Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-09-14
Mew York
Letter

NEW YORK-Notes from q con-
venient cuff: "A memorandum re-
minds me that since the new En-
press Eugene hat styles have APP
peared. the hair net business.
which was slipping. has picked up
40 per cent. Which Is something
for the ladies to worry about.
Otto Kahn appeared at the open
ing of the new Earl Carroll theater
which makes the new season
official. ..U Unless Banker kann's
white hair and mustache are Cd
servable. no theatrical event Is
astrictly kosher" as they say hTe-
abouts' Saw win Hays and Roy
Howard there, too. More signs 81
approaching winter: Barney Gal
liant. night clubber to more intel
Iirent folk, including writers. Is
back fom North Africa. Although
he trades off Broadwayites. he sell
dom travels uptown, heading Tor
Europe as soon as spring threatens
Although Barney has become
one of the better known New York
night characters, he was a police
reporter in st. Louis once upon o
time.
The old cuff tells me it's about
time I said something about JIM
nv Dunn. Hes a lad from Broad
vay who made good in the films. 4.
His name hangs IN the big lights
now that he's a canned product
from Hollywood. and his latest pic
ture bad Girl" Is breaking box
office records. He was a product
OF the section OF New York That
spawned the leading characer In
bad Girl: that Is, upper Broad
way around the Bronx-Harlem line.
Got started toward a business
career by selling lunch wagons.
BECAME a stoc-. actor and ham,
med around four years before ne
got back TO Broadway. And look
at him nowi
Just GOT a phone call from Ran
dali Gould. 1T seems that every
one doesn't like New York. The
Orient got under his skin. He had
the United Press bureau In Shang-
hal. and was constantly urging TO
"get back home.".. His folks hadn't
e the baby, nor the wife ne mar
ried out there. Well, the wire SER
vice finally let him come back.
And then he couldn't get back to
Shanghai fast enough to suit him.
All the Broadway paragraphers
have been saying yes-or-no 70 ru-
mors concerning the match between
Queenie Smith, l. usic show star,
and Robert Garland, World-Tele-
al drama critic. Just to get the
record straight, they we're married
last MAY. and have been denying
n for reasons best known to them
selves. -.
One cabaret has q number titled,
"Rhapsody in Blends. And a
speakeasy photograph plays q
Rhapsody In Booze" which uses q
slightly cracked record.
Groucho Marx, back from Holly
wood adventures with the other
| three Marx brothers, gives away
| gum between acts at Broadway first
nights and thus amuses the blase
natives.
And Just to show you how big
this town is getting, a block party
of the old-fash. d variety was
held in 65th street the other night,
THE steamship companies picked
I'D SO much quick business with
their entertainment cruises during
the summer months that they hope
to keep II up during the winter
months. - They'll run to the West
Indies instead Of Halifax, however,
TO give tired Manhattans some
tropical sun. When you figure that
liners have been carrying 300 pas
sengers and more on each trip,
when European business was fall
ing OF, you'll agree that 1t was a
smart business notion.
George White, the producer,
shows UP without a shave when he
has a revue In rehearsal.
And cider Is getting to be q most
popular drink around New York..
or which, NOR later.