The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-03-26
NEW YORK is LIKE rms


Even though George Jessel pleads
Don't DO II, dahleeng, you en-
barrass mep'-L,ois Andrew dances
every dance with him on Q crowd-
ed night club floor wearing lynx
coat down to her ankles cit
may be hot, honey" she beams,
"but It'll make those cats plenty
hotterl" ~. A golf pro earns q
pretty dollar giving lessons TO
Broadwayites from midnight to four
ayenn There are forty walt
tauTant in the
resses at the News Center res
taurant in the Associated Press e6i-
flee at Rockefeller Center-all Of
them redheads =. Society women
in formal attire picket non-union
shops, bur fire their maids when
they ask for a 50 raise All
the crosstown bus rides are a nickel
except the one across 57th street
which Is dime. Maybe it's be-
cause thrat's the shortest ride :.
Sixty cents is the average fee for
half q grapefruit In the swankier
bird-cages, but If the fruit is scooped
out and served in large sherbet
glass it costs 81. That's Grape
fruit Supreme" sucker.
A frightened kitten trapped on q
ledge Of q tall building is front
page, news with pictures, but q MUIR
der must be mighty Juicy to get that
advertising A woman chef In
a hotel or restaurant causes more
excitement than femme taxi driv-
er. Or should she be called q
chauffette or chauffeuse? Max
Lief, a dentist, writes song lyrics for
shows as does Lou Davis, the butch
chucked outta Princeton, Yale and
Harvard in that order-to become
a colyumnist. He threw a rock
through the deans window at Yale,
but in our town he uses a pea
shooter Every singer with
gravel in hdr throat is called a
"Bombshell Of Song" "A floor
show with one singer and pianist
is called intimate advertisement"
The second floor Of the Hotel
Biltmore is six stories above the
ground All the better hotels
have g-checking service :.
And o Is cent bread -butter
charge even If your girl doesn't
eat it with her dinner Orches-
ira leader Meyer Davis has dozens
of orchestras bearing his name but
makes more money with his chain of
bowling alleys :. If you know
how-you still can get free lem
onade at the Automat-if they don't
catch you . Lew Lahr, known
best for his dialect and joking on
the radio, is better at exhibiting his
oil paintings The play-boy-
columnist who holds tight to an
artificial tree in a night club, jelly
rolls his legs, winds his rumble seat,
twitches his shoulders and cries
out: "Ahhhh-wahhhh!"
Nelson Eddy comes to town with
q sore throat and obligeS the Club
Is stay-ups at in the morning
with melodies he helped make IA
mouS, and takes the joshing more
good-naturedly than any other
Hollywood visitor Every Or
chestra strikes up ooh, You Great
Big Beautiful Dahl" when Edith
Dahl walks in with her aviator
groom just released by Franco
The Cotton Club retains the flavor
that made it world-renowned with
big-time honky- tonking- imported
from Harlem-while most COMPETE
tors limp from trying to be too
oliver Danny Kaye. and his
wife (who writes his specialties) al
La Martinique, convulses Desi Arnai
and La Costello so much-they miss
their own scheduled performance
a few streets away at La Congo
The social arbiter of a l. IL
town exclusive spot learned his
Emily Post when he was rowboat
concessionaire at Catskill Noun
tain resort.
Six Of the Oriental sand and crys.
tai gazers In the smarter place.