The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-03-16
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By PAUL HARRISON

ANS" q VA AEAs-1-vApAV0uWuy 1lCVcE I1A6 been the scene Of feud or any thing like the proportions of the Hugh rJohnsOnsHuey Long-Father Coughlin row. But what its feuds lack in significance they make Hp inanumbers and bitterness and tac- tics. One of the fundamental rules for safety along the Mean Stem is. Don't let anybody slap you on the back until you make sure he hasn't got 8 knife in his hand" .a>'
 The theater always has been filled with jealous squabbles and furious accusations of theft of material In the best fictional tra. dttion there have been lovers onstage who were bitter enemies behind the scenes. A few months ago the vaudeville world learned that Crock and Max, the Europea:, clowns, had severed a fifteen year partnership. During ten of those years the partners never spoke except during performances. i;s4
 Leslie Howard and. the late Jeanne Eagels never. were friends after the premiere of "Her Card board Liver" when the audience clamored as much for Howard as 1t did for. the compositions stc,e., ! Yet the two made a very convinc- ing. pair of lovers behind. the foot lights. Later, in Rain" Miss .Eagels quarreled with Robert Kcl ley. who played the Reverend Day. .idson. Thereafter, her chief ioy in life was the big denunciation scene in which Sadie Thompson shrieks a long string of epithets at the missionary.
 Dcmpsey's Big Fight
 Johnny Green, the composer Irving Berlin .... Al JolSon and speak for years except about busi- his manager, Arthur Klein, didn't ness :. George White and Eari Carroll. rival revue producers, are mutually unfriendly :. Rudy val lee and Will Osborne have dis liked each other so many years that Osborne c6nfesses' hcl doesn't remember what the original quar- rel was about. ,ss <, 4,.s,s.
 Peter Arno and Cornelius yan- derbilt. Jr. which flashed across the front pages sa couple of'years ago, still smolderss. 4. Harry Rich- man won't sit, in the. same room with Jack Osterman :. And Jack Dempsey and Jimmy, Bronson haven't exchanged "a word in 17 years x. : Speaking of sports, you may recall sthA harmonious team work of three Chicago baseball players. Tinker. Eyers and Chance. Yet Tinker and Evers dislfked A nkh ns.kfHx, IA speak off the field, sy ,4 Lee, have engaged in several 'sulky tiffs. sometimes refusing to speak for. months. at "a time. Diff ferences always were patched hp, however, when; business emergeH- 'cies arose. Sometimes. too. they have united in feuds, with ,dramat- ducers I know who ever have barred a critic. from their thea ,ter.s ~ <. ',':,@ 7
 Up in the Air Another row that got into the newspapers was brought to notice when George White, directing a picture. version of his 'Scandais.'' left, Rudy Vailee clinging to. a .chandeliei for several hours. The quarrel began during rehearsals Of Rudy brought a stenograpller to the theater and sat around dictat- Ing ing memoirs. White found 1t disturbing but Rudy kept right on .dictating. ,aS ..
 Feuds between performers have closed, or threatened to close
 many a show. Bert Lahr and Kate Smith still aren't fond of each other because of something that happened years ago in Flying High" "Oh, Kay" came to .. premature end because Of dis agreements between Gertrude Law renee and Oscar, Shaw, and Ger. trude. Lawrence and Betty Comp. ton, who's now Mrs Jimmy walker. Miss Lawrence and Jack Pearl quarreled with Lew. Leslie during rehearsals of the International .Revue' until Leslie threatened to call the whole thing or. Now has sorry he didn't, because the show was dismal failure. .s M |, Bert Lahr, incidentally, cher iishes a sort of dormant grudge' against Joe D. Brown of the mUv. ies, because ! he believes Brown apes all his gestures a.s Patsy Flick and George Givot, the Creek
 dialecticians, hold each other in the lowest ipossib bleesteeni ... 1fif- ton, Berle, who's the first to admit that he has risen tQ. br0mipeiice on Borrowed jokes. has had a lot of enemies but .is ses(ich q inEfa. tiatinS fellow that Tnob0 b0dy can stay FtziAA ak him. ~. 5. <