The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-08-03
In New York
BY PAUL HARRISON

New York.-In the big town where you can hear every lam guage spoken, from Iselandic Eskimo to East African Somali, there are almost as many arie- ties of slanguage.
 And it's likely that the Harlem barbarian or the Broadway idiom may prove just as puzzling as some expression from little known Tibetan dialect. If you heard a Negro saying that his gal Is always beatin' her chops in off time" you might not know that he was complaining of her pen- chant for gossip. And if Bow cry bum declared that cop had handed him bundle, would you know that he had dragged him be- fore a judge?
 Broadways favorite compli- mentary adjectives are terrific" and "colossap'--the first mean ing fair" the latter good" Absolutely gigantic" implies an advanced degree of excellence It's seldom used.
 Theater Talks
 In show business there's e n g t h y glossary. Business" means the pantomime part of role. An "angeP is packer of a play. A turkey" is a very bad play that is "jerked' after it has been banned" A turkey" natur- ally lays an egg" which is the designation for getting a cold re- ception.
 Before entering dressing room it is conventional to call, Are you decent?" which means Are you dressed" ?" A brace" is pair of tickets, but q ''hot tick ct" is popular show on which the ticket spectators are thriv- ing. A buy" is the term for large bloc of tickets purchased by the agencies, and "ice" is the ex- tra charge tackled on by ticket brokers. "S.R.O." means stand ing room only" and "B.O." in stage paragon, stands for "box of fice."
 Musicians have slang terms for every instrument, and here are several of them: Shovel-banjo. Cane-bassoon. Rock erusher- accordion. Pretzel-French horn. Meerschaum-saxophone. Lamb chop--violin. Boilermaker-trap drummer. Fog horn-base saxo- phone. Fish horn-soprano saxo- phone. I.icorice stick--clarinet Snake charmer oboe. Horse teeth-piano. Bugle--cornet. A Legree is a leader, and a chaser Is the exist music.
 Dance Lingo
 Among dancers. especially in the taxi dance halls, feet are known as ''cradles" and wise girls are called owls" A ship clip per" is poor dancer, and good dancer is a glider" People who prefer waltzes are dream walk ers' and the double-Lindy addicts are "grasshoppers." The vesti- bule is the lice box" and fat wo- men are called covered wagons" Minnie and Her Man
 Going on down the social scale, drug addicts. Maybe you recall the brash Minnie the Moocher'' song. in which man named Smoky" who was cookie" took Minnie down to China town, an taught her how to kick the gong around" We'll, cokie is a "hophead" who smokes mud" or hop" which is opium. And gongis an opium pipe.
 Narcotics in general are known as "gow" or junk" Narcotics in particular are identified by their first letters--"c" for CO., caine, I'm" for morphine, and so on. Cocaine also Is known as snow" happy dust" and 'coke." "Burny' is powdered cocaine which is inhaled by the addict who wants to go on sleigh ride "Artillery" is the term for hypodermic needles, which are used to inject a drug into vein, or main line.' "Ice tong doc tors' sell decks" of drugs to "junkers' when the whiskers'' and ''uncles" (terms for federal