Show LIGHTS OF NEW YORK by WALTER TRUMBULL there are many brownstone houses still left on the side streets ot new turk now that daylight saving gives eg long twilight hours after the work of the day Is over you see the high steps leading up to the doors of these houses covered with the inhabitants just as you might see persons sitting on the front steps in any little town ew fork Is only a collection of little towns held together by a city charter kot only the streets but the roofs are rest or play areas in summer I 1 am cot talking of penthouse roofs but just of the ordinary roofs of buildings looking down from an upper win AW of any of the tall buildings sou can see children playing on the flat while some older member of the family sits usually in a rocking chier them some of these watch m have rigged sunshades for themselves when the weather grows really hot those roofs will have cots or mattresses on them and their owners be sleeping as near to the stars is they can get among the attractive owners of an apartment in new aorl are the bessmore kendalls they live over the capitol theater and a door ot their apartment opens into a arl rate box from which they can see any while themselves unseen florenz has somewhat the same arrangement in his theater the box in this case being hung like a bird age against a door which opens from to offices many of the producers aho vho own theaters in new york have somewhat similar arrangement but that has practically nothing to do with tte story I 1 heard recently it baarts with the fact that chev messmore kendalls gave a dinner and that among their guests were the coant and countess von luckner that furnishes the cast w for the plot isea york has so many telephones that it has become necessary to issue the telephone books in sec ens in other words there Is a book or manhattan one for brooklyn one r the bronx and several others the sends you the ones you ap most likely to use and the others are furnished on request mrs kendall had for some reason experienced considerable difficulty in getting one book but had finally obtained it now it seems that when the dinner was over and only the men were left at the table the conversation turned to feats of strength count von luckner la very big very likable and very strong in discussing such feats as tearing packs of cards and other things in two he offered to illustrate his point and material was furnished for the demonstration when sirs kendall next saw her prized telephone book it was torn neatly in four pieces when new york opens a new sub way the mayor usually drives the first train through it and there are speeches and a general celebration in which the officials of the company and citizens committee take part news papers carry stories of the thousands who will be benefited but they careiy mention the few who may be crushed by the wheels of progress there are for example two women who have been running a newsstand for many bears it has furnished them with a decent livelihood perhaps clothed and educated their children recently those women have been looking worried and forlorn the opening of a new subway has diverted traffic from their stand and it looks as if they might have to give it up women are much more particular about their hairdressers than men are about their barbers so long as a man doean doesn t get the old country bowl hair cut he Is pretty well satisfied but there appear to be dozens of ways of cutting and fixing a woman s hair I 1 have known women to come back to town in summer from places which were an over night trip just to have their hair done by their accustomed coiffeur coiffe ur at the present time my wife Is disconsolate because her favorite hairdresser pierre Is moving to cleveland SL 1931 bell service |