The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-06-15
In New York
By PAUL HARRISON


 New York.--Meandor dorlngs: Al. most every lass who goes any where with Rudy Valleo---eyen to lunch to talk about . new song is asked to b!gn . little slip which says, in effect, that she hasn't mis. taken tho tune title for a proposal. know girl who doesn't like the Ave-day week because 1t makes 1t 50 very difilcult to go to work on Mondays II. c. Wells has say about himself In his autoblog- raphy y. Peggy Hopkins Joyce trots over to q cheap little bcanory on Third avenue to buy hamburg that it's almost impossible to get a 4. Well dressed Broadwlymen daren't wear matching coats and trousers In tho summer ]. :. Most modern of sky palaces is tho Bit moro Rqof, opening the other night with ultra-ultra decor and Paul Whiteman; and with customers who included George Gershwin, Prince Serge Obolonsky, Hnroa Lloyd, Constance Talmadge. Deoms Taylor, Wiley Post (who's been getting about q good deal lately), the Marquese de Beaumonte and Earl Carroll.
 lllrM tO Muster
 Inc mastering of cerenlonica at any big entertainment spot ls n dlillcult and terrifying job. There always arc rlbbcrs present, rendy to huri sardonic bolts back at tho struggling announcer. There are tho tipsy wlsoys who guffaw at tho wrong times. And one must intr0- duco all sorts of colebrltieB--scmi", pseudo nnd Bo.so--ab0ut whom bits of biographical material have to Do recalled, and whose numcr- ous little joaiousios have to Do rc- spected.
 Ali things considered, I think It's remarkable that there arc not moro such painful moments as oc- nlngs ago. Harry Richman, glib but q little absent-minded, intro ducod George Burns and Oracle Allon as that famous team, whom all Broadway lOveB---lIlock and Sully." The latter pair arc rival comics.
 Collegiate Cinema
 YnIo university is planning q school of tbe motion pIcture---dl- rectIng, writing, staging and such. So the movies seem bound for n higher estate, but personally ] do- piOro it. Clnomn culture may reach the point where columniHts VIII have no more dialect stories about producers who want Co hiro Boo. thoven to wrlto q themo song. d. | rectors who suggest having CharlcH Dickens rowrlto his "IdfG of our Lord" and sconarists who think <. $. Van Dino is steamship
 Gobs of PIeasurc
 Night clubs have seen mighty little of tho navy during the fleets visit. And along the B0Wery. tra- ditIonai gay sector for sallorncn, there probably arc many people who don't oven know tho fleets ln. Mostly tho men have found sim. pie ploasurcB--taxi danco halls, movies, C0ney Island.
 ono sailor, unsteady but gal. a gardonia poddicr. took c station nt Forty -sccond street and Broad. way, and gave C flower to each wo- man who passed. "Complimentnh," he'd say grav0ly, "of tho Unlted statesh navy"
 vOluminOus Title
 Longest book title of tho current century is now one by Robert Harborough: "Oscar Wildc Twice Defended from Andre dldQ's Wick. 0d Lies and Prank Harris' Cruel Libols" U. 1t was inevitable that tho mystery writers would get around to the nakedncss bysinoss.
 A summer book will Dc Murder Among the Nudiats' Mrs Howard Chandler Christy collects perfume bottles from all over tho world.
 Ruth Nichols, tho flyer, has hun. dreds of pictures of horses Ruth St Dents, the dancer, collects costume dolls And q fellow who collects silly little stories Ewears he came upon q man In Union Square who was hitting himself on tho head with q police mans billy. Explained that he was m ardent commuhist, but had been too late for the meeting that at- ernoon.