Variety (Nov 1928)

I Wednesday/ November U, 1928 TIMES SQUARE VARIETY 47 Auto Row Dreary With Bargains In Cars and Accessories Placarded Gordon L. Harris, whose discount ealesrodm is well known in Nassau Btreet, has moved to the 60's of Broadway to meet the. depression felt generally. Bulck slipped from first place to third in the line-\ip. Chevrolet climbed into flrst. Chrysler's drop from third to seventh place is the sensation of motor row.: Franklin. Is doing better as is Packiard: and Niash. The' Auto Finance Corp. frankly Rothstein Murder as Life SaVer for Dailies New York , dailies, especially the Journal, and the tabs^ found a life sdver for the front page after elec tlon, with, the Arnold Rothstein murder. . Some of the stories read as though fiction writers had been engaged POLITICS N. G. RACKET, BERNSTHN CLAIMS Knows Better Gag for England But Needs Money to Get There Greenwich Village By Lew Key "Kid, this ipolitical racket is yours; 1 stake you to it," said Free- man Bernstein as he threw a pair of fur gloves out of the window. 'I Just kept those gloves on to fool the cops," explained Freeman. "Politics don't last long enough anyway; What can you get out of it? Cracker money. "I hears the national committee I . . ^ j is ca.sh and don't, be cheap." that Rothstem had been the receiv-I I •-. • . : wah nerfect. rho rrovincctown l>lfty . Nothing baa been overlooked as has over three millions, so I dig i». displays a "To Let" sigri • on the reasons, with the, newspaper stories When I sell 'enr I sell em good^so window of their room in 54th street. -^.^^ ^g^^^g inib Pothstein's safe the way .I eased, I says to. myself, Numerous used car companies are U boxes; if he had any, before 'Fre9nian, take your time now—this at their -wits ends to get rid of I . 1 is ca-sh and don t be cheap, stock. Some' announce with huge banners that high grade cars may be had on note at $30 a month. ja;ndorf is . selling tires at 25 to 60 per cent.-, discount, while Ldncoln limousines. Cadillacs and other xv.-...».— ^— .. - high priced cars are being taken in Lj^rJfg to parents, will contest 't. oh hew cars at enormouis rates. Rothstein left percentages in trust Marmon is feeling the slump for 10 years, with Inez Norton, who acutely. The very high hat IsQta had lived, at Rothstein's hotel, to re Franchinl "display w.lnd.pw contains ceive one-sixth, his widow ono the picture of "Miss Alaslta," Hel- | third, his lawyer another third. A yo.vr iigo an ouhu8i:is.tji' pro- inotiM- prt dii tod that tlu' ViUaso ai^. such wa;s about to bo wiped put by large cominiercial buildlnp.^ lofts and the ro.<;t.. Pi-actioally all of tbf. recent'changcp, liowcv. r, show res- idential dovoloinnent. All that Tcmalns of tluv Inown- stone. fronts at 37, 38 and 39 Wash- ington Square West, south, of the Ilblley- Hotel ure menvoriep. . ; 3S and 39 have been rooming house.-; for years. Scores of T\-ritcrs . and artists have lived there. ■ The Purplo .rup, one of the few tearooms that nourished and even- tually llickered, out some 10. years ago, carried on In the basoinerit of number 3S. Lately this iVoor was used as a dancing studio.. Here- Kugene C)'NeiU had . a- .room wlien of the •.n(.'a.sies »'anal iiv and In-rated In .the wmi-h v. bat-eiivi-nt- a-iid othci w i-^i -i- • Inn wi.M'U Fouri>H ivVli;:, ArM streets. . Most of these ha!'i;(VH near ■ the Viliage are rlin l>y 11alians. One exe'ept l(.->n to thl.s rxile is .i; place oh Maonoujial street.whi''h has for some years been the KrithuMivs ..placer of the radical clans;. You may drop in here. any .. night -and .bear the iinlver.se.done over. for three days, with the statements that the Rothsteiil family, from mar Liederman, reconimending their motor, although sleds go much better up "thar In the North." Nash is featuring a double igni- tion, first time offered to the public in such a car,, as art inducement to buy while istudebaker^Erskine has a new room at 1806 Broad^yay to .vend .more saliently. Slashing Prices Broadway's motor'row has col- lided head-oji. with the season of despair. Frantic efforts are being made to withstand the oppressing ptrain. Experts ot the. automotive industry maintain the slump is one ©f the greatest on record. Dodge Brothers at 67 th street <and Broadway) for the first time In the career of that organization has painted permanent signs oh Its huge display windows reading thus: . "Extraordinary ' Sale. . Prices Slashed." • The $1,040 Victory six is down to $875. Its $1,400 car is now $1,040. . Virtually all the '. used and new ..motor companies are advertising . strenuously for salesmen; for during • Buch exigencies as the present, the staffs are . increa.sed but put on .. strajght commission. The Pierce-Arrow company : has moved op Broadway proper occu- pying the 57th street corner. This location is expected to jack-up .sales. Hudson-Essex will show an en- tirely new car Dec. 1. Huge bargain Bales are announced from their dis- play salon above Columbus Circle. The Times Square Auto Supply company isinnourtces candidly tliat It is "going out of business," all ac- cessories at a "terrific saving." Diana-Moon is . depending much on Frank Blank, formerly with .Marmon, now vice-president, to show 'em how to do it. Ford is not complaining but there are plenty of salesmen on the floors at 54th and the Stem with Oceans of time to think. AVlllys-Kniight and Whippet sales- men contend ^that - they ..are, still making three square. . The silver lining secnts likely to appear when, the motor show opens the, first week in January, the auto men believe. . ' , ,, brothel-s a light, perceritage each, and a couple of business friend.-: other percentages; Police have talked a lot about the case, but have, done very little m the arrest way. Original theories of the murder cling around the Square One daily called Rbthistein. "the most despised man on Broadway," A tab (Graphic) printed on Its 'Freeman, the boys are too ru.shod now to talk with you; 'Wait till the election is over.'. , "Then I "go in after the election. The way they boosted .my work boosted niy. price. I ha.d it so high and with them : muggs yessing m:c all of the way that It seemed too „.ood. Well, when we got down to cases, they offered me a nptif, with so many names on the back'of it I though it was a pay off for voteris, "They expltiined to me they ain't got no cash no more; it's the way they done It always, they say, a.nd there I am, up a.galnst. It. ' ■. "So I'm flat again and politics is a wash oiit with me, for all tlmie duced at tlie VroVincetown I'l^y liouse in the next liloek. A si\> tcG,n-story apartment luniS'- i,s, troinc up on this plot. . ,In Doctor Johnson's time the fa- vorite rendezvous for the im(;llei;t - uals was the coffee, house, Jn the earlier days of Socrates the open- air delmting forum was the palilver- ing ground of the pifflicators, Times have changed, and now duestions of literary style, markets for sculpture or what have you are debated and Mostly Italians iuu ibiv lialians predoininate. Tlii.s time Of year in CornoUi.t-.street a: delicious, smell, .goe.s up to heaven; • or anyway tip to A'alhalla., No, mat- ior which spaghetti speak you. go into, the. red ink destined to slide doAvh your throat and tielvlo; the lin- uMi of ..your, s^oinach .vyilV cotne from there. • • A tab^^<Grapmcr ^^"^^'i.^^t;^ if i had dough enough td make Lon- cover the niarked cards Rothstein , „»t <nmethlntr over is alleged to have been cheated with. The paper denoted the marked tracings oh the back. Knew Miss Norton . M!iss Norton, , who last July di- vorced Miles Reiser, was known to i3roadwiy as having been in Florida and also at Lake George.. Previous,- ly the blonde who fled to Atlantic City Was married to Claude Wil- liams Norton, army officer, divorc- ing him and taking custody of their eight-year-old son, Claude, Jn Jimmy Meehan's attorney, Jsaiah Leebove, of 11 W. 42d. street, was wide open In his denunciation of the police for mentioning his client in the shooting. He. ^ent a letter to that effect to Commissioner Warren, whojfailed to reply. . • I "Nigger Nate" Raymond,'reported to have won the bulk of the geher- ously distributed t. O. U.'s; amount- ihg to $319,000. since the .shootin^j; has been nonchalantly visiting the night clubs of Broadway, speaking to nobody of thie matter. The dailieE branded him as a fugitive seeking respite from Cape Horn to Holly- wood. ■ Rothstein consulted his wife on Important matters until about three years ago, when they commenced to chill toward each other. She Is said to have retained intimate knowledge of„h|^ husband's affairs after they had virtually separated. Mrs. Rothstein returned to . Nev/. York about a month ago, with the intention, it was reported from Lon- don at the timie, to secure a divorce. 1 Following the divorce she intended to return to England, from the ac- count. "The Rothsteins had been married for about 20 years, , Glyn's Club Pinched 10 1 aught Uop^ To Young Chorus Girl . Irene DU Val, 23, chorus girl, was st-ntcnced to four rnonths in the workhouse as a drug addict In Spe- cial Sessions, following her plea of puilty to pb.ssGSsing narcotics. the arrest of the girl occurre'l Oct. 28, when ofTlcials of the Hotel Penns>'lvaniaL called in detectives from the West 30th street station, claiming that Mi.ss Du Val was unable to pay her board bill of $54.. ■ S.oarGhin&--.hW .-jQQin..- l he_. om c.er_s. found a quantity of morphine. A'^cording to Pvohaiion Oflrcei« • 'Teresa $U Clair, . tiie/; girl., cqipe-s • from .a. -fi'rolinihcnt . family, in • New' ' Khpland and graduated four years ago from Youngsville Academy Plattsburgh, N. Y. On the day she ■'^as sentenced a married .sister liv- ing in New York appeared in court and .settled the lw<tei bill. -Miss St. Clair told the justices A pinch occurred Saturday just b'-forc midnight at Harry Glyn's nite ' elub 'at 854. 6lh avenue. • Before midnight was a poor time 1.0 see the motley niob that Glyn'tJ has been notorious for, for some tirrie, with no other place In town where the heterogenous mass as senibling there moiningly may be found, it gets all Of that set, from the soft necks to the rough .neck.s. Glyn has . been pinched Tscfore, a couple of times. He was formerly a bell hop at tlic. Hotel Shcltpn, One of- his influential friends shoved him Into the hite racket.' don, I could put something over there that even the King would split on. ; • ,.; Fog Feeler "It's a fog feeler and can be sold for 75c.. but of course for the flrkt few millions I must get.-more than that. A feller on Loiig Island pat- ented it. They tell me England has the best fogs and that's where I must go. I bet I could sell a trunk full to the captain of the dory going over. "This fog feeler is what London needs. Them English is always bumping Into each other In a fog Smashed, feelings and some hats. My feeler Is carried around,, up the sleeve, of cloth and flat. . As the fog' comes up, It' unrolls by itself, crawls out of the sleeve like one of them funny 4th of Jiily things, and commences to circle around from the wrist. It stretches out for 10 feet. When It brushes a.galnst any body, there's a pressure right oh the artery of the Wrist, so you know somebody's around "It could be just as useful In dance halls or jCTentral Park. That' a gag. I'll start it right here first. "Do you know the guy wha.t makes them smoke screens 1 see in the pictures? Couldn't I get him to trail with me making a fog every other block? Then I could sell the feeler over here on the streets too. 'Put that up to him, bo. You don't have to worry about this one. It's on the up and up and no racket. I think that price should be $1 at first. Want a piece of it? Tell that smoke mutt that we will mop on this one. , , "And don't say anything In the paper aboxit - that p until I collect. . „ , "Plug my fog feeler. Tell em Freeman Is the great discoverer. "Be baxjk in a little while. Have a date with May and got to talk that gal into hocking her ice Until this panic passes,". Ilipi><dyte. n.av<-l, bewhislo'red yet • m:ntle Aiian -' . has given up the fdilQi'ship. oi" • ii<- Road to- Freedom, radical . iu6i.n lily .He started . about three years ago. .Hip, who ; cooked in Polly's years ago, has exist.ed for .some time.in a shac-k In Stelton, N. J. But he returns to the Village for a few days of living every monthl On the Square York and obtained a position in the chorus of One of the i^hubert shows. Friedland, song writer and producer Tlic girV first took to drug-s several months ago, w-li'en .-."lid tooit up witu ii "lounge lizard." Her family could not. break . this, a.ssociation, and finally gave her up. The .sister agreed .with ■ the jus- tices that Miss Du Val would be better off taking a forced " cure in the workliouse than she w*ould be if tl=ar after graduating from the | her family sent her to a private- R'Hdf-my Miss Du Val came to New institution. Initial Gutting Indian Is Freed on Charge An Indictment charging felonious, as.-nuilt against Marcellus Hawkins, 'full-biooded Seneca Indian, who has appeared along Broadway in exotu- danee.s, was di.smi.s.'jed by Judge ■SVilliam Allen in. General S^-ssionS. Hawkins waa arrested Sopt. 25 on the complaint of Mrs, Margaret nif'e, also a dancer, Who claimed the Indian cut his initials on her breast, as an indication of his love for her. The carving took placf nV^TawWTTS'^ apartment,-^ .07th street. , . . • . According to A.'t^l.stant Dislru-i 'ALtorriey-. AureTlc;, who .rceornrnerifl ed'the dlsmi.ssoi. MrM. .Rico'dee.lar^d .she had caufcd the Indian's arrr-n after being urged to do so by th' police. Flie admitted that Hawkins had cut.her up at her rrnncFt ufv > he told her that thifl wa5j a .tnb;il fustom In love affairs. Mrs Rice said .she lived at th'' y. W. C. A., aiO Kaat 77th street. Renee Leaves Hubby in Corn B«lt ^J^Se' SisS^S.. ticket's lullabies were a poor , substltuto^ for ilu. cSn/befis ortL paddy wagons In the Village. ^^<=°';f "1^,:^,J^J^ : T^eSe member of the matrimonial two act always was and fctlll ls In *^R^'has opened a combination art shop and whoop parloi-^on • Charges .street, fust off 4th street,, selling^novelties by day and convert-. hlSi^S^T^^^^ stS^^t^W hostes^g ,tooi;;^^e"ol!S-lnSds that the^t wouldn't be for long: ; The Carroll Idea V . t^T,„. Earl Carroll is evidently out to raise a new) crop of s^a^e J;J>^^ ^J or^ather a flock of slght^seers around the stage door.of his theatre . ^'^A^S^'^S'^erSe back stage ehtrahce of the f^^^^^^^^' "-r!;S^ ticse : portals enter the_mc^. beautiful girls in the .vo.Id. Reviving Busking \- / 4« tlons good. " ,: National Colbr Come-Ons r » ritaurants.are also following rapidly from- the show angle. Bia Crowd Melted Avway . Broadway never had such" a big election crowd that dispersed so ? ,?vf T« thnt of last week Nor was there a more orderly bunch, Itiw by de elt'or C^^^^^^^ Smith the people quietly -ent hom^ -meow's- victory was assured rather early, and Broadway Iserted a^er -niUnlght. Many shop windows were boarded U?Sit m^mis a celebration such precaution was not necessary. Gum-Chewing Kibitzer , , A woman kibitzer hovcrlrtg around a bridge game ^^''^^''^^^^^ her eum-ehewlng. The game became inten.se when it ^as found neces sa^y% nmy an Ltra rubber, for a decislcyn with the score plhng up, It was kept on a sheet lying on the table , , n,n .M-m-rhfwlng One of, the annoyed players .finally demanded t^^^Vnlr-md th J-oro kibitzer slop her noI.se. She did. When the game cTidc^ and tlu. w-vs sou-ht it had Kone. The gum-ohewf-r nalyely ;S^.d^"o"g't ^id of the gum.. she had .rolled.;lt in , the. score sheet and thrown l)<;th out of tlie window. Subduing Harlem's Nite Life ■ . ^ .i,.* White seekers of diversion at colored night places P^]'-^;';:^ some.listed a.s sure to offer plenty oroyritomonX aurh^K^O^^^^^ of the mornii.g have been closed ur put. under "^^^'^^^ ^^^^'i,^" ,pots. Among the. black belt spots of joy '••"r;.n'l'-<l ^a^, Whi.spering suggestions to eunous .whiu-.s starting Jj^"?. ',,,,^^,al]y at .midnight or later that a thrill ^waU.s them in, 11. r cm ^h^^^^^ X drawn mixed crowds. n,-ront. pineh'-.s and padloel^s. have cM.ii-. a m customary rule In soni" s'-i.tions up thei»-.. The:pnn-hb..ard ra<'K.-r Is N-ing w.-ik-l "i^Min S or the Timris square ai-.-a with Kten..,. --^l;^^ ^"^'^'^^^^ ' ^."^ ' 'for -a M)<:k niAnirnjla^or ■iv-pv.ii^d -r^.yhljy^; in V^Mi^'?'?; . found l?roadway a s.-ft-r spor th.n .w.v <•! t le f,^ I 13 bankroll eno.^^h t. lii .^r. - > .oi '.^v., <]i^tHb..'.d f:nd .nf-i.Ml uu v.-n-:^ '-..n, I.-mo:' out tn, p../.' oir^!.;^ ho-,. .,p.:.» .■'•-■■•'r:'v^v":;■/ :;^r;;rV■:".: '.^r.. to.o wee;.:> .1 '{las: with he' Tiinney ■ i.niiile.". .mtil i ". •■« r. preK<-J:t