The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-06-26
In New York
BY PAUL HARRISON

New York -- A Rose by any other namc than Billy wouldn't mean T thing to Broadway. But Billy Rose is becoming King of the street, chief brain-truster of the Gay-Way, head guardian of the Main Stems traditions.
 For q good many years genti. mcntnlists have been signing about the vanished era of Tony Pastors, Shanley's and" Jacks. Sighting, but not doing anything about 1t. Tho old Broadway, they said was dOnd. Prohibition hnd
 brought an inhospitable, distrust-
 ful spirit engenderod by the un-
 over all tho dry era cabarcts
 hung Q deadly inonotonyl Tine carriage trade deserted Broadway
 --icft it to tho people who didn't
 object to taxi dance palaces,
 honky.tonky burlesquc shows, pen.
 ny arcades, beggars and pltcnmen.
 Rose in Bush Leagues
 Came repeal, and Billy Rose. ile
 had boon around n long timo pro- viousiy, but in spite of . consum
 ing ambition to make q namo f01 himself Broadway hadn't been eB.
 pccinily aware of him. Major cities of tho Interior knew him better, be"
 cause for several years he had been
 sending musical shows on tour, dO-
 ing 1t while other managers were
 insisting that 'tho road" was dead. Around New York. for some fve years. ho was Identified IS
 "the litlo guy. who married Tan- nic Bricc." Ac1uaintanccs some. { n al
 Hho wrote dozens of songs, incind,
 "Foliow tho swaiiow", "Me and My Shadow" 6nd Il Wanna De
 Loved" Hc produced shows
 "Crazy Guilt" and "Swcet and
 Low," notably. But nothing he could do quito seemed to measure up to tho fame of the great como. diennc who Is hiB wife. So he re.
 niained merely "rannie Dricc's
 husband"
 Restaurants in Thcntcrs Knowing and loving Broadway, Rose foil to diagnosing it's nil- mcnts. Part of his reasoning went liko this: Vaudeville originally camo from tho beer halls. Vaude. vilio died when they took away the refreshments and put it into theatcrs. Prohibition night clubs,
 with their floor shows. represented
 m effort to bring something of the thcatcr into the restaurant. So why not put . whole restaurant Into n thoater? .c.
 Ho did exactly that. Hc went ter, where for years mice had been sitting complacentiy in tho chairs
 and ghosts had been rohearBing cchocs Ho ripped out tho chairs and put in terraces with tnblcs,
 Then came couple Of bars. m elegant revue, two OrchcstrnH. md an enlarged stage for tho custom. CTS to danco on.. Ho callcd it tho [ CnEir0 do Parce. and t now is
 amusing about i?,00O people | every week. 4E.N. iI.5 { i. On a Grand Scale
 Even so 1t wus not quite what tho i,OHtnIgic Mir Rose hnd wanted. So ho leased the Manhattan thcgtcr another crypt.likc nudit0rlbnI
 which hadn't oven been dustcd in several years, out camc the chniis | hRnin. 70 went tnbies, another over. sisc stage, B0tnc mighty NnbclcBihn
 Yiurais by. Clark lt0blng0n, an up.
 stairs bnr with silvor dollars stud. ded ft, tho floor, a Dnrbnry Court bar downstairs, complete from saw dust Co cciiui0id. collars. There's A "wlSting well" too, m illusion into which you iok nnod see two Ian. kuorouE and undraped nyniphs. | All this, on q sign twelve st0rlcs
 hlgh, is called Billy R0sc's Music l hall IIe hired 100 tntiHtachI0cd,,
 rod nOscd singing walters, and 100 comedy girls as Ch0rincs and h0st- essos. He brought in ten acts Of vaudeville, with special movie In. tcriudegs From oil Ovcr tho nation
 hc collected 3e Bnaii-tiine. yaudc. Viijc actors who never had h chance On Broadway. They appear | in the iinaic, those acr0bats, hre-
 catcrg, bcii.ringefs, juggbors,
 strong women, iioofcrs md 70 on. | With only (, minute cach, and ap- pearing in relays Of three at \
 limo, they provide . Bcntiment-
 stirring, checr-proyoisins spec.
 Tho whole thing is, as Broad way
 likes to say, terrific. It's honky.
 tonk on a 4cpsmic scale, night
 club Co end aii night clubs, the
 noble5t \ modern experiment in
 low cost, mass entertainment ...,
 As for Billy Hose, he's known as Billy Rose theeo days. And Fnn- pis f3rlce is known as Mrs Diliy | HoBc, +TiFfs Ff