The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-03-11
In New York
By GEORGE ROSS

New XOrk, MATCH 4l.-SOIHe Broadwayites once spoke of placing guard around George M. Conan to protect him from his friends. Be- cause 1t appeared that the great G. M. wore himself out fulfilling pals requests of every description.
 From paying somebody's back rent to serving as best man in Brooklyn, no one was ever able to keep track of the Song and Dance Mans benefactions. When Q pal" phoned him the other day to speak up for the songwriters in Washington, MT. Cohan finished his performance, rubbed of the greasepoint and rushed over to catch the train. It is impossible to estimate the number of peo- pie he has befriended because you will never learn 1t from him.
 At any rate, the Yankee Doodle Boy is back in town, playing his own, Dear old Darling" But be- fore he came, George M. toured the countryside and refreshed some memories. For, although New York is his home town, George Cohan is equally at home in cities, villages and hamlets all over the land. Tn Baltimore, where he lived with his family at Q non- descript boarding house and prac- ticed on the violin. Tn Washing ton where at the Willard Hotel, he wrote "Forty-Five Minutes From Broadway" In Madison, Wis, where the boys threw stones at him while he performed in "Peck's Bad Boy" at the local opera house. Tn Chicago, where he still owns the Grand Opera House that recalls to his mind George Sil- yer, first night club boss of the west. In Cleveland, where he played in B. r. Keith's vaudeville and in Detroit where mighty MT. Falk, the gambler, always sends flowers around to his dressing room.
 No sedentary star is MT. Cohan. With him on his periodic junkets goes his faithful Japanese valet, Mike Hirano, who has served him constantly for @ long time. And no ordinary mans man is Mike for he rules MT. Cohan with an iron hand, orders the boss around in such matters as wardrobe, rest periods and engagements and 1t is said that the Song & Dance Man will not accept a sociable drink unless the honorable Mike has mixed the ingredients.
 Paris Importation
 Tn lieu of domestic bathing beauty contests, Manhattan is without Q Miss America or even Q Miss Kala- mazoo at the moment. Instead, Manhattan has Miss Paris in its midst, Miss Paris of 1885. Miss Paris of 1885 is showing off her title and her figure at Broadway cab aret and confesses in an adorable accent that her real name is Andre Lorain, that she was chosen the fairest, Gallic maid of her town by the president of the RepubliQue, that she is 24 years old and not in love yet. So you see the French are pretty much like our girls.
 This is her first visit to New York. She finds the hustle and hustle of the town not unlike the tumult of her own, has got over her awe of the Empire State building but still can't reconcile herself to the miracle that was wrought in Radio City. American women, she declares, are strik- ingly handsome and well dressed. There was one little different thing she had expected to find here that varied from the cus- tom of her native country. That is, gentlemen look significantly in her direction when she is walk ing. It seems that she met up with the same sly glances in Paris. also.
 Beauty Geography
 Speaking of ladies of the ensem- bIe, a poll your correspondent has taken discloses one in every twenty to be . local girl. Of the decora- tive 6emosels in the Paradise's fioorshow. only one 0odiva is a na- tive. As for all the others. here is Q geographical tabInation Of where they come from: San Fran- cisco. Philadelphia. Buffalo. ROch- ester, Indianapolis. Birmingham. Jacksonville. Fla: Washington. D. To-; Erie, Pa; Shreveport. La.; Seat