The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-12-28
In New York
Nv GEORGE ROSS

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women in night clubs are easy prey
for crooks who prowl the cafe CIR
cult; and hereafter they are to be
protected by the Law enforcers' spe-
cial vigilance. A "dead-line" has
been established against habitues
known to have criminal record,
and the 1"deadline" is to be the
threshold Of any club along the safe
cult. Proprietors are being warned
against admitting them.
Few people realize the enor-
nous wealth often assembled In
the comparatively small salons
devoted to fun after dark In Man
haitian. "A furrier sitting at q
nearby table once estimated to
your correspondent that $250,000
worth of sables, silver fox and
mink were gathered in a single
club on Saturday evening. There
wasn't a jewelry appraiser around
to take toll but his estimate might
well have tripled the furrier's fig
ure.
Paradoxically enough, the poten-
tial victims Of gem robbers are not
celebrities, although there are rare
exceptions. At best, robbing a
night club patron Of her gems after
her departure Is a risky business.
For even the most unpublished
ladies OF wealth who have Jewel
collections and wear them in prefer
epce to paste limitations, retain
additional guards who follow at a
respectable distance.
It is safe to venture that when
Mrs. James p. Donahue Of the
five and ten fortune. Mrs. Vadim
Makarof (who got a vast chunk
Of the A. g. p. Millions, Hope
Hampton (aow Mrs. Jules Brula-
tour, Mrs. Joseph Davies (wife
Of the ambassador to RUSSIA and
the Countess Won Haugwitz-Re-
ventlow attended a night club,
adorned with invaluable spark
lers, they. are under the vigilant
eyes Of insurance company detec-
tives or their own bodyguards.
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Captor Contributes
On the subject of yeggs, this
courtroom nis-en-scene Is a new
high In something or other. A thug
brought before a local magistrate
the other day was held in 500 bail.
His attorney, eager to bail out his
! client. fished some money out of his
pocket. Total haul from his jeans:
$25. The defendant contributed
his temporary freedom. Which left
a 80 discrepancy. Then, struck with
a brilliant notion, the lawyer held
a corner conference with a uni
formed worthy and soon returned
with the missing capital. The de-
PENDANT won his brief liberty. Who
helped him out Of his embarrass-
ing predicament? The officer who
made the arrest and pressed, the
charge.
Catering Depression
Faded from the gold leaf era In
Manhattan along with spangles,
opera capes and motor goggles are
those lavish supper banquets, ten
dered and paid for by reckless play
boys. No one feels the passing Of
this fabulous fad more than the
caterers who waxed rich during
that wonderful era arranging the
decorative shheme Of the table
with expensive edibles and costly
liquors and ornamental cakes Gre
ated by hot oven sculptors.
One Of the leading caterers dur
ing .thoce heydaps Of Diamond
Jim Brady, Stanford White, Lillian
Russell, ct al, was the firm Of Mar
etti-Afazetti, which outfitted such
midnight feasts with every prop
including innumerable gallons Of
champagne.
But Maretti-Mazetti's specially
was cake sculpture. Many pie
Of huge circumference left the
bakeshop TO serve its purpose 81
more than n tremendous pastry
Those were the days when the I'D
came on such sugary pies to re.
jveal Q couely and bewitching Eve
wearing not so much as q cream
pun IN direct center. Maretti.
Mazetti hasn't baked such q caks
since the last days Of Rector's
Reisenweber's and Bustanoby's.
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