The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-08-14
In New York
BY PAUL HARRISON

NcW OEkS AuSs 44sXhCdu0SA ings: There's a certain aging &C., tress who couldn't forget her lines -the lines in her face. She had her face lifted and came out of the operation looking like a different person-so changed that audiences | won't know her. So she's still down-in-the mouth.
 The nudists, who'll stop at noth- ing, haven't been promoting their cause very successfully this year. The New York State law has been one reason; another may be the apathy of a public sated with night-club nakedness. One group | of the unclad actually has been hiring itself out to summer re- sorts; members frolic In this or that sylvan glen to be peeped al by the cash customers of nearby hotels.
 And speaking of bare stories, that imported film, Ecstasy which was destroyed by the gov ernment, really was incredibly dull Splintering sounds and means of anguish are still echoine 1 in the New Jersey shore resorts where raiders have been visiting gambling dens. Only way to beat a roulette wheel is with an axe. Sweet Name
 Most appropriately named of the socialites is Honey Johnson. A firm of ironmongers is headed by the Messrs. Barr and Steele A merchant dealing wholesale in silk undies for ladies Is named s. Shamey.
 The Gene Tunneys have been first-nighting nearly every show al I the cowborn theaters Helen Wills Moody raced around to all the plays in Manhattan, and has heard that a comedy satire Is be- l ing written on the career of a lady tennis star Broadway is toast ing the triumph of Eleanor Pow. ell, one of its favorite daughters in the movie, Broadway Melody She gets a starring contract now | ... No other visiting Hollywoods- man can evoke so much feminine hysteria as Clark Gable.
 While producers actors and unions involved battle over the proposal for Sunday shows, bur. lesque houses carry on, as usual seven days a week. The stripping grinding and smoking ear humor legally comprise concerts" on the Sabbath, thus ranking with sacred music and educational programs |
 Dance Dime
 Dime-a.Dance palaces, locally known as creep joints" have been cnccountering police trouble because of violations of the strin. gent lice nsing regulations recent, clamped on them. New lays for. bid hiring gigolos, and also pro. hibit the sitting.out in darkened corners of hostesses and custom. CTS. Nobody pays much attention to the latter provision, but tho sitting-out rate has been upped te SC an hour. And. as in any other clip joints, the racketeer manage. ments demand any sums which they believe may be extracted from unwary victims.
 l Most vicious new aspect of the dance-halI racket is that hostessei are being forced to make outside solicitation of customers. A gir must steer in her share of tho sucker trade, or lose her job. And so. since jobs are scarce and hoof. ing hostesses often earn more than chorus girls, the disillusion. ed demoiselles spend predatory afternoons in Central Park, and along Broadway. and in the shab. bier cocktail dens. Brick k-a- Back
 There's a great vogue for south. | ern-gal singers in the night spots You'll be seeing Eddie Da. wis on the screen, and hearing well-laundered versions of songs which have made Leon and Ed. die's the hottest spot in town. Most personable and modest of dis. tingulshed artists, I believe, Ia Walt Disney, boss of that admir-. able rodent, Mickey Mouse. Wher he goes back to California Disne, and, his stan will start on theii first feature-length animated car toon. "show White and the Sever Dwarfs." Don't hold your breath though; it won't reach the screeI for q year.
 John Golden, the theatrica
 producer. once was Q bricklayer
 Asi him the secret of his success
 and he'll come right back witt this: "Hod work, my fran-hos
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