Show LIGHTS OF NEW YORK by WALTER TRUMBULL there are many brownstone houses astl etall I 1 left on the side streets of new york york now khat hat daylight saving gives us lis long twilight hours after tile 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 la 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 1 am not talking of penthouse roofs but just of the ordinary roofs of buildings looking down from an upper window of any of the tall buildings you can see children playing on the flat roofs some older member of the family sits usually in a rocking clift chair lr watching them some of these watchers have rigged sunshades for them selves when the weather grows really hot those roofs will have cots or mattresses on them and their owners will be sleeping as near to the stars cs as they can get among the attractive owners of an attractive apartment in new york are the Afes smore kendalls they live over the capitol theater and a door of their apartment opens into a private box from which they can see any performance while themselves unseen 11 lorenz has somewhat the s bame a m e arr arrangement in gement in his theater the box in this case being hung like a bird cage against a door which opens from his many of the producers who own theaters in newyork new york have a shirle somewhat aliat similar arrangement but that lias bas practically nothing to do with the tory story I 1 heard recently it starts with the fact that the hesi Iles imore kendalls gave a dinner ard and that among their guests were the co cogut laut and countess von luckner that turnis furnishes burnishes hes the cast now for the plot yew new york has so many telephones that it has become necessary to issue the telephone books in sections in other words there Is a book for manhattan Blan hattan one for brooklyn Uro oklyn one for the grons bronx and several others the company sends you the ones you appear most likely to use and the others are furnished on request mrs airs kendall hail for some reason experienced considerable difficulty in getting one book but had finally obtained I 1 it now it seems that when the dinner was over and only the men were left at the table the conversation turned to tents feats of strength count von luckner 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 bis point and material was furnished for or the demonstration when mrs airs kendall next nest saw her prized telephone book it was torn neatly in four pieces when new york opens a new subway the mayor usually drives the first train through it and there are speeches and a general celebration in which the of the company and citizens comil committee littee take part news papers carry stories of the thousands who will be benefited but they rarely mention the few who may be crushed by tile 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 lins has diverted traffic from their stand and it looks as if they might have to give tt it up women are much more particular about their hairdressers than men are about their barbers so long as a man get the old country bowl haircut he Is pretty well satisfied but there appear to be dozens of ways of cutting and fixing a womans comans hair I 1 lime have known women bonien to ome come buck back to town in summer from places chih were an over trip just to haie their hilr hair done by their accustomed colt colff leur eur at the lie present time my wife la Is disconsolate because tier favorite hairdresser pierre Is moving to tochee cleve land c 1931 bell syndicate service |