The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-03-15
In
 New York
By PAUL HARRISON

New York. rk.--MeanderingS. The | towns gone silly over movie stars. And it's ten-to-one shot that psy biologists who talk about "the predatory male" have never watch ed 0 mob of women stalking Clark | Gable.
 Or Buddy Rogers or Max Baer, for that matter. And Guy Rob- ertson, star of current musical. Is being made miserable these days by autograph hunters be- cause he looks like James Cagney. Gets so mad, he says, that he'd like to haul off and sock few dithery fappers-except that then they'd know he was Cagney, and would love it .. Mov1e-struck kids even pause in front of a book shop on upper Broadway to re- mind each other that Joan Blon- dell once worked there :. Or go past the restaurant that has the high-chair that is supposed to have belonged to Mae West =. Sports traffic on the slopes of afternoon when Jeanette MacDon- ald and Bob Ritchie went coasting there And there was minor riot at the stage premiere of "Dodsworth' when such Holly woodsmen as Paul Muni, the Marxes, Edmund Lowe, Harry Warner and Reuben Mamoulian passed under the marquee. Broadway Hobby riders
 Theatrical producers, generally supposed to lead furious hectic I,a a,,l xt,r,r after all. Their hobbies prove. it.
 Dwight Deere Wiman and Lau-c renee Schwab have yachts. Jed Harris used to have one, but sold 1t when he discovered that both his skipper and the cook were writing plays to be submitted to him. Rowland Stebbins is part. ner in a Wall street brokerage firm; says finance is his hobby and the theater his profession. Arthur Hopkins, John Golden and Max Gordan find time to play golf.
 Crosby Gaige has printing shop at his country estate where he turns out arty pamphlets. Also collects rare books, is an amateur cabinet maker, and IS famed as a cook. William A. Brady, Jr, raises and rides horses. Tom Weatherly is an amateur photog- rapher. Guthrie McClintic collects stamps-a fact not known by certain author who tried to sell him a play which poked unmerci- full fun at philatelists.
 A. c. Blumenthal bought a bau- bIe at snooty jewelry salon the other day, and people whose busi- ness it isn't are sure there'll be reconciliation with Peggy Fears. .. Libby Holman, Florida bound, took along a play manuscript. If she likes it the producer will offer to hold it for her until next sea- son, when she plans a comeback .. Hollywood hasn't changed Hal LeRoy. the shy. grinning, gang lingly-graceful dancer, just turned 21, who has returned after mak- ing a couple of pictures. Broad ways glad he hasn't changed; for years he has been Exhibit A in refutation of the charge that there is no unspoiled celebrity on the Main Stem.
 One of this columns snOOp-
 ers- rs-withOut-pOrtfOIiO reports
 that TaIluIah Bankhead is hn-
 ally in love, and with big
 business man. Also that Mari-
 lyn Miller Is in love with a
 big (physically big) tennis
 star. And that Mae Murray
 is focusing those big eyes on
 big orchestra director. Mistaken Identity
 Another agent has just snow shoed in from the suburbs with a tale of one of these CWA com panies of actors who go about giv- ing plays in school auditoriums, museums and - in this case--a mental hospital. Some of the more normal patients were assigned as stagehands, and one fellow ap- peared so rational that an actor got to questioning him.
 Don't get any peculiar ideas about me-" said the man confi- dsntially. I'm perfectly all right, but I'm a friend of the superin- tendent and he asks me to help with affairs like this from time to time. You see, having written so many plays, I'm quite familiar with the mechanics of the thea
 The CWA actor was impressed. Of course I didn't suspect that you were a--er-patient here," he stammered. But may ask your name, sir?1
 The fellow struck naughty pose. Why. you. poor ham!" he exclaimed. T am William Shake speare!"
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