The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-03-11
In New; York Y,
Ry GEORGE ROSS
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 New York, March 1l.-Round- towning: In a Brooklyn cemetery, Dick Foran writes, there is Q stone with this inscription: May the Lord be better to her than her husband was, Amen" ee Arthur Carron, the opera singer, was sitting down to luncheon with some friends when the. telephone rang. It was 8, man from the Metropolitan. The tenor, he said, had reported himself i'll suddenly and the performance of Aida" was but a few hours away. Could Car foh pinch hit tho,agh he had not sung the role for five years? The opera singer, like other troupers, said certainly, and cancelled his part of the menu. He subsisted until the curtain Fell on poached egg and toast, then reasselnhled his lunch- con guests for Ia, midnight banquet, minute steak, ct al.
 Trouper, trouble, incidentally, has Helen Hayes worried. Here is she, regal and popular, in the immensely successful Victoria Regina, which shows no signs of running down hill at the box ofIlce. But Miss Hayes, who hes been'portraying Queen vic- toria for more than a year, wants to witness the Coronation oS vic- toria's descendant. To do so, she must order "Vctoria Regina" sus- pended in mid.May though the show still will be prospecting. She Is In quite 6 dilemma about 1t. The troopers code holds her to remain with the vehicle; her personal long ing, turns her gaze toward the other shore Of the Atlantic. 'sia' P | N%E, &th ssas'5s x. .,#A Putting Up the Shutters W f@s
 Those candid camera addicts who Haunt .theaters and click their lenses nolsily while actors are trying their darrde est orc being putlawed ct last. Kat athafifie Cornell is the first to put her pretty foot down and bailish the amateur photographers from her playhouse. They ruflle her nerves and those of her supporting players. So she has instructed the doornan to ftisk non pro lens-ynen of their leicas. Mss Cornell is not the only stage .star ,tol suffer: the torments of nV0illIatAry posing. Once George M. Colialt interrupted ' a serious scene during e .Bostons performance and told the caudid cafneraman to scat or else. t.sgiq ,s sfi
 The sit-down strike has rever- berated unusually ii1 Q midtown of- ice building. Entering one morn ing, the superintendent found the elevator starter squattipg contented- Y Y. ina l.a camp stoOl, and m bawled him 2,
 The starter, tired of remaining eterraliy vertical, had brought his, own chair to work and so did his buddies in the local and express cars .. They finally won, too. '.3 | Gotham newspapers Public Mo- tices columns are sssrfeit these days with offers of apartments for Lon- don's Coronation, at fabulous prizes. Getting Back at Naxis
 Billy Rose sat at his favorite cor- ner in the Versailles and reread the newspaper accounts of Mayor La- Guardia's tilt with. the Nazis. The Little Barnun clipped the front page story and departed.
 At his office c while later. he burnt midnight oil. composing an offer to the Worlds Fair in New York, for a Billy Rose Exhibit following the mayors suggestion: a Chamber of Horrors, displaying the terrors of Hitler Germany.
 At his, sideshow, Rose woald like to show Nazi oflicialdom In efiigy, exhibit the great books burned 0n Nazi Dyres, render the music now banned in the land of the browhshirts. To certify his ges- tlire.t Rose sent alsng c deposit of s5.O00.s