The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-07-18
In New York
By PAUL HARRISON

New York.-Meanderings: It's comforting to know that noise, Tn the noisiest city in the world. IS against the law. There are ordi- nances covering practically every thing, even to the bells on Junk wagons-they must weigh no more than six ounces each, and be no more than three in number. 50 II one doesn't like the city's strident cacaphony-the orchestra Of mll- lion pieces, the choir of a million voices-one can call a cop.
 They say it takes three years to become a New Yorker, and l sus- meet that most of that time is re- uuired for adjustment to the din. A person is naturalized when he no longer shudders as street cars grind on unoiled curves, when taxi horns grow hysterical, when eie- yated trains plunge vibrant through the night.
 As They Like It
 When he's preoccupied, Vincent Lopez. the orchestra leader, whis- tles off key Dorothy Mackaill. back from abroad, likes bullfight- ing One of the most erudite of stage-screen people is Miriam Hopkins, who goes in for biography and philosophy You almost always can find Al Jolson at the races. And Sylvia Sidney during round of the night spots Manhattan still is wondering about Dorothy Parker's marriage to Alan Campbell which she so blandly mentioned. Nobody has learned where or when the event took
 Every day a dozen or more peo- ple get off trains in New York and ask how to get to the worlds fair grounds Dwight .Fiske. who has brought smoker stories into the drawing room by disgusting them in verse and piano accom- paniment, is singing society fun ny song called "The Hope Dia- mond, or a Young Mans Folly. Lampooning young Astor's first romance, of course Gossipers are doing their best to find a rift in the -Fiermonte marriage. They tried to do likewise with the often-wed Tommy Manville. Jr, and his present wife, so the couple have deserted Broadway and aban- doned the old Broadway crowd. Which is probably the best formula for happiness
 Broadway's Curfew
 The new o'clock curfew law isn't as stringent as it sounds. Citizens are permitted to go home before a. m., and most of them do unless they're entertaining out of-town visitors -. A visiting h. dian prince declined Eddie Rick enbacker's invitation to fly over the city. Too dangerous. The prince then got into a taxicab, and on alighting fell and broke shoul- der blade and a collar bone 7. :. Some more actors hobbies: Rex O'Malley owns printing press on which he turns out professional looking books. Melvyn Douglas has one of the worlds finest thea trical libraries. Bradley Cass. a former publisher, collects Greek Papyri. Ruth Weston likes to hunt Douglas Fairbanks. ST, is considering a return to the leg itimate stage next autumn. And Chic Sale is slated for Broadway comedy. At 70. Richard B.> Har- rison. who plays "De Lawd" in s.The Green Pastures" will achieve stardom when the play begins it's fourth season. His name will go up in lights; and it's about time.
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 Native Return
 A lecture trip will bring Ger trude Stein home for the first time in 30 years If you have one of Eugene O'Neill's letters, don't sell it or allow it to be pub lished, or his lawyer says he'll sue. The magazine Esquire is to have a feminine companion; they'll call it My Lady The national poetry contest conducted by For um and Century magazines drew thousands of entries on hundreds of subjects, but nary verse about the president or the New Deal.
 Harry Kemp, the tramper-on- life, has published a new nevel. He'll always epitomize for me most of the things that Bohemian ism, radical eccentricity and som- nolent genius can mean; I re- member him 20 years ago in Kan sas as a sort of corn-belt mystic. Or a nut. believe they called him then. His eyes always were on far horizons which practical folk never even pretended to glimpse. They are now. even if Kemp Is still ! at the nadir of his vision.