The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-08-09
In New York
BY PAUL HARRISON

II New York.-Meandering Some | love; especially the divorce law yers. when marriages turn out hap | oily
 Most durable romance in the world of show business seems to be the Al Jolson- Ruby Keeler part
 nership. He's anxious for her to l be a big star, yet he's miserablG
 when she goes to Hollywood. Busi- ness associates can't get along with him at all; he sulks, deserts his Broadway friends and plays an endless game of hearts with three race track cronies They play for big stakes, be- cause Jolson is gambler born. | First thing he does in the morn
 ing Gt's early in Hollywood al that time) is call his broker and juggle impressive amounts of stocks. Later, and sometimes two
 or three times a day, he calls his wife. Several families could live
 modestly on what the nanny
 master spends on long distance. | telephone bills.
 Hotel SticllerS Too?
 Netherworld note: There's Q
 place in New York that will sell to a right" person a certified"
 check on any bank in the United
 States. The same establishment
 will supply hotel stationery from
 any city and, for alibi purposes,
 will arrange for hotel registration
 and the mailing of letters from al-
 most any town,
 | no ntl- ct-if
 that he'd like to produce just one
 more super-spectacle. The
 night clubs are crowded, but
 there's always room for one bore. l It's said that Al Smith is
 writing a book about the Roosevelt administration, for publication sev-
 eral years hence. About
 town, Irene Rich, Carl Van Vech-
 ten, Sylvia Sidney, Konrad Berco-
 vici, Norman Bel-Geddes, Nanette
 Guilford, Dashiell Hammett, Jose
 Iturbi, Peggy Hovenden
 Francine Larrimore at last has
 found a play she likes.
 Show Business
 One of the first things that strikes visitor to New York is
 likely to be a taxicab On Forty-Second street I saw prom inent movie critic peeking at the | bawdy fiickers in a penny arcade. Wonder what the shades of the Van Santvoord family think of Bobby Sanfords girly showboat, which Is allied with the Hudson River Day Line. The family has owned the company for 1S0 years; and until recently daily religious services were held on each ship, by the order of two aged aunts. More than ever, socialites are fiocking to the stage. Sally Gibbs, daughter of George Gibbs, tho novelist, sings in Life Begins at S:4O". Incidentally, she's also dancer and an author Mrs Albert c. Davis has minor role in "The Red Cat" Mary | (daughtcr of Bertram) Taylor is hunting a part. So is Honora Bru- ere, the bank presidents daughter who quit college for the theater. .. Philadelphia's Mary Holsman will be on Broadway. Clare Booth Brokaw has written a play, and Rosamond Pinchot is acting in 1t. To Hollywood goes George Hobson, blue-blooded double for George Raft (Looks like him, l mean; he won't jump off cliffs for him) l. Hendrix Willem Van Looms son, using the name of Willem Gerard, is dancing in the new Shubert revue.
 What They Like
 Gene Tunney likes pickled pigs feet Clarence Darrow usual ly demands corned beef. Charles Hanson Towne goes for finnan had die and ale Theodore Dreis- CT, when he dimes in town, seeks out an almost unknown little res- taurant, La Petite Bretonne {. In Paul Whiteman's new quartet are the son of q high official of the Mormon Church and the son of a Methodist minister AL exander Woollcott is hermit on his island in Vermont
 Maxwell Anderson has d small ish yacht, rechristened Scurrilous, and the betting is that his next play will be tale of the sea The skyward trend continues. Six big companies have private dining rooms on the sixty-fourth floor of Rockefeller Center, and in the financial district most big buildings have luncheon clubs under the roofs. The Cloud Club in the Chrysler building is always full of midtown magnates. And they're installing a club atop the Rockc- feller skyscraper John D., Jr, drops in occasionally to see how things are getting on.