The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-02-08
In New York
BY PAUL HARRISON

DA hOD 1AnAbLAACON
 New York--Meanderin back stage: Pity Melville Cooper. Mr Cooper is a comedian in the cast of "Laburnam Grove" and during every performance he has to eat four bananas. The play ran 436 performances in London before 1t, together with Mr Cooper and his appetite, was brought to Broad. way. And 50 Mr Cooper will soon devour his tw0-thousanth banana. He still looks surprisingly well.
 The Shubert boys, of whom little has been heard of late, will have c new Ziegfeld Follies ready for the spring. :. Charles B. Cochran, LOndon's greatest snowman and the man who brought Elizabeth Bergner to these shores( has man. aged in his day q circus, several prize fights, tennis matches, roa- deo, a hotel, cabaret, Houdini, Will Rogers and Sarah Bernhardt. Tine Theater guild cabled Bcr- nard Shaw for permission to ab- breviate the title of his "The Simpleton of Unexpected Isies." Mir Shaw said mo" in 20 words. REALISM
 Notes on realism: The revival of Rain" in which Tailulah Bank head is about to reign. will be the wettest "Rain" ever staged. Show CTS here and thore; stagchands in slickcrs and boots; a man to drench Miss Bankhead as she goes on stage. Even the sound effects will be produced by falling water Instead of buckshot being swished around in . dishpan.
 Six of the 13 Sailors Of Catta- brass and swab decks in stage, acc there Is the matter of Alfred Lunt playing the accordion In Noel Coward's Point Valaine." Accus- toned to the half-hearted pretcns- es of most stage musicians, wno bring forth lovely music without even pressing down the keys of Il piano, 1 was skeptical about Mir Lunt and his accordion. He really plays it. though. Says he learned up at Tennessee Depot, Wis, last summer while Lynn Fontanne, his wife. was hoeing the potatoes.
 FEAR "PASTCRES' BAN Three new European plays are being imported. .."The Green Pas tures," returning to Manhattan for a fifth birthday festival, has toured practical all of the United States. Yet no company has bought the movie rights for fenr 1t might be | banned in some parts Of the coun- try Helen Broderick's friends say she has quit the stage for once and all. Florence Robin sons first stage job was testing the flying apparatus by which Eva Le Gallienne fitted about In Peter Pan"
 The great Bergncr, who's being compared to Duse and Bcrnhardt, 1, isn't in the least imposing In stat ure. About five feet tall, and sort of elfin. Shy, too. As Il kid she w;ts even afraid to got up in school and recite.. Roland Young has re- turned from Hollywood. And is welcome. His principal enthusiasm just now concerns q new brafize penguin. He collects them.
 FLUSH STAGES COMEBACK | A great many people will be glad io know that Flush, Kathar. Inc Cornell's cocker spaniel. Is about to resume his stage career. He'll resume 1t where he left off, ln 'rhe Barrctts of WimpUle Street." Broadway revival. Miss | Cornell will be fin 1t too.
 Recently there have been some | malicious runors about Flush - that he had gone blind, that he l had the gout, that he had bitten l Guthrie McClintic. Miss Corneil'H husband, that he had run away to Hollywood, that he had given np acting and was going to write a play. No truth in any of those. Flush is still q fine figure of 6 dog, only five years old and prac- ticaliy a juvenile.
 l It Is quite true he has been mop ing in his mistress dressing room while she has appeared Tn "Romeo and Juliet" But that Is because
 Flush doesn't like Shakespeare
 No dog parts.
 PROFITABLE ART
 | Let no one tell you that the
 theatcr these days Is profitless
 art. There's "T0bacco Road" well l past It's 6o0th performances by now land rolling up ten times Its cost.
 "The Drunkard," . tcar-Jerkei
 rudely exhumed from the 1160'i
 has grossed s140,oOo in Manhat.
 tan.
 eNeither of these plays has beer
 sold to the movies, but consider c few that have. "Merrily We Rol
 Along" brought, . cool s75s0O0
 "Anything Goes," the top musical
 will command something like lS100,000. "Dodsworth" may brint as much. Even Page Miss Glory
 which was not the best of thu seasons comedies, was forth s72, IOO0 to Hollywood.
 W really must try to write a play Tt looks 50 easy.
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