The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-07-01
In New York
By GEORGE ROSS

along and civilization moves in rapid strides on Manhattan Island.
 First 1t was the Park Lane which offered dinner guests a penthouse terrace for their pet dogs, with governess in attendance all the time. Then it was a brave pioneer Philadelphian who invaded the Is- land with Canine Catering ser- vice. For moderate fees, he offered to deliver Fido's one square-meal a day in a hygienic truck. It has been working out fine.
 A year or so ago, along came the best friend Mother ever had with Daily Diaper Delivery service. It has been, to put it mildly, Terrific. A fleet of trucks, trim and nursery white, scoot around the city, on the heels of the stork, with fresh baby's negligee. The clientele has grown, not only by leaps and bounds, but by yards and reams and a new dividend, the rumor goes, has just been declared in Safety Pins, Pfd.
 Well, now that both home pets have been considered by the experts in making life easier, they have just turned to our sorely neglected male sex. The new wrinkle in our behalf is "A Shirt Rental Company" for those of us who have been disap- pointed when we have gone to the cupboard for fresh change of linen. The company offers us three freshly laundered shirts at 50 cents l O 0ynnH otaA in the label of each.
 The three shirts become exclu- sively the customers when he takes on the service For subscribing, the company will measure his shirt dimensions, have three made up to order and then call for and deliver them regularly So what If the wife does get score and won't do the laundry? Progress still is on the March. Life for New Workers be- comes increasingly simpler.
 Life and Death Matters
 On their grim and hurried rounds, ambulance drivers in this turbulent town ought to be melancholy and humor-less fellows, intent only upon the wheel and the cars equilibrium as 1t careens around corners en route to an emergency. But as 1t turns out, they aren't
 One of the drivers at a big, city hospital tells me they can be pretty whimsical under certain circum- stances. For example, when an am bulance driver rushes a maternity case to the ward and the baby is born ell route, the luckless fellow must blow the staff to a keg of beer. He also owes Ca keg of beer when an emergency case passes away in the ambulance while 1t still is in motion and pointed in the di- rection of the hospital,
 Major Operation
 This is a timely moment to re- call George Bernard Shaw's' descrip- ton of the situation in 1914; "The world" the Sage of Sussex said at the time, twas suffering from & boil and 1t took million bayonets to lance it."
 In the Limelight
 Bits in the Big Town: The re- ports are that Mrs. David Wilentz, wife of the New Jersey prosecutor in the Hauptmann case, is seeking stage career.
 "Never to be Forgotten" a movie that will soon be released, is about Hitler Germany, and though the credit lines won't mention it, 1t will contain shots actually taken in the Reich and smuggled out.
 Lupe Velez, her friends here says, is trarBlating one of Blasco 1banez plays and hopes to act 1t on Broad way next season.
 Douglas Montgomery, the actor is writing short stories under a pen name.
 Beatrice Lillie is learning how to drive an auto. Daryl zanuck's chauffeur's name is Robert Taylor. It's the name he was born with.
 Chilly Attitude
 The producer of a flop show was complaining to Paul Whiteman about the expenses involved in keeping his show open during the summer.
 Now that it's hot, I'll have to spend thousands of dollars putting in a cooling system" he groaned And there's no way of getting around it."
 Sure there is," suggested White- ] Iman Install Q dramatic critics"