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Show LIGHTS OF NEW YORK By WALTER TRUMBULL papers carry stories of the thousands who will be benefited but they rarely 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 years. 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 doesn't get the old country bowl haircut, hair-cut, he is pretty well satisfied, but there appear to be dozens of ways of cutting and fixing a woman's hair. I others are furnished on request. Mrs. Kendall had, for some reason, experienced experi-enced 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 Luck-ner Luck-ner is 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 Mrs. Kendall next saw her prized telephone There are many brownstone houses still left on the side streets of New York. Now that daylight saving gives us 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. New York is only a collection of little towns held together by a city charter. Not only the streets but the roofs are rest or play areas in summer. I am sot talking of penthouse roofs, but just of the ordinary roofs of buildings. Looking down from an upper window win-dow of any of the tall buildings, you can see children playing on the flat roofs, while some older member of the family sits, usually in a rocking chair, watching them. Some of these watchers watch-ers have rigged sunshades for themselves. them-selves. When the weather grows really real-ly hot, those roofs will have cots or mattresses on them and their owners will be sleeping as near to the stars as they can get. Among the attractive owners of an attractive apartment in New York are the Messmore Kendalls. They live over the Capitol theater and a door of their apartment opens into a private pri-vate box from which they can see any performance, while themselves unseen. Florenz Ziegfeld has somewhat the same arrangement in his theater, the box in this case being hung like a bird cage against a door, which opens from his offices. Many of the producers who own theaters In New York have a somewhat similar arrangement. But that has practically nothing to do with the story I heard recently. It starts with the fact that the Messmore Kendalls gave a dinner and that among their guests were the Count and Countess von Luckner. That furnishes the cast. Now for the plot. New York has so many telephones tele-phones that it has become necessary to Issue the telephone books In sec-, sec-, tions. In other words, there is a book for Manhattan, one for Brooklyn, one for the Bronx, and several others. The company sends you the ones you appear ap-pear most likely to use and the book, it was torn neatly in four pieces. When New York opens a new subway, 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- 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. At the present time, my wife is disconsolate because . her favorite hairdresser, Pierre, is moving to Cleveland. Cleve-land. ((. 1931. Bell Syndicate.! WNU Service. |