The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-01-03
In New York
By PAUL HARRISON

New York. -- Meanderings: It looks like much more prosperous year, reports Martin Greene. The l figures scribbled on the tablecloths at Lindy's, SardPs and other Broad way restaurants are twice as large as in 1884.
 Most interested watcher of the
 building operation catty-corner from Madison Square Garden IS
 Jack Dempsey. It will be his res taurant, and the cornerstone aI-
 ready has entombed the gloves
 which made him fistic champion Sullivan and Corbett had res- taurants, too, and Pop-'Em-P Paul Berlenbach, the erstwhile Astoria
 Assassin, now shoves steins over a bar in Manufactures Yorkyille. Milton Berle has a prescription for insomniacs. Instead of taking sedatives or counting sheep, pre- tend it's o'clock of a dreary morning and that you have to get up The Police Gazette, daring barber-shop journal of not 50 many decades ago, is to resume
 publication-with a woman as edi- ttor-in-c chief . And speaking of barber shops, there's one on
 Eighth avenue advertising: Sell ing Out-Haircuts, 20 cents." Evidently just a satirical comment on the methods of neighboring stores, which constantly advertise going out business sales.
 Line Qua Non
 Lita Grey Chaplin left her first night club engagement for a flying visit to the children in California. She said shed see Charlie; they're still good friends I haven't sen as many diamond tiaras at the dressier spots this winter. Proba- bly, they're all being made into bracelets Geraldine Farrar Is another believer in numerology. Signs herself "Qua Farrar" because some mathematical mystic told her the "Qua" would bring her luck.
 Comeback
 Remember "Tess of the D'Ub- ervilles." Anna Christie" and some of the other celebrated silent films in which Blanche Sweet ap- peared? We'll, she's coming back to the Broadway stage in a new play. Leslie Howard will be in it too In other cities the the- ater is having a quiet revival. Washington, Baltimore, Pittsburg, Chicago, Minneapolis, Kansas City. Los Angeles and Boston are divid- ing fourteen shows among them- selves at this writing. "Dods- worth" soon will leave Manhattan for a tour.
 Somewhere around town is a ghoulish fellow who goes to thea, ter box offices and asks for his money back from a previous night because his wife became ill dur ing the first act, was rushed to a hospital and later died. A racket, of course.
 Spcndthrifts.
 In England, distinguished stage folk are likely to get on the Kings honors list for title. But in New York-with the exceptions of Ruth Draper and Cornelia Otis Skinner, they're busted from the Social Register z. A contract
 bridge feul is being fought out at. the Motion Picture club between four film executives They meet whenever they all happen to be in
 town at the same time. Stakes
 are T a point and although thou
 sainds may change hands at sin- gle sitting, total scores are sur
 prising1y even. a
 Big spenders are beginning to
 reappear on Broadway, but most
 of them. after night, or two. turn
 out to have been mere flashes in
 the cash registers. Among the
 steady payboys, though, are Guy
 Loomis, who has something to do
 with oil, and Enoch Johnson, who
 has something to do with local
 politics. Twenties here, hundreds
 there. and ten-spot to the cigaret
 girl. Messrs Loomis and Johnson
 are very popular If he had
 more money, Erskine Gwynne-
 would be the perfect man-about-
 town. But things may be diner
 ent If and when he rcvives here
 the famous Boulevardier which he
 used to publish in Paris.