The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-08-31
IN HI
 NEW | YORK.
By PAUL HARRISON

New York. Meanderings: Broadway may be niclnamed Beer Alley, but one of the main streets in snooty Southampton. L. l., Is officiaily identified as Gin Lane... | The estate of the late Joseph Urban, theatrical designer and arr chitect amounted ' to. only about $20,000, though the productions for which he did the scenery gross ed many millions. Urban used to confide that his was a particularly futile kind of art--the scenery got carted away to junk heaps and the costly clubs he designed went to snithcreens under the axes of federal raiders.
 Which Is somehow reminiscent of the grand job of ad 'libbing done by w.. c. Fields, the comedian, some years ago when big section of scenery-part of Q stone house, in fact---started to fall on him during his act. The audience gasped and Fields leaped against it. just in time, finally pushing 1t safely into place. He turned back to the footlights and shook his head sadly. They certainly don't put up these buildings like they used to- he said.
 Mary Pic3xf0rd on BrOadway
 At the smart Riviera the other night q party, of collegians ar rived with an enormous package that turned out to be their own ginger ale s. i.s Walter Damrosch invites his symphony orchestra to q luncheon every year. And Mrs Damrosch and her four daughters don waitress garb' and serve the meal. s~ s< ..,,s | There are two socialities in the production end of the movies. Dud- ley Murphy directed. Paul Robeson in the Emperor Jones'" and Jock Whitney is to produce some pie lures for Technicolor. ..... Mary Pickford's air dash here, it, deyel- ops, was for the purpose of selling a couple of stories she has writ
 ten. and to talk over plans to ap- pear on the Broadway stage during the autumn. : VIII Rogers will help make two pictures when he lreturns to, Hollywood.sf One will be a starring vehicle. but in the. other
 he'll be heard but not seen. The script of the latter called for a Il voice supposed to be that of Will | Rogers singing snatch of song Eoffstage. And after a frantic search Fthe director decided that only Rog-
 CTS: could makera noise like Will
 Rogers singing.
 A Code for Burlcsqae
 Only a few weeks ago there was lgreat to-do and official frowning over the strip acts in the burlesque
 theaters. And the producers, wail- ! ing of impending ruin. actually
 ordered the burlesquorines to do
 their disrobing only in the un-
 dressing rooms But the tor so- -tossers are back at their old over the stage with verye, but not ] too much abandon. AndI business is over so much better <.
 Afew outsiders know that girls of lowly burlesque are, for the fmost -part, entirely erious.- about Itheir jobs and always hoping wist- Ifully for notice from the big musi- cal comedy, producers. Between
 shows and rehearsals they gather in the musty, dusty wings and practice kicks and bends as faith fully as any Vanities baflerina. Lacking competent direction, Ithough-and usually being just a little under the music comedy I beauty standard--they have pa thetically small chance ever to reach Broadway. A few. however. have been chosen for the big time.
 so the others, stage-struck and
 strangely naive about 1t all, keep
 on trying
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 There's Limit to Everything
 Their private lives, any of them Ewiil tell you, are less exciting than the average stenographer's because
 they work such incredibly long hours that they have neither the time nor energy to go on parties.
 And as for modesty, here's an in
 cident; For publicity stunt q press agent managed to- have an entire chorus invited to nudist camp for a day. And the girls not
 only refused to go. but threatened lto strike if anything more was said I about, 1t in the. papers. What" asked a little blonde who thinks nothing of posing serni-nude on. the
 stage, "do you suppose my friends
 would think If l did a ht!ng like
 that?"