortly. The manager of a star IS 10 exploit her without using her name on bill boards and in newspapers. His lithographs will use instead her pie ture, without caption. and the name of her play. On the programme she will be listed merely as The Star.
 A man about town, who was hear love sizzling letters read to 12 perfect strangers in the jury boN,, begged a friend to sit with him through the trying ordeal After the first missive, featuring much num- sic wumsie talk was read, the friend inquired: "Did you actually write that?" He bowed his head in assent. Good d-bye, then" said the fiiend-and scooted.
 Theatrical hotels have stopped ''on the cuff patronage. It has been custom to carry along play CTS "at liberty" until they secure new engagements, but jobs are too scarce these days. More than S250,- GOO in debts are outstanding among inns catering largely to perform CTS. Thus the Cash in Advancc!" policy.
 And one ,llugtrious and high nosed theatrical family is denied credit in almost every establishment | in town Each purchased article IS delivered strictly C. o. D. 1 One branch of the theater, how ever, is said to be unfailins in
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