The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-10-20
Z In New York
px RAIII. HARRISON

{ Nasy york. .-a-Her name is Bonnie Boone, and she's a great.great,, eraat- granddaughter of DanieI Roone. Her eyes are blue, and as kesn in their way as those of her csiahrated ancestor must have been. Hairs blonde, and snor.es than Dan1's was. smailisn anu qtiite pretty-characteristics, sun of all the Boone won1enfoik: boIn in Mississippi, and very orawiy' Twenty years old, and has sress,, s,,, great-grundmother down m NH Creek, Miss, who is 110.
 She never has lived m q ios cabin. worn buckskins, shot rine' pedaied spinning wheel or paia- yered with an injun. Uses war paint. though, and wears feather in her hat--a Paris hat. She mas visited in Kentucky, but doesn't kfow much about the Boone coun- fry. Her father, whose name was Daniel and who died three years ago. got his living from the TOT" ests: he was a lumberman.
 Donnie is in New York on a scouting expedition. Looking TOT A fob. What she wants most IS 70 iead a band. Not a band of ex- plorers. but an orchestra. Sne swings e. mean baton; also sings and plays the piano, saxophone' trombone and drums. After couple of years at the University of Alabama she organized a band of men musicians and pioneered them around the south, occasion aiIy being .ambushed by sherins' Just as they landed a profitable enraeemerlt. at a New Orleans hotel. her mama, shocked by the whole business, made her quit. Later she relented, so Donnie toured with a stock company. She'd take an ingenue role m Broadway play if one were onered her.
 I have been trying vainly to pull some point out of this recital. May be it would be enough to observe again that Dan'l Boone's great great . great granddaughter plays the saxophone. Hot-cha!
 Pooling Broadway
 The principal feature of Billy Roses Music Hall, since its open ing, has been an aggregation or vaudeville performers called The Small-Time Cavalcade." Everybody sentimentalizes about them because they're supposed to be honkey- tonkers who never were quite good enough to get to Broadway.
 Well, there's nothing tragic about these people, or their ca- reers, either. Members of the fat- girl ballet are very jolly, have won themselves a raise, and gleefully stuff towels into their tights to fill out their figures Delphino, who is 67. was the first comic to use an electrically illuminated false nose. It has taken him around the world twice Eddie Eddy, another funny man, who weeps gallons into his violin, has played. the biggest theaters in his time, and in 1904 was the premier dancer for George Primrose's min strels.
 Pringle, Jones, Frost and Brum- ker, who sing, were the most fa- nous quartet in show business a couple Of decades ago. and even in 1910 were making $1,000 week. They were on Broadway. too. and campaigned for Al Smith when he was beginning his political career Tiani, the strong woman, can lift 15 men but never has had to support . husband. She bends iron bars as thick as your wrist, but prefers knitting l. Grant Gardner, a Swiss bell ringer from Springfield, Mass, had top billing at Tony Pastors in 1898. Later. at the Alhambra in London, he played for King Edward.
 The Last Laugh
 A command performance, by tho way, isn't always guarantee of future fame. The other evening Al Trahan came back to Broadway after three or four years of conn parative obscurity. Before that he had been headline comedian with every assurance of great ca- reer. He went to London, appeared before King George, and the king laughed out loud. Flushed with triumph, Trahan returned to New York. And Broadway said to him: "Big-timer are you? Veddy, veddy cievah fellah, are you? Made the king laugh, did you? We'll, let's see you make us laugh!" And when Trahan appeared after that. Broad way sat on it's hands.
 Today, as he plays Bach and Chopin, and convulses audiences with his clownings. iTrahan would rather not be reminded of the royal guffaw. He prefers the ap- proval of Broadway.