The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-01-06
In New York
By PAUL HARRISON

By PAUL HARRISON
 New York--M Meanderings: Over the holidays there were fewer hos pitalizcd cases of alcoholism than in previous years. But some of the celebrants were seeing things .
 one fellow, in evening dress and dragging leash and vacant dog collar behind him, appeared in Daves Blue room and tackled two or three times to an anchorage by the cashier. Bring us," he com. manded, fifty cents worth of raw ground becf--on plate." The mea, appeared and was paid for. The man put the dish on the floor and jiggled the leash. Here y'are, boy Eat your supper" While Broad wayites looked on wonderingly some snickering, the fellow stood there patiently, looking at the place where Q dog would have been hao there been dog inside the collar Finally he gave up. II guess nc doesn't like it," he said sadly "Cmon, y'mutt." And out he went with the ectoplasmic pooch trottint obediently behind.
 Clifton Webb, the high-hat
 song and dance man, says 1ib- by Holman plans a return tO
 the stage but perhaps not be-
 fore next fail. She already has
 turned down some tremendous
 movie offers
 One of the chorus men In "Lel 'Em Eat Cake" used to be q rabbi! His name is David Gross. and he quit his religious work because he believes there should be a single universal religion. Having q fine voice, he drifted into show business .. David Wark Griffith ano Mack Sennett went swimming to. gether in the Park Central pool the other day. Back in the old BIO. graph days, 1t was Grifhth whc broke the glorifier of the bathing girl into the movie game.
 "Yoohoo, prospcrityw
 The new Manhattan telephone directory reveals an upturn in optl' mism. Twenty-three concerns have sprung up calling themselves Pros perity" something -or-other. And 35 establishments, dealing in every thing from dresses to fish, arc named .New Deal" "Tht Zzyx," a club on Forty-fourtf street, retains It's 1ast-place listing but competition is growing keenei for first position. The A. A. A. Acc Box company, for example, hal jumped ahead of the A. A. A. Aar' on Charcoal company by changing its name to the A. A. A. A. A. A Ace Box company
 New Workers who think then town boasts the most unusual nigh clubs should read. in the magazine Billboard, of the cave cabaret beint built near Bowling Green, Ky. Al underground, 1t Is to occupy one oi the larger grottoes of the region and a lighted waterfall of the mys terious Lost River will provide aI eerie scenic effect. Neighborinf caves will serve as private dinint rooms Billboard also reports that the Beaux Arts, at Aalanti' City, has 6 bar that's so long th' bartenders have to wear roller skates.
 Fair Comes to Broadway
 The old Hippodrome theater. or iginally the scene of elephant act and various super-spectacles, has { circus again. All was excitemen bac ckstage the other evening wher word got around that old Johr Ringing, king of the circus bust ness, was out front taking a bus mans holiday ,. Part or th' Century of Progress has been trans planted to five floors of Grand Cen tral Palace. "Venus' is there, ant then Parisian dancers. and man! another show that drew throngs oi the Worlds fair midway. But th' star of the exhibition Is a local lu minary---a 5,000-pound devil hsl that proves New York'A most amaz Ing fish story.
 While getting ready to fish fo porgy several miles offshore, A. IL Kahn, a manufacturer. tossed al anchor from his small motorboat The anchor went down and down and right Into one of the Riils 0 the giant Manta. After a battle 0 several hours a Coast Guard vebsc came along and hoisted Kahn, hl m0torb0at and the deviifish aboar' and brought them to port. Khhi fnOw Captain Kahn) had the crea ture stuffed and became h show man. Says it beats the manufnc turing business all hollow.
 foeted at st Naisaire. This shII fitted t0 carry eight passenger and 2BO kIi0s Of freight, has rise to 4,O0 0meters in a little over z
 minutes. ltH cruising speed is m DOunead nH 900 kn p.h.
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