The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-05-10
In New York
By GEORGE ROSS

New York, May 10-So the city fathers cracked down upon bur- lesque, that iniquitous business that mothers the strip-tease and fathers the dirty jokebook.
 Burlesque has been denied a li- cense, throwing 700 little people out of work. And there are great many folk who won't cry over this new wave of unemployment. No doubt, burlesque brought the axe down upon its own head, with its cheap ballyhoo and licentious means of turing in the customers (200,000 of them every week..
 But pardon the Broadwayite who knows the beat between Forty Second and Fifty-Second streets ii he still detects ,impurity in the air If there is to- be a clean-up drive he could lead the. purifiers around to many other places in Broadway's Sodom & Gomorrah.
 The Minskys never held 8 mon- opoly on unclothed women and, in- deed, they wear less in an average cabaret than the most generous stripeuSe reveals to her public. And as for the purveyors of risque stor- ies, there is a lady Songbird in a Greenwich Village cafe who not only ought to have her license re- voked, under the new standard, but should have her mouth soaped re- gularly.
 Minslxy Outminskied
 Fanny Brice. Willie Howard George Jesseli and a few more first rate performers of today can tell you when burlesque was solid substantial form of entertainment which cardled many stars in theil professional infancies. That was 8 long while ago, however, when the Columbia and Mutual wheels kept 8 vigilant eye over burleSque ano its practitioners. There weren't any Gypsy Rose Lees and Ann Corios then, who, because their talents are chiefly anatomical, rise to the heights as DuseS of deShabille. So, if the latest campaign-anc this one seems to be f1nal-doesn't gain much public sympathy, il isn't difficult to understand. There still are some denizens along the Rialto, however, who would like tc know why the city fathers should not take a night of sometime anC wander among the bistros after F o'clock. There they might set female exhibits and hear anecdotes that, by comparison, would make g Sabbath class of any Minskian em- porium.
 Tunesmith, Glass of '37
 Vincent Lopez submits this com posite picture of the ncophyte song writer in Tin Pan Alley. He has just turned "A and authored his colleges Varsity Show. .- The theme of the show was based upor mistaken identity and it was label led Fast and Furious" which he secretly considers pretty slick He knows he is destined to become a great composer because he is a nimble pianist and aren't Gersh- win and Cole Porter nimble at the keyboard, too? .. He has resolved to remain a bachelor for long while since genius operates better when unhampered by marital woes Y. However, Jerome Kern, Irving Berlin, Cole Porter and Arthur SchwartS are some married men who have done pretty well in the music racket.) He has a great deal of fresh, original" material but he'll soon find out that if he can't say T Love You" in a diff ferent sort of way, Tin Pan Alley will be closed to him. .. He cant help feeling superior to the mugs of the song-ritnig sphere who ain't never been to collitch( but ht needn't be, because Mack Gordon Harry Revel, Al Dublin, Harry Warren, Billy Hill, Irving Berlin Joe Young and many other top. notchers along the Alley are no university -trained).
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