The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-10-24
In New York.
nv PAUL HARRISON

New York-Me eaHuSIihSs - :. :. s' way is called the Main stem anu sometimes the Mean. Stem' put Twain Stem fits it best. It's T Sas Way, and a Play Way; tne us sa. Regret and the Bouievaro uss Hey-Hey. It's a midway, ... ps manent sort of county iair wi'h trimmings. N.u,, york and one of the longest ave- mes in the world. Yet the sec t;on that has made 1t famous IS only a dozen blocks, from Times Snuare to Fifty-fourth street. ms is fine region of theaters and ho- | tels. night clubs and restaurants in Pan Alley, flea circuses, fiasny shops. dance halls aution rooms | and shooting galleries. Gaudy, nt- tIe tawdry. and bawdy in spots. But that's Broadway. . | Ginger Rogers is shopping. saw two bellhops unloading taxi- full of her packages at the wal dorf Sixty members or the Navy football squad turned every head when they attended Lie ! Begins at S:4O'-but not a single autograph hunter dared approach them. The Edsel Fords slipping soup at the Colony. A cara from Sophie Tucker, who'd been week-ending in Scotland and, she said, s.sure having fun".. A card 1 from Cynthia White, Hollywood l ing .Rubinoff, the hddlers rounding the night spots with . simmer, quieter Peaches Brown" ing.
 The Lure of Beauty
 r Competitions so keen among Manhattan beauty parlors tnat some of them are serving free cocktails to their customers. ;... | Max Reinhardt, the lavish produc- CT. may be lured from California | by the Rockefellers to take charge of their Music Hall here, the worlds largest theater.
 Now they're going to manufac- ture ultraviolet ray slot machines. Drop in a quarter, stand under 1t Il for seven minutes and you have Il the equivalent of a couple Of hours of baking under Florfua sun. Nita Naldfs so thin her old ! cen fans wouldn't know her. Slim for a purpose, too; shes plotting q comeback. The little picture house, just off Broadway. which featured approved German films, has changed policy and manageme It's now Yiddish theater. Joe Cook is a work on a new Broadway show. ..... Buddy Rogers goes back to the movies, sailing in few weeks to
 work for Q British concern.
 Fan Fare
 A lass named Eleanor Wood has stopped doing a fan dance in a local nightery, and now cavorts in a veil. The fan tickled A thousand new seats, comfortable enough to Hull one through 3
 Wagnerian opera, have been inc stalled for the lesser customers of the Metropolitan Opera House. But boxholders still will have to sit in the old stiff straight chairs, which are fine for fidgeting. =. Least
 ballyhooded society wedding was that of Charlotte Dorrance, the soup heiress. and William Wright. Yet she's in the Doris Duke class,
 with a fortune of $120,000,00O and an income of something like $1 a
 minute....
 Jack Denny and Abe Lyman. two of the top-notch dance orches- tra leaders. can't dance. 1. May
 fair House, opposite the Manhat- tan home of the Roosevelts, opened a cocktail bar the other afternoon Highest wine cellar
 in the world is on the sixty-fourth floor of the main skyscraper in
 Rockefeller Center. It's the sup-
 ply house for the night club in
 the floor above. Incidentally, that building is so large that a
 whole second mezzanine floor in one wing-10.000 square feet of space-was lost for two years.
 It was discovered the other day
 when an official went exploring.
 He found it wasn't even on the
 maps of the renting office.
 Not even such distinguished
 visitors as Yvonne Printemps, Dame Sybil Thorndike or Lucienne
 Boyer have received anything like
 the idolatrous attention accorded
 Sean o'Casey. the Irish dramatise
 who wears the shabbiest clothes
 of all celebrities. .. Agnes Ayres
 is in town, reading play scripts. ... .Gino Malo. born Janet Flynn
 in Brooklyn, but French actress
 now, has such Parisian accent
 that Broadway scarcely can un- derstand her.