The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-02-15
In New York
By PAUL HARRISON

By PAUL hAhhASON
 New York.-Manhatta society has been pretty much agog about the goings-on in France, because he upper crust Is sprinkled with royalists and royalist sympathizers who would like to see a restoration of the glittering French court: That also would mean another throne before which few select Ameri- cans could bow. :.
 New York, though, doesn't ooast any real pretenders to the crown. The best 1t could offer, if France. really started looking around for a king and didn't want the Due de Guise or Prince Louis Napoleon, would be a man named John Freeman. He is the great t.reat-grandson of King Charles. brother of Louis XVI. When Charles was called to the throne his English wife and children were cxiled for pollrlcal reasons, given I comfortable fortune, and legally provided with the name of Free man.
 A much more regal-sOund-
 ing name Is worn by Jerome
 Napoleon Bonaparte, another
 New York socialite. But he's
 only a fourth cousin of Prince
 Louis Napoleon, and besides
 he is out of sympathy with
 the royalist movement.
 \ Song of Praise
 Edward B. Marks, who started publishing music and plugging tunes 40 years ago, sat himself down recently and reminisced aloud to a newspaperman named A. J. Liebling. The result Is a grand book called "They All Sang" and through it's pages marches a brilliant procession of nostalgia memories and famous people - from Tony Pastor to Rudy Vallee.
 It's more than a history of Tin Pan Alley. Marks tells about all kinds of public entertainment. from the old beer halls with their variety shows to burlesque and modern musical comedy. "The best songs came from the gutter in those days" he says. meaning 1894. And the surest way to make q song popular was to have 1t sung as loudly as possible in the city's lowest dives So he and his part ner, Joe Stern, used to dash about to a dozen hot-spots a night, buy ing beer for the bands and bribing lady singers with pigs knuckles to sing their songs.
 \ Musical Hall of Fame
 Tony Pastors was the best known music hall. The Four Cohans appeared there, and Georgie wanted to be song writ CT. He submitted several tunes and lyrics that were pretty bad, but finally scored with "The Songs That Maggie Sings Another ambitious youngster was "Romie Kern, from Newark, a little fellow in tight green pants" The only job Marks had to offer him. though, was in the business office, so for three years Jerome Kern, destined to become Americas fore most musical comedy composer, filed invoices. Then he quit and went over to a rival concern.
 Marks discovered Sigmund Rom- berg, and for a time had Jimmy Walker writing lyrics for him. He encouraged a fellow named Izzy Baline with his first song, never dreaming that, as Irving Berlin he would become a world-famous composer The publisher knew them all-Lottie Gilson, Lillian Russell. Anna Held, Lew Docksta- der. Flo Ziegfeld, Irene Castle, the first woman to bob her hair, Ru- dolph Valentino, who danced the tango at Bustanoby's, Bert Will. Hams. Nora Bayes. He even played the races at Saratoga for Victor Herbert.
 There were no torch singers in the early days. They called them female baritones." The most daring strip-act was per formed by the notorious Girl fl Blue" who sat in a trapeze an6 ectnally took off her garters. But instead of the smutty, suggestive lyrics of today, beer garden audi. ences in the old red-light, gam. bling-hell district used to sob into their steins as they sang "Flowei From an Angel Mothers Crave"