The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-06-14
In New York
ny PAUL HARRISON


 New York--You can pay $500. 900 for a years lease on 6 pent- house on Park avenue. Then again, you might rent one for ss . week. A lot of people do.
 Shortly. before roof.dweilings be. ' for" ccssS sStiSy dSs'rsse .mses eed swans snsl. apartment buIidinss were erected along the worlds richest street. When tho question 0s servants auartefs came up, Ti,anagsftients solved it--FatheP noatiy, they th0ught--by building rows os little cottages on the roofs.
 That was in the days when apartment tenants could afford tO keep fulistlFno servants and rent room for them to live in. But tho oppression changed al that, Cooks and maids, and now and then a fnan to do little butlering, were hired by the day or the hour. And the roofstop cottages stood vacant. People began to look at them eeoyetonsly, and many z young so. eiety bachelor .,.,r whoss income now .
 s ssS eslssaS nSs ss hhsfIasa hsip os s ,rsSs mSS who is n tonant of the huge apart. mont Rt 277 Park avenue. The frieHd rents one Of the cottages for s20 . month, and Is paid by the 50. etaiIte, who is listed as q valet. l3y now there's An amusing as. sortnfent ef servants" occupying | Eenthousee. Impoverished social | gegistefites, actors and actresses, bond and automobile salesmen--- ail kinds Of people who want to put | up q front with q smart address and telephone Dumber. or course tho cottages are small, and are not luxuriantiy furnished. But the greatest diaadvantage Is that the occupants, home.b0und, have t0 nobody fs looking, and then dodge Into the smDl::ys:.' entrance
 Seen at Noon
 A place to see celebrities at nO0ntime is Susan pRlmeF's res. taurant, just 0R Vifth avenue At Rockefeller Center, Some Of them, 1 suspect, so there for the thrill Of watching the d0org, operated by electric eyes, swing open mysteri. 0usIy as they approach, Eddie Cantor does, l know, because hs always goes tn and out two or three tim0ss
 there often. So do Chamberlain Brown, Amelia Earhart Putnam, eos, Courtney Riley Cooper. Roy Chapman Andrews and sometimes | Earl Carroll. Rudy Valiee always orders Irish stew: no also brings his Irish terrier, which sits stO. icaijy on ths floor beside Rudy and | coeBn't Beem to expect handouL Oetav1s Roy Cohen has steamed eiamh DouElas Fairbnnks brings his mother there, when they're sn ''J John D. noeksfeIIsr, Jr, has a chef in his 0fIiee, and a house nearby, but he soes to Mss pal- meF's when he wants sea food, Cuss toners oil look alike to the eiec- saiters inside. The other day isyys Sshind his secretary, secret 'i who was was shown to q table first, Doth Of them grinned about it, but the secretary looked little red around Generous Oivcr
 | Probably .ygu didn't bear about the death Of Billy LaHiff. He was just Q man who ran restaurnni, and there are quite ( fow resteu. rants heFeab0ut, But he and his Tavern have been part and parcel Of Broadway for \ long time, and Broadway people will not soon for. get him and his encouTagements and shy little phiianthrOpies,
 Ambitious chorus girls would beg him for introducti0ns to stage and movie directors, Mae Clark and DarbaFe btanwyck got their first legitimate roles that way He staked th0use nds of performers io free meals. "Aw, forget it,i' he'd mutter. "We're aiI frierds" LaIIiff liked to assIgn definite tables to regular customers and tlts walters can show you whore some Of the biggest deals in the cnter- tainment world have been made by such Stlen as the Warner Brothers, Harry and Jack C0hn, Jesse i.aHky and the rest. Over tn one corner ss the table where Moss Hart wrote most of "As Thousands Cheer" .. and going back further, there are the fnvoFite places of Fred Stone. Will Rogers, George N. Conan and John Barrymore .f Lafiifk, by the way, was an uncle Of Nancy Carroll.