The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-01-13
In New York
BY PAuL HARRISON

Post and the sociologists to analyZe the trend, if they care to. But the fact is that some of the town's s most redoubtable strongholds of social conservatism have become what Broadway likes to call "hot spot" where people feel obliged to go to see or to be seen.
 There's the Park Lane, which thought it was ying pretty high when it began to be popular as a place for te launching> of debs, with modest little parties and q few bottles of champagne. To-day, though, the rolling bars are being trundled about, busy as anything, and there are nudes on the walls of the cafe, which is jammed with cocktail drinkers.
 The highland mighty Waldorf, with it's scattered drink-sipping rooms, is a more cheerful and in- formal place these days. Then there are the Marguery, the Plaza, the Chatham and-well, nearly all of them.
 The Hotel weylin, which hadn't had any excitem ent in a long time, came right out with a bar-cafe soon after repeal, and the other day started holding cocktail-dan- sants in its Sale Directoire /. |. The place was jammed with young things that afternoon Hedging socialites dancing in that peculiar out-of-joint posture they've adopt ed. Over at one end of the room Mrd vUtllto IJtrtoIinCnn xuAc giving a party for her children. The girls are 15 and 16.
 A couple of old ladies = about 70, at a guess - came in. They'd been having tea here for years. These strange new goings-on were a little bewildering, but they were shown to table and soon began looking about them with obvious enjoyment and approval. When the waiter came with their order a few minutes later he carried no tea and cakes-but a Manhattan and a Martini.
 Notable Night Clubbers
 Almost everybody has been having at least an experimental fling at night-clubbing. Cover nor and Mrs Herbert H. Lehman and a party of ten had fun at the Place Pigale the other even. ing. That just gives you an idea.
 For all that, however, there still are lot of people whom you never need expect to see in the gay spots. James A. Farley (to continue with political figures) doesn't enjoy them. Nor does Mayor La Guardia. Al Smith, so far as anyone can recall, never has seen the inside of cabaret.
 The three elder Roosevelt
 children enjoy night-clubbing
 especially Mrs Dall. John Coolidge never has indulged
 in it, though; nor have any
 of the younger Rockefellers.
 Edsel Ford has visited the
 Greenwich Village Barn,
 where things are rustic but
 never rough.
 Of theatrical folk, who as a group supply most of the glamor- ous names to the curfew roster, there are quite a lot of stay-at- homes. Years ago Eugene O'Neill was inveigled into making the rounds, but he vowed then and there he'd never check his hat in another gay spot. George M. Co., han doesn't like them either; nor do Ethel Barrymore, the brothers Barrymore, Katharine Cornell, Eva LeGallienne, Alfred Lupt or Lynn Fontanne. Noel Coward can be dragged, protesting, to a table in some secluded corner. Eddie Cantor goes night-clubbing. only when he's the guest of honor.
 Among the Flyers
 The Lindberghs, as you've guessed, never have been seen in a night club or speakeasy. Ame- lia Earhart feels the same way about them. Clarence Chamberlin is the only nocturnal gadabout from the ranks of famous flyers, although Sir Hubert Wilkins, when he isn't off looking for a pole, likes to go dancing with his pretty wife . Babe Ruth, even out of training finds no kick in Ia floor-show chorus. Jack Demp- sey, when he's in town, and Gene Tunney are fairly frequent pa- irons.
 Irwin s. Cobb doesn't get con- vivial in public. Neither do sin- clair Lewis. George Jean Nathan or Theodore Dreiser, SO far as night clubs are concerned. Each of them, though, has favorite little dining spots where he may cit with friends until closing time.