The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-10-14
In New York
BY GEORGE ROSS

New York, Oct. IA - Tickle-palm and tea-leaf fortune telling still does a thriving business in Man. hattan, but is in disgrace with the law and with classy seers who col lect fees ranging from ten to three hundred dollars for a single com- munion with the stars and other oc- cult powers.
 To these astrologers and clair voyants, famed personalities still entrust their future plans. The mighty J. P. Morgan was 8 devo- tee of the late Evangeline Adams horoscopes and scanned them care- fully for predictions on politics, business and the stock market. He still subscribes to regular service.
 Mary Pickford consults star gazer before airplane trips and when warned of danger, Americas Sweetheart cancels reservations. So do a great many other air trav- el1ers and it's quite @ headache to the commercial aviation compan- ies. Before going to the mike" to describe 8 sports event, Ted Husing likes to get the results be- forehand from his favorite planet reader. Geraldine Farrar once refused to sing an opera because Capurnicus frowned upon her and Katherine Cornell knew from an expensive horoscope that "The Bar retts of Wimpole Street" would be success. Professor Albert Einstein once called Gene Dennis, the seeress with the fourth -dimensional mind, "the 9th wonder of the world" and was fabbergasted by what she knew about his past and future. And before venturing into a new matrimonial project, Peggy Hopkins Joyce sees her favorite practitioner of prophecies. Noble Character
 With that regal pants-presser, Mike Romanoff, temporarily absent from Broadway hang-outs, the bar flies will have to get along mean while with Prince Childe de Rohan d'Harcourt, direct descendant, says he, of Louis XIV. At one time or another, the Prince has also cruised around as Fred London and Gustav von Donwitz.
 When the law isn't annoying him, he writes Bohemian poetry which no one ever reads and covers the walls of Greenwich Village night clubs with -modernistic draw ings. He can be seen, any evening, on Village streets, dapper in a dou- ble breasted suit and bearing an ivory topped, crested, walking stick.
 Prohibitions sole surviving bar maid is Elsie who won't give her second name and who mixes drinks at Jacks on West Fifty-Second street When the depression (rememberO hit him hard, Com poser Jerome Kern sold out his en- tire collection of books, first-edi- tions and rare treasure volumes, for almost 8 million dollars. He's now buying the library back from scat tered owners for half of what 1t brought That 1njun Saunter- ing up Broadway is Crazy Bull, South Dakota Sioux who came to New York as Jack Dempsey's guest for the Baer-Louis brawl. Crazy Bulls money was on Louis.
 To-day's Club Notes
 Get two men gabbing about the same thing on a Manhattan corner and they'll start club, Which is how the Unemployed Club, with headquarters on 8th avenue, came into being. Anybody out of a job is eligible for membership and dues are payable by anyone in the fra ternity who is unfortunate enough to find work. It is all right, though, to hang around after you've landed a job. Another society which occasionally comes to order is called the Enemies of Modern Aviation and the chief enemies of modern aviation are Frank Norris, a news paper man, and E. B. White of the New Yorker Magazine. Applicants for membership must certify that they have been scared stiff at least once in plane. Famous people who perish in plane mishaps are made honorary members.
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