The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-04-15
In New York
BY GEORGE ROSS

New York, April IS - Mime Blanchard, the landlady, will be 80 and Papa" Moneta, the restaurant keeper, will be 57, and Greenwich Village is agog with plans for birth day parties. But not they.
 "No more parties" say Papa Moneta.
 "It will do them no good to have a party for me-" says Mme Branchard, T will be sick. I will go to bed."
 And they mean it. Papa" Mo- meta IS spending his birthday in the kitchen, seeing to the spa- ghetti, and Mime. Blanchard eel ebrates the anniversary of her birth by quiet day in the house.
 To Greenwich Village, which wishes to pay homage, this is not right.
 For Mime. Blanchard and Papa" Moneta have been good Sa- maritans, bonifaces of the Bohe- milan quarters, for many years. She owns the house at 61 Wash ington Square South, famed among literati as No. 61. She has been the landlady of Theodore Dreiser, Frank Norris, Alan Seeger and James Op- penheim, to name few famous men. Once, Edgar Allen Poe is said to have dwelt on the same site Mime. Blanchard wasn't around then. But there are many others who have achieved fame in the lit- erary world and who can confess without shame that once they were sheltered under Mime. Bran chard's roof without paying the rent.
 Village Concensus
 And yet Mime. Blanchard is the most outspoken critic of what is left of Bohemian life in the Village
 "Village folks," she said the other day, while the Village was arranging for her birthday festiv- ity, "are drunkards and buns Their wild parties are not for me and not for this house." And sht slammed the door, only to oper it again and add Pardon me-" For everybody knows that the vindictive old landlady is not the crone-like terror she pretends she is. Everybody knows that she will accept a sonnet, instead o1 the cash, in payment of rent from young, impecunious poet up stairs.
 But when the Village set came to Mime. Blanchard the other day and said that for her 80th birth day, they would like to take hei for ride in an old baroucht around the park, the Landlady al 61 looked the committee severely in the face and said "No, let then gallop through the park. But il will do them no good to stoI here."
 Foregoes Annual Banquet
 No less adamant was Papa Moneta, the spaghetti solon of Null berry street, about plans to cele' brate his 57th birthday. He stated his reasons simply. T was born il the kitchen" he said, land that Ii where want to be on my ami versary." For Papa" Moneta is 1T a sentimental mood in middle-life This is the first time in many year that he has not retired to his Loni Island home for a birthday feas to which chefs, bankers, jurists, ac tors, poets and princes, bookkeep CTS, and last but not least, n1ul titude of Moneta relatives ar asked. Papa" Moneta wants non of that now. He wants to be fl the kitchen.
 He has been the First Restau rateur of Mulberry street, the Per Tranquil of lower New York tha is bounded on one side by China town, on the other by the Bowery on the third by the Ghetto and ol the fourth, by Greenwich Villag for almost a half century. To hi remote locale, have journeyed tn cognoscenti of Manhattan's ricl life, for a dinner that general lasts four hours and for a soire with the boss.