The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1932-07-19
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ness man goes to the seashore this
summer. There, for considerably less
than the $3.50 per seat he once paid
Tor "one on the AISLE" he may OBJ
serve innumerable sirens who need
no llegfeld to glorify them. Ma
ture beat Flo to it by many years.
y X X
Broadway has abandoned its most
mentioned customer at time when
he is caught between the depression
and the deep blue sea. There are
no undraped chorines, save those
known to the burleycue world as
"strippers." Nor can the big street
remember when some White, some
Carroll. some Ziggy, some anony-
nous fellow had no summer revue
to offer.
The four music show hits to sur
vlve the market and the humidity
are as polite as wooer on his first
visit. THE Cat and the Fiddle"
Oldest OF the seasons crop, offers
music, song and pleasantly light love.
snow Boat offers costumes of Civil
War vintage plus super-class: "Of
Thee I Sing" offers national trayestv
with love elevated to campaign is
sue; race the Music jests at the
political intriguery in New York and
the economic conditions.
Meanwhile Carroll is rumored
wandering about frequently in the
company of widow who NAV turn
out to be an "angel":: ziegfeld has
been seriously i'll and White has been
trying to make up his mind what to
do next.
MOANIN' Low
somehow the strains of "Moanin'
Low Keep echoing through the news
OF Smith Reynolds tragic death.
Libby Holman, who rose to star
dom with her "moanin'" number
mas herself in a scene where no
curtain can be drawn to separate an
audience from a disturbing stage un-
reality. Her boyish, millionaire hus-
oand lies dead on the balcony of his
Carolina estate. She is PROSTATE on
the floor.
Thus she was in the world of
maKe-oelleve when Clifton Webb.
with whom she was acting, walked
from the dim lit stage. To be sure
the theater setting was an Apache
sort OF den. Webb was her man"
and hers was the role of a desper-
ately devoted wanton. In the lend"
the man has robbed her of her
nights earnings and gone upon his
way. The curtain descends with the
hooking rhyme: Moaning low, my
sweet man I love you So" She is
PROSTATE.
Quite different that other scene.
Yet. early in the morning the bal
cony death place was half-illumi-
mated. And there she was found,
protrate besides the husband of a
few brief months
Somehow, as one who goes about
IN the make-believe world of the
theaters. one expects an orchestra to
crash into the final strains of a blues
tune and the curtain to descend
But, OF course, it doesn't!
X Y X
PROPS" FOR CHOPS
Taking hint from the hungry
Village artists who sold their painted
wares in Washington Square, Broad
way now peddles the stage props
used by eminent actors. The money
thus received goes to the Actors Din
ner Club, which seeks to feed the
jobleSs performer.
The other day, at such a sale, I
noted the red-stained handkerchief
used by Walter Hampden in the last
act of "Cyrano." It was, I learned,
loaned by Katherine Warren, who, II
I recall, played Roxanne. There was
the cigar case that Dan Frohman
used In many a scene. They key to
a room in Grand Hotel" had been
sent in by Sam Jaffe, the original
Kringelein.
Or. to continue: a belt worn by
Paul Whiteman in the days before
he became an almost perfect 48; q
makeup mirror used by Dorothy
Stickney in her first hit; a sketch
OF a stage scene from the pen of
Alfred Johnson; the dressing gown