The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-08-11
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BY PAUL HARRISON

New York, Aug 1.-The papers reported the other day that the smallest industry in the U. s. IS whip-making, and that there are only 27 whip makers left. MT George s. Overin, however, would like to bet ehat there aren't that many: also that his establishment is the largest and oldest of the lot.' Overin is a pleasant young man whose great-grandfather started making whips down on Houston street in 1924. After four genera tions the business is still going
 strong, and the present owner has
 an 8-year-old son who Is already learning how to do round, square
 and fancy braids in leather.
 Of course there's little demand for driving whips these days. but
 so many people have taken to the saddle that the small concern now makes about 2O,000 riding crops a
 year. There are 136 styles and sizes of ordinary park-riding crops:
 also several special kinds-the
 jumpers bat" for .steeplechases,
 the polo whip and the hunting crop. Polo whips are thin, tapering,
 and 42 inches long. Hunting crops
 have those crooked stag-horn ham,
 dies, which are there for a purpose opening gates without dismount-
 ing. They also have long lashes on
 the other end-to keep the hounds
 from underfoot.
 You can pay up to SIS for a rid
 ing crops, which of course doesn't
 include the gold and diamonds
 which have been set into a few of them. Jay Gould, Cornelius Van- n Q a mAUaHQI
 fthe Vanderbilts and Hope Will
 Hams are some of the customers.
 Overin also makes policemen's
 billies, blacksnake whips for cir- cuses, western ranches, and a spe- cial kind of riding crop which the English call a "chowrie," made of horsehair and used for flicking flies.
 In recent years the firm has gone in for polo mallets, and now sup plies most of the army posts in this country as well as civilian stars like Winston and Raymond Guest, Tom my Hitchcock and Michael Phipps.
 The heads of mallets are of rock
 maple or bamboo root: the handles
 Of malasca, pananS or moonah. The
 heaviest mallets, and a lot Of them.
 too, are made for Lieutenant Harry LWV~6S1k ernorS Island army, post here. He is the Babe Ruth of polo, and last year figured up proudly that he had broken 54 mallets in one season.
 New Workers All
 Meanderings: There's wealthy New York women, Mrs Roderick Tower, who never has ridden on a affnrnnV- a MT Eustace Seligman, who has seen only one movie in his life; and that because be thought it was a stage show when he bought his ticket. Peaches Browning-in case anyone has wondered what be- came of tho plump little girl in the sensational case--is now greeting customers in the Peaches Club" in Bridgeport, Conn. Two speak easies in Greenwich Village adver- tise Nothing over 10 cents." And serve only wine and grappa, the latter being vicious distillate of grape skins. Friends are expect ing to entertain MT and Mrs Jimmy Walker in New York this fall. And there are some who'll tell you
 he is coming here to look for job Broadway's resounding with tI CSSll lOL CiiOA AS 6iL Ao"%cA LASAAy
 wood. Must be trained ones. though and that happens to be the only
 kind that can find jobs here. Ida Cantor and the five little Can- tors have a new home in the clouds at the edge of Central Park. Hal LeRoy, youngest and
 nimblest of stage dancers, will soon be flashing his adolescent grin at
 Hollywood cameras, as the star of a full length feature. Irene Castle. who declared shed never
 dance again in public when she became Mrs Frederic Mclaughlin ten years ago, danced seven even- ings on the Waldorf roof, with her husband. |. New swindle: Radio aspirants pay $100 for a series of additions arranged by crooked agents: but they talk or sing into dead microphones in the agents cffices, and aren't heard by anyone.