The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-04-16
In New York
By GEORGE ROSS
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NeW XOrk, Aprll 16-SLreeC scenes:
 Over at the Plaza, several feet from the fountain, a highly bodiced dowager summons a brougham, horse drawn, for trot around Central Park but is helped into the carriage by the chauffeur of her high-powered limousine.
 An inebriated playgoer pauses on the curb, outside the tIeater, to demand his money back of the box office treasurer because he fell asleep during the performance A lame sheet music vendor sings out, as grisly sample of the lyrics he has to offer, T Believe in Mir acleS."
 "Step this way" yells the 42nd street barker, land see the Flea Circus for 10 cents, one-tenth of a dollar, two jitneys."
 A jolly, jostling crowd battles for position before 8 barbershop window on Eighth avenue. Any thing brewing? Just 8 gentleman getting 8 hair single. He ducked for cover.
 A dozen pickaninnies do a clog dance on a Broadway corner for pennies until a policeman scatters them. Future Bill RobinsonS.
 Thrown For Laugh
 A Manhattan Medley: A disillus- ioning sight for the youngsters was Cowboy Tim McCoy's trip-up at the circus the other evening. After galloping out of the sawdust ring at the head of his Texas Rangers and American Indians, the movie hard rider dismounted, slipped over a lariat, fell head first in the saw dust. There was cruel laughter.
 Over on West Sand street, Joseph Downing, an actor now playing g tough hombre in Dead End" dis embarked from a taxicab, to have himself snapped in costume at the photographers. Under his coat he wore a holster containing fake revolver and blank cartridges such as he wears in the show. He reach ed inside for the taxi fare, the cab- bic noticed "rod" holder and sped of, screaming Gall Cop" The astonished actor ducked in the picture studio.
 War has been declared upon the movie grind houses that set ur those misleading marquee signs Sam Taylor was led to do some- thing about it when he noticed one second-rate film house advertising Charlie Chaplin of Modern Times. Below, in small lettering, followed the titles of a couple of antique Chaplin shorts that were being shown inside. A salute to Adelaide Howell niece of Clark Howell, the famous Atlanta, Ga, editor, who is now singing in the Russian room of the Sherry -Netherland.
 A Noble Idea
 Billy Rose, who is now putting on a million dollar show for the Texas Centennial at Fort Worth is up to pranks again. In the Pub lie notices columns, he ran this ao other morning: WANTED: 100 bona flde noblemen, whose titles sten from either active or extinct mon. archies, and who, for adventurou. or economic reasons, are willing tC serve as dancing partners for tht flower of Texas from July te October 15. In answering submit photographs in uniform, with or. ders, ribbons and decorations evi. dent, and ancestral outline, that your validity may be established easily. Give physical proportions age and domestic status. Salar, $l00 a week. Bogus counts, mas queraders and descendants of thu Dauphin will get short shrift. Ad dress, Billy Rose, Texas Frontier Centennial.
 And it may interest you to knov that already there have been mum erous applicants. Which will giv, you a slight idea of how a goot many European noblemen get alonl in Manhattan.