The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-12-05
In New York
BY PAUL HARRISON

New York = Meanderings: The entomoiogists, who aid farmers by controlling insect pests, have been holding a national convention here. understand they're trying to de- velop variety of grasshopper that will eat nothing but mortgages.
 Manhattan society, for some reason, has been going rustic. There was the County Fair Bail at the Waldorf-Astoria, with scarcely a single city slicker in attendance And the Milky Way Ball at the Park Lane. com plete with two blue-blooded cows for a deb's milking contest. The milk went into egg nogs.
 I'm told, too. that several so- cialite matrons eke out their shrunken incomes by selling home. made delicacies. One specializes in mayonnaise and Russian dress ing; sells quantities of 1t to ca- terers and the snootier stores Another makes preserves and mar malades, and more prosperous friends give her big orders for the stocking of their pantries in town and country homes A third, more for the fun of it than any thing else, devises extra fancy canapes and hors d'oeuvres which her chauffeur delivers to people giving cocktail parties.
 
 Idealizing Nudity
 Some of the new Sally Rand items include her statement that she is trying to "idealize nudity; the fact that the huge balloons behind which she dances cost $27 each; and that the cabaret in which she appears bills her name immediately above sign which advises: No Cover Charge'' |. About those balloons: she uses two new ones each week-she's forever afraid one might break. Plenty of spectators have schemed to touch a cigaret to one of them. Miss Rand hires her own orchestra leader. her own electrician to op- crate the spotlight, a harpist. a couple of maids. a business man. ager and secretary. Her wage is $2O00 a week.
 It's about time for Manhattan's Florida hegira, and big doings are promised. Barney Gallant. long the night-time mayor of Green wich Village. says his Miami club will be the last gay word |. ideas about that. His Miami club will be full of Carroll cuties and ready for a New York opening Bob Hope and Harry Richman tell the funniest stories which are of l the least use to columnists |. Henry King prizes baton given hihe bv fha Duke 0f Kent
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 Chubby Celebrities #
 Best place to spy on celebrities is the Saturday night parties of the Cosmo Club, which has TalI luiah Bankhead. Lucienne Boyer. | Howard Chandler Christy, McClel- land Barclay, Brock Pemberton and Linda Watkins on it's board of directors James Roosevelt has developed an aversion for photog- raphers. Elliott Roosevelt doesn't like to be snapped in night clubs. | Anna Roosevelt Dall still poses | graciously wherever she's found. |. =. At Rudy Vallee's Broadway
 opening the other evening, his father. unrecpgnized, went about
 begging autographs from Broad way folk at the tables Gene Tunney and Bernard Climber are
 the Damon and Pythias, of Man. | haitian.
 | NOtables at Play l More musical notes: Jolly Co., burn. orchestra leader at the Rockefellers Rainbow Room, IS the Ike Hoover of the gay spots.
 He keeps, and carefully guards. a nightly record of his observations
 of famous folk at play Ted Lewis built a 34-room mansion
 years ago and hasn't lived in it q month. K | Still lot of Hollywood people about. In a couple of ,theater lob-
 bies I spotted Bebe Daniels. Nancy Carroll, Ricardo Cortez, Dennis King, Chevalier and Mae Murray. |. Also Bobby Jones, Beatrice
 Lillie, w. K. Vanderbilt and Jimmy
 Donahue. the latter. though very
 blond, is not exactly the white
 haired boy of the Woolworth | family