The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-07-25
In New York
By PAUL HARRISON

Y
 New ork.-Meanderings They tell it as a fact that when certain playboy proposed marriage recently the girl insisted that he'd have to put aside reassuring amount for a future divorce settlement. :. At this rate the Tin Pan Alley lyric ists had better be rhyming some songs about "We'll be free, dear, you and me, dear-with our little decree, dear. Or something like that.
 Cosmopolitan note: Rose Quong, the Chinese actress born in Aus tralia, comes to America from her home in London and eats French food in the Japanese room of the Ritz Carlton.
 Name of Name!
 Whats in name is often a lot of nonsense. Funniest one among the chorus girls is Gay Orlova; most obviously assumed, Dawn O'Day. ... The real name of O. 2. Whitehead. a young actor who used to be Katharine Hepburn's broth er's roommate at Harvard, is Doth out Zabriskie Whitehead. ... Most yacht names are strange, but James King Clarke of Philadelphia has a boat christened Xqqme. =. And Michael Arlen has named his next book, 'Hell!'" Said the Duchess"
 Bert Lahr, the comedian. is Broadway's most inveterate pessi- mist. .. Peter Arno can play the saxophone, but doesn't anymore. ;. The recently divorced Mrs William Gibbs McAdoo can, and will, do hand-stands and cartwheels.
 Bad Bets
 A few of the summer roadhouses keep rolling along-on gambling wheels. If a patron loses enough money he can have dinner on the house. If he wins-well, one shore resort charged a man $10 for cook ing fish he had caught himself. ... And speaking of gambling, so many card swindlers have been working one of the ship lines that the old lady passengers have even given up solitaire; arfaid they'll be l cold -decked into cheating thcm- selves.
 Watching the new summer revue at the Casino de Paree the other night, some of us got to speculating
 on what the Legionnaires of De- cency would do about it if they could. For although the show out strips everything else in town, it also is one of the cleanest. and that's something to ponder over. Lots of producers can take show | costumed in Mother Hubbards and r fa l. n a show costumed like Mother Hub | bard's cupboard and handle it with
 such academic detachment that mo- body would blush. II can't say
 that my Aunt Hattie wouldn't blush at few of the Farce numbers. But I'll bet she wouldn't leave before | q. m.
 Flappcr Fanny
 Gladys (Flapper Fanny Parker
 had fashion show at the Biltmore recently. and one of the sa:,siety
 spectators offered to bet that a eel | tain model could not sit down in | the skin-tight dress she was wear- | ing without bursting a gussct. The model was called back and s; t down. She crossed her legs. Then.
 in a mood of reckless showmar
 ship, she dropped a handkerchief and leaned over to pick 1t up. It
 was a tense, strained moment. But
 nothing happened except that Miss Parker collected the bet and the
 skcptic then had to walk home be-
 cause she'd lost her taxi fare.
 Tearing Around
 If you ever wondered what un- employed but wealthy young men do in the daytime I can tell you what one such young man did one day.
 He puffed into cocktail hour party on lower Fifth Avenue ex- lively exhausted. What had he been doing to get Himself into such a state? Why, he had been tearing pages out of the classified telephone directory. Just one page from each directory,
 because that pag ecoptained some advertisements which he considered amusingly risque. He wanted lot of the sheets to send to friends, so he had started uptown, at the Sherry Netherland and the Savoy Plaza, and had worked south. Went to 2S places and stole 26 pages from 26 directories. Fearfully try ing, and all that; probably his friends wouldn't appreciate the time and effort involved.
 No, probably they won't.