The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1935-02-22
In New York
BY PAUL HARRISON

New Notwithstanding Some
Broadwaymen who Will do any
thing for a laugh are trying to ar
range u meeting between Joe Fris-
co, the suffering comic, and Ger
trude Stein, who shutters in print.
Fists flew and blood flowed In
Broadway's biggest cabaret the
other evening as the climax to
long, gay party of an organization
OF undertakers -. The same es-
adjustment announced that 1t
had arranged u party for the
Hauptmann jury, the sheriff and
members of the prosecution stan
It's S. j. Burger, who put Mrs.
Jack Legs Diamond and Papa
Dillinger into vaudeville, who has
been angling most persistently for
stage tour of the jurors.
Tireless research has brought
to light some more curious names:
Lovey Sabelis is going to marry
Walter Bachelor. Hermes Pan is
ecutives of the Waldorf-Astoria
are named Mule and Volt.
Gabriel Cover the White House)
finally got there. You'll remember
that Gabriel was Walter Huston.
now touring in "Dodsworth." Pres
ident Roosevelt attended the play,
went backstage and invited Huston,
Nan Sunderland and Fay BANTER
over to the White House for sup
per Small Billy Rose, the show
man, went shopping the other day.
| Bought an 8.000-pound elephant.
1t will have the title role In his
| circus m usical, Jumbo" with
which he expects to delight and as
tonish the provinces.
Tallulah Bankhead puts words
together amusingly., Other day at
Tony's she told Laurence Stall
lings to "stop casting insinnuen-
dos, I'm afraid Broadway has
sen and heard the last of the in
credibly ancient Rolls Royce
which for year has been banging
around from one owner to an
other. Ben Washer bought It for
$50, sold It for SIS to Whitney
Bolton, the critic. Bolton sold 1t
for SIS to somebody who soon
traded 1t for a pair Of theater tick
cts. That owner exchanged 1t for a
safety razor, and the current own
err Is the son-in-law of the Rolls
Royce Company of America.
In the OfIing
Otis Skinner. who first appeared
on the stage in 1877, is about to
come out of his retirement. He will
be in a play written by his daugh-
ter, Cornelia Incidentally, Ed
die Cantor has decided to get back
on the musical comedy stage
land Joe Cook. the looney laird OF
Sleepless Hollow. has finished his
plans for q mad charade calleu
"Listen, My Children" His princi.
pal invention Is a hair tonic which
will transfer whiskers to bald
pates. That, and q symphony or
chestra of unemployed instru'
ments."
Re-Joycing
Peggy Joyce was packed for {
.. southern vacation, and had hel
, five-story house rented. when sh'
fell down stairs and required
weeks recuperation. Now she
. getting about on the arm Of TIL
Tighter. Jack Doyle. and doesn'
TALL -. Eleanor Holm Jarrett own
l112 bathing suits =. No NOR
. Junior Leaguers in the cosmeti
I and cigaret ads. The strictest o
all society organizations will drol
them Il they do.
~ The passing show: Seeing Tai
' l1ulah Bankhead in "Rain" wer
. Gary Cooper and his tall. striking
; looking wife. She had a strikin
name, too-Veronica Ba1fe. An
2 There were Beatrice Lille, Noe
I Coward, Grace George, Adolp
? IZukor. B. p. Shudberg, Norma
!. Bel-Geddes. Francine Larrimor'
who probably would have like
I. the role Of Sadie Thompson. Be
4 Lyon and Bebe Daniels. Herbel
: kBayard Swope and George Jea
Nathan. And one or the season
biggest packs Of autograph neund