The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-07-11
In New York
BY PAUL HARRISON

New York-Meanderi The good old days, as some people like to call them, must be here again ... ."Cigaret" pictures of ball players and actresses on match folders and in chewing gum. Corsets and picture hats. .Bicy- cle clubs, mustaches, honest book makers, toppers and tails. .. Drug
 stores that sell drugs. .. Nickel beer, nickle coffee, nickle sand
 wiches. And for all know there
 may be a good five-cent cigar Harlem sartorial note: Instead of a 'kerchief, darktown blades
 wear a playing card. the king of hearts protruding from the breast pocket. .. Communist note: The
 Soviet consulate had a reception the other day, and on a tray in
 the checkroom were three decoy quarters.
 Ought to be Law
 I've often wondered what judges do in their spare moments--read
 the laws, mediate on the next case, or what. It turns out that
 what judges of the Applegate di- vision do Is play dominoes. -.
 Half a dozen travelling agencies, several foreign importing concerns, two national magazines and a few professors at Columbia university serve afternoon tea in their offices to any customers or guests who happen to be around. Sidney
 Franklin (ex-Franklln) the Brook lyn matador, says he's going back to Mexico and to bullfighting.
 Goodbye Broadway
 Mrs Al Jolson has the darkest tan on Broadway. .. t. Gossipers are tireless in their efforts to cook up 6 romance between Hanfstacngl, the Hitler agent, and a chorus girl. They might like to know that there Is a FrauHanfstaengl, who was an American. Departures: Ben Bernie and his band to Galveston. Tex. Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fon- tame to their Wisconsin summer place, where there Is n rcw swim ming pool which Lunt says will be filled with beer, on account of the drought. Harry Richman. leaving
 the Riviera Con the Hudson) and planning e long flight somewhere. Joan Lowell, out of the hospital and back to sail the South seas. If you want to know the things
 that bother Broadway policemen
 most, they are unemployed musi- clans who clutter up n couple or
 shady corners, bootblacks who ob- struct lobbies. and small boys who dance on the sidewalks for the entertainment of theater crowds.
 Confidence men, steerers for clip
 joints, pocketbooks, pitchmen and Al nh in ftnfifr have been pretty well weedcd out in the cleanup which comes about this time every year for the benefit of tourists.
 Cleaner, If Not Quictcr
 Sergeant Scala. who bosses the
 Broadway squad, says the street
 hasn't been so pure in years. The
 musicians are Q problem. Some, times as many as 500 Nof them
 gather between 47th and 18th streets, but if he arrests them for obstructing traffic the magistrate suspends sentence. They're harm
 less, anyway, he agrees: just rel lows who stand around with their
 instruments hoping to be tapped
 for an evenings work at some club or private party.
 The sidewalk on the east side of the street in front of the Palace theater is known as "The Beach,, Here for decades have loafed big and small-itime vaudeville actors.
 agents, song -pluggers, gag-men,
 and all the others of the hetero-
 generous fraternity. For them The
 Beach" is still sanctuary. sing kind of sixth senese, a cop twill
 stroll right past somnolent aero
 bat or a seal-trainer yawning in
 the sun, and will wave his night stick under the nose of a preda.
 toy colunmnist. Keep movin'
 buddy"