The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-10-04
In New York
By PAUL HARRISON

By PAUL HARRISON | New York-The town hasn't seen so many celebrities in years
 show folk from here, there ana Europe. movie people casuaily ] Iving across the continent to see | a few of the new plays; pay wrights. ordinary authors hirting l with publishers and screen scouts | Composers predicting imminent
 new triumphs: skit-writers jotting down gags; lyricists still hunting | .loye": artists looking happy again | (perhaps on account of something | they didn't eat); playboys playing l in the gay spots; society peope moving into their town houses; de-
 butantes planning the biggest par | ties since the days when It was l decided that lavish affairs dldh look quite right in. times CT un- | employment. (Maybe they're real
 ized that, after all, nobody Is more
 thoroughly unemployed than de-'
 butante.
 1 At the Big Opening.
 Take just ore theater opening
 -"The Great Waltz" at the ltotke-
 fellers' tremendous plush psi"'e,
 which Is house with foyer ."i ';e l enough for inter-act promen;' E, and with lusn lighting fit for s, l- ing in the aisles. There w;s iia 1 Claire. whom 1 ..Aven't seen ir a long time; Grace Moore, still b., .i- l ing in her new movie fame Cbask- 1 ing very prettily, tool; Libby fto;- i man. in pink and black sOirc-. 1 thing, telling friends she's glaC to | be coming back to the stage. tlt will be a musical comedy, and the | contract is signed.)
 Julia Sanderson, gigSling Jer- | ome Kern. looking owlish. Lee
 Shubert, smartest dresser or inc | producers. Bernard Baruch, seem | ing not to have a single big imam l cial problem on his mind. Jackie Cooper, solemn and assured. Fran-
 cine Larrimore. my nomination as I the fieriest of the actresses. Joan D. Rockefeller, Jr, applauding the
 show, of which he owns a slice
 June Walker, tickled about the new l play in which she'll star and which l Marc Connolly will direct. George | Jessel and Norma Talmadge; Mitzi Mayfair, vision in brown, and
 George White. Lois Moran ard | Douglass Montgomery, as hand
 some pair as you'll find. | Ex.Cigaret Girl
 Sinclair Lewis, apparently alone and not seeming to care. George
 $. Kaufman looking glum about
 something, too. Lou Hofz aud
 Marjorie Oelrichs, Broadway. and l Park avenue. Rubicund Waller
 Damrosch: grand old Daniel Froh- l man; David Warfield; Morris Gest. I Ascot tie and sideburns. Irene Bor- | doni, who wants to be known as
 the best-dressed woman in town. l Gertrude Vanderbilt; Sidney How
 ard: Fannie Hurst in silver gown. i And dozens of others. made spe-
 cial inquiry about a certain raven-
 headed vision in red velvet and dia- monds, believing she could he TO
 less than glamorous new figufr from Hollywood. Turned out 10 be Polish lass from Pcnnsyl-
 vania coal town who had met d | lonely importer while she was sell
 ing cigarets in night club. | Quite a lot of film folk at the
 late spots, especially the Central
 Park Casino, to which incoming stars rush as soon us they've checked their bags and talked to 1 their press agents. Harold Lloyd was there this night, and Claire Windsor and Mary Astor. Lila
 Lee, now playing on Broadway, | was 'latecomer. Also Dorothy MackailI, with a man none of us | recognized. Saw the Thomas Meighans, and the social Whitney
 Bourne. who's been working her self to a frazzle in a couple of
 eastern pictures. There was Anne Gould, too, who for a year has be T considered the choicest society
 catch any movie company could
 hook. But the slim, blonde heir
 ess isn't having any contracts just
 yet, thank you. -
 Talk for Society the stately Toni Johnson, Park there was 6 good deal of specula-
 ton about the latest adventures of younger-brothcr Wooiwortil Donahue, another heir to millions
 in nickels and dimes. Not so many
 weeks ago his mama took him 10
 Europe to get away from New
 York actresses. After a while she
 brought him back to dodge Euro- pean actresses. An English beau- ty, Wendy Barrie, sailed into town the other day and found that
 Woolworth had been taken to Cam ada. His frank liking for chorus girls and the glamor of show business
 Is likely to be one of society's chief topics this winter; that, and the three cornered Vanderbilt Whit ney- Morgan bout for the guar dianship of 10-year-old Gloria Van-
 derbilt and her fortune. Interest
 hasn't died, either, in the John Jacob Astor match.