The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1934-04-30
in
New York
BY PAUL HARRISON

New Notwithstanding Broad
way expected John Curry, the
Tammany boss, to resign on &C
count of. i'll health. He certainly
had a bad code
Walter Chrysler. Jr. complaints
that he's being drawn against his
will into Papa Chrysler's vast in
dustrial web. With the result that
junior hasn't much time for book
printing, art collecting and orches-
ira management Henrik van
Loon collects those off-color acci-
dents which sometimes slip into
newspaper headlines Hard
boiled Ben Hecht has a doll house
on his suburban estate overlook
ing the Hudson river. Built the
house himself. too, and people 1t
with sophisticated Mexican dolls
which, by the way, he doesn't show
to visiting children. If any
Few strollers seem to recognize
Thomas Meighan any more. And
I think it saddens him Mar
guerite Clark (whom I'd never
Fave recognized) went to the Sim
plon club to hear Estelle Taylor
sing. Irene Bordoni and Paul
Whiteman attended the opening
too IN. Speaking of silent-film
stars, find Blanche Sweet Is play
ing with stock company In an
outlying. town. -. When June
Knight left for Hollywood she also
left stricken fellow who sent her
four white orchids every morning,
four purple orchids every eve. /.
Seeing George Jean Nathan
in q theatcr, always think 81
how much he looks like Eddie
Cantor when animated. II
wasn't the play that interested
him the other night, but
Frances IAngfOrd, the night
club singer, who sat beside
Campus Note
| Sociology students at Columbia
University are chuckling over the
discovery that a professor VINO lee
lures on domestic relations has
| been twice divorced. Incident
ally prosperity note), thereM be
a bumper crop of stage, screen and
society divorces this spring.
Circus folk are agog with gossip
about the attention Eleanor Ray
mond, trim little trainer of ele-
plants, is receiving fron1sa certain
grain magnate. It's one of the
very few big-top romances in the
Broadway chorus-girl tradition. ..
| Hotel Elysees has a monkey bar
murals Of monkeys all over the
place. With celebrities chattering
| at the tables. ...t... tst4 (. s. 10
A scout Just returned from Paris
reports that Frances Rich, art
student daughter of Irene, collects
autographs on her bathtub. And
that a Montmartre night club ad-
vertises Twelve Beautiful Hos
tesses from New York City" $3.50.
| Fight for the Renaissance of Forty
second street and Broadway, IA
bled Crossroads of the World
seems in vain. The three legiti-
mate theaters remaining among
| the flea circuses and taxi dance
palaces, soon are to bow to- bur-
lesque and secand-run movies....
The \ ambitious C0bIna
Wright; who just missed lcas-t
ing the S. S. Ilcviathan Tor q
floating night club, now plans
| gay spot atop Rockefeller
| Center.
After the Fight u,
Discovery that Paul Berlenbach
former ELECTROMAGNETIC cham.
pion boxer, is tending the spigots
in local brauhaus, prompted ms
to some research on other once
famous fighters hereabout i.s .
Mike McTeague tends bar in .
nearby suburb. Il. Matty Mathews
welterweight champion Of abou
1900, Is a stagehand working Will
the Follies .. Benny Leonard
whose comeback failed. Is a sports