The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-06-26
In New York
BY PAUL HARRISON

New York, June 26.-Broadway can change quite lot, even in three weeks. And 1t has. tM
 That interval, since last your correspondent strolled the stem, has brought new set of celebri- ties out of Hollywood to occupy aisle seats at the showshops and ringside tables in the air-cooled hot -spots. And 1t has set othoi celebrities packing--back to the, coast, over to London and Paris, and even few of the cow-shed theaters of Maine and Cape Cod and Connecticut.
 Three weeks have brought such an influx of out-of-town visitors that the latter now outnumber out of-work acrobats in the crowds milling along Broadway. Give tho tourists Q little more time and they'll be almost as numerous as the jobless musicians who clutter the crossroads at Times and Long, acre Squares.
 Striking Scene
 stroll familiar sidewalks again and discover that the Rue do Ia Play is suffering from labor strife. Union pickets are thicker than pitchmen or -pluggers. Fossil bly recalling their general orders of q more regimented wartime day, they walk their posts In a military manner, keeping always on the alert (for hostile strlke- breakers), and observing every thing within sight and hearing Tho So-and-So restaurant Is unfair to organized labor. The This.and That theater does not employ union operators. Please do not patronize Madame Whosit's Beauty Parlor Tho cigaret and hat-check girls of Broadway night clubs demand a living wage. Employes of the Guess What Building demand the right to organize.
 If this thing goes much further, you can imagine what will hap pen: Chorines will carry signs ass serting their rights not to wear any clothes at all during the sum- mer months. Vaudeville jugglcrs may strike for limit of threo derby hats, four Indian clubs or five balls. Visiting movie stars are likely to organize in a de- mand for a six-hour day signing autographs. gJ.
 Imagine what powerful anti- marital entente could come out of m utilization between the ex-hus- bands of Peggy Joyce and the Mdivani Princess Alumnae Asso- citation. The Federation of Girls Who Haven't Danced with the Prince of Wales may start pickett ing the British Embassy in de- mand for another visit from Ed de. Democrats will picket the homes of those republicans who have chicken in every pot, \and republicans will carry signs pro- testing the unfairness of demo- crats who refuse to allow grass to flourish in the streets.
 In Limelight
 But getting back to the changes wrought by three weeks, Broadway seems to be going Hollywood with bang in the matter of gala open ings. These nights they wheel up batteries of Klieg lights to play on new cafeterias or lingerie shops. New drug stores invite celebrities to their premieres and hire or- chestras and masters of ceremony. Four new taxi danceehalls are in the process of inauguration, complete with signs and bankers making extravagant promises
 Reckoning
 During my absence, Broadway has been laved in sentimental tears, for they're tearing down some of the celebrated old thea ters. In fact, the Rialto at Sev- enth avenue and Forty-Second street already has been 1eveled. But it doesn't count so much. What counts is the Times Square block which for 40 years has con- tained the New York and Cri- terion Theaters. Cailous wreck CTS are hammering att hose build- ings now. All three were built by Oscar Hammerstein, but only the New York--originaliy the Olympih- was much of monument te him. He erected them at a time when The Great White Way was een-fi tered around Thirty-fourth stfeet and when Longaere Square was considered away uptown. Orig inaliy the Olympia was . gor. geous structure with lots of Fec- oco gilded plaster work and something like 100 boxes. And then there were the roof gardens. the Oriental bar, and the billiard rooms. That roof, with ifs arii' fieial rocks and tin lakes, was the faneelst showplace ln the world ln its day. And during fhe slllls nler months of later gears, Fie zlngfeld used f. for hie FelIses,