The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-10-27
In New York
BY GEORGE ROSS

New York, Oct. 27-Any week that offers the spectacle of seri- ous actor like Walter Huston doing a tap-dance on @ silver peg-leg in a song and dance show is Q mem- orable time on Broadway. What's more, when the author of this mu- sical show happens to be the pe- dantic Maxwell Anderson, and tho composer, Kurt Weill-and the pro. ducers Robert E. Sherwood, Elmer Rice, Sidney Howard, s. N. Behr' man and the aforementioned Mir Anderson, then 1t is an important stage event.
 Many first-nighters didn't like "Knickerbocke Holiday, which is the title of this unusual production, While you can't help feeling warm toward a show in which Huston Gas Peter StuyvesanO hobbies about on a peg-leg that he borrowed from John Barrymore, who wore it ir ''The Sea Beast" you still can't help feeling cool toward show which acts like a profesSorial talk on CO., lonial history.
 For this hot and cold "Knick- erbocker Holiday" is an excursion back to the days when the Dutch were settling New York and Gov ernor Stuyvesant came along to set up a orle-man dictatorship, the In- dians were menacing the Holland CTS with a war dance which white men do at places like the Onyz Club. Then, the Battery was the hub of the town and Brooklyn had not yet been discovered.
 Fines Swinger
 Dorothy Baker has told the story of the cratic swingster, Blk Beider- becke, dramatically in her prize. winning book. Young Man With a Horn," and soon Jed Harris will convert the book into a movie with Burgess Meredith in the role of the dynamic jitterbug. Beiderbecke 1: becoming a growing legend in the swing world and tales about him true or apocryphal, are wholesale these days.
 But Paul whiteman knew the im- mortal "Bix" as well as any man because the eccentric trumpeter played with the band. Whiteman relates that once he put $25 and $50 fines into effect against any musicians who missed a show while the band was transforming the country.
 One night, as the Whiteman con- tingent was moving to another town, Blk went to a jam session and awoke in time to miss the train He hired a cab and chased a train 40 miles, only to discover that it was the wrong train and that he had been travelling in the wrong di- rection. So he wired Whiteman to meet him at the airport and a few hours later, he descended In a crate shabbier than Corrigan's. He was all tuckered out, so he thought he would nap a while. He didn't wake until the next morning, and in ad- dition to his el50 plane expense. he paid his $50 fine-with an eloquent curse.
 Back t0 the Farm
 STREET SCENE: We were wait- ing for Q trafflc light to change in the Forties the other day and com- miserating with mounted police- mans horse whose feed bag had gone astray from the eager equine mouth. Ills uniformed master had stepped away q moment
 It seems that the dapper pas- senger of e gleaming Rolls Royce saw the horses predlcament, too, because he asked his naughty chauffeur to halt near the curb. Out stepped the s-Royce own- CT and, with . deft hand. he slip- ped the feed bag back to where 1t would do some good for the mounted copper's horse. Our hero then went back to the tonneau of his car with a gesture to his chauf-