The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1935-08-05
In New York
BY RAUL HARRISON

Notes from our Manhattan cor
respondent: A lot of tourists are
passing through town these days.
And there are more drummers in
the hotels than there have been
in a long time.
John Rockefeller, the elder, saw
a deer on his farm Sunday, and
it was tame as anything, walking
right up to the house. Maybe IL
was loking for one of those shiny
new dimes, John.
Ray Guest is figuring on going
into politics when he comes back
from his honeymoon. Winston
Guest i going to run for office
again, too. Better luck this time,
Win.
A card from Owen Davis, who
it with one of those cow-barn the
aters up in Maine, says, Having
fine time. Wish you was here"
Wish we was, owen.
The sheriff is investigating the
theft of 1900 pullets from the
West Side poultry market the
other night. He figures it must
have been chicken thief. or else
a mighty busy fox.
What Next, Al?
AL Smith has got new tenant
in his Empire State Building. AL
says he will prove yet that the
town can support building Of that
size.
There have been some COM
plants about the carnival shows
in Forty-second street. Members
Of the ladies' clubs say the girls
in the shows do not wear hardly
anything, and that the jokes are
not fit for respectable people to
hear. Investigators have had hte
shows under surveillance for sew
eral months.
The general stores are full of
shoppers these afternoons. Many
of them are chorus girls spending
their butter-and-egg money.
Little Gloria Vanderbilt visited
her mother on Sunday.
Miss Beatrice Lille was the
guest of honor at a party at Del.
monico's eating house Wednesday
Refreshments were served until a
late hour, and the guests then
played charades.
Tune Up, Rudy.
Recent arrivals on the express
from the west include Sidney
Grammar, Joseph Schenck, Daryl
Zanuck, Kay Francis, Lewis Mile.
stone, May Robson and Nancy
Sarroll, all of Hollywood. Mr.. Joe
Penner, who has built UP quite a
reputation as a dealer in ducks, is
ntown. And Sheila Barrett came
in on the boat from London to visit
friends.
Paul Harrison helped George
Wieda chop wood Saturday.
Rudy vallee and his Silver Cor
net Band have been engaged to
play for a public dance at one of
the Long Island roadhouses.
Readers are warned that a city
slicker has been around trying to
sell the George Washington Bridge
again.
Miss Tallulah Bankhead enter
tanned many Of her friends of the
lHcdtCI Will PIO6kCSoiSC par "
on Wednesday. Refreshments were
served as the guests went from
place to place, an dthe hostess gave
some of her well-known limitations
Dick Nice, Eth, Dick?
Dick Byrd was seen backstage at
the Folies Bergeres the other night.
XMabII hat x,o,. novar 90 VIZ onufhino
like that at the South Pole, Ell,
Admiral?
George Clark, who is looking
real frail, is trying to lay in crop
of Side Chances so he can go away
for a vacation.
Irving Berlin won the pie-eat-
ing contest at the Tin Pan Alley
picni cat the Algonquin Tuesday.
Irv says he hopes never again to
hear the expression, EASY as pie"
Friends of Barbara Hutton
Mdivani Haugwitz-R eventlow say
that she and her new husband, a
Danish farmer, are coming back
to America and may take over a
quarter-acre homestead in the
Park Avenue neighborhood.
Anna Roosevelt Boettiger, daugh-
ter of the prominent Franklin
Roosevelt. has been on the ailing
list. She still does all her own
housework. though.
Too Bad, Jimmy!
Jimmy Bell. who Is acting the
part Of Jeeter Lester In the show
called Tobacco Road" says they
were figuring on getting about Ave
bushels Of turnips out OF the crop
planted on the stage at the Forrest
theater. But they had = bad dust
storm Thursday and the plants are
just about ruined. .~
One Of the Eayest parties OF
the year was given at the Atlantic
Beach Club Saturday. with society
girls acting as bartenders IN q
cocktaii-mixinr contest. Refresh