| Show 0 0 I 1 by L STEVENSON LS L true story the other afternoon the elevator operator in the west ninety seventh street apartment house in which mrs ona wright lives remarked to her that there must be some mighty fine bridge players in her club interested mrs wright asked him how he had reached such a conclusion well was the reply 1 it I hear them talking and they all seem to be so good but they have such awful partners suburban lite life A friend who commutes from brooklyn manor out on long island reports an unusual dev matirn from usual practice each a man drives to the station with his wife and the family dig nothing out of the ordinary in that since all over the comma commuting tiep territory it happens every morning but it the husband who leaves the auto and goes to the city for a day of toil the wife is the one who boards the train furthermore instead of kissing her husband goodby she kisses the dog and merely waves to her better half urban life for some reason which I 1 have been unable to ascertain its too much trouble to go down and ask questions many new yorkers have taken to kite flying for weeks especially sunday afternoons the air over the upper tipper part of central park has had a large kite population big kites little kites homemade kites store kites elaborate kites simple kites kites of all colors all AD the kite flyers arent kids kid either some being gray headed when I 1 was a youngster spring was the proper time for kite flying and it if a gray head had joined us we would have felt he ought to have that gray head examined 4 time march marches 0 on john golden in a reminiscent mood the other evening recalled that when dalys theater was dismantled he bid in the old curtain it was one of the most beautiful in new york and upon its arrival in this country duty free had been assessed at mr golden paid for or it more or less for sentimental reasons since he had seen it descend on the mansfields ada rehan and others great in the theatrical world of their day sentiment also influenced him in in a decision to use it at the little theater where he was then producing plays but he discovered it was only about three quarters the size of the littles proscenium eventually he gave it to mr dewey the simplified speller who years ago started the lake placid club and it is now used in the theater connect ed with that club and so pass the grandeurs grandeury gran deurs of yesterday 0 0 0 experience in the rainbow room the other evening a table companion tried to squelch ray blocks antiwar anti war arguments youre a musician he sneered what do you know about wara war 1 block turned away without replying born and raised in alsace lorraine he saw his fathers father s house blown wn to bits during the german invasion his cousin killed and his beloved music teacher led away to a concentration camp 0 0 0 they say carl harte the of something or other would be an attempt to put the six day bicycle racers on a five day week george griffin one of the best places to hold bold the worlds fair is around the waist george grate have you heard beard about the jorse trainer who climbed the ladder of success stepper by stepper and all for today a bell Ser serpico vico lc |
