The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-07-07
In New York
Rx PAUL HARRISON

New YOrk-MeaQQerluS 0CdTS 1 of the Wall street bombing years ago still show on the J. P. Morgan building. Each month Morgan sends out checks to the people who were injured in that explosion. And has arranged for this private charity as long as any of the vic- All her millions couldn't keep Doris Duke from getting sunburned | <. Incidentally, society gossip IS anticipating her engagement to James H. R. Cromwell. He's a ste pson of a senior Morgan part ner, but writes books belaying the capitalistic system. And nobody knows what Doris thinks about that Young Corliss Lamont, son of another Morgan banker. has a wife who sympathizse with his radical activities, which lately got him arrested for picketing, along with Senator Hiram Bingham's | third son, Alfred Lamont IS part owner of theater which shows Russian films.
 Swanky Cafeteria
 | Hotels are restoring the convert | charge, and night club tariffs have | otdItSu hC dutuAuA VIII see still more of the oversize cab arets which right after repeal be- gan to spell ruin for the small, in- innate spots Possibly the only cafeteria in the world with convert charge is the one on Sher- idan Square in Greenwich Village. For months the management made no objection to the presence of dreamy radicals, poets and artists who'd spend an afternoon or even- ing-sometimes an afternoon AND evening-over a round of nickel coffee while they discussed Marx, Mertz and Matisse. But when the place became so popular as a Bo- hemian salon that there wasn't room for diners, 25-cent tax was levied for the privilege of sitting around.
 About town: Kay Francis and l Townsend Martin, Queenie Smith, Mae Murray and Peggy Wood at a cocktail party Mario Chal- mee, Vincent Lopez, Samuel Barry more Colt, Humphrey Bogart and Daphne Warren Wilson (prettiest of the actresses, think) at Tony's l.. The Will Hayes entertaining MT and Mrs Richard Barthelmess at the Waldorf In a theater crowd-Pola Negri, with a big blond man didn't recognize. She says she's going back to Hollywood this autumn. With contract.
 Gossip on the Rialto
 1 If I were a small boy and had a piece of chalk I could go around writing: George Jean Nathan likes Sylvia Sidney" Richard Bennett, papa of Constance and Joan, will come back to the stage. Fred Stones daughter Dorothy steps into Marilyn Miller's role in "As Thousands Cheer" still the biggest hit hereabout. And it hap pens that she'll dance with her own husband, for Charles Collins already is a member of the cast . There used to be slave mar ket in Wall street, and the enter- tainments given by the Negroes quartered there were the origin of minstrel shows
 Max Baer's big-little brother Buddy has menacing talents other than the ability to swing his fists. He croons. Also he gives imita- tions of such people as Joe Penner j.. The MIRA can't attend to ev- erything. Recently chorus girl complained to the regional labor board that producer had made unwelcome advances to her Katherine Hepburn wasn't much daunted by her last unhappy stage experience. She'll be in another Broadway play in the winter. |
 Surprise!
 Barney Gallant is chuckling over a dinner party planned for tee totaler friend. A magician has been hired as waiter, and out of the spot of trick cocktail shaker will come three kinds of cocktails for the guests, plain water for the guest of honor A Broadway dentist named pr Milton Bender has been the confidant of scores of show folk-one patient might be a producer looking for a certain type of actress, and the next patient might be that certain type of actress looking for job. So the dentist has given up his practice to become theatrical agent.
 Mountebank Prince Mike Rom- anoff can't squelch his Iowa in- stincts when he gets really angry. Drops his cane and his uppity man. ners and wades in with his fists. At least, he did the other evening . Centuries before city slickers began selling Brooklyn Bridge and City Hall to visiting yokels, the Raritan Indians had sold Staten Island six times to different groups of white men Newest varia- tion on the old gold-brick swindle is brass filings for gold dust.
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