The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-04-02
In New York
BY GEORGE ROSS
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GCW 4OAh1 hPAA A-OIlOIt OIlUto. They always return to the scene of u , climb, which is why Jack Oakie took his bride, Venita, the other night to the "Follies" that he once served as spear carrier,
 Back in town for 8 theater en- gagement is Huddie Ledbetter, better known as The Man Who Sang His Way to Freedom From Two Prison Sentences for Mur- der. Committed to @ Texas peni- tentiary for 35 years on homi- eide charge, Ledbetter was par doned by Governor Neff after demonstrating his musical skill. Imprisoned for a second killing, he was pardoned by Louisiana's s Governor Allen, also after reveal ing himself as a human songbird in an ungilded cage.
 The damosel who sings with the California Collegians is Josephine Dix, niece of the film-famed Rich ard.
 Some of the signs of the times: Over a movie marquee, Erred As- taire in Top Hat and Shorts" !" Over another, Ghost Goes West; Music Goes Round and Around" Sign over a Yonkers frankfurter stand, not far from Sing Sing, We Electrocute Hot Dogs. Come in and See Us Bump Elm Off,"
 Now, New York boasts @ Wine of the Week Club. Subscribe by the year. Get different flagon of nectar each week.
 Expensive Free" Shows
 Some millionaires go ten miles out of their way to pay ten times as much to procure 8 pass to a show or a fight rather than purchase them direct from the spectators. Initiates their ego, I'm told.
 Jerome K. Jerome's sage obser- vation: T like work: It fascin- ates me. I can sit and look at it for hours"
 And George Givot is the guy to hold responsible for saying that: Those who go to college and nev- CT get out are called professors '
 One of the most fantastic, yet Tspellbinding tales, that have ap- peared lately in the periodicals, is Robert Buckner's narrative in the Atlantic Monthly of the two al- most unknown soldiers who Won and Lost the War and who lived to meet again and talk about 1t.
 While Nijinsky, the great Rus sian ballet dancer, is incarcerated in sanitarium, his kin carry on in the world terpsichore. Now his sister, Bronislava Nijinsky, has came to stage the pallets at the Metropolitan Opera and his wife Romola, continues to spread his fame around the world in books. Cars Leave Tracks
 Within three months, there will be no trolley cars rattling through Manhattan's avenues Those new, streamlined busses have taken their place.
 That ether-wave war on certain songs affected the British band- master Ray Noble rawther ludi- crously. Because of the ban on certain music publishers, Noble was forbidden to play his own theme song, "The Very Thought of You," on the air. But he foxed his tor mentors by compelling the English firm that first published it to de- mand their rights here.
 They say that it takes five hear ings of that Viennese suicide song, Gloomy Sunday" to de- press it's listeners. And how many, wonder, were driven to hari-kari by our own "The Music Goes-,' etc.
 Laughing Matters
 Some Outlaws in the Current Shows: What is a public li- brary. anyway" remarks Ina Claire in End of Summer" "ii not an intellectual flophouse?"
 Snaps Jane Cowl in First Lady"-"It's fortunate for Q wom- an to have a past. It gives her something to talk about"
 In the new Lunt-Fontanne show, one of the dumb chorines reflects that a seeress once pre- dicted hard luck at her 37th birth day. 'That." comments her step- ping sister. ought to be any day now"
 "The trouble with being a hack writer" states the Hollywood scenarist in "Boy Meets Girl. lis that the works too hard"