The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-02-06
In New York
By PAUL HARRISON

New York.-Most wealthy so- ciety people make profession o1 being society people, and work very hard at it. It's nothing unusual for a busy young matron to go into a complete nervous collapse at the height of the season just from doing the things that ordinary people would classify under the heading of fun.
 There's story, for example, or a woman whose husband died sev- eral years ago and left her with many millions of dollars, huge estate, and a plan for developing 1t into one of the most magnificent manors in America. She eagerly l went ahead with the scheme. The call went out for an army | of architects, landscape artists, dec- orators, contractors and such. The work went on for years, with the l lady wandering around and worry | ing about whether she had hired the very best experts. Panelings were imported from Spain, marbles from Italy, tapestries from France -all at the behest of individual specialists in panelings, marbles and tapestries. An expert on drive ways insisted on stone for 1t being shipped from the Pyrenees. An ex- pert on paints ordered twelve coats on some of the rooms. A con- sultant on soils arranged for hun- dreds of truckloads of earth to be hauled from a neighboring state | for some artificial terraces. And half-grown trees were brought down from New England on fiat cars. .,
 The job was finished eventually, and the lady hired an army of ser- wants and settled down to live on | the place. She promptly went into | a nervous decline. Doctors couldn't help her, 50 they sent her to an | eminent expert on the nervous dis- orders of idle and wealthy women. This fellow found out right away what was the matter-the patient didn't have anything to worry about. He suggested, In subtle sort of way, that she so home ana tear up her fine estate ana do it all over again. She frightened up im- mediately and went out and hired a lot of experts to make com plete transformation into Italian renaissance.
 Working Socialitcs i There are more society people than you'd guess, though, who are making independent careers for themselves. In art, for example, there's Mrs Harry Payne Whitney. In spite of a tremendous double fortune (she was a VanderbilG. she maintains a strictly non-social studio in Greenwich Village and an lexacting routine of sculpting. Her best-kn0wn work is the war me- morial at the Medical Center |. Mrs William Averell Hartman Istarted the Marie Hartman Gallery
 four years ago, and has made 1t .I one of the important modern art centers of New York.
 Writers? We'll, Mrs Henry Wise Miller wins the Social Register award there. You know her as Alice Duer Miller Mrs Tay- Tor Scott Hardin (Nancy Hale) sold her first novel when she was 22, now does sophisticated pieces for half a dozen magazines, and is try ing her hand at @ play.
 The Grand Duchess Marie,
 daughter of Q Russian Grand
 Duke, and Q Greek Princess,
 won worldwide attention with
 her autobiography, "The Ed
 ucation of a Princess" now writes for magazines, and has
 taken up professional photog-
 raphy...
 Blueblo0ds Up-Stage
 The theater? Hope Williams
 first-the boyish- -bobbed gal who
 can put anything from a Wyoming
 broncho to a Jimmie Durante in its
 place. You ought to see her roll q
 cigarette with one hand =. .
 Whitney Bourne. Her family sent
 her to q Paris convent to get over
 her "chiidish urge" for the stage
 she came back and got job on
 Broadway Clare Booth Bro
 kaw. Not an actress, but one oi
 the MIRA arbiters of the theatrical code. And she's writing q play. ..
 Jane Wyatt. She was tho most
 popular deb Of her year. Turned
 her hack on society and now is the
 critics favorlte ingenuo .
 Mary Louise Btiliman. A deb both
 In society and tho theater this sea son. Edward Choato Jr. Hf
 ls Broadway's youngest producer
 Another sOciallto producer in hli
 early twentloa Is John Henry Ham, Imond, Ir, demeendant Of old Cora moAore Vanderbilt IInwmon1 pu' on q naeifIHf propaganda play E ! <#8 W~&## u#M.