The Washington times., 1937-01-02
THE VOICE OF
Broadway
BY Louis SoboI-
Casual Comment!


bers and sees that they get paid,
but no one seems to take care
of the hundreds of little chorus
girls and minor principals who
work in the night clubs. In the
bigger cabarets around town, the
girls need no protection for they
do get paid off But in the
smaller fly-by-night places, the
kids, after rehearSing for weeks
sometimes, find after the opening
that the weekly pay is withheld
because the management didn't
take in enough Sometimes they
get paid off SIS or $40 at a time
=. Sometimes, with honeyed words
and promises, they go along con-
tent to get their meals. A
flagrant instance of how one girl
was defrauded in a Jersey night
club comes to my attention. She
had an offer to go to the Coast,
but couldn't raise the fare. The
club owed her something like $1l0
in back pay. She asked the
owner for her money, pleading her
need. Instead, he told her that
after looking over his books, he
found that she had been absent
seven nights and that she had
eaten two meals a night and had
several drinks each night. . In
other words, he told her blandly,
instead of owing her, she owed
him money. $450-Would she
please be good enough to pay up!
Many of the Hollywood tribe
are fully convinced now there
is no Santa ClauS-but many
have learned, to their regret,
there is a Morality Clause!
The story seems fantastic
even though actual names have
been furnished to the column-but
the plot, earnestly sworn to be the
truth, sounds interesting 1t is
about a Well-known young man
who, while clerking in a Wall
Street brokerage house, fell in love
with a chorus girl, only to be bit
terly asSailed by the mother he
supported. She told him if he
married the girl she never wanted
to speak to or see him again or
receive a single penny from him.
When he informed his fiancee,
she left him, insisting no happi-
ness could come to them under
the circumstances Bitterly he ac-
nf
life and told her, in turn, he never
wanted to see her again. Today,
according to the story, he is one
of the moro influential brokers, un-
aware that his mother works in
the same building as a scrub
woman. One of her daily duties is
to clean his office-and dust off
a large portrait of her son.
We eavesdropped on two love
sick kids at local cabaret the
other night. The boy is talented
Singer-the girl a graceful dancer.
'The way I figure it out" he said,
calmly, as she studied him with
sWooning eyes, I'VE can wait for
five years until we're married
That'll give me time to save up
about 100000. III take 100000
and I'll make a trust found for
my folks and the other 100000
will be trust fund for us" :.
Couldn't We wait just one extra
year more?" pleaded the girl :.
"Why?" he demanded, suspicious
ly Said the girl: 1--WE could
save another 0,000-and this
would make nice trust fund for
my folks, too. Then we'd have
nothing to worry about"
The students of the Arthur
Murray'S School have just com
pleted their annual popularity
poll, voting on their favorites for
1886. Here are the results:
Fiction: Margaret Mitchell's
"Gone With the Wind"
NOn-fictiOn: DOrOthea Brande'S
''Wake Up and Live" Play:
Kaufman and Hart's you Cant
Take 1t With You" Stage
actor: John Halliday Stage
actress: Margaret SULLIVAN
Movie: Mervyn LeROy's can
thOny Adverse" Dance
film: Swing Time" Film
actor: Tyrone Power, jr.
Film actress: Sylvia Sidney
Dancer: Jessie Matthews
Radio program: March of
Time" Radio voice: Lowell
Thomas Musical comedy:
RED Hot and Blue" News
paper story: The Windsor-Simp-
son romance Night club:
The StOrk .. Opera star: Rosa
POnselle . Popular song: did
Remember" Beverage:
Dry Martini Football team:
FOrdham Personality: Flea
nor Roosevelt
An ambitious young cOIOred
man on three nights in one
week won prizes on three differ.
ent amateur hOurS-One emanat-
ing from Newark, another on
the J. C. Flippen hour, the third
on the Major BOWes program.
He is a tap dancer and a fancy
skater and can also sing. There
is very little object in mention
ing this at all expect that the
very ambitious young cOlUred
amateur who wins prizes has the
distinguished name Of a gentle
man who never won an amateur
prize-WOOdrOW Wilson.
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