The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-06-12
A New Yorker
 In Europe
BY PAUL HARRISON

London, June 12-With a pip pip and cherrio,t England's capi- tai has gone just too, too devasta- tingly gay this season.
 Your correspondent is an old meanie who generally has dispar- aged the capacity of the English to have real fun under any cir cumstances whetever, but he will admit that there are certain mani festations of spirit in this town which a liberal observer might call gaiety. You can hear laughter in the cabarets and braves in the theaters, and it makes no import ant difference that much of the exuberance is displayed by a lot of foreigners from Sioux City, Vienna. Dallas, Buffalo, Berlin and Pitts burg.
 The town is having ts bigges. boom in entertainment business since the war. At this writing, 43 legitimate theaters are lighted, and haven't attempted census oi the big picture houses and vaude- vile shows. Two years ago vaude vile was as dead here as 1t now k on Broadway, but today a hugo house such as the Palladium has queues a block long waiting to pay up to $3.50 a seat. Motion picture theaters may charge as much as $1.50 for preferred balcony seats and then the customers get n" vaudeville-just a newsreel, a com edy short and feature.
 
 Names Taken Lightly
 A good many familiar name. are on the marquees. 'The Greeks Had a Word for It" and Steve dore" have just finshed good runs, 'As Thousands Cheer, retitled "Stop Press" is the hit revue, al though it has been scrubbed up a bit since fines were levied againsI the producers for tow offensive skits which Broadway applauded 'The Wind and the Rain, only moderately successful in New York now is in it's second year on Lon. don's rialto. But the D'Oyly Cart. Gilbert-and-Sullivan company, wi.h the plaudits of America and Cana da still ringing in it's ears. has rc turned to comparative obscurity.
 Jane Cowl is here, but not be. hind the footlights. She has au- thored a play spelled "Hervey House., and pronounced Harvey House., and which has nothing to do with middle-western railroad restaurants. It is, instead, a veddy, veddy British play, fudd of dukes and duchesses, stif-necked old-fam- lily pride, a touch of decadence, a few labor leaders, and buffers who knock each other down whenever one of them suggests that mayb, the master has a mistress.
 Miss Cowl wrote the play as !; tribute to the England that sh, admires so much. But she conceals her identity under the seudonym of "C. R. Avery, and don't biamc her. WAen an English audience be- gins sneaking out before the orch estra has a chance to play 'tGoi Save the King. you may know that it must have been bored nn end.
 liked Fay Compton and Ger trude Lawrence. liked His Mai GSty D luCAlCAe lOOs 4t was AkSkG tkkeAl Sir Beerbohm Tree played. Oh, yes and it was here that "Chu-Ch Chow" began his fantastic run of 223s performances.
 Broadway Please Copy
 A show that Broadway and Hol- lywood will be cherishing one of these days, and soon, hope. is the grand Graustarkian musical called "Glamorous Night. Ivor Novello wrote 1t, composed the tunes; and plays the male lead. Opposite him is vivacious Mary Ellis, just back from Hollywood and very nice to look at and listen to.
 Let nobody tell you that the English lack the knaek for ex- travaganza. The scenery, costumes and dances provide the most col orful spectacle this observer ever witnessed, and I'm not forgetting the works of Ziegfeld or C. B. Cochrane. or Broadway's current ''rhe Great Waltz. Fascination of the piece was heightened for mo by the theatcr itseif-the royal Drury Lane. A tremendous hOuss seating 800. this is the fourth building on the site where siie ISing's company made its bow in