The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-02-28
In New York
BY PAUL HARRISON

New York Broadway, the
 crazies show on earth
 Cocktails 25 cents' "Yes, we have our liquor license" .
 Tap or acrobatic dancing tonight
 in ten easy lessons .. Nut fudge.
 sheet music, doughnuts and coffee Trained bears, trained fleas. "Whyduncha look where va
 going, buddyY'e =. Guaranteed
 pure silk neckties, 15 cents .
 Going is now without waiting
 seats in the balcony for a three hour show" Ventriloquism
 taught here. Also notary public. .-"Faces lifted without cutting;
 noses reshaped"
 Cocktails 20 cents and up .
 Hamburgers 5 cents. Chinese ] American dinner 25 cents. Your
 fortune told free at the Gypsy Tea
 Room Cozy-wozy girdles, spe-
 cial at $1.25 '. Any book in this
 window, 23 cents Chinatown
 bus, goin' right out. See the won-
 ders of Chinatown" Shine 'em
 up, cents. 'Lectric shoe shine, 5 cents Pool and billiards,
 ladies invited .. Mister, can va
 spare a dime?" The Hollywood cabaret: "World's most beautiful girls'' The Paradise cabaret:
 Most beautiful girls in the world"
 Continuing Our Stroll
 Broadway, where they burn the scandal at both ends .. "So I says, Joe, maybe you can divorce me, but you'll pay plenty" !. Girls wanted as dancing partners Free lecture; children under
 IS not admitted =. "So l says So that's why you gimme the job in your floor show, ?'-apd l ups and pops him right In the Madame Marlaska gives advice
 on love, business worries, etc. 7. 1 Wines and liquors served here; private booths Anything TOT the Salvation Army? .. Uncen-
 sored books; rare volumes; stop in and browes .. "200 beautiiul showgirls 200 - to. dance with. Yes. we're licensed" Chorus
 dancing taught here. $1 to start /. "Hyayu babe?" Get away from here, mug, before I call my boy-friend' Art gallery; edu- cational, thrilling; 15 cents .
 Ballroom dancing; beautiful in-
 structors; private lessons GO. ing right in now for the hottest burlesque show in town. Forty I beau-ti-ful girls, gentlemen. It's
 burlesque as you like it..
 New York's burlesque shows
 haven't changed much, in spite of a succession of self-styled hard boiled City License Commissioners who, by virtue of absolute author ity in the granting and revoking of licenses, can exercise dictator ial powers of censorship. But the present commissioner, Paul Moss who used to be a theatrical man ! himself and generally Is supposed to know an improper show when he sees one-has approved a new
 morality code which is to DC
 clamped on the burlesque houses at an early date. First of all, the strip-and-grind establishments must discontinue runways. those narrow platforms built out over $104.50 worth or orchestra seats and employed ex- clusiyely by mal-assorted chorus girls whose prime function in this branch of show business has been demonstrating tthe truth of the
 adage that proximity lends disseA- chantment.
 Anyone who Inns attended a burlesGuc show in an aISa- IytIcal frame of mind cannot have missed noticing that the more lccherOus regulars are never so engrOsscd in COIL teinpIation of the nndc cupids painted On the prOscenium arch as when the. chorus is fIOundering along the run. | way.
 l Definite rules are provided to govern conduct of the shippers. Il classification which today includes
 ali the feminine principals except the elderly singers of ballads
 They may reduce their costumes, l bit by bit, to brassleres. and such
 a garment is likely to be opaque translucent. transparent or invin. | cible, There are no restrictions on tho posing numbers. As for dialogue Of the so-called
 comedy skits, burIyque managers
 have agreed to request their per.
 formers to keep It clean. This is
 likely to be quite a hardship on
 the industry. since one of ish
 spokoamen recently declared at .
 hearing that "nOt one new bur.
 lomqu0 sIsit' has beeD written in
 the ingt twenty years"
 .EvIdohce that the saabed of tbe
 lndlnn OcoaO 0nno was q eonfinhe'
 inl nran, including deNefia, hnl boen folind by m ooonnogrnphIonl