The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-05-17
-In- Nero York
By PAUL HARRISON

n
 New York - statesmanship ap- parently has reached the stage where-well, at least, statesman ship has reached the stage.
 For in the office of John Golden, tbe producers. are scripts for g. musical play which, when present. ed, may be billed something like this: Hodanzo-Written by the Minister to Paraguay-Music by the Secretary of the Treasury The story of its goes back many years to the time when MT Post Wheeler was editor of a New York newspaper and a close friend or Golden. The latter, incidentally, used to sell poetry to the editor when it was good enough. which was seldom. Wheeler deserted | Journalism and entered the U. 5. diplomatic corps in 1906, becom- ing secretary to the American Enl- bassy in Tokio, and later counselor there. During his stay he collected a number of Japanese folk tales and put them into book. Golden read it and suggested that some Of the chapters be dramatized. He read the subsequent dramatization. and suggested that it ought to be set to music.
 And there the matter rested. while Wheeler went from one post to another in the embassies in I to be named, in 1929, Minister to Paraguay. Golden. though, had dinner with William H. Woodin one night and mentioned the play | as an item of interest to one who
 had studied and written Oriental music. Woodin took Wheeler's l script home with him. A couple of weeks later he invited Golden to his house, where he revealed that he had written a complete musical scmore, and had even hired a ten- piece orchestra to play it for the producers consideration. The ver- dict was enthusiasticauuy favor able. "Hodanzo," which means
 "The House of a Thousand Jewels" will be produced if the Secretary of the Treasury gives his consent.
 Operatic Delights
 | Grace notes: Rosa Ponselle of
 the Metropolitan designs most of
 her own clothes, likes to cook. rides a bicycle on her penthouse' roof | =. Lily Pons delights in lock- I
 in the same room with her. Thinks they absorb all the oxygen - Marion Talley, after four year
 absence which included a mar-
 riage, an annu1ment and a retire.
 ment to her farm, is planning a
 concert come back Arthuro
 Toscanini begs his friends not to l invite any other guests when he | goes to dine at their houses. The
 other evening he had dinner Ga
 lone, he thought) with the Samuel | Chotzinoffs. But E1za Heifetz
 Stone and Richard Manson were
 there too. They masqueraded as the maid and the butler-and very :. atisfactorily-just to be near the
 great man.
 Mixed Strains.
 Amateurs all: Hendrix Van Loon
 the geographically minded author. plays the violin Ethel Barry
 more is such an accomplished pianist that she once planned 8
 concert career |. Novelist Fan
 nie Hurst plays the piano and is
 married to a professional musi-
 clan, Jaffues Danielson .. !. Ken
 meth Murchison, wealthy New York
 architect, composes music for the
 annual Beaux Arts Ball, and usual l ly conducts the orchestra And
 Ernst Lubitsch. who plays the
 piano, confesses a secret ambition
 to conduct a symphony .. Neysa
 McMein paid her way through the Chicago Art Institute by banging
 the worries behind five-and-ten
 store music counters.