Putnam patriot., 1930-11-06

 have not seen this phenomenon as yet. One must belong to the Theatre Guild to obtain seats during the first months of the run of Guild plays or else wait until the piece has had run and then hope for 1.-two on the aisle"
 But since our last letter to Put nam, We have been to see Mir. Freed ley's successful musicial piece, Girl Crazy" and We want to add personal of it's value to those before. It Is what Is best described as darned good show. Two songs of Mir. Gershwin's splendidly sung by a young lady known as Miss Ethel Norman are already being whistled about the town. These are ''I Got Rhythm" and "Embraceabic You" There is a droning cowboy song called I'm Biding My Time" which is easily remembered. Just why one Miss Ginger Rogers should be singled out for featured honors in the piece is bit hard to under stand. But, of course, there must be reason.
 Three Great fiantsts
 All of weekend Paderewski. lturbi and George Copeland came back Go town and to packed houses Mir. Paderewski. now past seventy came out of his retirement on the Lake of Geneva to play again in the land that has given him the most to which he has devoted the largest part of his great career. On his appear ance on the stage of Carnegie last Saturday afternoon the enormous audience arose in it's seats and cheer cd for almost quarter of an hour. So beautiful was the playing of the master that the critics refrained from superlatives and simply called if per lection. On Sunday afternoon. the brilliant little Spanish pianist. Iturbi. played with the Philharmonic and again the audience roared with ap- plause. On Monday evening. the more popular in his homeland with each passing season. played before a large and friendly audience. There was the sheerest beauty in his in depreciation of a group of Debussy numbers and there were cheers and "Brayos" when he played a new and previously unheard group of Spanish compositions.
 Two Eminent New Workers
 Two eminent New Workers of wide lv varying careers passed from the life of the city which they loved last week. First of all was Harry Payne Whitney, capitalist and sportsman and generally beloved good citizen. Mfr. Whitney's unexpected death brought many high estimates of his personality and his generosity and the varied crowd at his funeral at St. Bartholomew attested to the wide range of his friendship and ac- quaintance.
 And for many the passing of Rob e:t Winthrop Chanier. for ali of the spectacular reflections of his career. was the going of dearly beloved friend. a charming and genial host and a painter of rare ability In his home in Nineteenth Street, where he fashioned those beautiful screens which won his world wide fame, MT. Chanler entertained richly and hap oily. The passing of Mir Chauler and his picturesque studio home takes something out of this epoch of New York life.
 Paris Comes Over
 If in younger days when you were in Paris and addicted to afternoon tea, you were taken to Rumpel- mayors in the rue de Rivoh where you could choose your own cakes and take them to the counter to be cs- timated, then you will have remin- iscent pleasure in visiting the new kumpeimayer's in the Hotel St. Moritz just behind the Plaza in Fifty Ninth Street. The cakes are here in a tea room of lavish modern color. Everything is silver and yellow and green and gold and it's all very bright and cheery. But perhaps, you prefer your favorite spsakeasy. Many do
 Then for sheer gorgeousness there is the new Hotel Pierre rising forty stories on the site of the former Elbridge Gerry house at Sixty-First Street and Fifth Avenue. The Hotel Pierre is a monument to the ability of Charles Pierre, who not so many years ago came Co New York as a young Italian waiter. From the ordin- ary restaurant service he graduated to position as assistant maitre d'hOtel at the late lamented Sherry's. Then came a service at the Ritz. Just after the war, Pierre opened a small restaurant in Forty-Fifth Street that enjoyed an amazing popularity. A year or two more and he was firmly entrenched in Park Avenue where his smart green room has been the most popular fashionable restaurant the town has known for years. Now on one of the most preferred sights in the city stands the great hotel bearing his name. Here the debutants will dance this winter and lunch and dine in the great Georgian room or in the Marine Grille below while away up at the top of the structure the young men about town will enjoy themselves in the newly established Club pierrot
 J. W.