The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-07-29
? IN HI |. 'NEW Il l YORK
By PAUL HARRISON

OL EAUn AAnAaAAAoN
 New York.-In . city prcverbi- ally aioof and inhospitable to the average stranger within its gate. 1t is likely that fIafry Rabin, news boy. has built up more good Will | for oosham than all the welcom- ing committees and ofnciai recep- tionists put together.
 Rabin Isn't exactly . boy; his next birthday will Do his nfty- seventh. He stands at the Lex. l inston avenue entrance to 0ranu Central station, sells papers at lightning speed, directs ssrangers on theft way, minds their luggage. Soids their dogs and carries on an ainoost continuous conversation. There's something about him that Invites . hat and confidence. He | helieves he knows thousands of people by name--even traveiing men and buyers who come to town at long intervals. T. Cyene Tunney. who hes an once nearby. is one of Rabin's friends. Thev talk about the Tunneys' con,ecticist u @ place. Betty Worth. one of the most dazeiing of the young stage players tells him about the summer theater. John Cobden, the big realty man, ale | ways assures him that business ts | looking up. Tammany leaders make wrv remarks about reform CTS. gpoftsmen give him tips on horses. though he. doesn't bet. l William F. Kenny gives him ci- | rara. Newspaper men hurrying on assignments tell him whether they're off to the latest kidnap- | ing or new deals in Washington.
 These and many more, when they have time, pause to exclaim over the latest pictures of the Ra- | bin children. The girls, one 1a and one 2, already are acrobatie | dancers and are in demand for priyate entertainments. The baby ! hoy is a natural-born hoofer too, according to Gene Howard. vet | efan chorus trainer who's coach- ing the girls. Rabin isn't sure he | wafits them to go on the stage, I though. He himself trouped with 1 a Gus Edwards show thirty years Il ago, but gave 1t up to go back to selling papers--and meeting in- teresting people.
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 A Cop and His Stage Friends
 over at Forty-eighth street and Fifth avenue there's another url- sung, celebrity and chcerer.upper. He's Michael O'Connor, the traffic COD. Knows scores of theatrical folk and has learned, through the depression years, just how things are with most of them. "Got line on a job yet, Miss?" he asks. 1T hear they're casting the Car roll show. And Wee and LeYeii- thai are brewing another revival. Or you might have a try for that stock company job"
 | one actress who passed him daily during the wearying weeks she made the rounds of casting offices finally landed part and rehearsed until well after mid night. But the next morning she got up at 9 o'clock just to go oyer to tell Mike that she was working now, and for him not to worry If
 she didn't pass his post at the
 usual time.
 Going in for Games
 Famous folk are spotlighted in
 the game fiad ti.is summer. Ed
 wynn is backing a contraption
 called Fire Chief" .. Eddie
 Cantor has a game called "Tell II to the Judge" And "Baron Munc chausen" is the tag for . new
 question contest. /. Literary lights are competitive minded
 too. Hendrix Van Loon has turn } ed his geographical talents to q game called "Wide World" /.
 And for the very young, A. A,
 Milne is sponsoring one known as
 "Winnie the Pooh." .. The pres b ident's pronouncements are being
 echoed in the play world by ''The New Deal," q fortuhe-te1ling card
 game. Another card garitt
 which might well have been chris
 tened "Jesse James, but is called
 'Scavenger" instead, is a com
 binatiQn of bridge and poker, and
 hazardous enough to make q
 plunger forget the stock market.