Show YORK NEW YORK YORK Notes Notes from tram an in afternoons afternoons afternoon's af at- ram ramble le about Manhattan n The Fat Mans Man's Shop on Third l lav av avenue nuo Where all the apparel Is for gents who should practice girth control And the stout boys assemble there knowing they can get their thelL right sizes And Mama Iama Lissauer's ers second floor costume shop way over on Avenue A v Where here Broadway goes to get its Hungarian and Slavic Slavi costumes Its It's the old ild story of at the mouse trap But dont don't ask me inc how they found the place Furnished with the address ad ad- ad- ad adA dress I located it with difficulty Its It's a rickety tenement andon andone and andone on one floor up from the street But once you reach it the gay and richly colored holiday dresses of Hungary are to be seen Scores of show producers go there therein in search of ot authentic costumes A Fifth avenue shop showing karat fourteen gold trimmed garters gar gar- gare for men Oh well A marcel wave beauty formen for formen men And again Oh well It takes all kinds of men to tomake tomake tomake make up a New York The horse market on fourth Twenty street Not going quite as strong as it used to But doing quite well thank you for a town that has little use for horses And the sun dial shop on Twenty- Twenty sixth street With sphinxes to guard the doorway The venerable ven- ven able erable barn bain in the heart of Seventh Sev Sev- avenues avenue's cloak and suit cen cen- ceni i ter tel which someone has converted convert into a store but has forgotten to I take down the ancient weathervane weather vane S S S SAnd And theres there's a funny little Incident going oi on all in the daily dally ute life of at Henrietta Hen lien rietta rietta- Crossman Grossman one of tho the tIne fine actresses actress s of our contemporary stage In case you ou dont don't know Imon- it she married the Manhattan l prohibition director But she's appearing in a play wherein she's expected to feign the drinking of at a great d deal al alof of alcohol and act a bit Influenced thereby S S S The stock exchange e Looking strangely quiet from the outside Yet with chaos reigning within Two men talk excitedly on the tho street where once stood tho the historic wood buttol tree which sheltered brokers broers of ot 1792 They talk tall of a single trader who standIng standIng stand- stand Ing lag at t post No Ot I 1 bid for oil all shares None could recall reil reila a single bid of such magnitude And the Battery in the late af at- afternoon With th the tho bench bums clinging to the bitter end Tho rhe tang of ot salt in from tho the sea and the endless parade of colorful small craft dodging about like bugs on the tho water vater Tim The 5 S o'clock rush for tho the Staten Island ferry And nd the tho crush of humanity in lower Broadway a a half hour later The rhe eternal I jam at the soda fountain sandwich L counters S S S The gaping groups in front of ci Lindy's cafe now that it has lias been beer L identified 1 as the former hangout of ci Arnold Rothstein murdered king ng 01 of gamblers Dinty Moores Moore's where the corn beef and cabbage boys gather of evenings And I Ithe the Tavern which has been adopted I Iby by visiting movie stars as their theli rendezvous The cartoons of 01 r celebrities unheard of Ne New r rr York which hang in Sardis Sardi's The old Algonquin round ta table lc for or the literati which never seems seem i to surrender to competitive newcomers newcomers new new- comers corners The l rapidly increasing n number of Chinese restaurants which brings more than one frown I Ito to The Thic fanciest t of t the tho new s' s ent em are an selected with care And dress accordingly Two men nen betting o on how often a atrick J. J trick lighter lIghtel will work ort A L woman trying to pick beads from Iron I Ithe the tho sidewalk In the midst of ot a a. l Fifth avenue mob and a hal half hale hundred hundred hun hun- dred people trying to trying to rt rescue an Injured injured injured in In- in- in sparrow from flom the pavement L And the sun swinging over the Hudson like a great Chinese lantern I GILBERT SWAN 1 Cop Copyright 1928 N A Service Inc w i I |