The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-09-25
In New York
BY PAUL HARRIsoN

New York, Sept. 25 - The lag gard theatcr season is pretty well getting up fits steam by now, and 1t is with perfect confidence that your correspondent, sans gazing crystal or astrological chart, is able to predict many salient events of coming months.
 I forget at the moment whether 1t is 218 or 2218 productions tilAt have been announced for 1935-36, but the figure is unimportant be- cause most of them will be can celed anyway, or postponed, and along about next February you will see a lot of dark horses rush ing in where angels have feared to tread.
 Sometime during the season a play will open. exactly according to original announcements-w theater, cast, premier date and title unchanged. All the others will undergo delays, alterations, recasting. rewriting, refinancing and remaining. Hollywood money, originally obtained from Wall street, will back many of the pro- ductions, and a lot of drama low ! CTS will shriek that the celluloid octupus Is crushing the legitimate | theater.
 Lobbyists
 That will be the signal for other drama lovers to shout that play critics, not the movies, are crucifying the theater. The lively controversy finally will be dropped as all ears are turned to a new and especially naughty com | edy which will be condemned from 57 pulpits and immediately sold out three months in advance. Once each week there will be a | report that Maude Adams has de- cided to return to Broadway. Also there will be monthly rumor that ex-Mayor Jimmy Walker will produce a musical comedy. The possible comeback of dear Katie Hepburn is to be subject for in- termission speculation. Hiram Bloomingdale will attend every premiere. Hope Hampton and Jules Brulatour, dressed fit to kill. will attend all the better premiers. Autograph hounds will mob a man they think Is Eu. gene O'Neill, but who will turr out to be a barber named San Glippik.
 Society Williams
 It seems unlikely that box-office attendants will be any moro insulting than usual. The veal, lemonade sold by the James boy, and other concessionaires in tho lounges will not be any coldci than 1t was last season. Hat-and. coat check racketeers, however are said to have worked up some new tactics this season, including a doubIe-wing- back triple -pass-for' nation that will take customer: hat and whisk 1t out of sight be- fore he has chance to defend himself.
 Announcement of each premiere will carry a little warning in blacl type to the effect that the curtain will rise promptly at $40. A $40 only 64 persons will be 1T their seats--53 of those in thu balcony-and the curtain will ris' at 9:11. A party of twelve societl lads and gals will arrive, mor' than little tight, at 9:27. A the end of the second intermis sion, reinforced by quick dashei to the bar across the street, they will go into the wrong theater ant create a great commotion trying to oust dozen outraged citizens from their rightful places in Row c.
 Production Optional
 An author named Irving Kay Davis will, If this luck hold round out the season in a blaze O prosperity merely by selling $50' options on his plays, which sel dom reach the point of production Little cheques of personal friend of each performer will attent every opening and conscientiousl! will ruin the action by applaud ing the entrance of butler, juven ile, 'ingenue, star, matriarch, vii lain and messenger boy. MT Moss Hart will leap into pantinl airplanes and rush to Bali, Bag dad and Butte, Mont. to view DO tential stars or promising little theater productions.
 Eighty-fiye Hollywood actor and actresses will grant inter views in New York in which the, will reaffirm their loyalty to thet first love, the legitimate stage Back in Hollywood, with other in reviewers they will confide thei suspicious that the flesh-an' blood theater is dead.
 Next February the Pulltze Prize argumentative sweepstake . win begin. Critics and everyon else will agree at the outset tha