The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-11-01
In New York
BY PAUL HARRIsoN

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 New York.-Meandering Peo- pie meet keep insisting that ris- ing prices indicate returning pros- perity. Meaning, apparently, that the necessities of life soon will be expensive enough for everyone to buy.
 Anyway, people without incomes have nothing to live beyond. New York's on a spending spree. More than two dozen plays are thriving at a rate of some half million dollars week. Moss Hart is the biggest money dramatist in the world right now, with three hits running = "As Thousands Cheer" Con tour). "Merrily We Roll Along" and "The Great Waltz" And Max Gordon re- mains the most successful produce CT. Tn the last four trying years he hasn't had flop, while eight out of ten other offerings were col- lapsing around him.
 Ethel Barrymore and Eva Le Gallienne had quite a disagreement about the billing of that show in which both will appear. Barry more will get top mention, after all. Show business is funny that way; you'd think the very life of a performer depended on the size of his name in lights. It's reminiscent of the story of the young actress who left her brand new husband because he signed the marriage register in letters larger than hers. Another bill- ing giggle is the way the adver- tise Jack Dempsey, Referee, at out-of-town fight clubs, and put the names of the scrappers under heath in tiny type.
 News of New Arrivals
 A name I like Is that of a so- cially distinguished visitor, Mrs Hoogeweegen Pasilewitch. Sounds Hallowe'en-ish James A. Bur- den. Jr, most eligible of the top hat young bachelors Is back from pal-ing with the Prince of Wales and Is fiuttering debutante hearts.
 Prince Gottfried gu Hohenhole, whose name you've sen in yves of the Vandebilt case, carries a cig- aret lighter, with silk cord and tas- sel that danglesl from his trousers pocket.
 Sean O'Casey, Dublin dramatist and lion of the hour. spends each day strolling about Manhattan by himself, and loves 1t. Wears 8 cap, turtle-necked sweater, and baggy tweeds. Hopes his new play will make money so that he can travel about and see some mu- seums. Although he has written at least two acknowledged master pieces, O'Casey never garnered enough royalties to allow him to visit any big cities except London and New York. Unbcautiful Thoughts
 I have never seen an actress or a chorus girl who was as pretty as her pictures. Nor a chorus girl or actress who'd amit her pictures did her justice :. Ben Bernie wears two wrist watches. Lennie Hayton's baton is the one Paul Whiteman used in. his debut at the old Ziegfeld Roof. There's a rabit tail on one end of it-a gift from Marilyn Miller. Eu- gene O'Neill writes the smallest long hand script-500 words to a page. George M. Cohan's first wife, Ethel Levy, is prospering as restaurant owner.
 Ginger Rogers, cold-shoulders the Broadway payboys to go about with a nice youngster named Bob Taplinger. Time and again she has attended the comedy hit, Personal Appearance" which satirizes Hol- lywood, and it's assumed she'll star in the piece when Hollywood takes its own medicine and makes a pie ture of the play. Most pop ular cinema couple hereabout-- Ben Lyon and Bebe Daniels. George Gershwin would rather paint portraits than write music. The music's better, though.
 The James Roosevelts danced at the Rockefeller's sky-touching night club the other evening. And at the Central Park Casino custom CTS eyed a younger pair-Franklin D. Roosevelt .Jr, and Ethel du- Pont, the Delaware heiress. ...s. Walter Hampden and Fritz Leiber both will tour in Shakespeare rep ertory this season. x. Theatcr ushers have a gauge of their own for determining the appeal of a play. After recent premiere they collected four hats, 37 gloves, two purses, one book, four pairs of spectacles and nine belts from wo- mems coats. They said the show would be hit. And it is.