Show lights of N new york by L L STEVENSON seen around the town robert E sherwood who wrote the pulitzer prize play there shall be no night halted on fifth avenue by a gushing gal who insists t that h at he must autograph his book for tier her and when he takes out his pen she shoves a copy ot of out of the night under his nose phil in a jewelry store ordering 35 good luck pins shaped like hour glasses for the girls in his orchestra he calls them hour charms andrew kostelanetz and his petite wife lily pons taking a stroll in central park in the cool of the evening bess johnson radio actress buying an entire box of mechanical ch anical dogs from a street vender and later winding them up and turning them loose in dignified corridors A car duble double parked on an express street and a crowd waiting to see a cop pounce on the driver one loiterer wants to give odds its a woman it is larceny notes dishonest patrons cause a yearly loss to the telephone company in inserting slugs into the slots of pay telephones slug users also defraud the city out of a year by slipping them into turnstiles turn stiles 0 of f the three city owned subway systems the B M T system is is i the largest loser with slugs a year the 1 I R T system despite protective devices on coin boxes takes in and the independent system owners of coin operated vending machines also lose heavily through slugs and foreign coins with no value vallie A sailor who went to sleep in battery park woke up to find that his false teeth had been filched and a man who dozed off in a subway station lost not only his shoes but also his trousers honest town new york 0 this that dept benny good mans home up near stamford conn is fast becoming a reality in the first four days cinis madame butterfly was presented at radio city music hall it was heard by persons and more than the total of those who heard it in four years at the metropolitan opera house orson welles who once seared scared the nation with men from mars was 26 years old the other day to date more than has been paid to see gone with the wind and Ws its still going strong pre dunked bunked doughnuts have appeared on the market flavored with coffee they are said to be a boon to timid bunkers and to those afraid of spoiling their clothes coming home from washington lucille manners noted this road sign youre not driving an ambulance your hurry to the hospital summations it take songbird bernice bel nice parks long to describe to friends in ruby foos den a new show she had just witnessed the curtain was late going up and the audience clapped hands stamped feet and even whistled but from the start to the finish of the play there was no more hand clapping one line description of broadway restaurateur arnold reuben its the place where you talk to your next door neighbor by telephone new york short short by the late will rogers it will be a fine town if they ever get it finished 0 0 remarks when frank black told george that many wild ani mals charge with their eyes closed the young dancer quipped 1 I know a lot of night club owners who do the same thing hildegarde the chanteuse chantease chant euse tells of a divorce lawyer chos been working so hard of late he goes around the town with dark triangles under his eyes horace heidt avers the reason some people go on a big blowout is that their pride has been punctured sporting note A dodger and a giant fan arguing over the merits of their respective teams in an eighth avenue drinkerd drin kery but the bartender averts battle by turning on the baseball scores and the announcement is that BOTH teams lost the collection of model airplanes in the hines airline terminal grill has been cut one third because of a recent army edict that only models of outmoded planes may be shown at forty fourth street and broadway a girl went up to a mounted COP cops s horse stroked its sleek muzzle and then kissed it on the nose despite the fact that the girl was so pretty she could get a seat in a crowded subway car the horse threw up its head and backed away and sane folks talk of horse sense beu adell Syna syndicate licate service |