The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1939-10-14

wav Todd Slaughter. Just
learned. this: On broadway Inc
most crowded thoroughfare m the
world, it is illegal to assemble
crowdl
No mayor in the United States
hiss so much mileage to his Official
record as ou- own F. H. LaGuar-
dia.
shyest of the play-producers;
Herman Shumlin.
Least reticent al Woods.
The most uncritical at otner
producers shows Is Sam H. Har-
ris, who always seems to be ENJOY
ing himself immensely.
TOUGH TIME
TRACING TRACY
When Spencer Tracy arrives IN
Manhattan, the gentlemen as
signed to keep him company turn
gray, for he Is the most elusive Of
the Hollywood visitors. The other
day, posse from the Far
Grounds secuted about in quest OF
him. They could find no trace OF
Tracy. He turned up the next
morning after week-ending at the
holn. of Harveyl D. Gibson-tne
Fairs chief!
A great many transients stu
trek down to the Woolwortn
Building and ride to its peak-out
of sheer sentiment. 1t used 10 ne
tallest building in town.
Gotham's hotels are booming IN
this ordinarily slack season.
Thanks to all the American refu-
gees from the war zones who have
come home and need places TO live
until they settle down.
Benny Goodman is back at the
Waldorf-Astoria and jitterbugs
again mingle with bankers and
dowagers in that plush hosiery.
Also the Waldorf has installed a
milk bar for the swinging young
'uns.
A Rialto wiseacre has learned a
new way of phoning free for the
correct time. He calls Long Dis
lance, asks for the correct time In
San Francisco, then adds three
hours to the result!
SIGHTSEEING
SECRETS
sightseeing guides never In
clude President Roosevelt's New
York town house in their Man.
haitian itineraries. And this Is IN
voking giggles: the sightseeing
buses deposit their passengers at
the Bowery missions where aims
are collected for the cerelicts.
Business has been so brisk this
season that the derelicts are de-
manding increased rations and q
little more pocket money!
When guides escort folk down
to the Ghetto" they assiduously
avoid the new, modern, sleek
housing projects. It would spoil
the sightseers' ideas of the slums!
, Manhattan's Civil War Veterans
have their permanent headquar-
tiers in a suite of rooms below City
Hall. BY an all-time grant, the
octo- and septagenarians cannot
be displaced from there
There are a few jittery motor
lists in town who avoid driving on
the Express Highway along the
Hudson River these days. For the
belligerents' big ships are berthed
there and the fidgety drivers fear
that sabotage may occur any time.
The ships are patrolled "a hours
a day by special police details,
ashore and in river launches. The
Queen Mary is camoufaged in
dull grey. The Normandie has
not been retouched, but the paint
OF. her sides is dulling and faded.
WELL-DRESSED
SCARECROW
Cafe men expect this to be
the boom year. Their business Is
always lively, they declare, in war
times.
The scarecrow that bars the
sparrows from Rockefeller Center
was fitted with a new top hat the
other day. Slanted brim. velvet
band and furry fabric. The latest
thing.
Here's note from a Missouri
reader who set out to test your
correspondents challenge that a
passenger could, for five cents,
ride hundreds of miles in New
York's subways. He rode a dis
lance of sixty miles, he says, for
five cents, then quit out of sheer
exhaustion. He gives In and ad-
y,,itc f1nIiv,u ISvx.