The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-05-28
In
New York
py PAUL HARRISON

New York. There has been big
exodus OF Little People from Now
York. For tho second season
they're moving to Chicago and tho
Midget Village Mt the worlds fair,
rogretfuily leaving their comfort
able homes here, and tho broad.
wayi whore they are considered
showfolks and not freaks.
Last year there were ~ midgets
In tho Lilliputlan town, half OF
Thorn American born, and ton 9TH
ers natura.izod citizens. Major
James y. Doyle, G4-year-old patri.
arch OF tho Little People, secured
that representation when no
learned that foreign midgets were
goLng TO DO imported for the fair.
Tho major stormed Into newspa.
per offices, demanded and got pub.
licity for his campaign In behalf
of American mldgots. lilo visited
Senators Wagner and Copeland,
declared that no was prepared to
take his fight to Washington. And
no American midgots finally were
given preference, and major Doyle
became Mayor Doyle OF tho dimin.
utlve town.
Midget Village
This year he, Ray Schultz, Little
Lord Roberts and some others
hoped to establish u midget village
In New York, no that tho elan could
stay close to its beloved Broadway
The lob In Chicago IL pretty siren.
uous, too; Keeps the midgets on
display about 10 hours a day. But
| tha tnaaI ARntAat fnllO1
Everyone who gets about the
rIalto here knows some OF tho mort
famous midgots In show business,
Tehere's kord Roberts (he's listed
that way In tho telephone diree.
tory who always stro!ls with q big
black cigar In his Juvenile face,
and who's known az o big spend.
or. Major Doyle IL another little.
mama DO vi. town--spats, cane, bou-
tonnIore, weli.tailorod suit. Swag-
gering along Broadway. he mods to
celebrities Of tho stage and night
club worlds. Wee Willie Archie IL
one OF those midgets who start tC
grow when they're about 30 years
Old. 30 he has opened an office
and acts an New York agent for
mldgets living In other cities. LII.
Ian Porter In a typical midget
fiapper. jennie Quigley In the
dowager midget. She's g.
Read All About 'Em
All this reminds mo that Walter
Bodln and Burnet Hershey have
written q concise and absorbing
book, tits q Small World" Cow
ard. McCann). After long research
among psychiatrists, endocrinol-
ogists, histories and the Little Peo-
pie themselves, the authors have
been able to tell all about midgets
their names and records, their
loves and heartbreaks, their
psychic disturbances.
|
It's All Glandular
Any infant may be midget. al
though the chance Ii about one In
a million. It's the pituitary gland
which, overdeveloped, may produce
q Camera; underdeveloped, a Ma
jor Mite. Mldgets, who may be per-
fectly Jprop0rtioned, are quite diff
ferent from uniformed dwarfs. The
latter have thyroid trouble.
Midgetism is not hereditary
Normal parents may have several
midget children. but the midgets
almost invariably will have nor
ma. offspring. There are scores OF
midget women living to-day who
have become mothers.
Go Big In a Party
To make up for their inferior.
ity IN size. and the countless hu-
Mutations that have to be endured
| fnnat rnidgefa ARE tremendous ego.
lists. They swagger. buster. spend
money recklessIy. Lord Roberts
huge cigars are an example OF
pidgets' impatIence with anythins
: in miniature. They like to be seer
In the company Of normal-sized
people. and many three-foot Lo-
normal women. They are infuri
ated by the popular belief that thu
Little People Gas they like to b,
! houses equipped with child -sizet
furniture. They insist on going Il
the trouble Of standing on tlptoe Il
chairs to see themselves In mir
rors.
Midgets are fond OF parties
dancing and drinking. Some o
the men boast OF being able TO con
!. sumo more cocktails than the aver
4 age normal adult, and they alal
cnt slightly more. This is becnus
their metaboiism food burning
' ratc) n one and half times tina
) Of the average person.
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