The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1933-11-09
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M PAUL HARRISON

BY PAUL HAktkthSON
New York.--Meander George
Arilss, conspicuously dapper with
monocie, gardonia and twirling
stick, turns hundreds Of heads
when he PAGES Fifth avenue. Be-
hind him the other afternoon
strolied Georges Carpenter ana
Idta Gray Chaplin. And In the
space of three blocks not one pass"
erby seemed to recognize the pair
New Workers seldom spot celeb
rifles. Relatively few seem to mo-
tlce Mrs Franklin d. Roosevelt
when she goes shopping here
scores linger in the lobby Of the
hotel where the NRA has its head:
quarters for glimpse OF General
johnson when he's due for q visit.
And seldom recognize him when
pe ne S to their own discomflturo.
seldom win glance unless, like
Ariiss, their street clothes fit the
characters which the movie-goers
Not long ago group Of
chnttlne shoppers appraised
wcll.dressed woman looking
In o window. "Striking, isn't
shc?" said ono OF them.
"Lools almost Oriental" II
was Anna May Wong.
Broadway's Band Rivalry
The new fourteen-room apart
ment of Eddie Cantor Will have Its
own little movie theater
Home-bound show girls buy their
As.I al
used to be a famous burlesque
queen In the days when burlesque
was on the social plane Of to.day's
musical comedy Ono OF the
most popular fortune-tellers IL o
gypsy princess" whose real name
Is Cohen -.
The Paul Whlteman-R Rudy VAL
leo rivalry (they're playing In
night clubs on opposite sides of
| Broadway has resulted In the post
| Ing OF moro and still moro daring
pictures of chorus cuties In the
Hobbies of the respective establish
ments. There's something q little
| incongruous In seeing likeness
OF clean young American sVallee-
hood, by all accounts the lnsplra-
| ton for q great wave Of pure,
sweet sentiment, surrounded by
pictures of voiuptuous and UNI
drapcd charmers. Whiteman, the
old sophisticatc, can take 1t. But
the portrait Of Rudy seems to be
assuming, day by day, look Of
| embarrassment.
Decline of q Nude
Speaking Of nudes, September
Morn" has lost all the popularity
she enjoyed before the war, and IL
by wQy Of becoming an antique.
For the entire country, only eight
or ten copies week are sold by
the American publishers Of the
| famous prlnt--and those are prob
ably intended for bar rooms as sem
timentAl reminders Of u long gone
day
Tho picture first was popular
lied here by u press agent who put
1t In a window and hired Il score
Of tough little street urchlns to
gawk at It. Then, anonymously.
he called the Society for the Sup
preston of vico and suggested
that the salacious exhibit might be-
corrupting the morals Of youth.
IL they didn't believe It they could
come and see the innocent Riddles
who were staring at It -. The
resulting attempt at suppression
Ing start. But In recent years
even the reformers have come to
tolerate her without qualm.
Ready for Repeal
Tho Cordial shops" those thou
sands OF hole-in the-wall places
which have been selling liquor
openly for years, are not at utl
alarmed by the advent Of repeal.
Some OF the proprietors say thoy
Intend to close up and do O. "tele-
phone business" delivering the
same bootleg products ut slightly
lower prices. Others intend to re-
main open and soil nothing but
pure grain alcohol, which presume.
ably wilT BIO @ legitimate commod-
ity, and all types OF havorlng ex-
tracts. People Will still make their
own gin, the merchants believe, and
can be instructed In the prcpara.
ton OF synthetic ryos and liquors.
which they have been drinking FOR
years anyway. '.
Some other business men antici.
pating repeal are members .. u
syndicate controlling an automatic
cocktail vender. A quarter put
into one Of four slots (for four
different kinds OF drinks) stirs the
robot bartender into action. Wis.
ible bohind some little windows,
q glass on moving platform
passes under q series Of spouts
and receives an exact measure Of
each required Ingredient. Pretty
soon door pops open and there's
tho cocktail.
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