The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-11-07
In New York
By Paul Harrison

New YOrk,-M eanQeflugSs some of the night clubs, happy in an op- portunity to display a bit of genuine emotion, observed min ute's midnight silence on the anni- versary of Texas Guinan's death.
 But in few places the merry makers made merrier. Cocktails were tilted in toast. Tinkling glasses and wooden !clappers pro- vided a tumultuous requiem. Miss Guinan, who was the noisiest wom- an in Manhattan, would have liked that.
 Buddy Elmer Leterman, writer of insurance policies for most of Broadway, gets about with Peggy Hopkins Joyce .. She, by the way, wears fewer jewels this season. It's Yvonne Printemps, the French half-million dollars worth, they say /. Thomas Meighan has gone back to Hollywood, and without saying why. Estelle Taylor hears that the antique furniture in her rented Hollywood house has been painted white by the new ten ant. >.
 Most of the great ladies of the stage are active again - Katherine Cornell, Ethel Barrymore, Eva Le Gallienne, Sybil Thorndike, Prin- temps, Tallulah Bankhead. And the rumors are growing again that Maude Adams will return .. Miss Bankhead was christened El- lah .. Somebody has recalled that the late Lou Tellegen, by the grini- nest of condolences, once played in "The Picture of Dorian Grey" Like Dorien, aghast at the loss Of his youth and popularity, ho stabbed himself to death.
 Dempsey Doings
 The Dempseys, Jack, Hannah and Jacqueline - have settled permanently in Manhattan, taking a big apartment on the west side of Central Park. He is going into the night clubbing business on a $250,000 scale in huge new place being built for him opposite the Madison Square Garden Grand est thing in gay spots, however, will be the Cafe de L'Opera. Solid glass champagne bar gold plated rail-background of ostrich feath- ers-and every night at the zero Cor bathing) hour, a beautiful gal will descend into a bowl of cham pagne. Then, like Little Eva, she'll be spirited up and away-perhap ps on the lift she gets from the cham pagne .. It's all on paper SO far, but is slated for a New Years opening in the old Sherry build ing.
 I can tell you what John D. Rockefeller, Jr., drinks when he goes to his resplendent Rainbow Room atop the Center skyscraper. Water. Not charged water, either. Valentines Cousin
 A local fiddler is the cousin of the late Rudolph Valentino. Hand- some, and his names Arturo The only. remaining old Broadway is in front of the ven erable Martinique Hotel, where the yellow tones of gaslights are re- produced by modern gadgets. These bring no nostalgia to a fledgling Manhattanite, but it's spot for graybeard "reminiscences 7. That was a trying moment at Waldorf banquet when Mrs Calvin Coolidge was introduced as the nations loveliest and most gracious First Lady. But Mrs James Roosevelt led the applause.
 With the Celebrities
 In a three-block stroll of theater Hobbies, I spotted Dorothy Gish, Jackie Cooper, Will Hayes. Madge Kennedy, Colleen Moore, the Irving Berlins, the brothers Gershwin. Lila Lee, Miriam Hopkins, Rex Beach, Nanette Guilford, Al Smith, Jr.. Douglass Montgomery and Lois Moran. Walter Chrysler, Jr., Frank Buck, George Jean Nathan accom- panied by his gardenia and Frances Langford. Somebody pointed out Mrs Marion Bello, mother of Jean Harlow Then to studio party given by Ben Lucien Burman for Robert Fiaherty. who'll direct the picture from Burman's last book. The place was full of Irish island ers-the Towering Tiger, Maggie and many of the others who ap- peared in Man of Aran." The bag pipers came too, and my ears are still ringing.
 Chez Follies is the only rowdy night club with pre-repeal atmos- phere so thick you could wrap up a sample and take it home Gertrude Stein and her secretary who dress as they please, were kept out of a hotel dining room until someone recognized them and told the head waiter Sophie Fuckers back from her European conquest. Lost 20 pounds. Says King George and Queen Mary are quite well. thank you.