The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1935-08-12
In New York
BY PAUL HARRISON


ings: Nights are getting longer.
Refrigerated cocktail dens are get
ting cooler. Mary Pickford has
been buying some furs. Carl Van
vechten is wearing flannel shirts.
And you've not only a little more
than four months to do your
Christmas shopping.
Those Enthusiastically striped bands
on the better bout
town represent the smoother clubs
- collegiate organizations, mostly,
of Harvard, Yale and Princeton.
But copies of the bands are on
the Broadway market, to be
bought and worn by any song
plugger or acrobat. Red and blue
insignia of the exclusive Racquet
and Tennis Club is SO popular the
club has changed the design to a
somber :, pin-striped com bination
that nobody wants to initiate.
Hecht and MacArthur's "Once
in a Blue Moon" turned out very
badly, and the literary twins have
gone into hiding. Not for rea-
sons of embarrassment, though;
they're pounding out two new
stories for fall filming. -. Myrna
10y has three new freckles
Hardly, anybody recognizes strap
ping, Jackie Coogan when he
rounds the night spots. =. Morris
Gest, OF the Ascot tie and funereal
som brero, will return to the pro-
duction ranks with a revival Of
the Chauve Souris. s
Elbow Room
Melvin Purvis, the Man,
will be the first former federal
sleuth to work in Hollywood Dis an
advisor on crime pictures X /.
Manhattan's highest -paid cook -
per number Of dishes prepared,
anyway - is a Mrs. b. NJ. Becker.
She cooks most of the tempting
items you see pictured in .adver-
tisements. Eats them, too, after
the pictures are taken.
4 This departments representa-
tive. among the summer-theater
folk near Skowhegan, Me-, SUBJ
mits an item concerning the local
liquor law. TO buy one or more
bottles, a person must be a resi-
dent--if only. a hotel resident. So
the hotel has a special room which
Is rented for five minutes for so
cents. s
A good many tourists who have
been guided through Rockefeller
Center demand their money back
when they're not shown Rookie
felier in the flesh. -. Louis Blu
MENTAL. owner offthe French Ca
sine, has watchedsthe show dozens
of times, but never has gone back
stage - an opportunity few other
tired businessmen would miss !.
incidentally there's plenty Of gist
for gossip on the showgal's dress
fables - framed photos Of ave-
nue. playboys, with inscriptions ). .
Elmer I,eterman, who writes most
Of Broadway's insurance, has $50
pairs Of shoes - which would be
three changes even II he were a
centipcde.
:Msr, .Hs3'sasa .
Harlem Goes HARLEM
Harlem is coming out OF its mid
summer siesta with new shows at
the Cotton. and Ubangi I clubs.
They're pure jungle stuff. and a
wise reversion to the type of en-
tertainment that lured safaris Of
sleek limousines there when the
black belt was discovered six
years ago Warmest item Is a
new dance which should be sweep
ing the nation soon. Less of q
step than manner of dancing,
realy--and not awfully good man
ners at that. They call 1t truck
in" and nobody knows why.
The passing show: Peggy Joyce's
affairs may permit her to star in
the English company OF Personal
Appearance" a comedy hit of last
season The Elliot Roosevelts
at sketch Book" Anna May
Wong. in town after several weeks
of reducing at nearby health
farm ~. launching at the Algon-
quin:s ALA Nazimova. Conrad Ma
gel, Jerome Kern, Eva lie CALI
enne. Laurence Stallings, Florence
Walton, dance-turned-stylist ). /.
vinton Freddy walls that he
must go to Hollywood to sign
enough people, and the right peo-
ple, for forthcoming Cole Porter
musical.
81 y - -
Glorious Temples ss
Sic transit gloria mundi: In q
list of immortals, between eigh-
teenth Century Frederick Temple,
Archbishop of Canterbury, and
Seventeenth Century Sir william
Temple, British diplomat. the
World Wide Encyclopedia lists
Shirley Temple. ,rs
Richard Bennett, pappy Of Con-
stance Barbara and Joan, is in
town and may appear In Broad
way play for the hrst timo In ave
wears I. Iucongruous paiship:
QoWdy Clifford odels. the radical