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Show tsL0W(Md By CASITAL STROLLER. NEW TORK. Aug. 10 Broadway Broad-way is Juat as provincial as Main treet. Broadway, typifying th Big Town a Main atreet . does the email town holds on to tradl- "Taturdsy. famed ta bath diy. ,.rohably atlll is to many a New Yorker. Tor It certainly Is the favorlt day for ahlnlng ahoa..Juat aa It was In th day of our youth. Saturday night, or Sunday morning., morn-ing., to b eaact. - . A grlzsled veteran who has haa a one-man shoe eh I nine; stand at Eighth avenue and Klfty-aecond atreet for many years lsmented the day of President Harding's funeral fu-neral that he had only given three shines all day. e "People don't get 'em shlned on holidays." he said. "Saturday and Sunday ar th big deye. Working Work-ing people get clicked up then. I do fifty or lxty tho daya. And I make good money, but I get all tuckered out." Jamea Rallly, bell captain at the Waldorf-Astoria, - is on of those to whom the paaslngj, of President Herding- meant a sincere sin-cere personal sorrawv Kslllr was a bell hop on the occasion of Mr. Harding's last vlalt to New Tork. But he rendered such excellent service to the psrty that th president pres-ident spoke shout It to ths management. man-agement. Beilly waa promptly given his present position as ap-t-n. ... Bver try to get rl of a boy or girl for a few hours by 'nrlng to put them in a movie ahow In New York. It can't b don unleaa you get a ticket for yourself and go along. Gatekeeper won't let young people tinder 1 or so enter without with-out an adult companion. There's a city ordinance covering cover-ing It Intended, however, to prevent pre-vent school ohlldron playing hookey. But movl "M7, J" It to keep them out at all times. Save wear and tear on th acoua- ""so youngaters keen on the movlee hang around ths door until! un-til! they can elide In under the proiy parentage of an oblialng adult. ... -Who said th Great Whit Way was passing? A billboard advertising adver-tising company, convinced that electric algn space Is worth so much more along Broadway than . ha. rented th entire MMttnd floor of the Broadwsy-Clarldg Broadwsy-Clarldg building at Broadwsy Forty-fourth street for the sol purpoee of eloaliu up th windows with a nor etectrlo sign. This Is ths old Clarldg hotel, of dlssy fan, snd trl. original Rector.. Ths sdvertlsing company Paying- for ,h mUn noor space and Is putting uo n ee,rloP elm over th. Bro.dw.r windows 1M feet long and t feet h' What's th correct pronunciation of BrosdwayT Most peopls coming com-ing to town pnt the accent on the first svilable. Wstsn to th real New Yorker If you can find one! H. almost alway P ! -cent on th ub,'-'Antrbers ub,'-'Antrbers lead easy summsr Hvee. Ons afternoon off a week : Isn't enough. Practically every butcher .hop In th upper 8 th avenue dletrlct In th fssh on-ibls on-ibls nftles-closes at 1 o'clock every afternoon during July nd August, .'. . A Women hav been carrying canee awsrser stieke-for soms tlm. In New Tork. when ths fsd seemed to be wearing wear-ing off. girls hsv. started to carry car-ry tall stsffs. Thsy'rs whits ususl-ly. ususl-ly. and look Ilka a cross between a shepherd's crook and an Alpine stock. |