Show r IN NEW NEWYORK YORK By PAUL HARRISON NEW YORK YORK Meanderings Meanderings Night Nightclubs Nightclubs Nightclubs clubs especially th those presenting rather pretentious revues are competing corn com for attention of ot passersby with the display of more and more daring dareing dar dare ing tag pictures of th their ir chorus cuties cutie Three small boys were were wandering past the Hollywood restaurant the theother theother theother other afternoon when one of them glanced at a poster photo-poster of an un un- draped charmer and went into a amock amock amock mock faint grumbled the others the Miss Adams gasped stricken youngster pointing to the school picture Taught my grade in last year an was anything An look at her now Literary Note Hervey Allen who took four years year to write Anthony Adverse Is quarreling quare with the internal revenue peo peo- pie He believes part of his income tax which has jumped into a pretty high bracket ought to be checked off against those those- years Heres Here's a late holiday note note late late because because be be- cause Jimmy Duffy Dully a vaudeville actor actor ac ac- ac tor has just gotten around to telling about it H He was booked during the festive restive seas season n as the constant companion com corn panion of a millionaire and wherever they went Dully Duffy was to be bethe bethe the life Ille of the party parly with a rU running ning fire of jokes Another Mike Romanoff the Ira Ira- prine tells inquiring friends he tie went home for the holidays What he tie did was visit Tombs prison where he tie used to tobe be a guest and p pass around a few cartons of Ethel Waters who probably makes more money than any other member of her race provides most of the support for nearly negro orphans Sims Signs of the Times Signs seen In a window of the thc Hotel Hotel HOot Ho HOo t tel For President President For your convenience we serve breakfast all day In a I Twenty third street grocery Our Ouri eggs are strictly fresh And right below it nn another ther How are are you I I IAcre S Theres There's a new sign on Sunny Acre the Long Island cottage where Gilda Gray retired some years ago agoto agoto agoto to let the rest of the world go by It reads Undertaking Home When the Music Hall HaIl in Rockefeller ler center was opened a year ago the management hastily removed a large nude statue called Spirit of the Dance Although the arty young Mr Nelson Rockefeller had approved it it somebody W was afraid it might be inconsistent with the dignity of the establishment Well Its It's right back I in the Grand Lounge now nal naked d as ever and yet veiled in an air of assurance assurance as as- lent by an appearance appearance appearance ap ap- ap- ap at the Century of Progress exposition One On On the House Home There are world the bars in New York where the drinks are on the house 1 If you can name a foreign potion the bartenders cant can't mix And there are parts of the Broadway district district dis dis- dis where you can dine on the favorite favorite fa fa- fa dishes of almost any country simply by entering the right door ways On a single block of Forty Forty- ninth street for tor ex example mple between Sixth and Seventh avenues there are ara 21 restaurants Represented among them are Mexico France Italy Syria Syrl China India Germany Palestine and and oh oh yes the United States Eva LeGallienne who's touring the middle west with a repertory of plays Is Li likely to be the only person to write two autobiographies The first one anyway is just of off the press Its It's called At 33 which should leave plenty of ot years for at least one one more book I If 11 youve you've wondered red what has happened happened hap hap- to the New York speakeasies heres here's a m report from a man who knows mow Hes He's a busker husker one of U the e wandering troubadours who make used to make a fair living by going to the lesser hot spots spots' and singing sophisticated songs song Of nearly on his list he be says only half halfa a dozen remain open today |