The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-10-31
In New York
Bx GEORGE ROss

Medley: Greater throngs than in years past surge across the Rialto on Saturday, everybody's night out.
 Not since the dark days of 1880, incidentally, has a night club scared into the big money as rapidly as the new Cotton Club, which has for saken Harlem for Broadway. Cab Calloway's glib and "pashy" music and Bill Robinson's unsurpassed tap dances furnish the bait.
 George s. Kaufman and Edna Ferber have set a new fashion for playwrighting collaboration. Most of the ideas in their current hit, Stage Door," were conceived while bicycling along the hills and dales of Long Island, Westchester and the Bronx.
 There is one well-known left wing satirist in town whose rapier. edged essays are aimed at the up- town tnteligentSia and who gathers his material in the enemy'S camp. 'Twenty-One." His victims insist upon paying for his drinks. Greenwich Village on the slkids? It would seem sos the Bohemians are fading in prestige. The sign I saw on the Village cafe window read, "No Poets Wanted"
 New York is probably the only metropolis with one-way streets for pedestrians as well as autoists each day at noontime in the Garment Center a trafiic cop directs pedestrian trafiic in northbound and southbound directions.
 Hair of the Dog-Plus
 A footlight romance that has thrived: that of Bramwell Fletcher and Helen Chandler, married two years ago and inseparable.
 What has John Barrymore got to show for his work2" exclaims Q young lady who doesn't want to give up her stage career in ctir- rent comedy 'Why a Yacht"
 In "Tovarich," the new Broad- way success, 8 character Is cured of splitting headache with an old Moscovite recipe that includes equal parts of vodka and gunpowder. .. :. There has been Q heavy demand lately for this patent ''Tovarich" remedy at many cases.
 Ruth Slenczynsli, the piano prodigy, has Q concert tour mapped out this season which should net her (and her guardian) $75,OO0 {. and some young people balk about having to practice at the keyboard. Everything Was Oakley -dokey
 The only musical show in town which still manages to attract Q nightly host of Stage Door John- nies" is the Ziegfeld Follies.
 Which brings to mind the certain comedian fortunate enough to sec cure 8 job in an erstwhile '.F'ollies.". !" He was celebrating the event at Lindy's grog shop with his cronies. 'Lissen," his less fortunate conn., rades put in persuasively, you be sure and get up plenty of Annie Oakleys' for the show."
 "Soiton1y," the comic assured. them, when I'm in the 'FOllies, there1l be girls for everybody Concerted Gossip.
 Some of the glamor of the music and lecture world is to be gleaned from Ethel Peysers personal history of the famous Carnegie Hall. Miss Peyser, who has been long familiar with the venerable auditorium, has seen the great ones backstage. So she is able to report that when the boy prodigy, Yehudi Menuhin, tin- ishes an arudous and brilliant coll- cert, all he wants, in the face of deafening applause, is some ice cream. that the great pianist. Josef Hoffman, has 8 habit of ar irving at the concert at the last minute, just time enough to yell Hello" and rush onstage \. that Frieda Hempel invariably checks 8 chinchilla coat with the stagehands before she starts singing Y. and that the most unassuming. linaf- fected person to enter Carnegie Halls backstage portals was Dr.. Allan Roy Dafoe, who had come to deliver lecture.