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and created a mild riot. 1t v
gratitude.
Incidentally, Richman brought
back an inside story Of just why
Mike Reilly, one Of the boys who
wrote ''The Music Goes Around"
didn't appear as scheduled at the
TrOcaderO in Hollywood on the
night scheduled in his honor.
For the sequence in the Rich
man picture in which Reilly
and Ed Farley appear with their
band to play their daffy tune,
some 40 stOOges were hired to
pose as disgruntled musicians.
Part Of their business was to
stage . riot as soon as they
heard "The Music Goes, ETC."
One enthusiastic young gent
took it seriously. With all his
force he brought down his big
tuba ON Reilly's head, again and
again, knocking the fellow un-
conscious so that he was laid
MP for three days. The extras
only explanation when rebuked
was: every time / hear that
song I go nuts"
Jack Shilkret wires that there's
some talk now that the Eoths-
child family intends to retaliate
by making a film about the House
Of Arliss.
The distinguished Charles
Henry Meltzer, once a leading
dramatic critic in Manhattan,
is dead. To his son, Harold
Meltzer. who owns the Green
which Village Inn, he bequeathed
. priceless collection, consisting
Of more than 500 personal let
tiers from distinguished person
ages Of the past half century
including o letter Of woe from
Sarah Bernhardt, q satirical note
from George Bernard Shaw, and
other interesting cOmmunica-
tiOns from people like H. G.
Wells, Rudyard Kipling, DuSe,
D,AnnunziO, etc.
George Woods, just back from
Hollywood, recounts one expert
ence. A shabby derelict ap-
preached him and asked for help.
"Just q few pennies to take me
to Chicago" was his modest re-
quest. "Sorry, fellow" said Woods,
''but that'n take more pennies
than I've got with me. I just
got in from New York and I'm
pretty flat" well, how much
can you Spare?". "Sorry, mister,
I can't spare you a nickel" The
bum stared at him in contempt
and then Missed, Listen, you, we
amt got no room in this State
for cheap muggs like you. Get
out Of California and stay out!"
''What makes BrOa dway
Broadway" observes Jack Denny,
sis that when you're dead they
put . stone over your head
but when you're alive they
throw stones at it,"
George D. Lottman is handling
the publicity for a radio script
act called 1.-THE ONeills," based
on the experiences Of a typical
Irish family. AS a promotion
stunt, Lottman decided to call up
all the O'Neills in the telephone
book in an endeavor to locate a
family that might resemble the
radio group in the types Of situ-
ationS and problems which arose
daily. The office force was kept
on the phones all day calling up
about 125 O'Neills in Manhat-
tan-not one of whom answered
the. purpose. Then the Brook
lyn section was attacked with no
results. Next, the Bronx, which
was Just as barren in results.
Monday night Lottman, Sitting in
one Of the night spots here, ex-
planned his problem to a friend.
The latter said, what a coinci-
dence. My wife listens to that
program and just the other night
she told me she was interested in
it because she knows a family
just like them-in every respect"
They phoned the wife, who said
she didn't know the name of the
family but she did know the ad-
dreSs-they lived in a one-family
house in Brooklyn. Tuesday morn
ing Lottman went to look them
up-and discovered that every
thing his friends wife had said
was true-there was the closest
resemblance. But the P. S. is
ne family didn't get the job
because the name is Rosenblatt!
! Observations Of Broadway
ties: Fired AlIen): Hornets are
descendants Of a moth that
went mad after being trapped
In radio set all winter. =. Russ
MOrgan): I've been trying to
peddle my new detective story
idea. 1t has q novel twist. The
body isn't found on the floor
It's found on the ceiling. LEO
ReiSman): On Broadway they
treat you nicely when you're on
the way up-and icily when
you're on the way down.
Most glamorouS of the fancy
"Secret" bistros Of the Great
Drought was the Napoleon Club
which is now operating on West
56th Street in the legitimate
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