The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-07-20

mess hours and when clients are out for lunch or any other pur- pose that demands their presence elewhere. Doctors yield his great est patronage, for he takes their calls before and after visiting hours. He also answers the calls for various emergencies.
 Owners of ailing refrigerators, for example, usually get him when they put through an sos and he sends the repair man over. And similarly, should the building ele- vator get stuck between floors after ordinary hours, call to MT. Amsden's Service brings repair man right over to bring the stranded passengers up or down, as the case may be. A million calls year is not hay" as they put it around the Rialto, and MT. Amsden has thrived by merely deciding that the telephone is a useful instrument to answer when it rings.
 DECLINE OF THE
 GRASS SKIRTS
 The Hawaiian motif has dimin- ished about the metropolis. A year ago, most pubs were spread ing themselves out with artificial palms, reed instrument music and cocoanut shells instead of highball glasses, but the vogue has worn off for one reason or another.
 The only intrepid place that keeps up the spirit of the blue, warm Pacific isle is the Hawaiian Room at the Hotel Lexington where the mobile murals in the wall try to revive the scene at the beach on Waikiki and Ray Kin ney's orchestra plays all the is- lands music and winds up with the inevitable 'Oloha" every eve- ing. And cocoanut shells are used regularly in place of glassware for the majority of thirst-quench- ing drinks.
 Moreover, the trio of young la- dies in grass skirts, who dance the steps of the tropical dances, still is around. More than a year ago they came here to remain month. They have stayed four teen. And from their current rate of popularity, 1t doesn't look as if they ever are going back. IT'S INCOGNITO
 FROM NOW ON
 Charlie Mccarthy was under "Wraps" on his recent visit to Manhattan. This was to protect him from what befell him the last time he visited New York under the guardianship of his mentor, Edgar Bergen. Namely, dummy mapping"
 Edgar, after all, has been using Charlie for Recourse mealticket for some time. Last time Charlie came to Gotham, a playful jour- nalist who occupies the desk just
 opposite ours, decided to take Charlie out for a good time. Ber- gen had gone forth to survey the night life and Charlie had been left cold in a dank and dim lug gage case at home.
 So this newspapermen colleague his name is Frank Farrell, if you insist upon all the details went up to Charlie's hotel room and rescued him from this padded cell. Then he took Charlie around to the major night clubs where Edgar caught up with him.
 That was some time ago. This time Charlie was heavily safe- guarded. A man stood around the hotel room to see that no humorous dummynappers sawed through the window bars and embezzeld the sawdust star. Char lie was encased in a canopied bed that was perfectly transparent and any furtive move in his di- rection could easily be detected. THE WHACKY
 WEATHER MEN
 Everybody talks about the weather, Mark Twain commented, but nobody did anything about 1t until two breezy gentlemen named Allen Smith and Floyd Taylor started to kid the shirt off the temperature on the front page of the World Telegram.
 Before every weekend exodus begins, Smith and Taylor diag- nose the weather probabilities in 8 lunatic prediction, in collabora- tion with the Weather Man, and New Workers have come to set their holidays by their cockeyed forecasts. A fair sample of their handiwork is:
 "A gleaning of the best that has been thought and said on the sub- ject of atmospheric conditions in this region leads to the conclus- ion that it isn't going to rain today. In fact, it is expected to be quite clear. So 1t may be taken for granted that 1t isn't, going to