The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-10-31

noisiest of his accusers, few years later. was jailed for owing his wife $3,2O0 back alimony :. The lad was released when Rudy put up the coin--saving him from a long stretch in the hoosegow !. When Radio City was first planned, Flo ziegfeld was offered the job there as theatrical director, but he spurned it <, When Flo was asked why he turned it down, he answered prophetically: '.Beeause I'll never live to see it completed" And he didn't In the Roaring Twenties Mark Hellinger was scOld- ed by his buddy for wasting his young life in the Broadway joints ruining his stomach drinking any, thing It now seems that Mark was merely doing research for his film-the name of which is bOr- rowed for this mornings column.
 When Mayor Walker, in 1927, planned to close the night clubs and speaks at l ayern, the owner of The Club Richman summoned all club owners to his place to dis cuss fighting the curfew They agreed on a united front and to con- tribute $1O0 each to the war chest
 All 3S night club owners wrote out checks for $100 Twenty-six of them bouncedl
 The premiere of George Whites Scandals" on June IA. 1926, was the most expensive opening night in Broadway history. White set, the price at $55 per ticket--just as a gag, figuring he'd fill the theater by givng away most of the seats, but that the high tariff would give the premiere tone. So what hap pened? The suckers bought the tickets up SO fast that speculators were soon demanding $100 apiece for them! The floral pieces at gangster funerals invariably includ- ed a clock made of flowers, with the hands set at the exact time the gangsters had been shot down. The custom was started at Frankie Uale's funeral Ruby Keeler was signed to play one of the leads in "Whoopee" just before the Eddie Cantor show opened in Pittsburgh. Al Jolson, who had been married to her only few months, pined for her so that after one week he made her quit and join him in California One of the strangest speak easies in the Prohibition era was a policeman,s Winter overcoat. The traffic cop at 4th Street and Sixth
 Avenue, in the Greenwich Village sector, had a special pocket in his
 overcoat where he kept the illegal joy juice he peddled.
 Bill Fallon was the Great Mouth piece of the Roaring Twenties. A
 kid came to see him one day and confessed thefting $50,000 from the
 bank in which he worked as teller l He feared the examiners would
 discover it momentarily Some
 thing made Fallon like the boy, and
 he decided to help him. He asked him if he had any of the money left
 and the kid said he hadn't :. Fallon's next question was startler DO you think" he asked, you could steal $100,000 more?" The boy
 thought he could, and Fallon in-
 structed him to bring the money tc him The next day Fallon l pocketed the hundred grand, and
 advised the boy to take a boat tc
 South America. He then phoneo the bank officials and informed them that one of their tellers ha6
 stolen $150,000 The officials I checked and called back apxiously |. =. Fallon asked, would you be
 willing to take $100,000 and forget
 about the whole thing?" The of
 ficials heaved a sigh of relief at
 being able to salvage two-thirds o1 the thefted coin, and eagerly agreed to Fallon's proposal Later Bill Fallon, one of the most mer.
 cenary men of most "dog eat dog
 era, wired the kid to come home
 winding up case for which he re-
 ceived nothing but a boys undyina
 gratitude.