The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1936-12-21
In New York
BY GEORGE ROSS
@ 1905. NA

New York, Dec. 22.-Her name
Is Adalet. A couple Of thousand
years ago, 1t might have been Cleo
patra. Being Turkish also separates
her from the queen temptress Of the
Nile. She has q come hither' face
and 1.-the chassis and Just now
she Is getting ready TO don the last
Of the seven wells and TO shimmy
for ogle-eyed Nordics In a Broadway
cabaret.
The rest OF these notes about her
are Adalet's and not the fantasy Of
her publicist after round OF
hasheesh.
m brief, Aadlet Is an ex-harem
girl. She was born, she explains In
q queer mixture Of English and
Turkish, In Constantinople 20 years
ago, the daughter Of q major-gen-
eral. When she was two, she was
taken to q harem TO be reared by
her aunt. one OF the fifty wives OF
Abdul Mechid.
with much maternal care by O.
half-hundred potential mothers.
Adalet had the time Of her life
and for the next nine years, took
lessons In singing. dancing and
torso-twirling from Adults many
.pouses as they entertained them
selves in pillowed and silken lux
ury.
But at the age Of twelve, Adalet
decided TO forsake Abdul Mechid's
hospitality and terrain and strike
out for herself. She quit the harem
furtively and got q Job in q Con-
stantinople theater. This was a dam
gerous thing for a lady to do, for
the Turks still had their own no
tons about women appearing In
public. There was q brawl about her
In the playhouse one night and dur
ing the foray, she was shot some-
where In the vicinity Of her kneecap.
Adalet has no objection to showing
the scar TO any Skeptical listener.
thence, by uneasy stages and with
bullet wound TO show for her part
In the emancipation OF Turkish
womanhood, Adalet made her way
to Persia, Austria and Paris. 1t was
In the Montnnartre quarter where
Clifford ischer. stager Of Broadway
extravangances. saw her mex her
body muscles in the approved harern
manner. He imported her TO Broad
way and here she Is, the first harem
girl to practice the hootchy-kootch
In New York. What would the sui
tan, who has since died, have said?
He Was . Heel
Here Is a yarn, Of local origin,
that q Fifth avenue shoe man
swears by and looks YOU straight
In the eye when he tells 1t.
It seems that q handsome young
woman walked into his shop last
week, examined few styles and
ordered q hundred pairs. The pro-
prietor, naturally. was not against
the idea but was surprised at the
large order. He asked where his
coraely customer wanted them de-
livered.
my chauffeur's outside" she said.
I'D like to take them all with me-"
Still curious. the shoeman asked her
II she intended TO open q store Of
her own or II she was Just stocking
In for the next ten years.
"Oh, nothing like that" she re-
piled, you see, an ex-husband Of
mine rs getting married again this
afternoon and they say It's good
luck to throw old shoes at the bride
and groom. That's why I'm buying
new ones"
Doubling in Symphonies
People In and out Of the Big
Town: Bennett Cert writes that
Eugene O,Neill has taken . years
lease on o Seattle house overlook
ing Puget Sound.
Even composers must lead double
lives. Few know that the Vladimir
Dukelsky who writes important
symphonies that are played BY phil.
harmonic orchestras across the
country, n the Vernon Duke who
composes popular music for Broad
way musical shows.
clifford Odets. last seasons
White Hope OF the Theater, plans
another junket 10 Hollywood after
his next play n produced on Broad
way.
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