The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-07-26
? IN HI NEW YORK
By PAUL HARRISON

By PAUL HARRISON
 New York-Meandering Aimee sem pie McPherson, it's said. doesn't intend to remain in Holly wood, divorce or no divorce, after her return from Europe. She wants to start a tabernacle in New York city {. .. Those grayed and frayed old. ladies who for years have sat in Chinatown and sightseeing busses as "shfils," or decoys, are losing their pitiful little jobs to pretty girls. The business of the latter is to smile at Broadway passers- by, vamp in cash customers. then arise and leave just before each bus pulls out, ... Theater seers pre- dict an epidemic of mystery plays for the autumn, Even Earl Carroll is planning to mix melodrama and puichritude in his next revue, which will be called "Murder at the Van- Three-point-two is soon to ma terialize at Columbia University; or trickle, anyway, into the insti- tution's two largfie restaurants. It's the first big school to authorize the sale of beer right on the campus. Her name means noth- ing to the average theater fan, but Mildred Webb is the greatest chorus girl on Broadway, accord- ing to Bobby Connolly, the dance director. Says he never has invent ed c routine which she couldn't master in half an hour ... The towns talking about Helen Kane's personal success in the mediocre and merchandising smutty show called Shady Lady," Dieting assiduously and losing few pounds a week. the former boop-a-doop girl looks more like Helen Morgan at every performance ..... There are gay goings-on in The Bou- werie these days and nights, 1t being the fabulously swank man. sion originally built by the Vain wrights near Rye, N. Y., but now turned into a beach resort--the Mayfair Beach club. People there will remind you that the Dowager
 Mrs Wainwright was the great great-granddaughter of Peter Stuy-
 vesant, first mayor of New York
 Eugene o'Neill likes to go to prize-fights and races, but would rather read a play than see 1t on the stage Samuel Seabury, the reformative investigator, collects rare first editions, but also likes to read the funny pappers John Barrymore has all of his clothes
 made in London, but he usually
 needs ashare. ...
 Al Smiths Dish
 Food fads of famous folks, as reported by Billy the Oysterman: Al Smith usually orders corned beef and cabbage when he goes to | the famous old restaurant. And
 Mrs Smith just as frequently calls for fried frogs, legs. ... Rod La Roque and Wilma Banky nearly always divide big hamburger steak (without onions) ... Ruby Keeler, whose parents both were Irish, demands Irish stew or, fail ing that, any kind of stew at all.
 Gene Tunney's favorite dish is grilled pigs feet. And deltcate- l looking little Lillian Gish seldom
 fails to anquish 8 two-inch-thick
 Billy, by the way, is the son of the original Oysterman Billy.
 whose place was popular in the
 eighties, and against whose bar lolled such figures as Diamond Jim
 Brady, Jim Fiske, Jim Corbett. Jay
 Gould. A lesser-known but more loquacious customer was a Will
 fam Fox, who had a cloth process
 ing plant nearby. He'd come in
 and for hours would tell of all
 the money he expected to make
 in the moving picture business
 some day-if he could get some
 capital. Other patrons snorted into
 their beer as they tried to imagine
 anybody crazy enough to invest in such an idea.
 Fox got the capital. though. A fire destroyed his business, and he put the insurance money into
 nickelodeon equipment. Billy, re-
 fecting sadly on the madness of
 tossing away good cash like that.
 carted his friends first machine
 over to Brooklyn. "Bill," he said,
 "after you so broke, come back
 and see me. I'll give you good
 steady job."