The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-03-27
In New York
BY PAUL HARRISON

New YOrK.-MedHuSiiH AHS
 depression has ended for stage doormen at theaters where musi- cal shows are playing. For the
 stage-door Johnnies are back. Rea carnations in buttonhole; Nmous
 sines waiting at the curbs; fivGY dollar bills tucked into watchmens
 palms; whispered instructions:
 "See that Miss Alyne DeVyne gets
 this note right away
 Those troupes of furtive htlie
 street urchins who dance ana
 sing for theater crowds appeared
 with springs first robin. Kay Bnl- ger. hoofing star of Life Begins at 8:40". watched group of them the other evening and decided their
 routines were little rusty. Pulled
 his hat low over his eyes, stepped
 from the crowd and went into an intricate tap. Dimes and nlckels
 showered on the grateful young-
 sters. 'Hey, brother" hailed an
 onlooker, "You're almost good
 enough to be on the stage" X
 Heryey Allen Is well along with
 new book, likely to be as long
 as Anthony Adverse" And speaking of writing marathons, l hear that Eugene O'Neill Is pen,
 ming lengthier play than
 Mourning Becomes Electra Y.
 This one's semi-autobiographical
 and will run for nine inghts--iit sequence of related dramas. <,
 By now, all the Broadwayites
 have trailed home from Florida.s
 Barney Gallant, for one. Ana Sophie Tucker, who'll star in the wake of Rudy Vallee at a Main.
 Stem bright spot. The Ncht
 Club Boys have brought back los' of pleasant idiocies. So have Chick Endor and Charley Farrell.
 And Earl Carroll has recalled Ills.
 54 pretty proteges from then Pa'rn
 Island Club to decorate tho Hud@ son Rivers Riviera. Francess Maddux now perches on a piano of
 the St Regis roof MT ROCKY efeller's Rainbow Room, first tfs bill a singer as a "singeuse," now. has "conferenciere," whcih means
 mistress of ceremonies. The name
 is Marcelle Luzzatto. '
 MT Carroll sent out a afchoruss call.theh other day, for a new edi-. lion of his "Vanities." Fifteen hundred girls mobbed the Winter. Garden, largest number of applirt cants since Ziegfeld cast his last Follies. Twelve hundred were rc.s,
 iected with scarcely a glance from, inc producer. Three hundred reg. turned next day for more deliper1s ate selection. Fifty-six 'eventual-. ly were chosen. ,a
 Nobody knows what will hap-. pen to the 1444 disappointed as.s
 pirants, but my unpracticed judgS- ment would estimate that at least
 8 thousand of them have returned' to their housewifely kitchens, their stenographic positions, ands their high school classroomss, Many a dance director has assur-, ed me that he knows not a singie' girl of real beauty and dancing talent who's without a job in New
 York. { Now It's Furs '
 <Marlene Dietrich, stunning trouI
 sers by day, has given GothanI, something to talk about in matters. of evening wear. saw her step. out of the Rainbow room elevatorA in an ermine wrap that had four
 silver fox belts dangling down the. front of 1t. She wore the same combination to the theater nexS. ngith and topped it with a black. beret. < Saw Libby Holman with Elsn: Maxwell, and wanted to ask whether Lawrence Tibbett actual-. ly had agreed to introduce the songs Miss Maxwell is supposed. to have written for Barbara Hut. toms verses. I've been told Tib~s' bett was astonished by the an-.
 nouncement Gloria swanson. may appear on Broadway in a
 cite Colbert. Peggy Joyce, Buster. Collier, sidney Fox, Beatrice L!l-s | lie and Jack Pearl at the Mayfair, | Also, alighting from . lim-. ousine,a a dowager with three green. orchcids affixed to her back hairsl .
 One for the Book l. Ed Wynn and his son often step out together for an evening, come. plete with red carnations in lax pels. Ben Bernie and his son also. are inseparables. They wear. brown hats with evening clothed, A Tunney swung his fists the. other night in Harlem--Tom Tun z ney, police lieutenant brother of Gene A book attracting lots of local attention Is Joseph yer-,, ner Reeds "The Curtain Falls" i. Tells of his disilluslonments as a
 theatNcal producer: how he lost $250. .0OO in two years; and Of bis determination to stay out of thas
 game. Two weeks after pubIicn.i ton, along came . new comedy Hit called "Petticoat Fever.2 And the hacker is James Werner Reed.