The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1933-07-07
: IN III
| NEW |
| YORK
BY JULIA BLANsHARD

BY JULIA BLANSHARD
New York - Being one OF ths
few ambidextrous dentists in this
city proved q tremendous asset TO
DIR David Slutslxin the other day.
In the middle of the afternoon
before the Carnera-Sharkey tight.
Cameras manager raced into Dr.
Slutskin's office out Of breath.
Camera had just broken the only
rubber mouthpiece he possessed
for fights - and could DR. Slutskin
get one made in time for the fight?
These mouthpieces are made OF
rubber. fitted carefully over the
entire upper set Of teeth. then
vuicanized into a plate that
amounts to a hard cover-ail for
the upper teeth and q protection
for the lips. The Boxing Commits
sion has ruled that all boxers must
wear them, to keep their tongues
and lips from being cut.
DR. Slutskin got both his hands
working and in four hours fiat
he had the mouthpiece finished
and was enroute with II to the
Madison Square Bowl. He got
there lust in the nick Of timc.
However, the next day he made
another one so that Camera now
packs q spare, just for such an
emergency. They cost $2b each.
by the way.
A Doggy Operation
Buff Dempster, one OF New
York's most successful adver-
Using copy writer's, and her hus-
band have q pet Schnauzer, Pe.er,
who recently suffered from whip
worms in his appendix. The vet
erinarian advised operating 50
they sent Peter to q dog hospital.
Not wanting to worry about him,
they gave bridge party that
night. In the midst Of the most
exciting rubbers the phone rang.
The crisp, starched accents Of a
professional nurse said, Mrs
Dempster? Peter has just come
out Of the ether. He Is doing
nicely. There are no adhesions
We expect an early recovery" The
operation cost $50
Celebrities Celebrate
The late TEDDY" Roosevelt.
who used to drive as handsome
pair as New York ever saw, up
to the old Kipps Inn across the
boulevard from the Bronx Zoo:
Lillian Russell. John Sullivan and
other notables from another day
who used to hold parties there -
all these should have dropped IN
at the party John Vassos, noted
illustrator, gave there the othcr
day.
orator. has ripped the Victorian
gingerbread off the place and
made It into the coolest looking,
most comfortable Rhine beer gar
den hereabouts. Almost three
hundred authors, scientists, and
other friends drove out for the
opening buffet supper ana beer
party Burton Roscoe had such
a good time he wanted to pay -.
BENJAMIN De Casseres waxcd elo-r
quent on the prohibition question,
waving his hands 49, incidentally,
very small hands to WELD such
a wicked pen! :. Boris Sokoloff,
one Russian who doesn't say he Is
q nobleman, squirrel the charming
Rosamond Pinchot -. V. D. Cal
verton held his own at drinking
light beer Leonard Outwaite.
the anthropologist proved that
the best scientist can be an enter
tanning conversationalist,
! It was an interesting moment
when about so Of the party. hear
ing that the old hitching. post to
which Teddy used to tie his horses
| is still in the yard, all trouped
out to see for themselves.
There, an old stableman of the
Kipps Inn, now auto parking d.
rector at the tavern, told OF the
old goat buses that used to bring
guests over from the end Of the
Third avenue elevated for three
cents each.
A Bird of O Heat Wave
The heat may get New Workers,
but it's the humidity that gets
Gotham canaries This damp,
hot, heavy weather Is causing
mild epidemic Of asthma among
the city's songsters They be-
gin to get hoarse and to wheeze
and suffer just like humans.