The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-02-27
In New York
By PAUL HARRIsoN

New York--Meanderin A scout from Princeton reports that Prof. Albert Einstein finally has been katfied by something. He can't understand why people keep offering him large sums of money to endorse things he never heard
 Alexander woollcott and Don Marquis will be part of the staff of the new American Mercury =. Jack Dempsey always pays cash for tickets to fights at Madison Square Garden .,. "Rhapeody in Blue" was full of golden notes for George Gersh win, who has col- lected more than $100, 900 from 1t so far Johnny Green, brightest of the younger composers, has been swamped' with How did you do it?" letters since he reduced twenty pounds in month. He says it's just trlump of mind over platter.
 Harmless little pnakes are a new pet fad. At the.Weylin bar q young woman pulled one from her purse and was indignant when asked to keep it out of sight. Said she knows men who carry snakes III IHciT poChSts. Sau B1t ueeN to Harry Hershfield's black shirts % plans a revival of yThe MiracieS I hear Will Rogers will play in the filming Of Ben Lucien Bur mans steamboat Round the Bend. t, Liquid measure and festive sta tistic: Two pints make one Authorities forced burlesquc theaters to strip their lobbies ok photos of stripped shippers. Night clubs, however, continue to advers tise with the boldest picture dis- plays ever seen on Broadway. :. And the biggest slgnboard in Times Square bears gigantic fig ure in startling brassiere adver- | tisement Many of the night clubs feature daringly nude danc- CTS with bubbles, fans and wells. One, in q moth dance. rushes into a flame and actually has her whis- py costume burned away. In the Village Joan Meller cavorts In luminous paint. Even old Ru- mania. an nrstwhile proper spot. has hired al young thing named Thais to skitter unclothcd among the pastraml and black radishcs. Sally Rand, Pm alarmed to note, is going arty. She'll pre- sent protege in serious dance recital ut tho home of the conser- vative Theater Guild '. It's all around tho town-x-a rumor. l mean---that Babe Ruth will play big league ball again 5. Social folk nave been going in for break l fast dances, beginning before sun up. Now they're taking up Eng fish club breakfasts in the slick | salons, between noon and 3 D. m. ,l. Which reminds me, somehow. I of the jobless man whose teeth were fixed by.a philanthropic den l tist and who then went mad be- cause he could find nothing to chew.
 10th Hole Note
 | Sport and scientific note: A brand new golf ball to be mar keted this spring will have con- l ter made of dry ice.
 Report No. 783 on the return of Maude Adams: She has an of- fer from Hollywood and expects to accept 1t .. Seen at the world
 premier of shaw's "Simpieton of the Unexpected Isles': Merle ob- eron, Dorothy Hall. Peggy Wood. Zita Johann, Beatrice Ltllie, A. c. Blumenthal, Phyliss Haver, l Hendrix Wiilem Van Loon, Irene Castle Brian Aherne, the Eng fish actor, dashed over here for q four-week engagement in 1881 and hasn't left yet .. Do you re- I member, asks Martin Greene. when people used to attend par
 ties to break bread with their
 hosts, instead of break their fur
 niture?
 Side line,
 Warden I4awes Of Sing Sing.
 whose job doesn't seem to
 be too c0nnding, may edit a
 magazine devoted to prison stor-
 Hauptmann's counsel, is mobbed
 clubs Frazier Hunt is off to
 write the story of what's happen
 ing in Mexico. "A. CIimpsed in n
 Fifth Avenue bus top: Col Clar-
 enco M. Young and his bride. Lois
 Moran :. .. Emil Boreo, the Rus- sian comedian at the French Ca-
 sino, began hls stage career ns the hind legs of tw0-mafi horse.
 Faux pas of the week: Meet-
 ing a Mir Wilson, refnarking dur
 Ing the ensuing conversati0 that Il Noel Coward has had q pratty bad
 time of It, with two less. tkan -suc.
 ceBBful shows this eeahOfi-- and
 discovering that I wns talking tc | Coward's manager.