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Show Lights ofNewYork By L. L. STEVENSON Moving Note: When a family transferred its place of abode from Morningside Heights down to a penthouse pent-house in the East Eighties, the grand piano, an heirloom, was of course taken along. But even when its legs were removed and it was taken down in other ways, it was still much too large to be taken up on the service elevator. So one of those piano moving outfits, which are supposed to know all the answers, an-swers, was summoned. A crew of men came with block and tackle, burlap bumpers and seemingly all necessary equipment and went about the job of getting that piano from the street to the roof. After a lot of experiments, the experts had to confess themselves baffled, there being trouble over length of rope, getting the instrument over coping, etc. The difficulty was soon settled, however. The old piano was turned in on a new and smaller instrument. in-strument. Snippets: Lou Costello at Forty-fifth Forty-fifth and Broadway gazing curiously at two other gentlemen also halted by the traffic light . . . They are Jeffrey Lynn and "Gabby" Hayes, screen makebelievers . . . Crossing Broadway, Dr. Jerome V. Kaufman, dentist, who has on display in his office a Bruce Bairnsfather cartoon, which though regarded as one of his best, has never been published . . . Bairnsfather drew it specially for the dentist . . . Trend of the times: the University of Oklahoma has on file 2,000 jokes available for all comers . . . Speaking of universities, uni-versities, a "good luck" scroll signed by 5,000 students of six Missouri Mis-souri colleges was presented to Bert Buhrman, novachord player, on the eve of his departure from Kansas City, to make his New York debut at the Piccadilly hotel. Short Story: He came to New York from the Southwest. Upstanding, Upstand-ing, clear-eyed, he had an idea that New York wasn't too big to lick. Willing to take any job, he found himself working in the basement of a department store. There he met a little stock checker, pretty, blonde and with deep blue eyes. They soon started to go out to luncheon together. to-gether. The other girls whispered of a romance and there were no denials. de-nials. In fact, the girl was looking forward to a ring at any time, especially espe-cially since the lad from the Southwest South-west had made good to such an extent ex-tent he had been placed in charge of the stock room. A few days ago, he didn't show up. When she reached home that night, she received re-ceived a note. It said that she had reminded him so much of the girl at home, he had decided to pass up New York, go back and be married. Street Scene: A brush salesman, decorated with his wares, having an argument with the janitor of a walk-up walk-up .. . and housewives listening with interest . . . Three youngsters trying to rescue a fourth who has jacknifed into an ash can and is voicing his woe in loud wails . . . The situation saved by a grinning cop . . . and the sobs ended by a nickel that came from the pocket of blue uniform ... A little girl singing in Italian to a big doll . . . and a mother beating time as she beams from a first-floor window . . . A thin, sad-faced woman staring at a display in a florist's window . . . and crossing herself as she turns away. Buck Up: Peter Van Steeden says that any youngster from the country coun-try who is trying to make his way in New York and has become discouraged dis-couraged and overshadowed by high, hard-faced buildings, should invest a few pennies in a night ferry ride over to the Jersey side. "Then look back from the top of the Palisades," continues Peter. "New York is no longer a grim, grubby, grasping monster. It is indeed a toyland of sparkling lights, and a kid can look down on it as if he were a king. And he'll go back ready to lick any problem that faces him." End Piece: Those tired-looking workmen in overalls who feed Rockefeller Center pigeons at dawn each morning are Dean Cornwall, Hildreth Miere and Hugh Troy. The three artists are touching up their murals in Cafe Francis and the English Grill and when they finish their night's work, they come out with corn muffins for early-rising birds. (Bell Syndicate WNU Service.) |