The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-03-04
In New York
BY GEORGE ROSS

New York, March 4.--Manhat- tan's only female gag writer ia young, b lue-eyed, brown-haired Mabel Wilma Albertson. She com poses Jokes for Q living, the only woman laugh-maker to crash the field.
 Some time ago, she won her spurs in humorists' circles for this sample of her work:
 1st Comedian: You know my brother. don't you7"
 2nd Comedian: NO, whats his name?"
 ist: "san, everybody calls him Sam but my mother. She calls him Louie." tI
 2nd: "why does your mother call him Louie?"
 1st: Because he was the four teenth."
 If you already have heard this one, 1t too late to stop Mabel from telling 1t. Besides, she'll probably use 1t again sometime. Mabel also keeps a gag file, as do most humor writ. CTS. and refers to the catalogue regularly for Q suitable chuckle gigglc, smile or guffaw. She does not hang out at the usual haunts or Broadway where gagsters garner jokes. Just thinks of them, quiet. ly by herself, in her up.to-date apartment.
 Being New York's only lad, jo' ester isn't Q merry life for q girl. Mabel complains that hei gentlemen friends shy away, be. cause she cannot take their court. ships seriously. She has a punch line for all the pretty little things they say in the course of the eve. ming. It breaks up the romantic mood. When admirers come to voc her, she winds up by wowing them.
 She came into this helter-skel. t-r game of gag writing via the Helen Morgan route. She used tc sit down on pianos at night clubs and sing for her supper (and q pay envelope). Then Phil Baker happened to see her one night and invited her to be his stooge on . radio program. The stooge takes the br.,nt of all the jokes. as dialers are away by now, and Miss Albert son took them like good sports woman. One night, she suggested that Baker change the lines a lit- t'. for more laughs and he did with phenomenal success. He en- gaget. her. then and there, to write | ialre9 for the f1raprar1
 cince then, she has branched oul into general practice, composing laugh-lines for numerous comedians Although it has proved lucrative foi her, she doesn't recommend gag writing as the best life for @ won- an.
 Two Circuses, No Less
 Slice time immortal. New York's sole and only hamburger of spring has been the modish, migratory Dex- ter F'ellowes. here to tell us of the advent of the Ringing Brothers Barnum &s Bailey circus. But we have signs this year that spring will be doubly verdant. For the dapper Dexter has been beaten to Manhattan by rival harbinbger sm another sawdust spectacle Cole Bros. and Clyde Beatty's tent- show. This interloepr. a congenial one, js Ora Parkes. who has trav- ersed America a couple of times as herald for the Cole Bros. and who le. yer two cigars with everyone.
 indeed, Manhattan is to be the scene of . circus war this year, for both sawdust saturnalias will be here at the same time in March and April. The Barnum and Bailey show will resume its old stand ai Madison Square Garden. Cole Bros. and Clyde Beatty arc moving into the HippodrOme. What ali Optiook for paFentsl No child. from c so 60 will ka content thk spring unless he can see both.
 UnfasieFing Love
 Ten sCamille" was playing 0kl Broadway. the marquee signs boast. fd. "RobeFt Taylor Lores 0Fets ca.bo." Then +camllles moved over t0 the suburbs and the pictNFs com. ans wanted ta give tho laseel developments. Ha the marquee fias cit there read. ''Ils'bert Taylor Con. ilnuss so Love uFsta 0afb0."
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