The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1932-05-17
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Open Season on Suckers
New York, May 17.-Broadways
burleycue battle, as scrambled a
spectacle as And street itself, pre-
sents aspects that range from the
fantastic to the sinister.
Conglomerately allied in defense or
assault, as the burlesque stronghold
is threatened, one finds bankers and
pie clerks; intellectuals and penny
arcade moguls; shooting gallery 81
rens and famous clergymen; critics
and peep show bankers. One learns
that among those who have gazed
upon the shippers and grinders at
various times have been the erudite
George Jean Nathan; the meticulous
Otto Kahn; the 1.-the and talented
Gertrude Laurence; the literary Hor-
ace Liveright: to say nothing OF
Maurice Chevalier, a couple of Marx
brothers and many others.
X X X
All this is quite amusing! But the
casual testimony Of witness throws
a shadow over whatever comedy there
may be.
It seems that 5000 "steerers now
prowl the midtown streets looking
for prey. There is an overload, a
"chief steerer, who is Super-rack-
eteer in charge of this great army
OF sucker trimmers. Such a figure
must have wires connecting hin
with bafflingly ramified under
world. The steerer population has
more than doubled within relative
ly short time. Idle men have beer
recruited from breadlines and park
benches, given better raiment ano
sent forth to play the wolf.
X X x
What can happen to "steerer's'
victim was barred to the big town just
the other day when broker led po'
lice in a raid on one of those side.
street resorts where blackmail, thiev'
cry and ransom furnished bittel
evening out. Like many good-time'
Charlie, the broker had made thu
rounds" and a quickly whispered in
vitation had been accepted. For two
days he was held captive, while
friends raised $4,000 to get him out.
X X X
Boop-a-Doop Mystery
The great boop-a-doop mystery
now joins those other famous cases
Watson!
There's the unsolved matter o.
whence came "hi-de-di' and "ho-de.
no." And the hot-cha-cha affair still
battles the police!
It's not so elementary this time my
dear fellow! Helen Kane, who once
cashed in on "booping" and cashet
out on court litigation, believes there!
still gold in them hoops. In fact she
asks S250,000 Of that animated cutie
Betty Boop."
It all depends upon where hoop.
a-doop came from. Was or was moi
Miss Kane the first of the boopers?
The answer IS believed to lie in
Harlem. Scouts now search the
Negro cabarets for data. They find
themselves getting bit tangled In
the qualifications of the scat song
And one of the amusing issues will
be whether or not anyone can hoop
or whether booping is Miss Kane's
own and particular property.
X x X
Funny Figures Pay
While hundreds of lovely ladies
with those long sleezy shapes, wan.
der about seeking jobs, sudden de.
mand has developed for hippy. buxom
and generally corpulent models.
To be sure, they are not desired
for modelling the latest French styles
Model agencies inform me that big
shops are using them for contrast
shows.
One of the towns biggest stores
demonstrating the newer corset, pre-.
sented show of portly danes in bi.
cycle boomers and fashioned leg
o'-mutton sleeves. Anything for q
laugh! But 1t works. Ladies in the
audience, convinced, run to shaper
themselves up bit.
Hence the unusual demand for un.
stylish stouts!
And Johnny Chapman advises MI
Of q New York cat that has q private
entrance to its apartment. The own.
er has built a runway from the side.
walk to window. When the cal
wearies Of proving the neighbor.
hood It can walk right In.
But 1t has been advised not to stay
up late and join the fence quartet.