The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-08-17
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nr PAuL HARRIsoN


 New York.-The first thing t. boom miRhtily under MIRA tnfiu- ence was the flag industry. Broad way has gone very red-white-and- blue Even up at Columbus Cir cle the communist orators seem to have bedecked their soapboxes with more flags than usual, and to have tuned down their Announcements or the sAmerican Fascistr .. The Blue Eagle isn't everywhere yet. but he's coming along. And the smaller the establishment, the bigger the pIacard: there's a big one on a tiny Watch-repafr cubby- hole whcih couldn't possibly hold more than one workman. There'e 6ffe, too, on a Fifty-seventh street | Tspeakeasy, on a junk wagon, ant on . cart of an Eighth avenue fruit vendor ...
 In the teeming side streets of the garment district, though. there are still strikes and lockouts, pick eting, and haranguing by cross purposed union organizers. Even these things, however, have Q pleasant aspect or two; at least, they have brought romance to Thirty eighth street. A young man, carrying a sign announcing that the workers of a certain fur rier were on strike, observed and admired pretty brunette, who bore a p1acard declaring that she and sundry others had been lock- ed out by millinery concern .. They paced the same sidewalk, these two, passing each other so often that 1t finally seemed bad manners not to speak. After that they walked together, and talked of many things besides jobs and wages. You can see them there any day now. happily stroliing' hand in hand, and probably specu- will let them afford a little apart ment up in the Bronx. .
 Stirrines on Broadway
 All in all, Broadway Is pretty happy about the administration code. "A lot of shrewd showmen believe that more leisure for the people who are working Is just
 what the doctor ordered for the theatrical industry .s.. Those un- 1 tiring statisticians on the .inaga- zine Variety have calculated that the rialto was 50 per cent dark
 last season, with. eight theaters
 that didn't open at all. But the
 1933-34 season looks brighter,
 even from this distance For
 example, there are no less than
 three Dig musicals scheduled for
 next month. Irving Berlin has polished off the last note on the tunes for "As Thousands Cheer"
 which will satirize these days of
 the rumored upswing. Marilyn
 Miller, Clifton Webb and Ethel
 Waters are among the principals The very mad Joe Cook, to-
 gether with the unchastened Dave
 Chasen, Harriet Hector and others
 already are galloping through re-
 piece to >be called Hold Your
 Horses" This is going to be a
 near Victorian bit about Diamond
 Jim Brady, "Nigger Mikes"
 saloon. Rector's and other, people
 and places of once-upon-a-time. |.
 Best news, of all about the Cook
 show is that Johnny Green has
 written the music. The. handsome,
 affable and thoroughly modest MT
 Green, who wrote Might Club
 Suite." reminds you of George
 Gsrshwin. And his music, it's said. even reminds Mir Gershwip of
 Gershwin .. The third early mu-
 sical is, ,as usual, the opus of Earl
 Carroll. Only this time he'll com-
 bines mystery and nudity, or, ecto-
 plasm and epidermis, in something titled Murder at the vanities."
 Between each homicidal act the \ customers will be entertained by
 Rufus King. Olga Baclonova, Jean
 Adair and many lovely ladies |.
 Marked Indefinite" but also on
 the future book for September,
 are the "Ziegfeld Follies of 1882
 to be produced by Miss Billie
 Burke and the Shuberts, and
 George Whites almost annual
 Scandals" MT White is trying
 to lure Mae West to star in 1t, but
 If 1t comes to a turing contest, MT
 White may find himself in Holly
 wood instead :. .. Then there will
 be all sorts of straight dramatic
 diversions to brighten life along
 the Gay Way in the autumn.
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