New Britain herald., 1930-12-19

New York, Dec 19.-Thoughts while strolling: The Russian peas ant blouses debutantes wear. Violet fleming always looks as though she had just stepped out of the hair dressers. Those beamish folk with perpetual grins. Joe urban's even ing shirts suggest a concertina de- signed by the mad king of Bavaria
 owen Davis, a Portland, Me, boy, who made good in the city. Brit ish chap chirps: Its decidedly old hat" The thin bracelets af- feCted by leading men. Someone is always catching me talking baby talk to puppies along the street. But I turn it off into humming.
 That blue steel look of Charles Mitchell, the banker. The 42d street dcorman who is the image of Sir Thomas Lipton. Herman Shumlin, the travelling man, who surprised the town as producer. Fun read ing the extravagant vaudeville posters in the Palace lobby. Ted Healy. Also from Ohio.
 Peter Arno and Gene Tunney bear resemblance. It's no longer the 400" but "The Meadowbrook Clique The prayer-on-the-head- -of-a pin man is back along library wall. Also Telescope Joe. who invites you to peek at Old Sirius. the Dog Star Freuh, the caricaturlst.
 It's been d great year for shoe repairers anyway. Wonder if they have taken a roll call of magistrates lately? When Fred Allen plys q harmonica he attaches it 10 chain. Taking no chances, the big mouth. No Broadway movie house puts out d bally-hoo like Loew's State.
 The sad. unwinking look of the apple sellers. Dudley Field Malone has the pink checked chubbiness Of a happy baby. And is almost double for Winston Churchill. Pious who attend Evensong. The sudden bubbling Of lights. Cosmo Hamll- ton wears derby.
 Critics now tWittcr about "Maur- ice Guest" This column cheered the tome Is years ago. Not to read the latest dirty book these days is q social solecism. Book publishers, like theatrical producers, are killing their business with obscenity. What became Of the tin foil collectors?
 About the last Of the burlesque booking offices holds forth on 7th avenue. Once they offered picar- csquc touch of the Rialto. Tn cub ic}e rooms, loudly dressed shoWmen sat at battered desks. Variety and Billboard were conspicuously on file and the walls were scrofulous with advertising shoets-trick bi- cycle riders, jugglers, high-wire walkers an dtrained animal acts. The cntrepreneur wore fierce derby at an impudent slant and eternally chcwed an equally fierce cigar, The one I dropped in on today ran to type. Coatfess. his suspender buckles bore the inscription encrust- ed in chip jewels: "To Baby,'
 Trick bicycle riding, hear, is about finished. A few carry on at street fairs and carnival shows but only about a half dozen are doing the small time vaudeville circuits.
 The booking agent used term I never heard out in the brush In his fervor over a certain act he ob- served: Its q wow with the scissor bills" IL was explained a scissor bill" was a yap.
 Burlesque chorus girls are difficult 10 find these days for trouping. once there was usually waiting list, Now they try for Hollywood movies or New York cabarets and can remain most Of the time in either Hollywood or the metropolis.
 While in the booking office an old timer drifted in. He wore a flowing Ebert Hubbard tie and across his giddy vest watch chain carved Of hickory nut shells. Most of his life That Meets All the Ira
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