The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-10-31
I,s- MezU York
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 New derinGs: That's a funny story about the diseruntled
 butler at a swanky Long Island es-
 tate who revenged hin1self by slip ping away only an hour before the
 daughter of the house was getting married taking with him the bride groom's wedding attire.
 While society guests were sgath- ertnE downstairs, the distracted household rummaged vainly for something to it the groom, finally discovered that the only gontle-
 man of his size was the best man. so the latter surrendered his striped trousers and cutaway, and
 sat glumly upstairs in a dressing gown while one of the ushers sub- stituted as best man and the wed- ding finally got under way. For his forty-fifth birthday. Eugene O'Neill received from his wife a present he has wanted for years--a tfn-panny electric piano which once did discordant duty in
 an old-tin1e saloon Serving punches, and other connections, in, the Surf Club these evenings
 is Jack Renault, who once was high In the list of eontenders for AU0 uG4vy WCkkAtt C4t1&tiRAV03AlAV To this and other clubs comes arl- Carpenter. With him, usually, is Lita Gray Chaplin.
 There's still no sign of the Mae West figure, which Is supposed to be setting the, fashion pace . Charles Miller, the music pub- fisher who paints portraits as . sideline, used to be a baseball pitcher in the Western League ... Frank Herlin, author of eight plays and producer of nearly thir- ty on Broadway, began his theatri-
 cal career as an usher.
 Cabs swanly Cab
 Cab Galloway, dusky high priest of hi-derho, is back in Harlem's Cotton Club, and his amazing au- tomobile is again drawing the en- vious glances of the natives of darkest Lenox avenue. With it's chromium trimmings, red uphol- stery and cut-glass mirrors, Cabs private cab is somehow reminiscent of soda fountain From the famous Ritz bar in Paris has come the man whom most travellers re- member simply as Frank" to ne- gotiate for the management of New York's Ritz bar.
 Back on Broadway, Paul , Whitcnian recalled the other night that 1t was. Lew Cody, old star of the silent movies. who landed him his first job on the th0r0ughnnrc. The two had been friends in California, and
 Cody talked so much about Whitcman whenever he visited New York that several manage
 CTS made him. offers before they
 even had heard him play. l Tin Soldiers Her Hobby
 Society people are still finding odd things to do. For example, Mrs
 John Nicholas Brown, whose hus-
 band was afflicted throughout his adolescence by the Sunday supple
 ment nickname of "the richest boy in the world" collects tin soldiers. Has more than 800 of them now
 tiny, brightly-colored figures re-
 presenting most of the famed mili- tary units of nearly every nation.
 from the dragons of Louis XIV to
 tho Egyptian desert patrol /. Then there's Mrs Beatrice Town
 send. of another famous family.
 who's going in for astrology In a l big way. She trained under the late 1Evangeline Adams. She's also con- cerned with a new ..science' called
 colorology, Q study O. the influ- cnces of various colors on individ- uals.
 Mrs Arthur Clafiipg, however, has found a moro active work.
 She's founder and president of the | Outdoor Cleanliness Association
 of the city of New York Inc. Near
 lyg every day she leaves her Park avenue apartment to make the rounds of the public markets and other places where litter abounds, trying to persuade people to clean | up their premises,