The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-01-17
In New York
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By PAUL HARRISON

By PAUL HARRISON New York-You'd be surprised
 to know how many people envy
 millionaire playboys, such as Tom
 my Manville, Jr., the asbestos heir who gets into the news frequently through the medium of new mar- riage, divorce, reconciliation, kid nap threat or something. Actually though, he doesn't have much fun
 Says so himself.
 For one thing, there's the matter of marriage. Florence Hubert, Lois
 Mccain, Avonne Taylor and Mar
 celle Edwards have been, success sively, his dream girl" Following the patching up of their recent quarrel, Marcelle still is his dream girl" If she remains so, it will be in spite of the trouble-making ef- forts of other women who are 'al- ways figuring, that it would be nice | to be the wife of millionaire
 playboy.
 AS for his daily life, MT Manville
 has less personal freedom than the average S20-a-week clerk. He must
 have bodyguards, for instance-two
 of them, who go everywhere With
 him. Nice enough fellows in their way, but entirely too ubiquitous. A person likes to be alone once ln awhile.
 Then there's his business. Mir ManvilIe has business,
 and a very demanding one. He has to take care or all the money he has inherited. Every giiD promoter and sales . man has q try at him, and some of them are able to bring an amazing amount or 1n- fiucnce to bear on their pro- positions.
 A Man of Letters. There are letters too. MT Manyille's Park avenue office is listed in the telephone directory,
 so it's easy enough to write to him.
 Each mail brings few wild love
 letters proposing marriage, or at
 the very least, adoption. There
 are bills, some of them for things he never has bought, or even heard about. Requests for gifts and for loans come from all over the coun- try. IOLlAhy IliS I AldAu tAAiiC luA ing down some of the pathetic
 requests ... And then there are threats-crank letters promising
 every variety of unpleasant death and kidnap threats suggesting that
 the fifth culvert of the Boston Post
 road next Friday night.
 Evenings, Manville likes to go to a show or a party or night club. He can't go wandering
 around alone, though, like an ordi-
 nary citizen; can't do anything on
 the spur of the moment, or even
 scrape up an impromptu friendship at 8 gay spot ... Those are req
 sons why he's inclined to envy the
 people who are inclined to envy him.
 Hotel Service Plus. New York hotels, vieing with
 each other in providing special little services, have established Hospitality Desks which will un-
 dertake almost anything from se-
 lecting a gift for ones Aunt Min
 nie to working out itineraries for sightseeing tours ...
 Men in town on business usually ask that something be chosen for their wives. If the latter like
 their remembrances, the husbands
 get the credit; if they don't, the
 hospitality desks get the blame.
 ... Most frequent questions used
 to be, Where can I get a good
 drink?" Now it's, What's the best show 0r ripht c1,lh 1n
 Strangest request the Hotel New
 Yorker ever had was when a guest phoned down to have a shopper
 hurry out and buy him two glass eyes. Black ones, right and Q left, but the size didn't matter. An official who couldn't contain his curiosity discovered the man want
 ed to put them in stuffed fish he
 had caught in Florida and was sending to friend in Chicago. 
 Turning the Tables.
 Walter Chrysier, Jr., who goes
 bouncing around from book pub. fishing to building management to orchestra sponsoring. now has
 bought Q restaurant--the flaps. burg. Gave 0 big party there the opening niGht. When the mon went
 to get their hats the check room girl made each of them a little speech. She said; "It's been q pleasure 10 hold your hat this eyo- hing. Thanks very mueh." And with that shed pass over the hat and eoat-and would press q dime
 Into the gents hand.