The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-02-16

shall we go to-
 tonight9"
 He has lived
 many years in - Paris and in other European Capitals When you spend an evening in his com pany, with discussion of European affairs coming up, as they will do, you wonder how he's been able to be so many places and learn so many things, without being at all old or venerable, He looks 46, but I think he must be twice that old, he's been so many places for so long.
 Mrs. Taylor. who presides with grace and dignity over the Taylor household, in an interesting apart ment in the Sixties, is known to the public as Myra Kingsley, as- trologist. She took up astrology as Q hobby. So startlmgly did she spot the characters and careers of social friends, that she was in- eviably pressed into professional existence when she went to Holly wood on 0 visit. She had much sport (and, I should think, @ bar rel of money) out of reading the horoscopes of film personalities.
 Myra Kingsley is a handsome woman. Her table convention matches that of her husband so well that you'd think they had been brought up together, but they weren't. She never talks astrology unless forced into that vein of conversation.
 Mir. Taylor is Q patron of the arts, He knows good music for in- stance. He has set many talent- ed person on the road to success. A couple of years ago he got a small but excellent orchestra to- gether, started a series of concerts "in the Continental manner" You paid admission, sat at tables, drank what you wanted and ate sandwiches, while the small sym phony orchestra played the works of the classical masters. Taylor saw the venture through to fin- ancial success, then took up some- thing else. The Continental con- certs did not flourish after he directed his talents eisewnere,
 For year or so I've been unable to learn what Howard Taylor was doing with his time ana talents. l have seen him often at the gathering places of the more in- tellectual of the New York sophis- ticates, and have noted that he has been In the company of scien- tific men most of the time.
 Lately I learned that he is in- terested In three-demenSional photography, and that the thing has gone far. That's the kind of photography that gives you im- pression of seeing objects stand out from the flat surface, as they do when you see them with the human eye.
 Up to date, the chief use of the new photography is n medicine and surgery. It works well on neg atiyes; not so well on positive prints. So it's being used Gin 6 very restricted field) in x-ray photography. to give the doctors q better view of the internal organs in relation to one another. It's claimed that surgeons, before op- erating, can figure out every movement of the hands in advance when they're able to sec the work ings of the patients organs in three dimensions.
 There are three Morons in the Manhattan telephone directory. One is Q rug dealer. another sells tapestries. There is 6 Miss P. Innocent an Umberto Innocent, landscape architect. There arc nine Doctors. Arthur sells coats, Jay deals In linens, Sam furs. and William Doctor is in glassware. Seems odd. but you'll find 27 Far mers in the same book. They are in many lines, from antiques iil East 56th street to insurance iil William street and shoes in West 36th. Sidney Glass sells glasses but Louis B. Glass deals in genu- inc diamonds--fio glass limitations David Chaser. on the other hand sells nothing but glass, at his Sixth avenue store. and the two Lawyers in the book, James E., and Mrs. Jessie F. are alto- gether uninterested in the law . There are only six Mer- chants listed. One is a lawyer. one an investment counsel. one 6 doctor. So we have Doctor Law yer and Merchant. but when we come to the Chief, there's only one. His name Is Chief Rising Sun and he's listed on West 42nd street. Thought you had to go to Oklahoma for Indians?
 old theater-goers in New York nave never beeH hlytHiIlB JuSL like the reception given Francliot Tone by audiences that got "The Gentle People" under way. From the first night onward, with al- most no variation, Tones appear ance brought a long feminine gasp, filling the theater. Much as there used to be in the stock com- pany shows when the hero return cd just in time to land a right on the chin of the city slicker who was threatening to kiss the un- willing heroine.
 Throughout the performance. applause greeted every move of Tone, who did not have an out standing role. And there was that buzz-buzz after every sally. not at all characteristic of Manhattan audiences. Broadway says it's a movie crowd. seeing it's idol in the flesh and mighty happy about 1t.
 Copyright 1889, McNaught
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