The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-09-19
In New York
BY PAUL HARRISON

New York.-Meanderin Al Smith, aloof and aloft in his Elm pire State building, now is known as the Happy Warrior. Georgie Price, comedian and shrewdest of showfolk has bought a seat on the Stock Exchange. Cost him $95,000, which seems a lot to pay for a few new gags . Primo Camera, still in New York, spends most of his time in the
 lesser night clubs, breeding about something The person all Gotham is talking about: Grace Moore, Tennessee lass who made good in the Metropolitan Opera before she answered the beckon- ing of Hollywood
 Bartenders Change Ways There's no such thing as actual darkness in Manhattan, what with atmospheric reflection of the my riad lights. So stores sell blind- CTS to keep stray beams from the eyes of sleepers. Night work CTS who must rest daytimes wear them too Louis of the Hotel McAlpin is shocked at the way younger bartenders drink nowa- days. Forty-five years ago, when he was boy bartender at the Wall street Delmonico's, he took one drink-and fell downstairs. Hasn't touched a drop since.
 Actors are always acting: re- jected applicants coming out of
 casting offices always look as proud and jaunty as though they'd just landed stellar roles Be- sides numerology, Vincent Lopez
 likes cats. Cant see forlorn critter on the street without duck | ing into a restaurant and buying it container of milk Prince
 Matchabelli wanted American citi-
 zenship. but wasn't willing to re- linquish the glamor of his title.
 So he petitioned for the right to
 use the title as his first name. Now he's MT Prince Matchabelli.
 Perennial Sights
 I never saw = Milton Berle without his mother Hal Le-
 Roy when he wasn't grinning |.
 George s. Kaufman displaying any
 emotion Barney Gallant, the l Villager- r-come-to-B Broadway, when
 he wasn't saying something genu-
 finely interesting =. Frances Will \ Hams when she wasn't dressed fit
 to kill all competition =. Fannie
 Hurst without her slick white tur-
 wasn't making wisecracks; and
 pretty good ones.
 At First Nights ! Autograph hunters are out in full cry again, charging celebri- ties and scattering innocent
 first -nighters left and right in their headlong assaults. A cer- tain lanky adolescent leads the pack sf, most of the theater open ings. directing his scouts and
 shock-troops like seasoned gen.
 eral :. . Roger Wolfe Kahn can play any instrument in his orches- tra except the bass fiddle--and he
 just can't reach that high A
 syndicate of society people is | backing a smart new night spot, to
 be run by Albert J. Davis. one time cabaret dancer who turned to breeding horses . Fritzi Scheff finally got the money to
 save her Connecticut home; got it from the governments Home | Owners Loan Corporation when friends and promised benefits 1 failed.
 A Nonchalance Test
 The cast of the new revue Life Begins at S:40", had some pnhap- py moments the other evening
 when they learned that Mrs E. D. Roosevelt was out front, right in the fourth row with a party of 12.
 Luella Gear was particularly jittery
 because 1t is she who has to iln-
 personate Mrs Roosevelt in a skit | satirizing the First Lady's innum-
 erable activities. She went through with the song, though: l At seven o'clock this morning at 1 Poughkeepsie spoke at the opening of a I bridal path.
 Had breakfast in Savannah, and l flew to Indiana
 To dedicate ladies' Turkish | bath.
 l christened a ferris wheel in
 Chattanooga;
 Then I unveiled a western bar, | becue.
 IA Warner Brothers palace
 opeIed next in Dallas, And here e.n to laun&h gon- dola for you"
 Mrs aRoosevelt laughed and tlaughed.