Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-10-14
Mew York
Letter

NEW YORk.-EaSt side, west
side. all around the town
And down by the west SIDE
docks, the eel peddler Is the latest
addition to Manhattan's night life
figures. He arrives well toward
morning with his live and wriggling
wares tucked away in a basket.
When the lid Is lifted the CROWD
begins to Scream-particularly the
young ladies who have been doing
a little gin lumming. II a purchase
is made, the salesman deity snaps
an cells head and retires TO the
kitchen to have 1t cooked to or 'er.
Columbus Circle has dinners
marked down TO SO cents. And
Joan Lowell, whose name was very
much in the literary nmelight q
couple Of years ago, Is reported
writing feature copy on q Boston
newspaper. Eddie Cantor, who
had a newspaperman ghost" the
story Of his life, Is being offered
phenomenal sums TO write funny
stuff for the magazines.
Those picturesque professors"
who once pointed their telescopes
at the stars and pl. tets find IL
more profitable to aim the lens at
the Empire State Tower. 1t costs
a dollar TO look at the ground from
the tower; II costs a nickel to look
at the tower from the ground.
Wonder what becomes OF all the
safety razor blades dropped down
trick chutes from rooms in the
new Waldorf. Just to think:
Roxy's theater was q a barn not
50 long agol
Some say that it's the result of
trying to reduce. But everyone
Is commenting on the chalky pallor
Of Fanny Hurst, who is seen about
at opening night performances
again.
The most sensational stage i'm
portation in seasons is Charles
Laughton, brought over from Lon
don by Gilbert Miller, the producer.
The side streets off Broadway
are becoming saturated with low
and evil-looking gin mills. There
Is one where man-killing potions
are sold for Is cents. /. And what
a bunch Of derelicts you see gather
ed there of an EVENING". Slip
ping, slipping into the g~utterl...
Old actors and old sailors. -. Slow
ly becoming too numbed to walk,
talk or engage with their fellowsl
IA battered ships lamp beckons
to the doorway, and just above d
blowsy house seems ready to topple
and bury the patrons in their cellar
trap.
Sinclair Lewis refuses to lecture,
but his wife will like the
modest manner in which Ernest
Hemingway comes home for a visit
He makes his reservations at the
last minute in Paris. and Is aboard
before anyone hears OF 1t. No
hoorah nor bunkl And yet leader
among modern writersl Alexander
Woollcott, who once was an out
standing dramatic critic, Is going
to be featured in a new play soon.
land will some Of the actors he
panned be around with the Bronx
cheer?
Dropped in on the annual press
dinner Of NBC and scores Of the
stars were appearing In person.
Among them Gene and Glenn, who,
/ am told, have signed up for $780,
900 next year and are vastly I r.
ular with the crowds. Yet four
OF US agreed that even a Bronx
neighborhood theater would give
them the hook If they came on as
q regular act. :. Maybe they seem
better on the air.
After sitting through both NBC
and WABC personal appear
ances," I'm beginning to believe
that radio would do well to 60 back
to the get the hook" days. Scores
Of them couldn't pass for Broadway
hams, judged from these showingsi