The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-08-16
NEW YORK HEARTREAT


 Faces About Town: Airline Judge and her Dan Topping at Montauk Island Club, where the celebs and { socialites weekend between police raids Reconciled? Bernarr Macfadden, the nuts, berries and love-confession Croesus, plodding wearily through the Flushing Foodyrackysacky-frankfurtless and forlorn Elmer Rice, the Street Scene" recorder and Atlantic hop- per, meandering across 72nd street at sundown Monday, oblivious to the dramatic critic who could have run him down Lawrence Tib- bett, the star, plus Edward Arnold, the ditto, talking strike" in the sinful Stork Club Cary Grant and Phyllis Brooks promenading at Coney where, as Archie Leach, he once was a lifeguard Binnie Barnes, with frozen custard com- plexion, holding her skirts because of the zippy zephyrs blowing on East 42nd Street Sophie Tuck CT telling listeners mo settlement has been made" in the actors-stage- hands matter and that she is stand- ing pat with the latter group.
 Sallies in Our Alley: At the Queen > Mary last night, high society was taking verbal humping from 2 group of class-conscious groaners "Lissen," parked one of them, "a socialite is someone who never lifts finger or crops an eyebrow!" Frances Williams says bore is someone who never runs out of talk--only out of listeners And in the IS Club when Wayne Mor- ris, the movie actor, got up to leave just when Frankie flyers was half way through his act, flyers heckled: "Let him go. I've walked out in the middle of many of his pictures!"
 Memos of Midnighter: George Whites Scandals" did over $500 in the first week at the shore For the first time the Stork Club closed at 2:30 a. m. Sabbath night) D. Franklin, the word man for such hit songs as Merry Go Round Broke Down" and Annie Doesn't Live Here, etc." will soon be matin' with Dorothy Dayton of Hollywood The composers of Deep Purple" have borrowed the second movement of 1t for new ditty named "Lilacs in the Rain" That exhibitionist who attracted such crowds at the Fair threatening to leap from the 110-foot top of ''Merrie England' ruined the G. Jessel and other biz that night Everything happens to Billy Rose. During the "Acquacade" show a woman patron retarded the pace of the production by having her baby right in the 18th row Add silly gestures: NEG aired the veddy risgay song about nawty Elizabeth the other eve'g and hired a male quartet to chirp "lah- dl.dah" all through the number 50 yo1i couldn't enjoy the woids One-word description of a flop show --"Exitainment'.
 Midtown Vignette: He was recent 1y on trial for bond fraud and he lost his case He's out on bail waiting for his appeal to be heard When he was flush he spent it freely in the gay places. and the show girls and chorines were ever ready to help him squander 1t .. He's pretty lonely guy these mid- nights, except when the one girl of them all swaps chatter with him via the phone from out in Hollywood Then when time gets heavier on his hands--he goes searching for companionship in the night clubs and cafes and he is self-con- scious about how people will accept him At the Paradise the other night he walked over to a group of chorus girls. who were at table between performances He won- dered If he could buy them a