The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-06-05
In New York
BY PAUL HARRISON

NOW IOfK, -McuHuorlHBbi RiVHk about this timo of year, If she watches the society phgcs and is willing to pay the admission fec, Judy O'Orndy can explore the colonol's lady's penthouse.
 For charity's sake som of the biuebioods, such ns Mrs Andrew Carnegie, Mrs Arthur Korrigan and Mrs August Heckschcr, throw open their gardens for public in- spection Of tho rhododendronsl daffodiis, dwarf pines and such, What the public comes for B not, of course, to 500 n few potted potunins but to sec how tho ups DOT half lives --- Co peer through tho apartments themselves, pre- haps noticing that tho sheets nrc not silk at all, and that tho paint lngs arc rather dreary, md that the silver could stand n bit oi polishing.
 Dreiscr's Hat
 Theodore Dresler has h lot 0i hats, all slouchy foit and apparent. ly aii Vory old. think he hireh someone to break thom in for him. Tho towns gigling 0ver q song soduoi called "fhe Return of the Qiri Who Ran off With the Man on tho Flying Trnpexo" .... Hotel McAlpin is offering rewards for tho return of It's old horsosho co bar, which was sawed up and giv. on away In scgmonts whom prohl. bltion came along. uladys George, protticst--woll, ono of the prottioSt--of Manhattnn'B young actresses, goes Hollywood soon. ~.
 Mac. w oBtiun Nita Naldi be. comes quoon Of tho Amaxons In the Bowery revival of "Tho Black Crook" Cardini, tho magi. clan who never says n word on tho stage, has m ambition to be. come q dramatic actor ono of tho fow privately.owned horse. drawn rigs remaining In town bo- longs to Mrs Julia Wilson. Sha lives at the Sulgravc, goes out In her brougham ovory fine after noon, and boasts that she never has been inside of m automobile, Tony Rendezvous
 Only sponkeasy which hns res talned its big name ellntele Is tho famous Tony's. Tho other afternoon l saw there George $, Kaufman, Judith Anderson, Quoenie smith, Helen Hayes. Ron. rad Bereovicl, Solena Royle, flku Chasos and whito-haired, youpa Mir Dashicil Hammott Irv- Ing Berlin and Moss Hart already arc huddled~ ovcr plans for a suc- cessor to "As Thousands Cheer" au Dor .rAVlIO.
 Paul Whitcman, seeing tho re- vival of "The Drunkard' at the American Music Hall, confidcd that he'd been looking for q gob's uniform to wear at q dinner for officers of the fleet. Ills old one won't fit because he weighed 302 pounds when he enlisted in tho nnvy, and almost got discharged because his uniforms had to be made to order. He tried to get in- to aviation until they were ablo to convince him that he'd make better ballast for a battleship.
 Taking in the Sights
 Joan Blondell still in a Gotham hospital from that crocodile bite or whatever it was, in convalcescing and planning another start around tne world. She has a big pair of marine binoculars and sits all day at her window watching the go- ings-on in Central park. ..
 You'll find Il lot of sociaIites around the flying fields these days. Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney has wholo flock of ships and com mutes between New York and his country place in Virginia. So does William Langley. George D. Kent, yr, Erie Wood, Douglas Robinson, William A. Read, Jr, and James B. Taylor, Jr. pilot their own planes. Peter Brooks q nephew of Lady Astor, flies de- spite some bad crackups he hat had. So does Frederick Bourne Hard, scion of 0 sewing machine fortune. Bob Huntington, brother of Mrs Vincent Astor, and his wife both arc active pilots.
 City Lotteries There's nothing original about the talk of a city lottery. They used to have them to pay for repairs on municipal buildings. And Colum. bla university was founded with money raised by lottery Wealthicst "janitors' in town are the Goodmans of the Bergdorf. Goodman store. Since the place
 has a workshop 1t is listed by ths city as a factory. And since onlJ janitors are permitted to live iT
 factories, the occupants of ths
 penthouse are listed as janitors !. A Mrs Isaac Rice, who founded
 New Yorl's Anti Noise league, had a cave built under her house or Riverside Drive. So when the traf fIc and boat whistles began t< l iaugle her nerves she'd retreat ff
 the Iuxuriouaiy appointed dungeon