The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-05-26
In New York
BY GEORGE ROSS
rapyriGht ia'l MA

New York, May 26-When we oi the Rialto patrol are loafing on the beat (not me, boss), the autograph, boys always are in there to render an assist.
 Though the boys who solicit celebrities signatures are members of a nondescript circle, they are the true Men About Town. They keer on thir toes and their eyes open They cover Manhattan like leg meil on general assignment and keer diaries of their daily rovings.
 One name collector = travels by the name of "Mush"-gets around you have reason to suspect, even more than your correspondent, tc judge from these recent notes in his diary:
 Thursday: Started out to be a beautiful day but the rain ruined everything. Wound up in the rnov- ies. Hung around Hotel Pierre ano saw Myrna Loy and hubby, Arthur Hornblow, come out followed by 6 little boy and governess. Myrns stops to pose for candid cameras Hornblow kneels down to kiss ths little boy, but the boy squirns away and runs to be kissed by Myrna.
 Friday: Stayed home all morn in. In the afternoon, watched Dick Merrill being mobbed by fans, seek ing signature q didn't bust in) while Frank Parker and Bert Lahl walk by unnoticed. Duke Ellington Benny Fields, Henry Youngman ano Jay c. Flipuen walk down Broad way together. In West Forty -fiftE street, Floyd Gibbons guides a beau tiful blonde to a taxi. Saw Made line Carroll, the CINEMAMMA check into the Ritz Hotel.
 Saturday: In the wee, Smal! hours, Betty Furness enters El Morocco and Eff Dorsay walks around the corner (alone). Wait ed in front of Mansfield Theatel for celebs and spotted Vivienne Segal, Erin O'Brien- Moore and Hope Hampton among the late corners. Tallulah Bankhead stop ped into Sardi's during internis- sion. (Must get that leak in the fountain pen fixed; celebs are complaining about it when they sign up.) Wonder what those cops on 48th St. are frisking cat drivers for. Bumped inta Jack Pearl and advised him to go home by subway. Bankhead signatures are up nickel.
 There are no entries in "Mush's' diary for Sunday, this being the day he takes off. He prints his personal memoirs meticulously in even block letters and uses only one side of the loose leaf pages And sometimes he is willing tC loan 8 few leafs to working men abeut-town enjoying an evenings loaf from the job.
 Right This Way"
 What with the dog days ap- preaching, it is high time tc renew our browsing in The Bill board" When the mercury rises others may take to persuing the mail order catalogues or the lo- cal fishing laws. Broadwayites sneak into the figurative shade with the latest copy of the out door showman's bible. For this is the time of year when the Billhoard's Personal Columns bulge with Opportunities for an ambitious Elephant Skin Girl, 8 Sawed-in- Half Woman, Nudist Campers Walkathoners, a Bearded Lady, etc
 This is the season when the canvas belts are being pitched II, large number, from the Atlantic seaboard to the Pacific, and medi- cine shows, lot bazaars and nlu- nicipal carnivals in the out-of- doors are reaching the peak of the year. Sideshows already are open in gaudy amusement parks and the most popular means of supplying them with talent is a personal ad in The Billboard.
 Every possible variety of per- former, every kind of raerchan- disc for the itinerant mendicant, and every game of chance within legal bounds, find their way into The Billboardis columns. Corn removers, stomach cure-alls, pin- ball games, labor saving kitchen- ware devices. Indian Perfume beans and The Man Who Walks the Tightrope on His Head = all are available in Billboard's. ad- joining columns.