The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-11-19
In New York
RH. PAUL HARRISON

7 Z 9sS~E9( M derings: Taunting the. talkies is the favorite pastime of the stage. Four plays,give Hollywood a nonc- too gentle ribbing, and the comedy hit, Personal Appearances. IS such broad cinema satire that 2 couple of visiting stars are said 10 have been mortally offended.
 Hollywood, though, is an uii- qnestioned winner in one phase of the constant feud with, Broad way. It has cornered the chorus girl market. Ones by one. and group by. group, the more compe- tent and comedy chorines seem to have drifted westward. And they seldom return. Dance directors - the famous Bobby Connolly and Seymour Felix. for example-haye gone along. Even revue produc- CTS such as Earl Carroll and George White are working part time in Hollywood. As a result there a beauty. famine along Manhattan's rialto. &
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 Proposition Missing <. . Society people, reading their programs carelessly, frequently make the erroneous discovery that the Earl of Oxford is playing in Life Begins at S:40". He isn't. of course; just a young man named Earl Oxford. But he has to turn down a lot of invitations obyi- ously not intended for mere acc tor. One dowager wrote, that she would have been happy to sponsor him If she had known he had theatrical ambitions. An-- other Park avenue lady, assuming that he had lost his fortune, deli cately offered financial aid if he'd been her house guest during the remainder of his stay in Amerca.
 Ray Bolger, best of the current crop of rhythm dancers, never had a lesson in his life . Bob Hope, the husky comedian of "Say When", used to be a dentist. Or at least a dental student. Then he quit repairing teeth and began knocking them out of various mid- dle-western prize fighters. It was Johnny Risko, and the Riska fists, that finally persuaded him to take up something less strenuous. such ase the stage New York States firearms law makes no exceptions so every actor who handles a re- volyer on the stage has to be pho tographed, fingerprinted. and is sued regular pistol permit.
 Jane Cowl Returns
 Milton Berle, one of Broadway's youngest comedians, acted in the movies more than 20 years ago with John Bunny and Flora Finch in Vitagrapha comedies, and as the chee-ild who had to be rescued every now and then in ''The Periis of Pauline".. What price glory when the author of a 1882 Broad way hit now has to stand on Forty Second street selling razor blades? And when the author of .an equally melodrama works for the CWA? ... Jane Cowl. who says 1, she never really intended to re- main in Hollywood. has joined the Theater Guild for her first Nea York appearance in nearly three years. ..e. Now I know what Sean O'Casey has been doing on those all-day solitary strolls around town -- taking notes for play about the Gotham scene.
 The new Wishing Tree" on up- per Seventh avenue, and the stump of the old one, preserved in concrete. working together. seem to have brought banner year for Negro actors. Broadway has had three all-Negro plays, with, two. more. productions on the way. And, of course. "The Green Pas tures'' is still making history ion the road. Fame ~
 | have just heard of the trying. experience of Mir Arthur Bevan. a Yale faculty member who went to Philadelphia a few weeks ago to look in on a production of Iris tan and Isolde" for which he had designed the costumes. The house was sold out, and nobody seemed to have heard of Arthur Bevan, So they wouldn't let him in. Finally he inst sneaked in. Skuike,i around in the upper corridors trying to get a glimpse of the stage, and finally found an aper- ture behind one of the boxes through which he could peep.
 Firing of that, he boldly slipped into one of the rear chairs in the box. Found himself in the grip of several firm hands. Very shortly afterward he was in 8 police station being, interviewed by some men who turned out to be Secret Service operatives. The box he had entered was occupied = . ss. @Ja. ~~nG