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

New York-Meanderings Cos sipy Broadway, which will dig up your past in order to bury your future, has couple of axioms-- "Snoop, look and listen, and Never hit man when he's down; kick him.
 There rae more night clubs in one block of Fifty-second street, and more restaurants in one block on Forty-seventh, than on any other two blocks in the world <. Ben Lyons and Bebe Daniels hold hands in the theater. So do the Irving Berlins Sam Harris, who has cause for rejoicing, al- ways looks glum Broadway stenographers have a noontime cocktail hour =. Big Bob Hope l is just as funny offstage. like his definition of a an-dancer-a nud-
 ist with her own cooling system.
 Foresight
 To a party for Libby Holman at Howard Dietz's Village place, and find most of the showfolk there. Arthur Schwartz, composer of | Revenge With Music, plays snatches of some new tunes he's
 working on. Miss Holman, all in | black, curls up on a couch and chats of her happiness at being | back in the whirl of things. 1lka Chase, daughter of Vogue's dow-
 ager editor, sips ice water. Other evening Prince Mike Ro-
 manoff was suggesting half-face- tiously that somebody ought to
 stage a benefit for him, lest cred- itors cause his arrest and inter- rupt his stage career. An hour la ter he was arrested .. Some the ater goers, tolerant enough to the plot of "The Children's Hour, have been shocked that children" | have been allowed to play in it. Fact is, that they are not young 1 sters; Florence McGee, who has the central role of a particularly vicious little girl, has two chil-
 dren of her own.
 Doggy Restaurant
 Beefsteak Charlie's, for 25 years a rendezvous for BroadwayS sportier rowd, didn't stay closed.
 Hayden, the fattest headwaiter in
 town, has turned on the lights | again Everybody's having 8 ltry at Towie. the new variation of
 contract bridge in which three people bid for party-exposed dummy. Personally, I deplore 1t l I've just heard of much l tougher game tha thas been going | on for years between four Yale | professors, William Lyon Phelps, Albert Keller, John Berdan and the school registrar. a MT. Mer- ritt, have devised a kind of pi- nochle that uses "A decks of cards l-all in play at once.
 A doggy lady, who happens to own chow with hte sourest tenn per inall the canine world, hap pened to mention the other day that she always lunches at the up- putty Colony because her pet seems to like it. I pressed for details, and learned that dogs are I checked at the coatroon, ensconc- ed on cushioned chairs, and given
 a tasty lunheon of their own. | White meat of chicken every day, minced with c couple of vege- tablese. The patrician pooches do not tire of the chicken because the combinations of vegetables
 arec arefully changed three times
 a week. For . beverage, grade A
 milk.
 Noted Notables
 At the Chapeal Rouge, two l princesses-Obolen and DoDna
 Torlonia. Also an ex-Princess Mdi-
 vani, now Mae Murray Ricardo i Cortez, curling his moustache.
 Konrad Bercovici. chewing his.
 Doris Duke, looking as though she
 were about to cry The May fair party, and Lily Damita, Man.
 cy Carroll, Dorothy Fields. Linda | Watkins, Lois Moran and Ina
 Claire In a taxi stopped for light at Forty-seventh, street, Gene Tunney, bowling with laughter as he dangled some, sort of toy =. Rounding a Broadway corner
 alone. Noel Coward.
 Circling
 Note on geometry and morals: Many a Broadway rounder gets
 in volved in 8 triangle and has trouble squaring himself.
 l Tn a theater lobby, Billy See man and Phyllis Haver. Also Cor
 rinne Griffith, another name that l ought to click fin memories With all the talk of child prodi- gies, only the music critics raved about three who appeared as solo ists at Carnegie Hall the other eve ming. There was Margot Ros. g,
 and Max Rosen, 13, and Giorgio Ricci, 12, brother of Ruggiero.
 They played piano, harp and cello,
 Mozart, Debussy and Saint-Saen, and seemed to think nothing of 1t. |