The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-07-13
In New York
BY GEORGE ROSS

New York, July l3 = Manhattan Miscellany: It iS odd but true, nevertheless, that the coolest spot in town during the unbearable heat waves, is Q station platform in the Eighth Avenue Subway, the city, controlled underground line.
 But 1t Is impracticable to spend the evening in c subway labyrinth, which Is why the air-cooled movie palaces are thronged on hot nights.
 During the last hot spell, I counted three brave men saunter. ing 42nd street in shorts, sleeve- less shirts and inoccasiI1S. There were no complaints.
 Five urchins, incidentally, step. ped up to the guard at Radio City tho other day and demanded per. mission to wade in the PrometheuS Fountain. On the grounds that if Marion Zioncheck could do It, why couldn't they2
 Youths Fling at Success
 The conversation one night turned to Professor pitlkinS treatise about Life Beginning at 70 and there were several ir the crowd who disagreed pointing out that many a reputa- ton had already been made before maturing was reached.
 George M. Cohan was le when he wrote his first song hit, "The Wsrmest Baby Of the Bunch" Car- men Barnes was barely past sixteen when she wrote her first-best selling novel. George 0ershwin was io when he penned "swanee" for an Al Jolson show.
 Katharine Cornell began her stage career when she was i0 at the Washington Square Play. house. W. Q. Handy was Mein- phis lad of i6 when he wrote "Bealc Street Blues," though 1t be. came popular when he was past his teens.
 Copper Capitalist
 What milliona;res do with their spare time would fill Q volume. But probably the thriftiest and most admirable of all is the hobby Walter Chrysler iadulges in. MT. Chrysler collects penny banks and actually saves his copper coins in them. Not that he has to, by necessity. He does 1t for fun and, in fact, he ap. praises every one of his penny banks ct more than he ever could save in them. It seems that he has been up to this three years and in that time has collected some 900 banks, all in good working order and authentic.
 He has banks which, when . coin is inserted, will cause Buster Brown and his dog Tighe to take Q step incline on chute.the. .chute and another which induces prpfes. sor Pugfrog, done in bronze, to take 6 bicycle ride. And there are num- erous others of every period, type and description built since 1870. MT. Chrysler can't think of many things he'd rather do than extract a hand- ful of pennies from Q can he keeps around and drop them into his penny machines.
 HatcheCh Overhead
 The hat-checx girls of Manhat- tan's night clubs, 1t seems, have formed a union of their own. They are demanding regulated hours minimum wages. Which again brings to light the popular fallacy that the stetson checker in pop ular club accumulates a small for tune every evening. She doesn't For she is merely the hireiing of concessionaire who buys the "cha- peau chopping" privileges from the management and then hires comely female assistants to look after the business, The overhead of many . night club has been paid for by the lnatcheck concession.
 Remember Maria 0ambarelii, tte late "Roxy;s" ballet dancing pro. tege? She came back to New Xorh the other day with ambitious piani for herself. She has put her dane. ing clothes away and is branching out into dramatic acting. Holly. wood has already given her several opportunities to emote fin screen tests and she's photographed ai right.