The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-09-05
III l NEW l " YORK
By PAUL HARRISON

 New York, You'd never guess Cor maybe you would, at that) the living celebrity whose autograph is worth the most to coi-e iect0fs. It's Greta Garbo, and her signature is quoted at $25. aae si To be sure, George Bernard Shaw has announced that his au- tographIis worth $1,000. but the fact remains that you can buy it for S6 from several sources. There's Q price on the signatures of many of the movie stars, but low one usually. Mary Pickford's s are quoted at $2.5o.
 1 It looks like 6 big year for little Sally Rand, the fan girl When she was arrested for
 her dance in tho world far show she was collecting aa
 mere SIPS week. Chicago
 thcater then hired her for @f,000, jumped to ef,500 the | customers standing in line halfway around the Loop <
 Now Q New York showhouse has boosted the ante to Se,O00, and Sally will soon be flaming for Broadway. ir5' Cautious Wall Street Since the tear-gas bombing of the Stock Exchange, 1t takes all. that your reputation, credentials and family tree are worth to get a pass to the visitors gallery. Dur.e ing boom days almost any tourist was allowed to stand and look down on the feverish activity around the trading posts. Now, though, every visitor has to be sponsored by some member of the exchange .. F t44
 The thoroughfare is stili chuck ling over news of the Ethel Barry more Milton Berle encounter in vaudeville. On previous bills the iow-comedy artist had demonstrat- cd to audiences that Peggy Joyce and Irene Bordoni were ticklish. But he didn't paw the queen of the American theater! Tn fact he was not even allowed to introduce her.
 Matchlcss Styles
 The well-dressed man-about-, Broadway this summer makes a point of not being woli.dressed. True, his coat and trousers may be of costly cloth and cut--but they must not match !. P. Me- Evoy has reduced until his best Hotel Martinique is polishing up tho hiaf-million. dollar onyx and marble bar, and tho gold fixture and crystal chandeliers that once made the spot the most glittering one in the rialto ...
 It takes six clerks at local
 NtA headquarters tO explain
 that the organization isn't
 handing out jobs. And three
 others to turn away the cren.
 tors of songs, poems, pictures
 badges, buttons and slogans.
 One man has been back six
 times to sec them about hls
 J5.year.old daughter, whose
 name happens to be Mira. He
 figures she ought to bc put
 into vaudeville, or her pic.
 ture on postage stamps, or
 something.
 Two.Bits--No Bites ,.
 First callers at the apartment of a certain ncwspnperman are al. ways a little frightened by q dog that tags nienacingly at their heels, snarling fiercely. Pretty soon the host suggests that maybe they could buy off the pup for a quar- tcr--and at the sight of n. coin the beast at once starts wagging It's tail. He grabs tho coin, trots down to the butcher shop next door and buys himself bit of round 
 The ParisIan idea of sidc-
 walk tables, having been
 adopted by nice old hotels
 like the Brevoort and tho
 Chatham. and by ono of tho
 Longchamps restaurants, hns
 gotten so out of control thnt
 you can now sip matted
 milk under . pottcd palm In
 front of . drug store, or have
 a hot.dog and beer before
 cheap rofreshment stand
 Over in Hoboken. N. J., which was rediscovcred four years ngo during tho theatrical adventurInss there of Christopher Morley, the Myers hotel has installed n side. walk cafe reproduced exactly from a picture of the place taken in