The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-05-12
In New York
By GEORGE ROSS

New York, May 12--New York has more sights to offer than most cities in the Old World, except that after a while 8 New Yorker neg lects to see them.
 The Manhattanite touring Lon- don, for example, will rise two hours before his normal breakfast hour on 8 Sunday morning and travel two miles off his beat to see the orators haranguing the mob at Marble Arch in Hyde Park. Yet he will pass Columbus Circle, which is a thrice livelier outdoor show than Marble Arch, without giving it a second glance.
 venture that 66 of 99 Americans in Paris who make the wearying ascent to the belfry of Notre Dame have never trod into the portals of the Little Church Around the Cor ner off Fifth Avenune, one of the most charming churches in Ameri- ca, or ever journeyed up Riverside Drive to look at the magnificent Cathedral of St. John the Divine. Although New Yorker abroad can, after two days, rapidly spiel of the names of the monuments in the gardens of the Tuileries, ask him what famous monument is situated on Riverside Drive. Two to one that he does not accurately reply y-- Grants Tomb.
 Guilty like the rest (if only in lesser degree), your correspondent now wears his goggles when walk ing the town and looks like ready victim for 8 professional guide. He now looks for dates on plaques, cornerstones and such. I have just found out that Peter Minuit made his deal with the Indians at Bat tery Place. It took a trip to Europe to arouse enough curiosity to inves- tigate that.
 Libby Made Daddy Blue Jottings of the Cuff: Libby Hol- mans parents were heart-broken when she became singer instead of a violinist.
 Max Gordon, the producer, likes to sit in the Senate visitors gallery in Washington, listening to our legislators in action.
 Osgood Perkins decorateS his bathroom with scenes of southern France.
 Tallulah Bankhead subscribes to one firm superstition. After the first night of any of her plays, she drinks a champagne toast with her ever-faithful secretary, Edie, and maid, after which they, all 3, smash the glasses against the wall. Paul Robeson gets daily allow ance from Mrs. Robeson. Irving Berlin sings new show tune to the first person he meets after its completion. Thus, an At lantic City bellhop was the first to hear "A Pretty Girl Is Like a Melody" and 8 Broadway cabdriver was the first to listen to Mandy"
 Gypsy Rose Lee once walked out on Earl Carroll's "Vanities" because he asked her to shed some of her clothes for the first act curtain. Charles Macarthur once knocked a Chicago city editor at because the latter refused to permit him to keep his bicycle in the city room.
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 MothballS On Broadway
 The local drama rears its appre- sensive head less and less as sultry days approach. Already Broadway is asuming somewhat of a hang dog look and hundreds of upstate farmers are sweeping their barns and hayloftS clear of COWS, chickens, pigs and other assorted tenants of the animal kingdom.
 No longer do couriers rush to the desks of drama editors with salient news anent the activities of Jed Harris, Brock Pemberton, Katharine Cornell and the fabulous rest. Most of these gentlemen have or are closing shop and retiring from the Broadway scene: the more offensive ones to say penance for the sins they have just committed against the fair name of art.
 Actors are biding their spring time until they are called to the summer drama fare in Pawtucket, Locust Valley, Ogunquit and Little Neck.
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