Show i A New Yorker at Large A Bv GILBERT SWAN NEW YORK May 15 My IS-My My inferiority inferiority inferiority complex reaches what Wallstreet Wall Wallstreet Wallstreet street calls new lows every time a afresh afresh fresh guide book to New York comes along And for some reason a young oung del del- luge of them has suddenly toppled r f r on my desk Im I'm ti LI l' l 1 I 1 i supposed to know r L all about New NewYork f York and yet I couldn't have told 1 you how to catch 3 a bus for Bayonne 1 N. N J. J I didn't r Ij i know that Billie Burke and Barbara Barbara Bar Bar- fj bara barn Bennett had hart I dresses designed by Helen Paul S- S I haven't seen the new medical center center center cen cen- ter since the cornerstone was laid I have but a vague e notion how to go about buying a hat or a pair of stockings ings I always have to telephone to find out where the big ocean liners dock And Im I'm always forgetting the exact address of Important buildings particularly the new ones Oh well I live here and can wait until some visitor from out home comes along and sets me mc right fJ But there seems to be no reason wh why the visitors shouldn't have a aswell aswell aswell swell time running about the city with a a. young oung library of swell new guide books bools under their arms readIng readIng reading read- read Ing as they run and arid getting knocked over by taxicabs when they try to cross streets But 1 if you do want to do a n little home study before starting for this town two volumes on New York Im I'm ready to recommend are New York Is Everybody's Town TO by Helen Josephy Josephy Josephy Jo- Jo sephy and Mary Mar Margaret aret McBride and All About New York by Rian James who already has an opus out about eating places Of course no guide book of New NewYork NewYork NewYork York can be expected to be very permanent Just about the time the book goes to press five new buildIngs build build- bUild I Ings go up and those mentioned Inthe in inthe inthe the book are torn tom down 12 restaurants restaurants restaurants rants close and more open For instance opening casually MJames MJames M. M James James' volume I 1 come upon a n chap- chap tei- tei ter headed Things Out of or the Ordinary Ordinary Ordinary Or Or- and read Daca who runs a bookshop on Washington Square Is the only ex-cowboy ex bookseller in New York Well I 1 hope you dont don't try to find Daca there because became hes he's moved over to street or thereabouts But that's the way things go in New York JI I At any rate both of or these tomes are breezy chatty and informative Mons James I believe has lias a greater collection of statistics but New NewYork NewYork York Is Everybody's Town has an amazing collection of anecdotes about places and things Written by women it recalls that women fellow-women might want some some data on beauty parlors and hairdressing emporiums that they might want to know what sort of clothes to bring along and what to buy Since the authors arc are women they had a slight advantage And as vintage reporters report report- ers on New York dames dallies they have saved up tons of ot human Interest touches I have learned from these there books for Cor instance that Mrs Clarence Mm- Mm hiser is reputed to have spent a million mil nih- lion decorating her apartment in the Ritz Towers That there really are seven Ogilvie sisters those gals who know so much about hair That Tom Hadden who shanghaied so many sailors lived In Cherry street and that George Washington once lived there too That the Swamp co Angel gang used to toI I hide its loot near I Gotham court That there are two cigar store Indians In th the streets That Mauboussin the swanky Jeweler Jewel jewel- er Cr 0 o r i modernistic Jewelry jewelry Jew jew- I elry behind guarded guard guard- ed Cd doors for fear des design i g n pirates would learn of his work won That vetI veteran vett vet vet- I at t eran J I Bests Best's have dressed certain famous folk and now dress th their lr offspring I have a notion that Ill I'll find these I volumes handy Copyright 1931 NEA Service Inc |