The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-06-16
In New York
BY GEORGE ROSS
GpSrtgAi. nN. lEA

kicking, pretty prec;S1onlSts of Radio City, have been invited to dance their way around the Paris Exposition by the French govern ment. No ensemble in the world manages to maintain such iron dis cipline in the dancing ranks four times each day and seven days each week. These girls trip the light unfantastic with unswerving accur- acy. drilled to precision by the re- lentless Russell Markert. Their fame as dancing chorus has trav- eled around the globe.
 Little known fact is that George Jean Nathan is the author of the book of a cooking recipes in col- laboration with S. S. Van Dine, the mystery f1ctioneer. And that Mike Romanoff, the bogus Prince, is completing his autobiography on the west coast and would welcome ! publisher (as well as an advance) l Hf
 Lines of Travel Going to Europe? Eugene Fodor has just written a book pertinent for travellers abroad, and he mem tions among other things that the desire to take a daily bath IS re- garded by the medium class French hotel keeper as crazy foreign foi- ble.
 Also, that: French cooking pos scsses some 14O0 sauces aud no Gallic chef wishes to die before he supplies his coinpatriots Wlth a new one.
 The barman of the Nal MaiSon of the Grand Hotel ill Cannes is none other than George CaIpen- tier, once heavyweight title con | tender. %& sn5 If you wish to be popular in Italy, say nothing about the Ital- ' ians unless you feel like praising them.
 Holland is not all Windmills. In Denmark, on entering a shop, raise your hat to the Shopgirl and | keep it of while there.
 Adolf Hitler appears regularly at the Bayrcuth Festival = this year between July 10 and July 30. | Ladies travelling alone in Lon don may procure female compan- ionship from the Universal Aunts, Ltd, 37 Wilton Place, S. w. Il.
 Future Is Figurative
 Latest wrinkle in Manhattan life, The Arithmologist. She tells fortunes by the Pythigorean meth cd of adding, dividing and subtract ing figures from the most important dates in her subjects lives. She is the curreent rage in night club in the FiftieS, Supersedmg many a palm reader or tea leaf Seeress in 1 Gypsy tea rooms.
 Sample gag from the new Marx Brothers film (via west coast courier). The ingenue is aghast that Groucho has been discovered to be, not a great surgeon, but a horse doctor. Its true" mutters the harasSed Groucho, "but marry me and I promise never to look at another horse again." And again; when Groucho is taking a patients pulse beat. Looking up,.. he ~ an- nounces wistfully, "Either this mans dead or my watch has stopped"
 
 Minding Their Psychoses
 George Gershwin has capitulated to the ministrations of pSychoan- alySt, and in Hollywood Moss Hart consults one regularly. Glare Boothe who wrote the eminently successful fHic screen-tested as she passed through the camera city toward Honolulu.
 Proudest boast of the proprietor of Ye Fate Shoppe off Broadway is that Eugene O'Neill dimes there daily when he makes his infrequent excursions to New York.
 It is common legend by now that when Sam H. Harris is induced to take one drink, he talks of his star dramatists, Moss Hart and George s. Kaufman. When he is urged on to two. he chats lovingly about George M. Cohan, his dearest friend and business partner. Three liba. tions and his favorite topic of con- versation is Terry McGoyern, once a puglistic prctege under his man agement.
 Evelyn NeSbit, the girl in the Stanford White Harry K. Thaw case, has fingered on the fringes of Broadway for many years, eking out night club engagement here and there in obscure caraVarSaries. But she has edged her way back into the Rialto hurly-burly by securing songstress' role at q Swedish restau- rant in the Fifties.