Show y t i ii I i A New Yorker at Large By GILBERT SWAN NEW YORK July 17 17 Archery Archery 1 outdoor bowling and cocoanut milk are among the summer headliners rs of Broadway V pong Ping-pong gives i isome some slight assistance assis- assis I I tance ance t to neglected pigmy golf courses and ind several of the 0 range orange ran g e drink stands lands along the i 11 highway 11 i g h w way a y ha have ve taken aken to frappes by way of being I different Otherwise n midsummer mid mid- d. d summer ummer finds the i celebrated main J I stem dowdier and more cheaply raucous rau I than ever Visitors from the small towns to of America must wonder why the Manhattan natives dont don't go goo goto goto to o a good county fair some day and have It over with The drink whose origin and content are not known to me appears to be made while you ou wait from Crom fresh cocoanuts And archery it seems is quite the vogue A setup setup setup set up is possible in almost any ny of the store buildings that seem to have a terrific turnover in tenants One night a shady auction sale ale is being held and on the next a a. gypsy fortune fortune for for- tune tunc teller has moved In some new device for shining shoes appears to tobe tobe be followed within a month by a sale of cheap shirts neckties and socks Sidewalk necktie venders have a ap in numbers and upstairs lot lofts lofts' invite the timid souls to learn leam to dance you ou can get your our picture taken on a little card that a also o tells your our weight Cheap cloU clothing ng and md cheaper hats make a bid for the trade of actors who have been out of or work wok through the winter and who somehow can raise 50 cents or 1 for a n new straw and a few dollars more for Cor a aUght light summer suit I The Tho dollar down spots take no chances pay rolls roUs on Broadway being what they are 49 Well Vell its it's now possible to find your way around New York without consulting con suiting the first blind man you meet A corps of 01 information police now patrols the areas most likely to be bei i by visitors They're young oung and polite and should be of great creat II value to New York taxi drivers who rarely know their way to Gramercy park puk for instance u And whatever the depression m may have ha done to New Yorkers it has brought a new civility and solicitous solicitous- ness Taxi men who once might have i growled are more than eager ager to be beof t-OVEL t PAY PAYI I of service these da days s Even box office of of- lice lee gents have hare p grown more human human hUeman hu hUe man and will deign to talk to a amere amere mere cash customer custom custom- 4 er cr In fact never have I noticed L. L such a willingness to oblige 1 Which in this tills mans man's t town wn is I worth almost any price 9 G And having mentioned ping pong in an earlier paragraph I was recently recently re reo advised by mail mall to avoid an error or already made by a weekly publIcation publication publication pub pub- and some rome fellow column scribblers who would have had the world believe c that pong ping balls are made mario only In Westport Conn Having something ng of a genius for useless information I have learned that this tM is not exactly the case Massachusetts lays proud claim to such a a. factory A big game ame gent named Parker is the official pin ping I am nm told and the word use itself is an importation from Europe I Copyright 1931 1931 NEA EA Service Inc 1 |