The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-01-19
In New York
RvPAJJL HARRISON

New York. - odds and ends, mostly ends: On the New York po- lice force there's a man named Kopp, There's also a Dick, a Law, a Judge, a Gang, a Waitwcrd, a Proudfoot, and a Fattibone. And an Irving Berlin
 One of the rickety pushcarts in the squalid outdoor market on Houston street-where one can buy anything from stale bread for penny to secondhand pair ot shoes for dime-offers among it's old magazines and tattered bokos copy of tho 1881 edition of the Social Register Glamorous Tallulah Bankhea9 has two superstitions concerning the first night of 8 new play There must be on her dressing table a photograph of her mother who died when she was born. And shortly before curtain time she and her two secretaries must sip a little champagne-and then smash their glasess
 Mrs, Charles Sabin, head of the Women's Organization for Prohibition Reform, still is
 receiving dozens of cases of fine wines and liquors from grateful makers and import CTS. Mrs Sabin sends the stuff to New York hospitals. Bank Notes
 A fellow who works in bank reports on the strange things found in safety deposit boxes when they're forced open because of long overdue rent. One box contained nothing but soiled powder puff; another held only an old brass key; third a picture of a little boy. Lots of them contain love letters and address books which would be highly negotiable and doubtless were being held fod that very purpose. Blackjacks and revolvers occasionally are discov. | cred, and a checkup almost always reveals that the person who rented the box is in prison.
 Philip Merrivale, a swash-buck. ling principal in the Theatei Guilds production of "Mary ot Scotland" resents the report abou l town that after he left Oxford h. broke into theatricals by carrying a spear in a revival of the Greel l tragedy "Orestes." MT Merrivalt was not a spear-carrier, but { | palm-waver. A palm-waver, ht points out, must have technique His career would be over if he hap. pened to tickle the star on the nose with a frond and make her sneeZe | A mother and daughter who arc 1 each others Severest critics are Blanche Bates and Frances Bates Creel. When matinees don't con. flict the famous elder trouper goes to see Frances act with Miriam Hopkins in "Jezebel." And Fran. ces, when she gets chance watches her mother support Kath. arine Hepburn in "The Lake,"
 After 30 Years
 r. Fritzi Scheff, who was one oi Broadway's very greatest sensa. tions nearly 30 years ago when she sang kiss Me Again" in "Mlle Modiste", is working as hostess ir the taproom of the Hotel Bucking. ham during the cocktail hour Seems she has house in Connecti. cut with a frequently-exten mortgage on it. For more than 6 year there has been talk along Broadway of giving a mortgage. lifting benefit for Fritzi. Bui somehow, nothing ever came of it
 So she took Q job in tap. room. "How do you dol beams the gracious lady who once panicked a whole generation Oi thcatergoers. Would you care tt sit here? I'll send a waiter right over" Some of the patrons look at her curiously, wondering who she Is.
 Emma Maschke--pardon-Hele Emma Morgan Maschke-no long
 CT perches on the piano at thu Simplon Club, singing those wistfu
 songs and making those heart
 disturbing gestures with her whit, hands. She says, in fact, that she'l
 never sit on Q plano again any
 where. But contrary to man! reports of La Morgan's conversion to domestlcIty, she isn't going tt quit show business. She's nakini
 n picture now--a film version o
 "Frankie and Johnny" And mex
 she's going to star in n play calIe.
 Memory" soon to 70 Into rehears
 al. Did you know, by th'
 way, that she's An ichthyophllo
 Woil, she iR--a ralgor Of fancy fish
 There are 22 tanks of tropical OK
 otieH in her apartment, and ghe ha
 won prizes from the New Y0rl
 Aquarium society.