The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-10-19
In [Mezg York
RY PAUL HARRISON

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 New York. - Out -'of . toWners amb1ing along Broadway usually pull up ct the edge of the crowd on the southwest corner of Forty eighth street to learn who's been robbed or assaulted, or what the big argument is about, and when the patrol wagons will arrive.
 That's a long distance impress sion of the milling group of earn estly talking and gesticulating men, and a few women, who stand there through the afternoons But investigation reveals no cen- ter of attraction, no policemen, no particular excitement.
 This just happens to be the
 3avorite stamping ground of
 Broadwny,s lkibitxers and acc
 tors and vaudeville people.
 and Q few dozen hangers-On
 from the tatfered fringes of
 the entertainment world.
 s'So there we were in Pittsburg. with not even enough dough to wire for railroad fare-even if we'd known anybody with any said. You're OK. but I can't use you because you seuna just like 6luE CToSDys xkcWEotc tuo whole show for then, and didn't ssi ssipninT nms lunches for So comple xs ses9 of weeks. Gotta keep the old weight down, you know'' "He asks me if I think I'm clifton Webb, an I says I was hoofin' before Webb ever kicked the slats out of his cradle, am he says, That's just the point, you old dodc. I ain't runnin' no c. A. R. revue'." .. "An' the next time see her she's doin' sixteen weeks on Loew time and usin' all my gags" .s "Yes, I'm just taking 1t easy until things get a little better I'm just unlucky. can always | get a part--see, but then the show always nops'' N. "And just as he was going to sign the contract, the phone rang :. !"
 Meanderings: Georges Carpentier. will soon be figure of the gay spots. He has become g cham | pagne salesman <. Incidentally. some of the most studious people in town are the many newlythired agents of the liquor importing companies. Textbooks and erudite lecturers are provided to teach these fiedgling epicures about wines and moreexotic liquids Pussy. foot Johnson, aged and ailing, is about to bob up on another pro. :. hibition rampage. The president of the World League Against AL. cohol says he isn't a bit discour- aged by impending repeal.
 Captain james and Amy Molli-ss son came to town incognito after the last of their long series of air- in a Greenwich Village night club supposed to have entered a hospi- tai for treatments A couple moving into g swank apartment house where dogs are banned got special dispensation for their Scot tie by having a little tag engraved to read: ITO the McBlanks, from Mrs Franklin D. Roosevelt" |. The imposter ''prince," Mike Ro- manoff, paid cash for two seats to a revue the other night--one for himself and one for his top-hat. Explained that 1t made him feel delightfully."- imperial'' again |. If you've wondered what has hap pened to some. of the famous vamps of the silent Aickers--Theda Bara tried vaudeville comeback that didn't succeed very well. Nita Naldi moved to Paris, where she is living happily at present. Valeska Suratt, one of the first of the great sirens, lives in New York, writes fiction now and then. and spends considerable time with her friend Fannie Brice. And Pola Negri is trying the legitimate stage. She just returned from abroad to star in Shubert play.