The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-03-08
In New York
By PAUL HARRISON

New York.-Meanderin Each new mot and smart-crack, what ever its origin, sweeps Broadway like a March wind. Thus, dozen people have slyly observed to me that over in Germany, axe marks the spot. And with singers reaping for tunes hereabout, prosperity seems just around the crooner.. As for comedians, too many of them be- lieve that jokes good enough for their grandmothers are good enough for them Will power, I've been told again and again, IS the ability to eat just one salted peanut. .Innkeepers, anxious to promote the impression of a boom, insist that if this depression keeps up they'll have to enlarge their establishments. /. /. In Union square where radicals foregather, two are company and three are mass meeting.
 Sizzling Coins
 New face around town-Bernt Balchen, the flyer returned from Ellsworth Antarctic expedition.
  shy. Also saw Colonel Norman Schwartzkopf. Recognized every where because of his prominence in the Lindbergh case, he was kept busy rebuffing autograph hunters. Wallace and Noah Beery, the latter an actor no longer, rounded the rialto together.
 Broadway's bag of practical l-lr nnII n GlV hot money to cabaret chorines. It's. really hot, too-half dollars held for several seconds in a match flame. Three more detective story magazines have collapsed; which may mean we're less mys- tery-minded.. Most unusual nov el title: "They Shoot Horses, Don't They?" by Horace Mccoy, Holly woodsman. .. Variety tells of a request for a Don Marquis auto- graph in his latest book, the ap- plicant apologizing because 1t wasn't first edition. That's okay," said Marquis, "a second ed1- tion of any book I write is lot rarer."
 Broadway Robins
 Springs stirring in Longacrc Square. At liberty showfolk are taking their places on the beach" in front of the Palace theater. And the telescope man has appeared to sell glimpses of the brighter plan ets.. Seen at Twenty-one: Lau- renee Stallings, Robert Benchley, Gary Cooper, Francis T. Hunter. ... At the Algonquin: Merle Ober- on, Beatrice Lillie, Langdon Post, Nita Naldi,, Elsie Janis. Miss Oberon, who used to be just plain Estelle O'Brien, is Manhattan's No. 1 Visiting Celebrity.
 Those Nick Carter dime novels are going to be filmed. Babe Ruth still uses snuff :. American Federation of Actors (the vaude- vile union) will try to enlist re- ligious and law-epforcement agen- cies in a move to ban stage ap- pearances of criminals relatives, trial juries and such. In Brook lyn there's a league, with offices and campaign fund, which will work for a woman president and woman vice president in 1886.
 
 Broadway Socialism
 Society notes: Gloria Vanderbilt is running a dress shop and Mrs James Russell Lowell Is hostess in a department store. Frances Will Hams shoots mean game of pool. A lue-blooded Harvard graduate now is employed as secretary to Morton Downey. Inside the stage door at the New Amsterdam thea ter I spotted a top-hatted and tailed young man waiting for a member of the cast. He was hunched on chilly stairway and was reading the Daily Worker.
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 Fiction ft
 So many nighteries feature so- cialite entertainers (to the distress of amusement-seekers who prefer talent to pedigreed puppets) that the Chateau Moderne just had to have one. However, she's masked and nameless--the fiction being that she's member of royalty. Ho-hum-Broadway's topography is the only thing about the street that's on the level. Mary Roo erts Rhinehart has signed the lease for a 19-room apartment on Park avenue. ... And the next tenants of Franklin Roosevelt's Manhattan house, which has borne . "FoT Rent" sign this winter, will be the James RooseveIts.