The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-12-13
In New York
BY PAUL HARRISON

New York.-The tumult and the shouting in the night spots .here- about is like nothing you've heard since the bedlam of 1929. It seems to> be a kind of hey-hey hysteria, or maybe just the hollerday spirit. Anyway, thousands of little wooden clappers are dining on tables; ice in glasses tinkles q de- precision requiem; applause engulfs flushed entertainers; and the cus- toners are up to all sorts of con- yivial highjinks. Jewels flash, top- hats plop, and from the blizzard of ermine coats I judge it will be white Yuletide. Playboys are toss ing around bills of impressive de- nominations, and college young 1 sters are in twon to do their Christ mas shopping.
 Cabaret shows have responded to the mood, as witness the Man. hattan Music Hall, renamed and with a new bill, where Al Trahan and Lady Yukona Cameron com init everything from disturbance of the peace to insult-and- battery. Chiffon and Thomas dance them selces to frenzy, Carolyn Marsh sings, fat ladies and midgets pro- vide more than touch of ribald- ry. and lot of other things hap pen.
 Still Make Whoopee
 Then there are Broadway's flash spots, the Paradise, Hollywood and Palais Royal, each with a thousand | or so customers and chorus acts that are practically mob scenes. | There may be more to these young ] women than meets the eye, but | there can't be much more.
 | There's a certain decorum, | though noisy, about these super supectacle p la c s. Individual whoopee is manufactured at the | smaller clubs which are remiriis- cent of prohibition days. The Bal Musette, for example, is tolerant | of all sorts of monkey business.... Cts run by Laon Bedou, former welterweight champion of France.) And at the Chateau Moderne, Tony protects your right to sing or get up and turn cartwheeis. In fact, it's sort of perpetual rough-and-tumble entertainment Three Racketeers, which may give you an idea.
 | Up in Harlem, the famous old Cotton Club has shelved its pre- l tensions of theatrical artistry and
 has started a sepian heat-wave.... The Club Cubanacan (Cubanacan- can, it might be) has among others the Lila who once tangoed
 with Rudolph Valentino. The iFrepressible Belle Livingstone,
 who wasn't a friend of the pro- hibition officials, will be opening
 her Wild West establishment any evening now, ana on her may fall
 the coveted mantle of the late Texas Guinan.
 Village Livens Up
 sherman Billingsley, whose Stork Club was a distinguished oasis in the days when you had to ring c
 bell and ask for Joe, Is about to start a new one, with Lita Grey Chaplin singing songs. Green wich Village is making lusty bid for attention, and one of the new places is Sully's Show Boat. It features the Hall Johnson choir Cts first cabaret appearance) and | the Joseph Urban scenery which was used for the ZiegfeId produc- ton of Show Boat" Lots of the night spots present magicians, These, with the Hastings marion cites at Joe Zelli's, provide prac- tically the only quiet interludes in the clamorous whirl.
 The cocktaii-bar news includes some openings of note. Quite the most elegant item in town is the installation at the Shexry-Nether- land. stronghold of dignity on a Fifth avenue which has been liv- ening up no end. This restaurant drinkery is all black and white. green and silver. with some grand
 murals of early Manhattan. Big
 windows on the avenue, a semi circular balcony and a stroilinS minstrel heighten the effect. | The Waldorf-Astoria is about the only place, in town that has dared put in a bar exclusively for men. This is huge room. luxuri- antly paneled in Brazilian rose wood, and conducive to conversn- tion regarding big problems, vast industries. and sums in millions. [. Scores of theatrical folk helped christen the new Green Room of the Hotel Edison the other even ing. and the Buckingham. a rendezvous of musicians. is proud of its bar which is designed to re- ! OrAsant a Yia Inf Fia m