The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-07-25
P IN III | NEW II 1 YORK
BY PAUL HARRISON

0R PAUL AAnAeAhA0OAN
 New York.-There's an overdose of irony in the story of how 2A happy people won a trip to the Chicago fair. It all goes back sev- eral months ago when some press Iagents were wracking their brains' as press agents sometime will. to devie a promotion stunt for Mary Pickfurd picture, "Secrets.
 Then they recalled that the movie was a highly sentimental one. all about an enduring mar riaRe. And, since the marriage of Miss Pickford and Douglas Fair banks had endured to the point of becoming the pride of Hollywood, 1t was suggested that contest be launched to find the twelve hap piest couples in the United States, and to send them to the Century of Progress Exposition as guests of the Hollywood pair. Which was just dandy, except that before the winning couples Fairbanks menage had aired it's set out for the fair, the Pickford- discontent all over the front pages. So now the press agents who went along to write about the secrets of marital constancy are functioning as suppress-agents dn. stead--making sure that no em- barrasisng statements are given out about the Doug-and-Mary rift, and perhaps to make sure that none of these "happiest couples" file divorce papers during their visit.
 Success Story
 Brown, bustling and beaming. Alice Foote MacDougall returned from Italy the other day and plunged feverishly back into her restaurant, coffee and giftie shoppe | business--a series of amazing en- l terprises which grossed omething like $3,000,000 annually until the disastrous year of 1892. Things looked pretty hopeless for a while, but now she says the goose again
 hangs high.
 Mrs MacDougalrs success has
 been the inspiration for scores of
 women around New York--and no one can guess how many outside of tito go into the atmospheric | sGhul~IOuUl UQSAACbSs w hlt AhAO6s OL them fail to realize in time, | though, is that she has her own
 staff of architects and decorators who actually go to Spain when | they want to reproduce an Alham- ! bra room or 8 Seville wine shop. Nor do they Know that Mrs Mac- | Dougall has subsidized whole
 villageful of pottery makers over
 in Italy to produce her tea sets
 and plates an dsuch.
 She used to be an anti-suffra-
 gist, and was forced into career
 only by grim necessity. Her hus-
 band, @ coffee jobber, died and left her with three, children. She determined to. cary on his busi-
 borrow money to buy stamps and
 send out her sales letters. She prospered, however, and became
 rather well known as the only wo- man coffee dealer in town. Later she added tea and cocoa to the
 line. In 1922 she started cof- fee shop in Grand Central station,
 then others, which were designed
 to look like quaint little court yards in Italy. (The site for the
 one on Etfty-seventh street was
 leasedy for 20 years for million
 dollars). After three of these
 she started on Spanisht types. also quaint. M @.
 l There never has been anything
 atmospheric or whimsical about
 the food, however. It's pure Amer
 ican, though slightly garnished
 with, dietetics. Her establish
 ments are thronged by shoppers,
 bridge clubs and out-of-town wis.,
 itors having lunch or tea. These
 patrons are always anxious for n glimpse of the marvellous Mrs
 MacDougall, but seldom get 1t be-
 cause she herself has neither lunch
 nor tea. Too busy working in her Eoffice. 44