| Show 0 J baseball Fans Falis in Subway Me Mean h t Spring Has Come for Sure Says Walter i Walter Winchell J You'll Know Spring Is Here When the little night club owners owners moan n Why didden we weave save ave enough money to put in a cooling system The poolrooms pool- pool rooms are empty The hackies hackles groom their sad-eyed sad steeds in n the Plaza Hotel sector The The chorus chorus girls girls and and other lookers start tart wearing their organdies s The rate cut-rate brokerage gets the he best tickets i iThe The Bronx subway is jammed at 2 p. p m. m with fans bound for the theall ball all parks Brooklyn becomes the he John Barrymore of the sports pages ages The sweet potato peddlers ped ped- lers pop up on Delancey street Inthe in inthe the he Ghetto Striped awnings appear in Sutton Button place The cops ops feature pale blue shirts and no coats And the Penn station stations is s filled with the boom of ready for Belmont Bel Bel- mont H Yes you'll know spring is here when the Biltmore hotel doorman starts tarts wearing his straw sombrero and nd white knee breeches You Youat eat at your Sabbath breakfast at 2 in n the afternoon in front of the Prometheus statue fn in Rockefeller center enter Your pride and joy says ays Daddy I need a new pair of skates kates The license bureau at athe atthe atthe the he marriage canteen turns into a attle little beehive Ice cream cones Red pocketbooks and gloves to match pod humor merchants in n Dr Kildare jackets Swanky on Long Island highways Nick Kenny and his white sox Bachelor cornflowers in lapels Pigeons in Pershing square Jimmy Cromwell ll and his feathered feathered feathered feath feath- ered hatband The James J. J Walkers Betty Compton walking their heir prize dogs G George orge M. M Cohan and Bugs Baer resume their walks around the reservoir Joy and Girl Scout parades in Cen- Cen ral park Water gushing from Third avenue hydrants Men with fuzz on their chests showing it t of off in open sports shirts The paint crew working on the Albany Ankle sox on the N. N 3 Y university gals walking through Washington square Outboard motor skiffs appear in seventh Fifty street windows your Take-your-picture p pes pests e s t s everywhere everywhere everywhere every every- where Spring is positively here when you fou see maids in open roofed Open-roofed cabs The pretzel vendors dare you to io run them ov over r. r The midtown midtown midtown mid- mid town penthouses blossom out in Gimbels Gimbel's department store The mayor walks up the city hall steps with his black hat in inh h his s paw p w. w The Th night clubs dubs announce an an- spring editions with the same show only duller than when they invited the critics and columnists columnists columnists col col- col- col to the original revue The army and navy pop up with attractive recruiting posters The papers run run huge crowd photos at Coney Fellers get their hair so closely cut they look like they've just come out of prison You can tell spring has sprung when the pups shed their blankets and romp all over Park avenue and in the upper Fifties between Sixth and Seventh The Brenda Frazier imitators wear posies in their hair Dumpy gals clutter up the park bridle paths on slim steeds steMs Bike riders around you with wheels The movie box offices have no windows The noise lessens in the bowling places Pinch Pinchback back suits and brown suede shoes on the Broadway dandies And Hank Greenberg is linked with another glammer gal who denies it I Spring Is here and you can bet beton beton beton on it when reservations must be made in advance on incoming planes lanes from Hollywood Smug fishermen appear in the papers with a catch that impresses only them The side street bookmakers bookmakers book book- makers and touts touts' wear sun Vacation folders appear on every desk Motorcyclists Motorcyclists Motorcyclists Motor Motor- cyclists with their gals perched precariously behind zoom alongside alongside alongside along along- side your car and for a moment you think a cops cop's caught up to you yau Gloomy shutters keep the sun out aut of the upper Fifth avenue mansions Its It's spring all right when Al Smith appears with his polka dot foulards The rifles click Inthe in inthe inthe the second Forty-second street shooting galleries George Abbott announces announces announces an an- another play he Isn't cerain certain tam ain tain hell he'll produce The George Washington bridge and Holland tunnel get so crowded you can swim across the Hudson faster The hatcheck concessionaires unbend unbend unbend un un- un- un bend and give the gals galS' an abbreviated abbreviated costume instead of a raise The cuties of the burlesk the the- aters dash across the street between between be- be tween scenes for fora a beaker of lager Ben Bernie picks four straight losers People blame their sniffles sniffles' sniffles fles fles' on the movie cooling systems Spring Is 15 here when a hurdy gurdy wakes you up despite the campaigns against all noises that the mayor was thanked for a year ago When the columns relate that the chorines have changed their beaux and vice versa Diners in in inthe the swankier places get huffy to think that a fly can have havethe havethe havethe the gall to te tease se them Teachers drag unwilling groups of pupils to the museum Eleanor Roosevelt Roose Roose- velt spends her day supervising the cleaning of the east room You are sure it is spring when you cant can't find a secluded spot along upper Riverside drive to romance your best pals pal's girl Birds trill when old men sit with their dreams on Central p park rk west and silently toss crumbs to their feathered friends Barney Gallant talks of af Tahiti Private seaplanes dock their we wealthy passengers In Inthe the river co cove e opposite Wall Street Copyright 1940 Daily Dally Mirror |
