The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-10-14
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 New york.--xeanderinEs: Thom- as W. Lsfnonts town oar IS . ten year old Rolls that needs a coat inw to keep the stufing from com ing out of the front seat.
 Tommy Manville's yacht is christened 'No." Record busi- ness at most of the night spots recently. And record tariffs at move the mob on Seventh avenue that found 1t possible to look up into, the dressing roms of the Joe Cook chorines. ...
 There's Q shabby old man
 with unmistal<ahle remnants
 makes Q business of standing
 before the windows of picture
 galleries and gently weeping.
 "I used to own that paint-
 ing" he tearfully tells any
 sympathetic questioner, and
 usually walks on with 50
 cents or Q dollar--to stand
 and snifRle before . painting
 in the window of some other
 gallery.
 Frogs Legs on Broadway
 Right in the heart of the Broad way theatrical section Is the office started out selling frogs legs to | hotels and restaurants, but now has branched out with profitable sidelines of afligators', horned l toads, turtles, snakes and snails. | Schools and laboratories buy most | of these, but you'd be surprised. say the frogmen, how many New Workers keep snakes as pets--and baby ailigators in their bathtubs. l Ofiiciais of the city aquarium | and the two zoos, however. will tell you that people don't keep alligators very long. They're ale ways calling up to offer their pets. and are pretty annoyed by being turned down. Every now and then somo city employees go up to Central park and blaze away with shotguns at the seagulls
 around the reservoir. The birds
 pollute the water, but since there Is Q state law against shooting Rulls, they can only be shooed
 away with blank cartridges. They
 soon get used to the noise, too, | uHu StttAu puGh abGihs
 Not so the old ladies, out
 for an carly walk. who think
 that gangsters must bc having target practice.
 A Grave Matter
 l Historical notes: One reason New York Is so liberally sprinkled
 with squares Is that 1t onco had n
 lot of graveyards in town. Wash-
 ington, Union and Madison
 Squares, and Bryant park, were
 potter's fields in an earlier day, And there was q negro cemetery
 in part of what is now City Hall park. -.
 . A playwright. devling into doc. uments of Colonial days, has dis covered that there were speak easies in Manhattan goo years ago, 1t seems that merchants and craftsmen got together to restrict , tho tippling of their servants and : apprentices, and had law passed forbidding tho sale of liquor to those people. Immediately, ol
 course, there sprang up places ca. tering exclusively to tho outlawod v
 Talk About Laughing .! I, At n party tho othor night tho
 talk got around to practical jokes and the people who have been vic , timiZed by Willie and Eugene v Howard, tho comics. Willie tcili an elaborate but entirely pointless ( story, and his brother and few . more allies laugh heartily. Tho . sucker. of course, giggles rather l than appear too dumb. Then VII f lio tells another story less funny e than tho first. and all tho othei F conspirators go Into mysteries. Flu !. gene spells him with a few more f dry tales. and pretty soon the vic . tim is laughing heartily. not know F ing that the genuine laughter oi
 the others Is directed at him. , You wouldn't suspect Colonel Lind , bergh as Q leicester. but shortly . before ho left on his exploration . trip he went about tossing hi' i. watch to friends and airport ut
 tendants. Hold this for me-" hc't 7 say, or Look at my new ticker , It cost n lot of money" Then ho', \ toss tho watch in a way that thu e other person Invariably would fal n to catch 1t. By tho timo it hit tho
 floor tho innocent victim would b' P chattering apopogios and beratlns his own clumsiness. The watcl l then would turn out to bc n shock 2 proof model. and entirely un
 harnCd. A new party gag Is t' walk in on your guests with n tol
 hat and ask what they'd like pulled out of 1t. Almost involuntaril. \ they'll chorus, "A rabbit" An, II having previously planted a to. II bunny there, you yank 1t out tri II umphantly. Of course, l someone happens to ask for uku