The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-09-12
In New York
BY PAUL HARRISON

xNGW --AxAOLAANACAAAl66s T AA~ towns tempo has quickened with
 a rush of life. Broadway spots, until recently SO quiet that you could hear a pun drop, are gay with theatrical people in from Hol- lywood, with society folk home from Newport and Southampton. and with visitors from everywhere on earth.
 Dramatists, producers, lyricists and composers go into executive session on street c0rnefs and in cocktail lounges. Noveiists are on the Gotham scene to harry their publishers and-providence willing ito sell their books to the movies. Actors and actresses, dressed in their very best, progress tireiessly between the offices of stage ty- coons and cocktail rendezvous making the contacts on which may depend a seasons prosperity or idleness.
 Debs and dowagers have descend ed on the shops. The talk is of parties, the autumn crop of roman ces and divorces,- polo, the yacht races and the opening of the col leges. Even the first night of a new movie at Rockefeller Center brought out the Harrison Will Hams, the Marshall Felds. Goadby Loews, Aldriches, Doubledays, Leo- nings, Iselins and I don't know who all. The presence. of few Rocke- fellers lends no end of tone to the mov-ah- cinema.
 Truants Return
 Among the truants welcomed home from Hollywood are Philip Moeller. Theater Guild director; Sam Jaffe, who helped make Mar lene Dietrich.s new pictures; and Jacob Ben-Ami, slated for star dom. Katherine Hepburn was per- suaded to come and talk about q new play. Josephine Hutchinson and Zita Johann are due any min- ute now. And hear that Ruby Keeler and Al Jolson will appear together in Broadway musical. Stroll into any place and you'll turn up a covey of celebrities, and here's the score of an afternoon and evening: Richard Barthelmess. lKonrad Bercovici, Hendrick Wil- Hem Van Loon, Jessie Royce Landis, Mary young at the Algonquin, Mar garet Anglin, Nan Sunderland, Carl Van Vechten, Ruth Weston, Lee | Shubert, Laurence Staliings, Ever ett Marshall-all at Sardi's. Jeff Machamer. Kenneth MacKenna. Mrs Herbert Bayard Swope. Nan cite Guilford, Doris Duke, Fay Bainter, Harold Lloyd at Toby's. Jack Dempsey, Cole Porter. James 1 Montgomery Flagg, Irene Bordoni, Bernard Brauch, Dorothy Hall chatting in a theater lobby.
 What Celebrities Do
 Harold Lloyd is one of the best Of the amateur magicians. T. And | Clifton Webb paints in 0iis almost i as well as he dances. Science | item: A wit along the Rue des lWise-G Guys is working to perfect q | Saye-the-Sucker fountain pen. When 1t gets to the dotted line It ! won't write ... Walter Huston and l Nan Sunderland frequently dine in lauickie restaurants and chop suey palaces to escape the gorwln ! horde of autograph collectors. Newsreel audiences are snicker- | ing over that British accent brought back by Douglas Fairbanks. ...i. Two young depression-struck s0- cfalists. Garrow T. Geer, Jr., and c. Lesher Geer, are going to Harvard on the money they made peddling | fish to Southampton mansions dur- | ing the summer. .Pitchmen are | prospering on the busy corners watches with no works in them, metal polish that won't polish, ra- I zor blades that won't shave. The hawker with the most bedraggled clothes is the only one who sells a spot remover. And busy neck
 tie peddler never wears a tie.
 Rain Insurance
 1 An old woman who sells news
 papers is said to have been toast
 Iof-the-town chorus girl 40 years ag0
 -. And George F. Thomas, whc
 silently holds out packages oi
 chewing gum to passersby. used
 to be a Shakesperean actor. Played
 with Sothern and Harlowe, and
 with Robert Mantell. Now he calls 4 himself an artists model: says his
 lgumvending is s'just an embarras.
 sing expedient". Not long ago
 someone pointed out shuffiine
 | sandwich man who is said to have
 | gone to school with Lloyd George
 wish I'd known several week.
 Iago about that insurance company 1, which will insure vacations againsI
 bain, big events such as horse
 fshcws and fairs long have beer
 able to take out protection againsi
 the weather. But now small policies
 are being offered to individuals
 pay $5 a week and if 1t rains a: