The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-09-17
In New York
Bx GEORGE Ross

New York, Sept. l7-Big Town Notes: So George M. Conan, who can have anything he. asks for on Broadway, wants to drift on Q Mis- sissppi Showboatl And Billy Bry- ant, who has drifted on 6 Missis- sippi Showboat all his life, wants to come to Broadway.
 It is one of Broadway's para doxes that George Jean Nathan, the most fearsome dramatic critic in the business knows fewer actors than any other play watcher.
 "The next thing I'd like to do," Tallulah Bankhead tells your cor- respondent Ifs to tour the nation, visit every capital and tiny ham, let and get acquainted with thea tergoers everywhere"
 I learn to my chagrin that Gypsy Rose Lee, a strip tease dancer of the burlesque circuit, has hired a secretary who sweetly says "Who is calling, please?" when you phone her.
 Add to life's little ironies: Sev- eral of Sheila Barreee'S sketches for her shows in the capitalistic Rainbow Room this winter were written by clifford Odets, poet and prophet of the radical movement. Marrying For Money
 One of Manhattan's lawyers, specialist in divorce proceedings, was in a confidential mood the other evening. A client came to him, he said with Q problem that could be solved in only one way-she needed @ husband immediately.
 A man of action, the attorney got busy. Hurriedly, he beckoned a truckster who had done some odd jobs for him. And sent his client along with him to City Hall where they were duly married. Afterward his client went home happily pro- tected in her legal rights to an es- tate. And the gigolo was paid handsomely.
 "Shure, but this is an easy way to make dough-" he said as he pocketed the hundred dollars.
 "You bet" the lawyer retorted "hut be careful and say nothing If word of this gets around, 1t will be pretty hot for you"
 "fIot?" the truster exclaimed why, my wife would kill me-" 
 Swank On The Bowery
 The Bowery is acquiring Park Avenue sophistication. There is . flop house at the corner of Pearl street and the Bowery that has q canopy as broad as the Waldorf Astoria's stretching from the curl to the door. Across 1t Is lettered ir gilt. "Beds-Twenty-Five Cents" presume that the management has laid off the doorman until after the Presidential elections.
 Doggy Burial
 As yet, there has not been form. cd such an association as @ Society for the Prevention of Overkindlinesl to Animals. But if the funerea highjinx at Hartsdale, N. Y., con- tinue much longer, or the revolu. ton arrives earlier than scheduled we may have one. Hartsdale har. bors Q lavish cemetery where house pets may be ceremonously laid tc rest for their next world. But nc ordinary burial ground is this site of sod; no Potters' Field for animals
 Probably the most pretentious funeral in the Hartsdale animal cemetary was given William D Leeds police dog, Pell. MT. Leeds rich man of sentimental nature who pays $500 to have Q Hawaiian band play for him in his apart. ment, was deeply affected wher Pell died. So he had Q Long Islant undertaking firm ernbalnn his canine companion. The deceased dog lay in state for a day, surrounded bS flowers and was then borne b, hearse to Hartsdale. There tn bones were inferred and Q tomb. stone erected ct an estimated cost of e40,000.
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