The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-10-23
ln- 'MezC York
By PAUL HARRISON

n New York.--The manufacture of cigarettes is one of New York's smallest industries, and one of the etes made here are those. done on special order from select clubs and prominent folk, and may cost fif- teen cents apiece instead of fifteen cents a package.
 One such firm is Georgopulo and Go, started 30 years ago when one of the three brothers blended some imported tobaccos and sent | the mixture around for some wealthy New Workers to try. Pret- | ty soon the New York Yacht club asked the Georgopulo boys to make all it's cigarettes, and ever since then they have had all the orders they want to handle. The Brook and Racquet clubs, richest and .sportiest of the socialite groups, and the Knickerbocker and several others now havet heir The brothers are frequently amus- ed by heated arguments, usually | accompanied by big bets, as to which club cigarettes is of a better or more expensive blend. Fact is | that the same blend is used for all of them.
 Among their prominent. customs CTS, modest gold monograms are most popular, but some of the yachtsmen have flags in four col- ors stamped on their cigarettes. James P. Warburg has horses head. Vincent Astor. who smokes Brook clubs, donated enough of them for Byrd's expedition over the North Pole in 1926. But he didn't feel like supplying them for the antarctic trips.
 The woman's Touch
 | Most of the club business that the brothers Georgopulo haven't got is being taken care of by woman with the unusual name of Miss Raenar Fox. So far as she
 knows. Miss Fox is the only wo- | man manufacturer of cigarettes in | grandfather were tobacco mer- | chants, and she went into a big tobacco concern to learn the busi- ness when she was still in her teens. That was 24 years ago.
 She got to wondering whether there would be a market for cus- tom built cigarettes, made up some
 samples, and soon had her own
 shop and factory.
 l Her customers have included
 some of the DuPonts and several of the Vanderbilts, Clarence Mack ay, and F. B. Bedell, for whose cigarettes the paper alone costs $40 Ia thousand. The Bedell coat of arms is embossed on each one Some of the very wealthiest peo- l pie pay only $30 a thousand ca
 cents each) for their cigarettes, but
 others buy monogrammed ones | with 22-carat gold tips and pay up to $150 per thousand ;. Miss Fox
 now sells about eight million cig- arettes a year--arid personally at-
 tends to the making of many of
 those for her fussiest customers. /
 Puff--and Pouf!
 Then there is a man named A.
 l.. Marine who makes cigarettes
 both fancy and tricky. Jokers
 who want special jobs done in
 cigarettes that explode, flare or fiz- zic go to him. Marine, like Miss
 Fox and the Georgopulo gentlemen,
 used to specialize in custom blends,
 but one day he fixed up some cig-
 arrests that couldn't be lit, even
 with a blow-torch, and sent them
 to friends. These won so many
 laughs with the Broadway crowd
 that other kinds were demanded.
 Ordinary explosive smokes are
 really too simple to construct; a
 more worthy example of the art is
 a miniature Roman candle that
 shoots out bewildering shower
 of harmless sparks. His real
 masterpiece, though, was wrought
 for a big party given by famous
 playboy in pre-depression days. A
 dozen chorus girls were invited,
 and at a high point in the evening
 each one was given cigarette
 which, after a few puffs, popped
 out $100 bill.
 Among Marino's customers for special blends is an automobile 1 dealer whose cignrets bear a tiny l picture of his car, and a woman who has a supply to match the color of each of her evening gowns.
 Another woman. wealthy widow.
 ordered silhouette of her late
 husband stamped on her cigarettes.
 But she soon married again, and Marine lost customer.