The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-07-15
In New York
RY PAUL HARRIsON

New YOrk, Jury 10 - All GOQ chillum got aversions. Me, now, don't like snakes, comets. umbrel- las, sopranos or having my nails filed. However, none of these pet dislikes amounts to what psychi- artists would call a phobia. can even force myself to pick up a snake if I know all about its ances- try.
 The aversion for snakes is probably the most widespread of all. Pathe Newsreel, recogniz- ing this, won't film any stunt in which snake appears: people sometimes scream or faint just from seeing them on the screen.
 A good many people hate cats. The dowager Queen Marie of Ru- mania is an .aeluro phobiac. A certain author of dog stories dreads them, too. The late Rock well Sayre was tops among cat haters, though. He used to ad- yertise a large cash award for the person who killed the last cat in the world The late Daddy Browning had terror of cats.
 Room for Nervousness
 Claustrophobia is a very common mental ailment. I know writers who can't work unless they're in a studio as large as an auditorium. Billy Rose, the producer. has a morbid dread of confined spaces, and, consequently, the biggest office on Broadway. Ethel Barrymore has a touch of claustrophobia. Cant stand rooms with hanging chan deHers; thinks they're going to fall down.
 Jack Pearl, the comedian, won't enter a small, crowded room, or an elevator containing more than five people of other little peculiari- ties: always carries a coin in every pocket, safeguarding him. self against poverty. And if any, body touches one of his ears hell chase that person = even on the stage = to break the spell by touching one of his ears.
 The. opposite of claustrophobia is agroophobia IF a dread of the wide open spaces. Millions ot people -. New York apartment dwellers, for> instance - must be afflicted with that. (If you won- der what got me started on all this, it was a conversation with a psychiatrist.)
 AutOpsychosis
 Among other aversions is that of Ray Dooley, actress-wife of Eddie Bowling. She dreads even the smallest fight of stairs. Helen Hayes is afraid of gypsies. A famods writ CT, whose name I shouldn't men, fion, refuses to ride in an automo- bile, although he doesn't mind fly ing. Pau! Whiteman is hypochon- driac Martin Greene fears all dogs, large or small. Helen Case, a chor- us girl, screams at the. touch ot wool. Benito Mussolini doesn't like Philippians. .s2
 Scentlng Trouble
 Frederick, King of Naples. chid- ed his vegetarian daughter untii.she tried eating meat. At the first bite she took a nose-diye, remained un- conscious for hours, and was i'll for weeks. The aforementioned MT. Ba- con, a singularly sensitive man couldn't stand the sight or odor of a rose. There are a lot of rose haters. Two Cardinals. Cardona and Carassa, were made i'll by the smell of them-and apparently did n'tv have rose fever, either.
 Some people can't stand the odor of apples. Two of the early kings of Poland suffered from nose bleed if they sniffed one Adam and Eve got so they didn't like apples. My doctor friend says he has q patient who be- comes violently i'll when he hears the buzzing. of fly.
 Compiler Club
 One of New York's most curi. ous organizations is e group oi mentally mai-adjusted people who call themselves the Happinesl Hunters. Each of them used tc be q patient at Q mental hygiene clinic conducted by pr. Berar Wolfe. science diagnosed theil eases and helped them temporarily but he decided that what they needed was practice in getting along with other people.
 So. pr. Wolfe organized the club. putting it on Q social basil Of bFidge.piaying dinners. dane. CTS and such. Now they meeI twice . week and hcIp each other with plenty Of hot arguments Dc. tween opposite types. Almost es. arrbpdy faneles himeeIE os h epTl ef amateuF psyehiafFis. And lH thie casa they're s'f4iaht9ninF o1' ih.'. ....s eN. .s qu!rs. . ... P ,1y'as ...I z