The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-06-27
In New York
By PAUL HARRISON

New York, June 27.--Meander- ings: The big town, which with tongue in cheek calls itself "Amer- ica's perfect summer resort" is anticipating great rush of visitors. But just now there are c few traces of depression around.
 Two former chorus girls, after months of fruitless calls at the booking offices in the Bond build ing, still visit all the offices every day--shining shoes Central Parks sleepers have reserved their grass plots for tho summer. ...And the at-liberty actors along the rialto arc busy negotiating loans, there being an old Broad way axiom to the effect that a fellow can be deaf, dumb and blind, but still get along all right if he has q sense of touch.
 Forty-seven of the 8S legiti- mate theaters arc in the hands of banks or mortgages, partly as n result of Q season which saw only 13 hits and 95 errors, with a doz- en others enjoying moderate runs. One of the things I'm happy to have missed--missed by the none. too-generous margin of 5000 miles was . play called "Them's the Reporters" My friends report it new aii-time low in dramatic effort, and assure me that George Jean Nathan walked out between the first and second syilables.
 Trailing Byrd
 Nr. Nathan. by the way. still is getting around with Syl- via sidney Loretta Young and Leland Hayward arc making . lissom twosome .. You can see Rouben Mamoulian almost every where, generally in tow of Jock Whitney Admiral Byrd is ex- ploring the rialto and twice has been discovered taking observa- tions in torrld Earl Carroll Land ---at the girly-girly "Sketch Book' What's this about Postnlastcr- General Farley intending %o re- sign?. Men of the sports world. where his real friends are, all seem to know about 1t. t.8
 Royalty makes its bow Co Broadway: A son of Spain's ex- King Aifonso--the one tragically afflicted with hemophilia--- totters into the Paradise .. The Mpha- rajah of Kapurthaia and his son. Prince Amarjit Singh, havc q staCe-side table at the French Casino. Tho Prince dances, but the old potentate, who could buy the place with e months Income, just smiles and applauds Z. ,'.. Meanwhile the poseur Prince" Mike Romanoff wanders in and out of the smaller gay spots of the Fifties, volubly worrying about how he's going to pay his room rent.
 Sidewalks of New York
 A new racket rears itsedf among the potted shrubbery of Manhattan's sidewalk cafea --- customers leave tips for walters. and lurking urchins snatch the coins and run At these cafes. these days, you're likely to see Lily Pons, Mrs. Edgar selwyn. Carl Laemmle, the Berlins. the Dempseys, Tallulah Bankhead, Elsie Janis, Edith Van Cleves hvle Talbot, Patricia Collinge, l .4el
 Norman, Nancy Carroll, Hpmphr rey Bogart and lot of 0there. oh, yes. and Patricia ziegfeld and her mama, Billie Burke. seM.'
 Libby Holman has deserted her Delaware retreat and is takins
 her baby up to Maine for sum- mer with one of the cow-barn | theater companies Scouts re-
 port that the Donahue estate at | Southampton is sure to be the
 summer White House. A few Se- cret Service men already are sta- | tioned there, I'm told Heavy weight Champion Jim Braddock. | still living in a modest apartment hotel here. is the towns hero. But
 Broadway has its own title for the movies of his meeting with Max BGer. It believes the fight film ought to be billed as "The Great Waltz"
 Meating Competition
 This big-game restaurant busi- ness is getting out of hand, and all because of Jack Dempsey's success with his quainte colonial | food shoppe. One of Max Baer's many contracts provides that cafe may be started in his names and with his personal services as
 host Babe Ruth. too. ia likely to be the hero behind the money behind a restaurant.
 And I am about to begin nego- tiations with a certain short.
 swart movie actor to act as host for M restaurant of my choosing.
 About all I've decided upon is the actor and the sign which will does
 crate. respectively, the interior and facade of our establishments
 His name will get ton billing, 10 glltterine lights. And under thnts
 ln flaming Neon tubes. will he
 listed the speciality of the house;