The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-04-13
In New York
By PAUL HARRISON

New York Notes backstage: Even in the theater there are few i'll winds that blow nobody good. The upturn in Guthrie McClin- tics career came when he tipped over an inkWell during an inter- view with a prominent director. Several years later, having be- come a producer, he noticed among the Washington Square Players a young actress named Katharine Cornell. Marked on his program: "Monotonous but well; in fact, he married her. But he never guessed then that she so soon would become the First Lady of the American theater. A. E. Matthews declares he got his start by showing up for a re- hersal without having had any breakfast. His cue came while he was munching a sandwich, had to speak with his mouth full, and was commended for his enuncia- ton ...
 Fate Hung pn Mare
 Consider the rise of young MT John Cecil Holm. have watched MT Holm in several un- distinguished roles on Broadway, and I have chatted with him in his remodeled old house in Wes- ton, Conn. On the latter occa- sions, things were going very un- happily for him. Several times week he commuted to Manhat- tan in search of employment. The rest of the time he spent worry ing about whether he was going to lose the house. He almost gave up his stage career for fling at raising Belgian hares. I like to think that I helped talk him out of that idea.
 On the trains, morning and night, he heard horse-racign talk by other commuters who, not be- ing jobless, were wont to wager few dollars on the prowess of horses which never seemed to win. Musing on this phenomenon, MT Holm picked up racing form from an adjacent seat one day. Knowing nothing at all about horses, he idly pretended that he was making bets and checked the names of certain nags running at Belmont, Aqueduct, Jamacia, and Bowie.
 Wins on Best Bet
 Put the sheet in his pocket and checked it next day with the morning paper. Discovered to his amazement that he had picked the winners of 23 out of 27 races. Didn't dare mention this to his fellow commuters, who on some days couldn't pick any winners at all. Of course they wouldn't be- lieve him.
 Holm made another selection of winners that clicked. And an- other. Strangely enough, he de- veloped strong premonition that his psychic ability, or whatever il was, would go to pot if he ever bet any actual money on horse race. The situation preyed on his mind until an idea struck him that it would make 8 swell play. The rest of the story is written in impressive figures. What with the profits from two companies performing. "Three Men on a Horse," and the movie rights. MT Holm soon will be at least $100, 900 richer. He never did get tho play-acting job he was seeking. But he'll save the old Connecticut homestead. And he won't have to raise Belgian hares
 Bones, Not Boners
 Hanging from cluster of nails backstage at the Broad hurst Theater is q collection of more than 100 wishbones. Dur ing every performance of "The Petrified Forest" the cast has to devour roasted chicken, and q | superstition has grown up that | each wishbone must be rescued whole, and saved. Otherwise, the performers will tell you, the show
 would surely come to grief. The Shubert version of the Ziegfeld Follies has returned from the road. The show did all
 right; the performers only so-so.
 In Tuczon, Arizona, the girls un-
 dressed in a vacant store near the theater. In Amarillo, Texas, they
 used garage half block away.
 The Follies followed a cattle show
 into the auditorium of Wichita,
 Kan. It played in gymnasiums.
 in movie houses, and in . sort of church.
 l The latter. the Rymer Auditor
 ium of Nashville, Tenn. was the
 strangest of all. It was built be-
 fore the Civil War, has regular
 pews and stained glass windows.
 Temporary dressing rooms were
 erected above the pews that once
 flanked the altar. But Fannie
 Brice performed her burlesque
 fan dance before $54OO worth of