| Show I IN INN NEW E W YO YORK R K r rI By Dy JULIA BLANSHARD NEW YORK Oct Ev 17 Even 17 Even n the he private private vate lives of orchids are arc no longer safe from public scrutiny An orchid specialist t discloses es the fact that the best orchid grov keep stud books Before Delore breeding two orchids the pedigree ee of both is in inquired inquired inquired in- in Into When two perfect parents parents par par- eats have been selected the actual crossing is done In the morning of a bright day day and and seven to ten months arc nrc required to produce the seed No incubator baby gets more careful careful careful care care- ful care car than these precious seeds Each is put Into Its own little sealed scaled tube on a bed of agar agar-a agar agar-agar ar with sterilized cotton letting in air but no germs The seeds are arc fed balanced rations and eventually bring brint forth a tender little mUe orchid plant And It takes this little plant almost a decade to grow up big and strong enough to buck huck the world and produce a bloom During those ten years the trio plants are arc given the of care with certain preschool years spent under under un un- un- un der den glass Eventually they are transplanted transplanted trans trans- planted to a a. community where presumably pre pre- they may happily fraternize with other scions of or our best orchid families A RI RIff H MAINE l HARVEST Bessie Beatty playwright and president of the Actors' Actors Dinner club and her husband actor husband William Sauter Sauter Sau- Sau ter have just arrived from Goose Gables their Mt Desert Me summer summer sum sum- mer iner mer ho home horre e bringing a wh which ch they reaped there to help feed unemployed actors this winter er Having worked all aU last winter and most of the thc s summer nUner managing the thriving club Bessie planned to take August and September Sept off oU On September September September Sep Sep- 1 she received a wire asking her to come back and start raising money for tor the winter But Maine Islar Is Istar tar far too top lovely in September to leave So the S Sauters broadcast placards advertising advertising ad ad- an old-fashioned old lawn so sociaL so- so cial That's how they raised l the fund NOT ON TOE TIlE MENU On a recent night the comparative quiet of ot the thc s 's famous fa famous famous fa- fa restaurant was split by the thc stentorian stentorian sten sten- torian brian voice of a mountainous florid man who demanded in no uncertain terms to be served the biggest lobster lobster lob lob- ster in the place When it was brought to his table he apparently was startled by its size and bellowed for lor the manager Billy suave but genial approached hed and the man man in a peremptory tone said wid Are you the manager Well sit down here and show me how to cat this giant Billy motioned to the waiter walter who seated him brought him a table tabla setup and moved the lobster platter over In front of ot him Billy Bilty attacked d it IkU fully explaining the how and why o of each process cracked the claws claw and began to cat eat The man ordered another followed Billys Billy's instructions and apparently enjoyed the fish What he ho didn't en enjoy en- en joy however was the tho che cheek check k It listed two 0 lc lobsters an and l char charged ed him for both bolh He complained loud and bit bit- terly But Billy was adamant You ordered both he lie said in final ton tone You Invited me to cat eat one What I really should have done was to have charged you for Instructions to too tool l The man paid the bill With the rodeo moving into Mad MadU Madi son Square Garden this month o one girl from the Golden W West t Is b sure ofa of ot a warm reception in Iii the big city She Sheets is Florence Randolph a 11 hard hard- boiled broncho buster one of the but bet women riders In the country par Pu- credit for Oklahoma's going soing wet is accorded to Florence She took the saddle against prohibition and rode all over Oklahoma making speeches a against it Out there thero they call her the silver tongued i cowgirl I New Yorkers who agree with her sentiments are arranging s tics in her honor |
