The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-01-10
NoTEs oP 4 NEW YoRKER


 NOTES OF A NEW YORKER
 One os Che tan tales they tell when the gentleman in the green eveshade has finished dealing cards for the evening Cand the little cubes ere tucked back in cotton), concerns the most elaboriate booby-trap ever oet The victim was a multi millionaire Japanese with Q passion for blondes and green babe tables .. On learning he was coming to this country a syndicate bought out c small night club on the East Side, completely redecorated it at Q cost of thousands, and arranged for Q par Cicularly toothsome young lady to make his acquaintance In due time contact was established, and in less time the Japanese was Q steady patron of the "club"-an establish Tnent in which well-dressed men and women were hired to fill the tables and eat and drink heartily Upstairs roulette wheels clicked, distinguished "socialites" pushed chips back and forth and the Japanese dropped an icy mil- lion dollars-happiiy! A year later on a transatlantic liner this Oriental fall-guy, accompanied by the same blonde, met e number of the club players" on shipboard and a bright light dawned '. :. Unfor- tvnately, he made the mistake of letting 1t be known he was wise and that he was going to have his former hosts arrested as soon aS the ship reached shore It was a fatal er9cr, because he himself dis. appeared before the ship docked |. The police decided that 1t was hardly suicide .... This Is the true disappearance" of HisaShi Fuji- mura, the Jap multi-millionaire about whom you may recall read- ing five years ago The blonde was grilled, but since there was no corpus delicti they couldn't do @ thing against the players.
 Perhaps yOu remember "Wingy" the dice house and midnight char acter, whose existence was record- ed here last season at this time |. "Wingy", 1t appears, made the column four times In e row and that, according to his new night club packers, makes him famous [. Anyhow, "Wingy" Is now the host and co.owner of MiaYni's "Balr Ca place where New York show girls are 0 feature), as Q result of coluiYl. mar mention We visited the Bali last night and business was very biz "Congratulations," we ' said, your first year in the night club racket and you're pack ing them ifl--that's wonderful"
 Tt better be-" said Wingy, lone thing never want to see in this joint 1 50 sf1owstorml" "A snow storm in Miami2" we asked Wingy u. He became explicit .. A snowstorm in Nhe night club bust. ness, tt appears, Is an emptly night cluh-"all you can sec Is white table, cloEhSi"
 A pathetic -l0oklng musician ap- preached Joe E Lewis ct the Yer. sailles last night and gave him Q letter of recommendatio from agent E0Wk 6AhAA AaADp VboVA VSA Lewis, "says that you sing, mimic, juggle and play six instruments Tell me-what don't you do?"
 "Eat," was the weary reply.
 En view of producer Clifford E'ischer's threat to sue critic John Anderson for calling his 'sFolies Bergere" dirty, 1t is timely to re. call George Jean Nathan's success formula to wit: "F'lorenz Ziegfeld succeeds with his shows ebcause he addresses his chief appeal to the eye. Tho impresarios of A2nd st. succeed with theirs because they ad- dress their appeal to the nose Perhaps MT. Fischer Is too far up- town.
 A soon tO De divorced songwrlter was being upbraided by his wife |. She yelled about his numerous in. fidelities Tt was bad enough" !"