The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-04-20
In New York
BY PAUL HARRISON

New York k- Literata: Louis
 Bromfie1d bought ticket to France
 because, he said, he couldn't get a lick of work done in this coun- try.... Raymond Moley, who left the Brain Trust and the state depart
 ment to edit Vincent Astor's maga-
 zine, To-day" still keeps up his
 teaching at Columbia university and Barnard college. Hrs five
 classes a week, on national prob
 lens and American politics, and confides that he'd rather teach wo-
 men than men because women
 work harder and read more..
 Alexander Woollcott allows very
 few people to call him Alex" And
 he's very sensitive about good natured jibes at his writing style. Christopher Moley, who couldn't change flat tire, owns a large in terest in that three-wheeled stream lined automobile which
 may go into producton soon It must have been scribblers
 night on Broadway. Fannie Hurst, Sophie Kerr and Amelia Earhart Putnam q think she qualities for the profession) attended the re- vival of an old melodrammer. "The Drunkard." Theodore Dreiser, Dor othy Parker and Maxwell Ander- son talked together during inter- mission of guild play. And in the lobby of another theater few doors away I saw Dashiell Ham melt apparently in a deep study of the faces of other showgoers. An author in search of g. character, perhaps. There was Monde Mast, too, who hear has again rounded the corner where prosperity has
 been lurking. ....
 Earlier in the evening, the Algonquin, I met young writer
 who was deploring the lack of
 enough money to ferret out some nove material about certain Central American country. Why don't you incorporate yourself and sell stock?" asked a Veteran lit
 erary agent. Ut has been done" By whom? By Rockwell Kent I discovered. When he came back
 from Alaska in 1918, or maybe 1t ] was 1919, he had no money to support himself while writing the l text and doing the illustrations for
 .'Wilderness." So he borrowed
 the money by incorporating and selling stock in himself. Dividends were paid from the sales of the book and any of his other work. It was not an ordinary corpora tion in every respect, though. Kent was general manager of Rockwell Kent, Inc, and he received as a bonus all earnings in excess of the dividend total. It also was provided
 that he could buy back the stock any time he liked, and this he did
 in a couple of years.
 So far as anyone knows, however, Kent is still q One-
 man corporation, and could put
 q thousand shares of himself on the market whenever he
 liked.
 It's Not for Fun
 Jake (the barber) Factor, Chi cago victim of kidnapers ,has been getting about Broadway good deal lately-but not for amuse- ment. He comes to new York oc- casionally, dons a disguise, and. ac- companies federal operatives on tours of hot-spots. Nine of the IF
 been caught and Factor Is looking for the other three.
 Tip to publicity seekers: Cur rent formula for crashing Gotham newspapers is to tell the reporters that you have it straight from your dear friend Mary or your old pal Doug that there'll be a Pickford- Fairbanks reconciliation. If you'- re a woman you can cross your knees and smile at the photogra- phers while saying this, and you'll get your picture fh the papers, as Dorothy Mackaill did. Anybody can compete, however. Even Joe
 Jacobs, manager of Max Schmel- ing, has been going around declar- ing solmenly that reunion is i'm l minent. a
 The show must go on! How ward Thurston, the magician, received news of the death of his wife just before time for his act in a theater here. He appeared, and didn't tumble z trick ... s \; About the same time q circus Iaerialist at Madison Square gar
 den WAS swinging on d thigh tra- peze just after learning that her sister. Mickey King, another aeri- alist, had fallen in Cincinnau and might be fatally injured. of water only an eighth of . mile wide. A bridge connecting the isl. land with the mainland practi-
 cally is completed now. and many Est Davlsi's Islanders are planning Ifo take ! short walk and see tht