The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-08-19
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Rr PAuL HARRIeON


 New York-Meanderin You've heard about the "reefer man" in sone of Harlem's hid-de-do songs, but maybe you didn't know that the police are very anxious to meet him. A reefer man is bootiegger of cigarets made from the weed called marihuana, and reefers are available for a nickel or dime each in most of the black-belt dives. Three or four of them are guaran" teed to convince any addict that he is either the emperor of Ethiopia or the lord mayor of Harlem. or both Some dusky entrepreneurs have taken to cultivating the stuff in vacant lots, where 1t grows up with ordinary weeds and looks about lilse them. Police go around spotting these plantations, then have to hide out to try to catch the growers at their midnight Sa1ly's Famous Fan
 Sally Rand'a fans are expected to be a style Keynote for some of the costume designers of revues and cabaret shows this fall. In other words, the girls will wear a little less than the law allows, but
 may carry some incidenatl scenery Gotham has taken some other hints from the Chicago fair mid way, too. For example, the "art schoop idea has been introduced Increment to a taxi dance hall near Broadway, and, more appro- priately, in Greenwich Village. Men who pay their quarters up- town are made to sit at easels with paper and. charcoal while they gaze upon a gangling blonde we'll swathed in silver cloth. The teacher" is Erno Bakos. the Hun- garian artist, who seems to have come upon hard times. In the Village place, which used to be a tea room, the students simply pay their admission, gawk at a demi-nude damse1 on the model stand, and walk out muttering that they might better have gone to burlesque show ..
 Bootlegged Eagles
 Blue Eagle placards are being counterfeited and sold for $1 each The 5ig-saw puzzle business seems to be going to pieces as the picketed by strikers protesting a wage cut Before next Christ mas two plays by Eugene O'Neill will have been offered in the Broadway showshops. The dour dramatist hasn't had play since Mourning Becomes Electra" so the Theater Guild is especially happy to have been presented with twins in these barren times [. Word from London has 1t that Noel Coward, back from his trav- els, is doing a musical comedy. And, that John Drinkwater is readying a play about Jerusalem at the time of Christ Pearl Bucks next book, by the way, is to be translation of a 200-year- old Chinese classic.
 Chaplin's Autobiography
 In the two years since he made his last picture, Charley Chaplin has been writing his autobiogra- phy And if anyone has been wondering, here's report on Col leen Moore, who retired in 1929: After studying sculpture, practic- ing music, riding bicycles and go- ing fishing, she got bored and turned inconspicuously to the stage for while. Now, having | ldOdAooiC0 4ASi OcLAiSS e%hu AhOSb OL her little-girl whimsies, she's back in the movies and glad of 1t (. Joe Weber. who was 66 the other day, cackles gleefully that beer drinking is stimulating apprecia- ton of the Weber and Fields brand of Germanic dialect humor. He never has understood anyway why 1t wasn't better than the Jol- son-to-Jessel-to-Moltz (and so on around hte circuit) type of gag lifting that has been in vogue for years.
 Alias Mir Rockefeller
 | If the young law clerks around town were to vote on which of their number is Most Likely to Succeed, the choice would prob- ably go to Larry Spellman, who does chores in the offices of Mill bank, Tweed. Hope and Webb. on Broad street. Larry, 1t turns out, is really 23-year-oId Laurance Rockefeller, son of John D. Jr. He applied for the job himself and was proud to have landed it with out parental influence, choosing the tncognito so he wouldn't be bothered or patronized by people. He thought of Spelman because 1t was the maiden name of his ma | ternal grandmother.