The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-11-16
In New York
BY PAUL HARRISON

New York - First thing you know they'll be calling this island Womanhattan. It's that feminized. Think of the theaters, dependent upon actresses and chorus girls; of night clubs, which have to be girlesque; of shops and stores. and women executivesS and the vast cloak-and- dress industry
 Nobody could call New York a mans town. There are women brokers, women liquor merchants, women orchestras. Women domin- ate society in all it's strata. Wid- ows control many vast family fortune which, in turn. helps con- imagine.
 BurleSque Queen
 Wome nare prominent in the production department of the the- ater-writing plays, selecting them, designing, directing, staging. There's even a woman burlesque producer, and she's as prominent and successful in her line as the much-publicized Brothers Minsky. Her name is Mrs. Stella Wilner, and before the war she was just a secretary in a chemical concern. A few years later she married Max Wilner, a Broadway snowman who had been in partnership with Sig- mund Romberg.
 Through a series of deals and circumstances which he himself scarcely understood, he found himself managing the Irving Place Theater. It wasn't money-mak1 CT, so he was delighted with a gen. erous offer from burlesque con- cern to rent the house. Mrs. Will ner intervened. The production, she pointed out, showed clearly enough that there was money in the strip-and-grind business. So she would hire herself couple Of low-comedians, soubrette. and a chorus. and would become an im- presario of skin-O opera.
 It has worked out very well in- deed. Some of the most torrid
 shows intown are unveiled at Irv- ing Place, and she now has ten companies on the road. Mrs. Will ner personally doesn't care for burlesque.
 But Won't Go To Fights You wouldn't expect to find a woman in the sports industry Yet there's Marge Began, who's known, liked and trusted by all the big gest fans and promoters from oRst- master General Farley to Jack Dempsey. For eight years she has handled no end of detail regarding major fights, because she is secre- tary to Jimmy Johnston, match maker fo Madison Square Garden. But she's best known because she handles all the tickets. Knows ex- actly whom to turn away, whom to put at ringside; and how to seat, and treat, visiting governors and senators and such. Miss Began, however, does not go to prize fights.
 In a Pool Hall, Too
 On Broadway there are women booking agents, women song plug gers, band leaders, promoters, and all the rest. A woman runs one of the biggest pool rooms. She is Ruth Amelia Greenleaf, former wife of Ralph Greenleaf, the pool shark who has won all the titles worth having.
 It isn't a "pocket billiard em- porium," or a billiard academy" over which Mrs. Greenleaf pre- sides. She runs a plain pool hall where men can throw cigarettes on the floor, and where there's no in- terior decoration to remind them of their homes. When wives tell ephone, however, she answers voice, and refuses to lie for her customers.
 She has a very nice voice. She spent her childhood in he Far East, an dlater sang in vaudeville in this country. Her best number was Japanese Sandman" After she and Greenleaf married they toured together for ten years while he played in tournaments. She guesses they saw little too muc hof each other. Anyway she saw the interior of many pool hall and decided she, knew how to ru none. No, she doesn't play.
  Magazine Magnate
 The youngest and most prosper ous publisher in the country is a woman. A woman named Catherine McNeilis. She had the atrical as- pirations a few years ago; tried an dtried to get almost any Kind of a job with almost any kind of producer. But they all doubted that she had any talent. the dickens she
 In 1929, while wondering what the dickens she was going to do
 for a living. she had an idea
 magazines for the 5-and-10-cent stores. The chain-store magnates were only half convinced: they told her she could print 20,000 copies of a magazine and they'd try to sell it. She printed. instead, an even million. They sold. Now
 Miss McNeiis gets out six maga- zines, and they're still selling. She has made. I'm told a tidy million