The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-11-23
In New York
By GEORGE ROSS

ANVW AOAhp 4NON Sos-4VAeANAesuV tAh Newsreel: They say fugitive's saf- est refuge from the Law is in a crowd. And yet the constantly thronged corner at Times Square is one of the Laws most tempting traps for fleeing criminals in town. New York's largest out-of- town newsstand is situated there and, sooner or later, the hunted man, eager to read about himself in the hometown sheet, turns up to find himself the easy prey of the police. War along the New York water front: From England, the freighter Dunkirk pushed slowly into a Brooklyn pier while the quarrel some crew figuratively sat on a keg of dynamite. Then, when anchor was cast, trouble began between two sects in the deck gang, among the Brahmins and Mohafnmedans who manned the boat. They had an old religious strife to settle among themselves and clubs and knives fell in a bloody fight. But the weird strains of the Orient, heard in Brooklyn for the first time, were quickly muted in local station house.
 If anybody wants to refer to Grace Moore as "that sweet thing in the opera house or on the screen, 1t will be all right iron, now on. The dainty diva has just been immortalized in a 3-foot sugar statue of herself which is now on view at the Grand Central Palace Refined sugar, by the way. It took Eugene Griesshaber, a pastry thef three weeks to mold Miss Moore's statue in the sweet stuff.
 Home, Sweet Home
 Those million dollar residences which lined the midtown thorough fare of New York have been grad. ually saying farewell to Fifth ave- nue and fashionable side-streets The deluge started with the demoli- ton of the Wendell house, the one with the million dollar runway fol the poodle, which is now a thriving Five and Ten at Fifth avenue and seth street.
 Other famous town houses have been abandoned during the last few years. Not because of the initial cost so much as the up- keep. A thouscnd dollars a week is a modest amount for the rum ming expenses of a million dollai residence. And so the owners oi these palatial homes have beer moving to Park avenue apart ment cooperatives. These consist of from ten to twenty-five rooms and baths and all the tenants share the worry of taxes.
 The scattered private palaces that still decorate New York in clude the elaborate homes oi Charles sohwab, John D. Rocke- feller, Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt J. P. Morgan and Vincent Astor Quick, Watson!
 Short subjects: At Lebus', ths radio artists rendezvous, sat 30. year-old William O. Gillette tn, other night, after he had made hi debut before the microphones. | was the first time in many year. that the graying player who mad. Sherlock Holmes famous for thu stage and who owns the only pri. vate railroad in the world for hi exclusive use, appeared in 6 Man haitian cafe. From all the surround ing tables, came stars of the othel waves to solicit the great player autograph for their own books.
 Leonard Lyons reports Ernes Hemingway as having said There's one advantage e iepel would have in New York. No body would jostle him" T.,
 George Jean Nathan now turn up at premieres in an imported great coat of Irish origin. Tn Sean O'Casey influence. The critil championed Ireland's Mir. O'Ca' sey's "Within the Gates" ol Broadway last year
 Exposure
 Animated cartoons: On the win. triest days, rotund, ineagerl, thatch-pated man by the name O MT. King Che is reluctant to giv, his first name) saunters througl the Broadway section, clad in [ sleeveless shirt, open at the collar in a pair of short trunks, athletil socks and moccasins. He claim this wardrobe to be the healthies in the world. l saw him stoppinl of at drug store the other even ing to make a purchase of sof bunion pads.
 There is sign at tie top Of thu steps of the Hayden Planetariull where all the stars are fiasheI onto Q dome Armament. tha reads: "The Solar System Goa land Rest Room"