The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-05-06
In New York
By.GEoRGE ROSS

New York, May 6-What has hap. pened to the claimants of the S26 900 Lindbergh case rewardp Well, John J. Lyons, who carried the ransom note to the bank, is mentally spend- ing his share on Q trip to California and business investment. Walter Lyle, the gas station attendant who received the bill that trapped Haupt- mann, would spend his on baby bonds for his child and Q belated honeymoon trip to Niagara.
 The only Yale professor ever to play q fat part in a musical com edy is Monty Woolley who ex- hlbits 6 mean clog.shoe in the current Broadway hit, "On Your Toes" Less than ten years ago, ex-Prof. Woolley was delivering lectures to the sons of Old Eli.
 What, no caviar2 So laments signor Antoine Didone, who has fed the succulent spread from the sturgeon to your correspondent on many occasions. And who probably imports more caviar into this coun- try than any other man. Caviar, moaned Signor Didone, has virtually stopped arriving from Russia and 1t is possible, he added, that the 5ov- let sturgeon are rebelling against giving up their proletarian eggs for capitalists tables. Anyway, 1t will be Q sad blow to Manhat- tan epicureans.
 Manhattan Isolation
 Though occupants of ono of the most elegant town apartments in Manhattan. laden with objects of art from everywhere, Alfred Lint and Lynn Fontannc have no tele- phone. They can--and are--usually reached by postal service and tele- gram. And friends drop In with out warming.
 Now that Tammany Young has passed away, Broadway's chief stooge is Sir Joseph Qin2bnurg, Willie Towards court jester, who is to be seen in Towards garden frequently, attired in top hat, tail- coat and with cane over his arm. wedding out the flower patches. His knighthood is fic- titious but nobody minds 1t, just as Broadway never doubted Prince Mike" Romanofr's lineage, Pleasant Experiences
 Personal pets: Bold Venture, Kentucky Derby hero whose name I drew out of Phil Bakers chapeau In Derby pool. Under Two Flags" as fine a flicker as I've caught recently, although Gregory Ratoff as 8 Foreign Legionnaire still seems to me to be strange bit of casting. Dining at the Bat in Greenwich Village, which for seven- teen years was a rendezvous of the Bohemians. Luigi Pirandello was there nightly during his American visit and said that he had discov- cred plots for stories there. I've had frequent chuckles, also, with the relightful travel book by the three Abbe children, Around the World in Eleven Years" And with Oscar "Lollypop" Lowande's antics in the Central Park Circus One of the funniest clowns in the business, he plays one-man nine-inning ball game with him. self, on the Mall.
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 Bold Adventurers
 Your correspondents earnings or Bold Venture, by the way, were slight compared to the profits somebody took at Jack 6s Charliei snooty oasis, "2l" on the day of thu Derby. There a $50 pool was formed by Ben Hecht, Charlie MacArthur the comedy Mary Taylor, Scior George Vanderbilt and his bride the Fortune Peter Ryans, Radio Magnate David 6arnoff, Douglas Fairbanks. ST., and his bride, thu former Lady Ashley. William Rhine lander Stewart and Prince Serg' Obolensky. They watched the Dcrb! from their high stools at the bar |