The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-09-28
In New York
By PAUL. HARRISON

New Y0rk, Sept. ZS.-MeanQef- ings: Of course there are a lot of indications that the depression is past. For one thing bandits are beginning to rob the banks again.
 Sally Rand has been seen buy ing clothes. John D. Rockefeller, Jr.. owns a. new pair. of suspend CTS, with monogrammed gold clasps. The Stock Exchange cat has six kittens, a larger dividend than had been anticipated. Joe Zelli is going back to Paris, from which he fled when ze franc zoom- ed into the stratosphere. Blind" beggars are looking disdainfully at pennies dropped into their cups.
 Broadway is having a gold rush. I don't know where the moneys coming from, but here 1t is. Not since 1929 have head walters looked 50 dazedly content. and theater managers are incred- ulous when treasurers report box office groeses. The French Casino actually has to lock it's doors against clamoring would-he cus- toners, and in the smaller night clubs admittance is by reservation only. For the first time in many seasons there's actually a short age of theaters. The hey-hey lane has come. back into it's hey-dey. Double Rank
 Georgia Coleman, the mermaid, is headed for Hollywood |. Kentucky's governor has granted so many honorary. colonelcies that now he apparently is starting back over the list. Anyway, George Burns and Oracle Allen twice have been appointed to his staff =. .. Octavus Roy Cohen has moved lares, penates and secretary from Birmingham to New York.
 Supplementary note on prosper ity: Laurence Schwab's first stage production was "The Bingham Girl" His next will be "venus in silk"
 Babe Ruth and Franklin P. Adams like to play harmonicas, but not in duets Rupert Hughes can yodel. Or likes to try .. Ben Hecht saws fiddle when he's bored Al .Jolson goes to the races for diversion. .t. Crosby Gaige, the producer, manufactures perfumes for his friends.
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 Of all the better New York night clubs, not one is operated by a native New Yorker :. Squelch for cashiers who .embar- rass you by ringing your coins on the counter to see whether they are genuine: What do you want for two bits--chimes?" =. Towns highest paid sandwich man is an actor. Reginald Dvorak, who draws crowds by initiating Charlie Chaplin. Only gets 8 an hour, but it's steady work Sing Sing football team has new mascot a black sheep born in the prison zoo.
 Best rhumba dancer in society: Bobby LaBranche. Bill Planking- ton, Erskine Gwynn and Toni Johnson also could shame many 0 Cuban. Young Jimmy Donahue and Marilyn, Miller make the best customer-team at the uppity clubs -. Will Hays has moved here for the winter Crack for @ tourna- ment-winning golf pro who hap pens to have a lot<0f children: "I did 1t for the wife and caddies".
 Dancer now claiming the most attention Is Peg Leg Bates. who stops shows by sheer ability and not with any bid for sympathy. Lost a leg in 1918 when he was kid down in Greenville, 8. c. And uncle carpentered peg for him, and on 1t he'd walk five miles to school. Got around as. well as anybody. and better than most, for he danced in a Broadway show in 1928 =. Incidentally, one of the ablest popular pianists here about is Al, Newman, who lacks an index finger on his right hand and one joint of the middle finger. Plays golf in the low 70's. Golden Luck
 William Gaxton never is without his luck charms-three gold coins worn to paper thlnnesS by constant lingering in his pockets And Jack Pearl carries a coin in every pocket George s. Kaufman paces up and down the aisles dur ing prcmiers of his plays, and sometimes almost has had to fight annoyed occupants of aisle seats Will Osborne earns the most applause when he impersonates Rudy Vailee. Yet. for years he and Vallee were not on speaking terms.
 Bert Lahr, one of the dizSiest of comedians, Is the most moroose off, stage Bert Nevins, Barnum- like publicist for swimming pools and dance halls, can't swim or dance George Jean Nathan and Walter Lipmann write their pieces in long-hand Mormons about town: John Held, Jr., Jack Dempsey. Maude Adams. I'm told they still keep Miss AdamS baby, hood crib in a theatcr out in Salt Lake City. s x