The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-03-21
In New York
BY PAUL, HARRISON

1 N W Tor k.-Meanderings
 Broadway has the perfect squelch l for anyone who wants to brag
 about his ancestry: "Yeh, you're
 probably descended from some old laughing stock"
 l Libby Holman is the only per-
 son on Broadway who uses lorg- nette. But it's faulty eyesight,
 and not that $6,000,000 the courts
 have promised her and her son. |. Dashiell Hammetts back.
 looking less like his "Thin Man"
 than before he went to California. l Laugh of the week was the resig-
 nation of the entire cast of 8 Sec- ond avenue theater because mule
 appcaring in the play drew a large wage than any of the actors.
 Lots of ,closings on Broadway, not only shows but restaurants and
 night clubs. Busiest people here
 about are the men who paint new
 names on office doors. Newest
 return of Jimmy Walker re- 1 port is that he has written the llyrics for a musical show and will
 help ((not tinancially) to present it. The Bring Back immy-W Walker club, started here to raise money
 for the expatriate playboy, has run afoul of too many fair-weather l friends.
 Bride Books Acts
 Rosalind Kress, who Is a brand- | new bride as well as the heiress I to five-and-ten millions, is going, ris Int ahead with her entertainment | booking agency. She'll hire you anything from 8 three-ring circus l to a harmonica blower in knee pants. ."Prince" Mike Romanoff,. fired from his no-work job atythe very proper Versailles because of his unsavory part in the Gould scandal.
 still is willing to swing fists in de- fense of his imaginary title. Or did. at least, the other evening at Twen-o ty-one. Eddie Cantor, bound for 2 turn on the rialto stage, will be teamed with Ethel Norman. In return for typing services on a book, Ruth St. Denis is teaching two stenographers to dance. At every party, Tallulah Bank head gives an impersonation of
 Elisa beth Bergner. The shouts of hilarity will come when, if ever. shy Miss Bergner, the perfect mim-s ic, can be persuaded to imperson- ate Miss Bankhead. Franklin Roosevelt, Jr.. the photographer-s punching, smashing pub. licity hater, took bow right off the stage of Eddie Dowling's mu-A- sical the other evening. All in deference, no doubt, to MT Dowl-'S ing himself, brain -truster of the theatrical world. ss
 I have a little note from Meyer n0H yf.,p n 60 h
 is Meyer Davis favorite epitaph:.s Here lies the press agent-as
 usual.'" 'sa
 Jack Dempsey, generally con-s, ceded to have been in som ething of financial plight when he went. into the restaurant business req, gently, has surprised Mrs Hannah Williams Dempsey with a littleg present. A star sapphire. weigh- ]. ing only 51 carats. The March of Time newsreel people call at-e tention to what amounts to na-S tionaly ban on pictures of AdolE Hitler. Not an organized boycott;
 just a tacit agreement, and the movie trade won't deny 1t. ~ Namesake ,s1s
 Charles Ruggles has role in. "Ruggles of Red Gap, but Charles~ Laughton plays Ruggles., Colin. Give appears in "Clive of India,s but he doesn't play Give.
 There'll be Q new cycle of gang-s ster pictures, with department of justice men as the heroes. .
 Earl Carroll will bring his Palma Island, Fla, night club show to- Broadway. So will the brothers Minsky bring north their bur-- lesque show from Miami. Mary O'Brien, owner of new little sup- per club. collects dollar bills au-4 tographed by celebrities. She has a flyer signed by John Barrymore.,'
 Star-gazing: Marlene Dietrichy4 Claudette Colbert and Sylvia Sid.s ney have been all around the town, Miss Dietrich's seldom recognizeda when she alone. Miss Sidney fA still George Jean Nathan's favorsE ite, on or off the screen. .. Atr the Stork club: Helen Morgan, Bert Lahr. Peggy Conklin. At Tony's: Romney Brent, Gladys George, Dennis King, Mae Murray. fs