Show Barkers Talk So Well They Dont Don't Hear Themselves fer ter W nc York fork Is Like This Barkers in front of the bur bur- theaters who repeat the thing so many times they've ped the knack of talking ut listening to themselves The e throbbing quiet of the massive Fifth Ave library reading reading reading read- read ing room Somehow the intellectual intellectual intellectual atmosphere makes D even the most ornery character act as if hes he's trying to please Emily Post The celebrity lovers who get more enjoyment out of staring at the first fighters entering and leaving the theater than the first- first fighters fighters' get out of most shows The night clubs decorated with the gayest tints playing toe toe- tapping music serving the best food and drinks but almost every face at the tables is grave because they cant can't help discussing the horrible horrible horrible hor hor- tra edy drenching Europe Chorines scurrying home in the eerie light of early dawn on Broad Broad- way Every face wearing a cloud I of weariness The silk and satin i-satin humans enjoying the whipped cream of life llie in the Greenwich Village Village Village Vil Vil- lage nightspots and the gaunt intellectuals intellectuals intellectuals in in- who live there starving starving starving ing and hoping that the bread they cast upon the waters will return return return re re- re- re turn as strawberry shortcake Faces filled with broken illusions that travel from producers producer's office to producers producer's office hoping for anything anything A tragic parade parade parade pa pa- rade of limping spirits The gendarmes who patrol the after- after midnight beats in Harlem holding their attention on its toes For things always happen in that jungle jungle jungle jun jun- gle The mural of humanity that drenches Central park on sunny Sunday afternoons Kids lollypops the zoo the merry-go- merry round popcorn adults in shirtsleeves shirtsleeves shirt shirt- sleeves boys and girls holding hands hands- Rembrandt of happiness shirt shirt-I The who flop and are ignored by pals like a wet The one room and dust apartments apartments apartments apart apart- ments located along side streets in midtown Manhattan inhabited by week 14 stenos and clerks each one hugging penthouse ambitions ambitions ambitions am am- The amazing agility of during the rush hour being crushed pushed around sides they still stand calmly and concentrate on reading their newspapers The dowagers with their beauty parlor beauty strolling along Park ave believing that their age is fooling everybody The foreign language movie temples where they have playrooms playrooms playrooms play play- rooms serve tea and coffee and have books and to read read and and if you have the time you can see a picture The silly gals who wear slinky evening gowns and make entrances into nightspots to the silent blowing blowing blowing blow blow- ing of trumpets and then stagger out with cloudy eyes after they've had a few drinks making all their friends ashamed of them The waterfront skyline especially pretty when it has a full moon for fora a spotlight and stars that it seems to wear as diamonds The tapestry of defeat that is sprawled over Tenth ave particularly when the weather is warm and people clutter up the sidewalks sitting I Ion on boxes all day and most of the night rather than toss and turn all all night in airless rooms The bass voice of the foghorns that can be heard for miles in the city in the middle of the night when silence runs rampant The people who hold their noses high because their ancestors were daring daring dar dar- dar j ing pioneers while nothing tough- tough 4 er touches them than a powder- powder puff or a silk hat The lidded droopy-lidded all night work wor workers ers rushing to the nearest subway completely ignoring the sunrise symphony of colors Mother colors Mother Natures Nature's Natures Nature's Natures Nature's Na Na- tures ture's way of showing off The Theold Theold Theold old lady posy-peddler posy on Broadway Broadway Broadway Broad Broad- way her face creased with marks of old smiles Riding atop a Fifth ave bus still bus still the best and cheapest way of ogling the Big City Tin Pan alley where joy for the nations nation's ears is turned out out but but where nearly everybody is grouchy jittery and has nervous nervous nervous nerv nerv- ous indigestion because of the swift tempo that the business demands The always busy five and ten tenon tenon tenon on Broadway How the salesgirls there ca can caa keep their smiles and patience in top tip-top shape is ing The a. a m. m Eighth Avenue train out of the fair fair crowded crowded with weary chorus girls and other belles from the Cheese on the midway A slogan for the Red RedCross RedCross RedCross Cross poster Lets Do It the Heart way The Bergdorf- Bergdorf Goodman sales girls each with a knitting bag on the arm while at ather ather ather her work The baseball scores now buried burled on the inside pages Remember when they used to be beon beon beon on the front pages The man manat manat manat at and wiping the perspiration perspiration perspiration per per- from his brow with a blotter Yorkville on Flag day not not a flag displayed The jute-box jute in a bar at and 2nd avenue which keeps playing the nazi anthem We Drive Towards England England above above the bar a sign says No War Talk The orators down Union Square who throw opinions at you like they were poison darts One never- never say-die say fellow down there Is tryIng trying trying try try- ing to get followers for Technocracy racy racy- Remember The terraced terraced terraced ter ter- raced grounds highlighting the Riverside drive sections Its It's a beautiful picture that locks itself In your memory The army of Main Stem lights giving the imaginations of out towners something to waltz with if their lives should ever become humdrum humdrum humdrum hum hum- drum at some future date Summertime and the cool breezes this this Is the white-meat white of the New York year The sarcasm whittled to to a fine point in the sign in a Third avenue eatery What This World Needs Needs Needs-Is Is Another Another Another An An- other World Copyright 1940 Daily Mirror r |