The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-01-20
In New York
1Y PAUL HARRISON

misfortune to po |" z, What makes the difference IS where you light.
 There's Pearl White, for exam pIe. About dozen years ago tne "Perils of Pauline" girl dramati, ca1lv announced at a fareweli nartv here that she never again would appear in the movies, ana |.that she was sailing to enter a convent in the Alps. En route, though. she changed her nina. dropped off at Biarritz and opened her own casino in what used to be the chateau of the Empress Flu, genie She did very well, and according to a recent report of her doings, she's still prospecting. Sne moves about in the company or counts and maharajahs ana prin, cesses. is able to maintain a small racing stable, and spends a lot or her time in Paris.
 Sand of Time Then, for contrast, there's Leo, nore Sand. You may not recall her name, because 1t was 50 years ago and more that she was 8 great ballerina ., When she was a child prodigy at the age of 5, she sat in the lap of the King of Ba- yaria. When she was older she appeared with such celebrities as Adelina Patti, Christine Nilsson ana Theodore Wachtel. As the pre- miere ballerina of the Cuban Op- era Company, her carriage was pulled through the streets of Ha- vana by cheering fans :. Mile Sands is 77 now, gray and bent and with hands gnarled by scrubbins floors. She lives in a damp. gas lighted basement room on St Marks Place with some cats, which she has difficulty feeding She also has trouble feeding her. self, because she is too old even to scrub floors.
 Do you remember Phyllis Ha- yer. the glamorous girl who rose from bathing suit bits in Mack Sennett comedies to become Q | leading lady at a salary then con ! sfdered fabulous? Well, Miss Haver didn't outgrow stardom She tossed it aside to marry Will liam Seeman, wholesale grocer | and inan-about- Broadway.
 They live in Q costly du- l pIex apartment near Central Park, give lots of parties, and
 tell people they're very, very happy. -
 Mme Emma Flames is here l for the first time Il severa
 years, but finds there still art many who remember her as great
 star of the opera. For twenty
 years New York, London anc
 Paris hailed her beauty and hel
 talent, and were agog about hel two divorces. But in 1909, wher she was 43. she quit. She stil
 loved the opera and it's people, bu she retired = because, she says
 she didn't want to wear out hel Il welcome. or to have to beg fol what was once thrown at her feet | So now she lives in Paris, | alone, Most of the time she
 reads, or does a little em-
 broidery. Never sings though.
 One Dollar Man If you should receive nice
 crisp, unsolicited check for $l one of these mornings, look to se'
 whether it's signed by Grenvill,
 Kleiser. If so, it's all right t,
 keep it and cash it. For monthl
 MT Kleiser has been mailing ou
 these checks, mostly to prominen
 people, with a request to spent
 the money any way they chose
 just so they spend 1t immediately
 His theory is that if a lot of peo
 pie would adopt this practice tn,
 circulation Of money would b
 greatly stimulated, and so. woul'
 business, because each dollar spen
 means Q great many more dollar
 worth of commercial turnover.
 Giving away dollars is just
 sideiine with Mir Kleiser. He ha
 written 30 books on various time
 ly and business subjects, and h
 also writes Good Luck Poems
 which he sells. He does not sel
 enough, though, to allow him t respond to the many begging TO quests Of poor people who hay got tho Idea that he must be philanthropist :. The only cheol
 ever returned to him came fr0n the White House. ono of M
 Roosevelt's secretaries said thank
 but the President didn't accep gifts Of money.