The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-01-27
In New York
By PAUL HARRISON

New k.-MeandeTlnSs: NOs wholly unafraid of the big pad laws which forbid drinking at the bar. Manhattan's post-prohlbltion | "saloon- keepers are making taHq getting) the best of the situation. Emulating swank hotels where mobile bars are wheeled among the tables, a frankfurter house on the Bowery boasts drink wagon surmounted by a changing fasn register Fifteen cents shot .'. Meanwhile smart clubs uptown have gone far toward accomplish ing the reunion of bartender am patron. The Vogue has high chairs and tiny-topped, long.legged ta- bles between them, all right up aaainst the mahogany. At the Sforls club, too, the tables are on a level with the new musical bar. and customers and white.coated Attendants are renewing prohibi- | ton acquaintanceships The Petit Palais Iampoons
 the liquor law by putting pup net efIigieS of celebrities along Its cocktail counter.
 50 He Ct the J.b!
 There's an old joke about the employment agency owner who, when the first good job came along shut up shop and took the posi- tion himself. Now the story's being told of Harold Callahan, who start ed a magazine called "New Busi- ness" He received an item to the effect that a prominent magazine chain wanted a promotion mana ger. Instead of printing the news
 he folded up his publication and took the job
 There have been few marriages at City Hall since publicity-seek. ing couples have discovered that Mayor LaGuardia isn't a bride- kisser and doesn't permit pictures l to be taken of the ceremonies :. The mayor, by the way, is the only executive known to use two ste- noeraphers at once. Dictates let l ters to one, memoranda to the other. meanwhile reading his mail smoking his pipe, talking on the telephone. and planning a few new
 investigations.
 Pretty Polly!
 When and If Polly Walters re- turns to Hollywood it won't be to resume minor roles in two-reel comedies. She has become the toast-hot toast - of Broadway with her role as the cabaret dancer who takes refuge. in mannish dis guise, in Princeton dormitory | And now the story's going up and down the Gay Way that Miss Walters theatrical escapade iYl- spired New York girl whose brother is a Princeton student to bet that she could don mans clothes and dine undetected at the
 school. And the story has it that she won her bet
 First thing Irving Berlin and | Moss Hart do each morning is anx- | iously scan the newspapers, dread- ing that they may read of the sec rious illness or death of one of the fifty famous people they've satirized | in the venue called "As Thousands Cheer" Such an occurrence, Of course, would require instant with drawal of the slit in which the character was represented ., The authors never will be able to forget the scare they got when word of the death of Calvin Cool idge was received only a few min- utes before a performance of "Of Thee I Sing" The revue contained several derisive lines about the ex- president, and the cast was hur- riedly coached to omit any such references This time Messrs Berlin and Hart are not going to be caught mapping. They're fren-
 ziedly writing a couple of substi- ute skits which can be showed in
 at a moments notice.
 
 Wire News
 Although this column hasn't
 been listening et any keyholea, or
 over any private wires. it is able to report some details of how those sensational telephone recordings
 were made in the vailes scandal contest
 Tn spite of the telephone eom- Dany's protests about unauth0r-
 ized tamperIng with It's wires, there wasn't any tempering done. A | patented device called the Speak | O.Ph0ne was uged--a centraption widely favored by detectives who respect the antl-wire-tapipng law |. Without any actual o0nneG- ton with the phonewlses, it goes | into action when the call is put | through because its delicate mech, aniHm picks up, by induction, tho faint eiecfricdf iInpuise that gahs I aias the bell. Thon it listens un. obfruaivoly, jotting down. notes on | xs.s .e,. "A raa lfasz ta am&aA