The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-07-27
In New. York
BY oEORdE ROSS

BY GEORGE ROSS
 New York U Manhattan Miscel- lany: This is the greatest town for doormen in the world. Doormen of oil kinds and aM heights. And ny- riad uniforms.
 A Swarthy.skinned Moroccan and c Foreign Legionnaire stand their posts ct the door of the Club Moroc- co, and . corps of English hobbies, down to the final brass button, pace up and down the pevementS ct the apartment development called Lon. don Terrace.
 The Swank Carriers, where any gem purchase under S60o Is c petty cash sale, Is guarded during business hours by Q portiy apaca and panama hat, aS unostensta- tious as the store. But at Q mems haberdashery across the street there's doorinan clad in tropical linens and an explorers sun hel- met. r }FH
 When the other evening c place In the Fifties inaugurated m air. cooling system, they set out their doormati disguised in . penguin costume, and Q tobacconist down. town has his man standing iil the arcade while drawing puffs on on intricate hookah. The Fifth Aye. Tlue shops featuring BrltlSh goods prefer to- outfit their doormen in striped britches, hunting jacket and topper, and once one of these worthieS, decked out aS Master of the Hounds blew Q trumpet to beckon taxis end limousines. At Q local toyshop, the fellow outside is liveried and rouged in the makeup of c wooden soldier.
 Dooormen, as you can imagine, meet c lot of important people coming and going. And, as Q result of these passing acquaintanceships many Q guardian of the portals has heard opportunity knocking at his door-and hes answered the knock.
 The late James Murray, who was introduced to the theatrical profess sion when he was the beSpangled doorman of Q Broadway movie pal- ace and in time rose to dazzling but short.lived cinema stardoyn, is Q TO. cent case in point. Recent-because his body was dragged out of the river here the other day. Having tasted the nectar of success, he could not bring himself again to accept 6 job opening doors to c fickle public that once had been his own. Trio In One
 II. O. Wells might call 1t "The Ora chestra of the Future" and would be right. Anyway, 1t. would Do an apt name for the "Electronic Trio" which is an electric organ, easily played. M
 It consists of Q strlngless cello maneuvered without . bow; Q there- min that responds to air waves and an invisible violin. It may be daft but it is also economical. For it pro- duces chamber music without being touched by human hands. It is only
 necessary to wave the hands over the keys.
 AEuslc's PeriIs
 Being Q musician, I'm informed by an authority of Tin Pan Alley, can Do as hazardous as the athletic profession. For just as athletes have to contend with sprains, hrulses and charley so do the Tin Pan Alley denizens suffer from svindry ills during Q siege of steady playing, For instance, c0rnet players are af- fiicted with chapped lips, bass play ers develop bIisters on over-exercised fingers, several yio;inistg have been known to suffer from swelling of the neck glands because of the constant pressure of the fiddle against their Adams apple. "
 And oboe players get continuous headaches. "As crazy as an oboe player" is an oft-used siEaile on Tin Pan Alley.
 IFish Giants
 There wer eseveEal of ls at lunch with four 1rish Abbey Players fresh from Dublin in the swank salon oi Jack and Charlie. Arthur Shields tr . rich brogue spoke adIiliringly ol the Idaho Potato that lowered above his sirloin. It was impossible, he said to get a potato that sise in his Ila- tive Erin. And 60 before he left tho table to get q train Co Hollywood he commanded Jack, the pOgty CO., proprietor, to have a eaCkful TeAdy on the day he returns 70 Ireland. Hl plans to plant them in hlg xuEn nx6an oakide og Dublin.