The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-05-02
In New York
By PAUL HARRISON

 Rockefellar is having some mighty
 pretty hyacinths set out in his
 front yard.
 Miss Elsie Ferguson, the actress.
 gave Q party up at her house the
 other night. John V. A. Weaver. Rachel Brothers, Elisa Landi and
 Jimmy Reynolds were among those
 who told Elsie they had . fine time. One of our richest young wid-
 ows, L--- H.. is getting herself talked about for the way she is l running around with a man named
 Doyle, who says he is a boxer. Those sidewalk cafes are bloom. ing all the way from City Hall to Spuyten Duyvil. All they are good for, say we, is getting your nosa
 sunburned, dust in your eyes and | flies in your lemonade.
 Nobody in these parts seems to drink sassafras tea. Your corre- spondent set out to buy some sas- \ safras root the other day, but | AA0SA AVuAN any JGts George Jessel, who is getting quite a reputation around here for his funny remarks, says he is op-
 posed to daylight saving time be- cause it just means that lot of people have to get up an hour
 earlier to start doing nothing. George White and Earl Carroll
 have made up and shaken hands.
 That's the spirit, fellows. There will not be any more shows at the Opera House until
 next winter. A man named Chief
 Little Bear tried to rent it for his medicine show, but Paul Cravath, who runs the opera on the side, wouldn't let him have 1t. There was a sociable out at
 Ben Marden's Riviera the other
 evening to celebrate the opening of Ben's place, It is not just a
 dance hall and barbecue stand, but 8 real fancy roadhouse. Some of Earl Carrolrs hired girls sing oAV AoAASO sASSSs Ida and Eddie Cantor were in
 town the other day. Ida did some shopping and Eddie talked poli-
 tics with the boys at Lindy's res l taurant.
 The gents furnishing stores
 are getting in their new lines of straw hats. George M. Cohan says
 he has bought one already to
 wear to baseball games. George is still q mighty stylish dresser, even
 if he isn't as young as some of tho
 dandies who hang around Broad
 way.
 Paul Harrison helped Wood Cowan chop wood Saturday. Al Smith, who works at the
 Empire State building, doesn't like
 to have anybody call it the haunt l ed house. Al admits though, that
 he has some rooms to rent, and would even rent them to the ghost | of the republican party.
 Sleeping in the bath tub is pro.
 hibited by law in New York state Some city slickers are working
 a. mighty mean swindle on people
 around here. One of these graft
 CTS will get to talking with any,
 body he can find. and will say he
 is a press agent for several
 Broadway shows. sTell me which
 one you want to see. and I'll give you passes" he tells the sucker.
 Then he pulls out a pad of print ed forms marked Pass" and fills in the blanks. These are for two $3.30 tickets, but you'll have to pay me the 60-cent tax" he says.
 Of course, the passes turn out to
 be worthless, but the slicker has
 the 50 cents.
 1 Leslie Howard, who is working I in 8 theater here, has quite a | lease" on Miss Merle, Oberon. an
 actress out in Hollywood. How
 about 1t, Leslie; aren't our local
 girls pretty enough for you? There viii be a strawberry 50.
 cial at the Versailles next week. i Other refreshments will be served,
 too. Gloria Vanderbilt will give a
 reading, and Helen Morgan will
 sing some folk songs.
 Miss Katy Hepburn has been
 visiting friends in the East. l There was runaway on
 Eighth Avenue Thursday, and the
 horse tried to run right into Jack
 Dempsey's restaurant. Caused quite
 q comm0ti0n, but scared away
 some of tho autograph hunters. Paul Harrison probably will heIp