The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-09-28
I11 Mezc York
By PAUL HARRISON


 New York--Meanderinss: Clyde Pangborn, who circled the blobe in 1881 with Hugh Herndon. Jrs as navigator. tells his friends he's now planning a nonstop world flight, with only three or four rec fuelings Herndon, on the other hand, has given up flying, lives quietly in Connecticut, commutes each day to the Manhattan office of an oil company.
 The yacht that belonged to Earl Carroll in better days now is own ed by the socialite Horace E. Dodges. It's still named the van- ities, still carries the plano of which Carroll was so proud--one with a red and green keyboard .... pr. J. F. Condon, the "Jafsie" who was an Intermediary in the Lind Lbergh, kidnapinE case, returned flor ma long vacation the other day and is resuming his search for the { man to whom he handed the $50,- 000.t.. Fst,i
 Some of the "Hoover Cities" those squatter settlements of job- less ex-service men, are taking on every aspect of permanence. The one on the bank of the Hudson below Riverside Drive has electric lights on its single street, ''Glass- ford avenue" and the city Is pip Ing free water to the men :. Hard liquor is obstainable at least in 2 places right on Boardway.
 Howard Scott, the turbulent
 Techmocrat, is back at work
 over his charts and graphs,
 still smiling his 0nesided smile,
 collapse of the worlds. eco.
 nonomic system. Literchoor9 whada Racket!
 "one iegit racket that's open to tough suys Is writin' declares being held Sand ciesred) for . couple of murders. Look ct Jim Tuiiy. Look at me!". .. MT Ahearn is around New York now basking in considerable glory, for his scen- ario, Picture Snatcher," proved . hit, and now another one, wild Boys of the Road," has opened to good notices ... Danny thinks he'd better stick to scenarios be- cause his first and only book. "How to Commit Q Murder and Get Away With it." didn't go very well ...
 Battle of Batons.
 As the night club season swings into Q healthy stride, Q firstrate duel looms between the fnaestros Paul whitman and Dudy vallee. It will be batons at fifty paces-- that being about the distance that separates the rival Broadway es.- tablishments where these two will be playing ... Together with band, warblers, q large chorus of cuties and assorted stooges, MT whiteman Is moving into the Paradise and diagonaily across the thorough flare, at the Hollywood. MT vallee is doing the same. The contest promises to be all the mora inter- esting because the two places are so much alike--huge affairs with lavish shows and low prices, cater- ing to the Broadway and out-of. town trade.
 Providence Provides N. IT., c. ..- -..- Another reason they're alike is that Nils T. Granlund, known in night life only as IN. T. G." was master of ceremonies at the Holly.
 wood before he went to the Para~ disc. Granlund is . tireless and
 voluble fellow from Providence. R. l., who crashed the big town as
 one of the pioneer radio announc-
 CTS and soon went to work in one
 of the night spots owned by the
 late and violently deceased Larry Fay ....
 one Of his favorite stories is about his launching of Texas Guinan as mistress Of ceremonies oat one of Fay's Clubs--an appointment engtn. eercd because he had grudge against Fay then and was sure that Ia Guinan would be . terrible flop. She wasn't. Granlund also likes to confound new acquaintances by declaring
 with q perfectly straight face that the greatest single influence in the growth of Gotham's night club business was the slogan. Twenty. four votes for Underwood" ..... He then goes on to explain that the deadlock at the democratic convention in Madison Square Gar den in 1924 lasted so long. and the weather was 50 fearfully hot, that delegates and visitors thronged the few amusement spots night after night, made them rich and popu- Ia rized them with New Yorkers--- with the result that many others sta rted n and have been more or