The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-10-22
In New York
By GEORGE ROSS

New York, Oct. 2-Although musicians in otchestras along the Rialto usually put in about eight hours of work each evening, they actually play about half of that time. It becomes tedious to while away the interim-so if you asked any musician hereabouts, he's vouchsafe that he would rather play number after number than to idle away the hours.
 Of late, the musickers have iu- vented their own recreations. The boys in Vincent Lopez band have set up a pistol range in store room and have started a season. long tournament. George Halls bandsmen play chess. Benny Good mans swingsters retire to their quarters to listen to photograph records of rival swingmen. Guy Lombardo's musicians are back gammorl devotees; they have been at the pastime for three years. Hal Kemp's orchestral assistants have ananater photography con test current among themselves. They exhibit sample sin thes rest room. Write In Style
 Nomination for the best groomed woman writer: Fannie Hurst.
 Rumor has it around town that Forty Second street is going to re- vert back to its original love the legitimate drama with such theaters as the Sam Harris, Selywn and Appollo being outfitted for footlight and flesh-and-blood actors once more instead of burlicue and grind films.
 Eddy Duchin's imported evening clothes are the envy of every band leader on Broadway.
 Jimmy Walker still. provokes a hue and cry whenever he shows up at some function in and around the city.
 That gargantuan illuminated chewing gum sign which stretches from Forty-f1fth to Forty-fourth Street isn't the largest in the nation the biggest one is out in Holly wood and the second largest flickers nightly in Chicago.
 David Sarnoff and the radio ra- jahs of the National Broadcasting Company have private television sets in their offices but 1t is all a dark secret and hardly anyone ever sees them turned on =. When the wrecking crew goes to work on John D. Rockefeller mansion in West Fifty-fourth street they'll have the satisfaction of tear- mig a $300,000 shack to finder. Though George Vanderbilt has not reached the old age of thirty he still looks about nineteen. You can spot Ernest Truex al. most any night in the week un. raveling a plateful of spaghetti al Barbetta,s on West Forty Sixth Street.
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 Elaine Barrie is haunting Broad. way managerial offices, trying to make good 8 threat to be in the Manhattan stage by Christmas.
 Bill Terry is about the only ball player left in town the rest ot the Giants and Yankees are of irl the north woods shooting game or else tending their respective farm lands in the west and south.
 Brock Pemberton says he has read three hundred scripts since the first of the year in search of an. other Personal Appearance"
 Henry Hull's son is a super" in the Gielgud version of Hamlet" now playing at the Empire; at,ta Nancy Garner, first cousin of Vice President Garner. is singing in a Swedish night club on the west side Nothing makes . Broadway col- umnist beam more proudly than when he is told someone has just named . race horse after him. Grover Whalen, dapper former police commissioner and official greeter and now chairman of the worlds fair of '39, heads the are arrangements committees of more charity functions than any other individual.