The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-06-16
In New York
By PAUL HARRISON


 New YOrk.--.it goes without saying that there was no element of benevolence in young MT Hobby B0nfOrd's Iden of starting q show bont, And yet no has managed to treat very kindly such cnst0ms CTS as assemble every evening 70 snli from ths dock at Forty'becond
 It docsn't mako any difference whether they Aro thrliI-sockiDg tourists from Little Rock or plens sure .sated Mnnhatthniteg trying 70 kill an evening. The sh0wbont is fun, especially sinco thoro hre two b0nte involved, and sail far up fine Hudson, On the Ohio and Mississippi they to ID to q couple of tre6g along the bank, push out a Raudy gangpiAnk, and turn lOoBO tho cnIIi0pe. Barring flood or J0kes stsrB, tho craft F6mhins tied 10 those treGs and the audience soon, f0rgots whether it's on A. barge or high and dry in tho BiJ0u theater over at Fivc Corners
 Hey. Hey and Ahoy - . Mr Sanford, though, meets hls patrons nt FOrty.seeOnd street with steamer called the Peter Btuys yesnnt, ThsT6 ig no chlIlODe, but an orchestra and C big floor and couple Of rGst1ur1Dts, Also fhers arc sGVGrII shndOwy decks whore young people R1thGr in Dnirs 70 talk about the NItA, or something. There hrs sure Co be B0n6 Brohd' way cnIebritlos around t0 Do OK" Hmlned nt cI0Ho range. And ht distance tbsFs i8 the Manhattan skyline, with n million lights p0ps ping ont Co herBId the lowering dusk. Just now, too, the fleet M jn the river, < spectacle to thrill even
 WojI, you aalI for moro than nn hour, and presently Ar6 hW6re thnt M lot Of chorus girls Gre aboard. They have been getting into thhT first ssG6D0 costumes and fDnkosup, and they do not try to look Iike mermhids, water sprites or cyen nymphs. Chances are they wouldn't know ehhDty from. a horbs pipe, but they do know how Co t0ts their. caliipyslan torsos ovcrslds and h"uI them b.ek again
 Main Stem Co Bounding Main Presently the Potter stuyyesant noses alongside n staunGh old bark entlne, tbo JIuccaneer, Rn. Gh0r0d right in the middle Of the river. Three Of her hV6 masts have bsen taken ont, and thsrs BFe goHts for something like 800 people bes tween the big stage, forward, md tho MGrB. Below are dressing rooms, tho guartarg Of h so1-ROlDE wardrobe mistress, and generators that make tho current for the lights,
 One good thing about q show. boat ia that people can't como in late and tread on your t0Gh Also, there's no intermissIOn, Tho shOW itsaif--mogtIy Lestor Allen, with enough Peggy Hoover, s0Bga, dGHGes, sketches and E1ge Co make it agreeable, And then there's ths sGiI homo.
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 Scarcely f. tbeatrjcnI seay0n comes and goes without some obs seure understudy having been elevated tO prominence, Lots Of through the lucky ffOr ihem) jIis arIhe Hepburn.
 But fcntUred players seem tO have been sInguariy healthy during tho season Just ended. May Michael stepped in for Helen Hayes ODe evening, gave \ hne perfOrnGnGo while no critics or talent scouts were pre8ent, and hasn't been hoard from since Peggy Cor nejI has filled iD for MGriIyn MiIier several times, apparently with n0De Of the customers any the wiser or less appreetative Mildred Wall nssumed the wiso.crackIng role fhat GIadys George brd before she left for Hollywood. Yet when they went tO make h permanent assign. ment, Mae Murray, no longer of the m0vIes was called iD Co take the part,
 These and many other under. studies have had their brief mos ments before audiences, but they remaln anonymous because Of, rather than in spite of, their vers ahtiilty. There's just one can think of--Nancy HnmiItOn---whO had any luck. She understood Katharine Hepburn 70 thoroughly that finally sbe was able 10 do \ burIesgue Of the Hollywood spit. fire iD Broadway revue.
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