The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-04-09
In New York
By PAUL HARRISON

New York.-The Nudists are after me. If you ever have been heckled and pursued by the naked you will realize that 1t Is quite an experience. One scarcely knows how to behave. Since reading an interview with Dr Ilsley Boone, minister turned parish in the clothes market, peo- ple have been writing in to ask how they can get in touch with local nudist organizations. have responded as succinctly as possible, suggesting that naturists and red-fiannelists alike had pet ter communicate with Dr Boone. He and I may be brothers under the skin, but I am not going 10 acknowledge fraternity in matters of skin alone.
 Then there is the letter from a stripper in New Jersey, chiding me for not taking seriously "the high purposes of movement which is no longer a fad but q wholesome philosophy" On the other hand, one of the newly or ganizing groups of the unclothed has invited me to membership. "Your article" says the letter. shows that you have an under standing of the true aims of mud ism" One opinion must be a re- buke, the other fattery. But can't decide which is which.
 Thin Skinned
 And now I have been waited upon by a committee from the Nudist Theater Guild. They seem- ed deeply affected by the piece wrote a couple of weeks ago point ing out that none of the perform CTS ever had been to a nudist camp. and that the International Nudist Conference indignantly disapproved of them because they were immod- est enough to wear a few articles of clothing on the stage.
 They were misjudged, they in- sisted, because their play opened for tryout in a conservative little suburban town with almost as many policemen as cash custom- CTS in the audience. So they were obliged to wear a few skinny gar- ments, in spite of their yearnings toward nudist orthodoxy. For the Nudist Theater Guild is, am as- sured, very earnest about natur- ist ideals. Why, Lee Harrington. president of the Guild, actually Joined a nudist organization the other day. and is just waiting for a warm afternoon to venture forth in defiance of deputy sheriffs, mos- quitoes and poison ivy.
 In the Swim
 An, but just wait until the Guild comes to Broadway! John s. Sum- ner and the other reformers had better be getting out their smoked glasses! There will be some pretty torrid goings-on in the little thea ter of the Sutton hotel on East 56th street. Nudist bar with nud- ist cocktails: usherettes in very lit- tie. if anything; nudist orchestra. the fiddlers appropriately attired In g-strings.
 The play? Well, don't know much about the play but suspect 1t is pretty dull. The third act however will be performed in the Sally Rand style of nudity, with lowered lights and Is likely to be enlivened by the unprogrammed entrance of a lot of unaesthetic policemen.
 If the performance survives to the final curtain, the audience VIII be invited to swim in the hotel pool. Nude? "That," say execu- lives of the Nudist Guild, "is up to the discretion of our patrons"
 
 Sandwiched In
 There is just space enough left to tell about Arnold Reuben, Man hattan's most celebrated sandwich man. A delicatessen proprietor, really, but since 1910 he has been making sandwiches for celebrities who crowd his establishment in the early morning hours.
 He had a succession of locations two on Broadway and then on Madison avenue-but every where that Reuben's went the smart etay- ers-up-late were sure to go. Most of them had sandwiches named after them-the George Jessel creamed heese-and-pressed olive in -raisin toast, the Eddie Cantor c corn d-beef-special-on-rye. and about Q hundred others.
 Now he had moved again--still farther from Broadway, and right in the midst of the avenue limou- since belt. Nevertheless, song pluggers. hoofers, actors, musi- clans. and bookmakers rubbed shoulders with society people at the formal opening the other day. Mayor La Guardia cut the ribbon and threw away the key to the place. It's the towns only hot spot that hasn't closed it's doors