The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1936-12-19
In New York
Nv GEORGE ROSS

mas stocking awaits the holiday Wis
itor to Broadway. A fuller stock
ing, at any rate, than in the pre-
vious Yuletide.
A couple Of thousands of words
back, this corner was gloating
about the wave of prosperity that
has steadily rolled over Gotham's
amusements. Well, the wave is
still riding high and pleasure
seekers shekels circulate more
freely than in decade.
BY the time the first carols are
heard, these are the stage stars
who will be visible behind
Broadway's footlights: Helen Hayes
in her reigning hit, Victoria
Regina" Alfred Lunt and Lynne
Fontanne in the Pulitzer-prize win
ming Idiots Delight" Joyce Airing
in the laughingest comedy of two
seasons, boy Meets Girl" Kath-
arine Cornell in Maxwell Ander-
sons new drama, 1.-THE Wingless
Victor" Beatrice Lille and Bert
Lahr in the new musical spectacle,
1.-The Show Is On"
Full Program
John Gielgud will loiter here in
his mighty impersonation of Ham
let" until after the New Year. Grace
George will grace the boards In the
Partisan comedy, "Matrimony, Pfd."
Noel Coward stays on In his triple
play entertainment, Tonight at
$780,"
And among your other glamor-
GUS footlight stars, Christmas will
hold over Ruth Gordon In 1.-THE
Country Wife," william Gaxton
and Kitty Carlisle in white
Horse Tnn," Tallulah Bankhead in
Reflected Glory" Mrs. Frederic
March in days to Coome," Mar
garet SULLIVAN in "Stage Door,
and Margalo Gilmore in 1.-THE
Women"
Indeed, the theater's Christmas
stocking bulges with gifts for the
transient entertainment shopper.
Besides the aforementioned items,
which will keep any Yuletide
revellers busy enough, he may
have his choice of Red, Hot and
Blue" with the irrepressible Jim
my Durrante and the inimitable
Ethel Norman: Tobacco Road,
which has just begun its fourth
year on Times Square; Three
Men on Horse" the interna-
tional comedy hit; the Messrs
George S. Kaufman and Moss
Harris latest laugh riot, "You
Can't Take 1t With You; the
wrestling farcs. Swing You,
Lady; the grim drama about
the slum's kids, Dead End; the
superb Dolly Carte Opera COM
pany in the Gilbert and Sullivan
operas; the European hit, "Tovar-
ich"-among other shows, both
musical and non-musical, that fl
the playhouses along mazda-lit
Broadway.
New Year Greetings
There have not, within q veteran
gadabout's trustworthy memory
been as many after-dark haven,
furnishing in Manhattan as there
happen to be now. Most of then
are ready for the holiday siege witt
stimulants, paper hats and noise.
making machines. Most of then
have already tabulated the extern
of breakage on New Years Eve
for they expect an unprecedented
carousal on Father Times annua
night out.
| The spacious French Casino
will greet the holiday guests witt
a Partisan spectacle appropriated.
named The Folies Bergeres o.
1887 which, it is promised. viii
display pulchritude more SUI
blimely than in the past. Th'
Cotton Club, which is Harlem
contribution to Broadway, hal
the combined magnet-power o
Bill Robinson and Cab Callowa!
to lure the crowds. Fifty-secont
Street, along which are strung on
more night clubs than are assem-
bled on any other street Of tn
world, should resemble, In sight ant
sound, Sodom 81 Gamorrah ant
Ubiquitous Babylon when the holi
day revelry Is at Its height.
The Hollywood Restaurant. with
It's generous corps Of eye-bedevel
ling coryphees. as unclad as the Law
win allow. and the Paradise Cab
aret. across the street. which offer
the same visual delights. are ais
poised for the influx from out o
town. And so are the night haunt
IN Greenwich Village and other OF
center parts Of town.