The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-05-08
In New York
By PAUL HARRISON

New York.--It looks like .
 dampish and very gay summer, es-
 peclaiiy good for wild oats. Road-
 houses are blooming along the highways, and metropolitan roof
 tops are bright with awnings, mu- sic and cash customers.
 Ex-speakeasics, blinking in their first spring sunshine, arc expand. {. ing into backyard gardens. And
 Paris itsolf won't boast as many
 sidewalk restaurants, what with Gotham drugstores, even, putting out a couple of tables and q potted palm. The sunken plaza In Rocke- felior Conter Is to have m outdoov bar and tables next to tho cstab- lishmonts of Henri, who is sup
 posed to have invented erepes Sugette,
 WhOOpcc Comes High
 High in the air, all tho hotels
 have boon rofurblshing their sky
 salons In preparation for tho out.
 door trend. Tho Starlight Roof
 Gardon of the Waidorf-Astoria ia
 a spacious perch with bamboo
 bar. Enrie Madriguera's music, Margo's dances, Garments songs Tho Sky Gardens of tho St
 Moritx, overlooking Central Park,
 are blue and silver now, and have
 their bar in the gossip room '. [.
 Ovor on the Jersey cliffs above tho
 Hudson Is Ben Marden's Riviera,
 one of the grandest spots In night
 life anywhere .. for fastidiouS
 dining there's a penthouse cafe
 called Bella Vista
 Bobby Sanford has started east | l..s Al lwA AhAkuhAnt A.
 vue. It's really on n Hhowbont,
 way up tho Hudson and transfer
 to the rcmodeled schooner Duc-
 cancer, which is anchored off Tar
 rytown. After the, festivities the steamer appears for the return to town Tho historic old Glare.
 mont Inn on Riverside Drive, where George Washington on 70 hnd temporary headquarters, has sliced its prices and will have ta- bics on the lawn, and dance orr chcstrn {. And there's likely to be free public dancing in. Central
 Park, with 75-pioce CWA orr
 chcstra. ,,
 Homecoming DingO 1 Word comes that Louis Wilson, proprietor of MontparnaHse'a Din-
 20, Is homosick for New York, His business is aiIing, too, because America in great numbers seem to be staying away from Paris. So the Dingo will move, here in Octo- bcr. So, probably, will Joe
 Zelli, another languishing expatri- ate Lou Schwartz, high-life imprcsarl0 who blaxcd wide trail through tho prohibition era, ls back in town and making all sorts of plans. He's tho fellow who helped to prominence by the night club route such people as Joan Crawford. Helen Morgan, Ethel Norman, Harry Richman and Hell on Kane
 EurOgDc at Home
 Billy Rose, the theatrical pro-
 ducer who. remodeled sh0whouse
 into n glorified night club, tho ca-
 sin0 dc Parec, and is taking $40,- 00O n week out of it. now Ia In the midst of another experiment. He found another theatcr and has
 made 1t into q genuinely conti- nental-type music hall sfor the
 masses--opcn from II a. m. 10 the following 2 n. m: vaudeville news
 reels, dancing on the stage, hos
 tesses. and n hundred singing walt
 ers All this and luncheon for GO | cents: dinner for n dollar.
 It's my guess that Mir Rose fwho by any other name would still be
 a genins) will be able to provide
 hostcsses and avoid criticism. At
 least, he's the only one who ever
 succeeded in renting out glgOlos without offending anybody At the Paree, where even highest aassiety drops in for an evening of lusty fun, male dancing partners. for hire, are a cherished institution. Atfired in tails, with green carna- tons for Identification, and wear
 Ing q robot-like air of rather grim propriety, they pace a measured tread with ladies whose escorts don't want to dance. Or can't.