Show Lights O- O of 11 r O 0 J J WALTER NEW YORK TRUMBULL Society Is returning to Central park parkIn In n Increasing numbers The socially el elect t are returning on roller skates Nowadays observers erl may note memo mem bers ers of ot the Junior league gliding over o the long asphalt stretch on the Maion Mallon Mall Mai on roller skates along w with youngsters from the tenements ts matrons listed I ii to the he Social Register and ice men men Celebrities of the stage and screen also go to the park to skate On a recent Sunday afternoon I noti noticed sd among amon others Beatrice LillIe and Ethel Barry Barry- more Its It's quite the thing to give a I Casino tea with Mall Malt skating as an 1 added feature Mrs Fenton Penton Taylor so Im I'm told started the fad e e e eIn In the days when New Kew York was little old New ew York the Mall was merely a grassy plain and was a popular popular pop pop- ular strolling place on Sunday after A band concert then was the most diverting feature Incidentally band concerts are still held on Sundays Sundays Sun Sun- days on the Mall l during the summer i season and Edwin ln Franko Fronko Goldman I band leader lender wrote a march by that I name which is always popular with his audiences In the old days of or orthe the quiet strolls he Ite was merely a cornet cornet cor cor- net player In the band that delighted the old New Kew Yorkers e e e eBack Back Dack In those quiet old days It was quite the thing to go driving In the park ark uk In the afternoon Then the socially socially so so- elect traveled the winding driveways driveways drive drive- ways at a slow pace lIaN In their carriages and other smart equipages with sedate coachmen and frozen faced footmen as attendants When hen the automobile first came ume along It so 10 a agitated the tho bor horses es that cars cirs cars were ere barr barred from the park Now pw w the motor car Is In possession with lIh only occasionally a carriage the occupant of which Is usually some lome h haughty u dowager ol ot another day dar e Manhattan ramblings and rumina ruminations A peg peg legged legged accordion n player on upper Broadway whose hose repertoire consists of or airs of the old South Raises nabe his hat and smites smiles whenever a coin drops drOll Into his cup But Dut never misses a n note The Tho deserted desert desert- ed ell old Wendel mansion at Thirty Thirty ninth ninth street and Fifth avenue a Seems to grow v more dingy ding each aeh day 4 Claimants for the vast ast fortune still fighting in Surrogates Surrogate's court A pallid Broadway columnist eating breakfast In at four tour p p. p m. m Probably up tip early at that Layoffs Lay Ley offs in front of the Palace telling one ona another how v good they are Vaudeville Ya folks are the greatest optimists optimists op op- In the world Actors ar ara area are aro a second Constance Collier on 00 on her way to the Actors Dinner club Sign In a candy camera alarm clock tilled filled drug store window We iVe also abo till nil prescriptions S e A Park avenue teb leb with a mono mon ocle Haven't seen any of them in trousers trouser as yet ret Plenty in ridIng rid Ing breeches though Accidents are are not infrequent on Central park riding path paths The TIle daughter of a prominent family Is still wearing a plaster cast as ns the result of one a year ago and theres there's still a question whether or not shell shed bo ho able to walk without crutches Whenever I think of her ber I dont don't laugh when I see lee Central park riders bouncing up and am dow down n on their mounts But I still think of or Col Heinrich and his hll w war time ur time riding class of Detroit bustness bust bud ness men and what he used to say when he saw daylight da between th the rider and anel the saddle e eC C 41 1931 IUS Den Bell Syndicate Syndicate Service |