Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1925-10-21
NEW YORK
A CENTER
FOR BUYER
Cheapest and Best Place in
Country to Shop.-Other
Notes of Travel.
By the Editor of the -Herald)

Some of the Herald's New York
friends and readers have been writing
US since our last issue Gliding us for
not saying something good about the
national metropolis Admitting the
truth of much" they say, "why the
complete roast?" To appease them and
keep the record straight we will COM
ply.
New York's shopping district is the
most interesting the country and
contains the most diversified and best
lines of goods. From some very cas-
ual purposes the writer is convinced
that the city is the best and cheapest
place to buy good goods in the cOun-
try The fact is that if you shop with
wisdom it is remarkable how cheap
you can shop.
Mems silk hose, regular 81 quality,
are soc pair. Good shirts, $1.75 each
| Neckties, 81 value, soc each. Pajam-
as, $3.50 value, $1.75 set. And so on.
A necklace marked So in Paris could
F., be had for $1.98 in New York. This
is not a bargain sale ad, although it
reads like one. The fact is that ex-
cept for the name of the place, the
European traveller would do very well
| to reserve his purchases until he
reached New York. The foregoing il
| Illustrates the cheapness of merchan-
disc there.
Big Manufacturing Center.
An explanation is that New York is
la big manufacturing center. Goods of
all sorts are made there. Failures
happen, factories are overstocked, and
! so on. AS result good merchandise
/ is dumped into the New York retail
stores at bargain prices. Somebody
| has lost but the customer benefits.
Along Fifth Avenue and other fash
ionable shopping streets you will see
| the finest stores in the world. The
window displays are wonderful. Bet
| ter than either London or Paris and
1 that is going some. window shop
ping" is a favorite outdoor sport in
New York and everybody does it.
did not see a better or larger store
than Fields in Chicago but the gen.
eral run is ahead of Chicago. And
the prices are lower.
| Inveterate Theatre GOers.
If you lived in New York you would
probably do what everybody else does
and that is-become an inVeterate
theatre goer. There are sixty-odd
| irst-class theatres in New York. The
bulk of the patronage comes from
local people. Hardly New Yorker
you talk to but has seen all the latest
ATTRACTIONS. He is not superior about
this-just frank and interesting. He
is probably patron of the musical
art and knows the latest operate
scores, concert productions and so on.
Practically every f1rst-class show re-
ceives it's premier in New York, or
comes timorously there for a recep-
ton or congo after a try-out in ''the
provinces" This last is us.
German Cinema to Music.
| I saw a splendid movie production
taken from the opera Siegfried, one Of
the Wagnerian ring musical dramas.
It was set to music, wonderful, crash
| ing sounds, in perfect harmony with
the thread of the play. Produced at
| the Century, the same vast theatre
which showed the mystery play, "The
Miracle" last year. This play, by
the way, is to be given at the Audi
forum in Chicago, this winter. 1t is
worth seeing Tickets for Siegfried
are $3.50, which is a good price for a
cinema but the show is worth it. 1t
was produced in Germany, | believe,
and the cast is composed Of German
people During the war all German
productions of every nature were I'M
der ban in Great Britain and Amer
| lea and are still so in England. This
| is a piece of bone-headed jingoism the
writer, for one, could never subscribe
| to. If Germany has anything to give
us or teach us, why not take it? Bans
win no battles.
| Then I saw a light comedy, EN-
chanted April" at Morosco's theatre,
off Herald Square, on 43rd street.
1t was a clever and well acted skit
but the night was so extremely hot it
was hard to hold an interest. Since
| then the comedy has been withdrawn
| in favor of something more obvious.
| The first run movies get their show
ing in New York, being shot across
| the country on fast trains. / saw
new Norma Talmadge production.
"Graustark," at one of the beautiful.
new movie houses of New York, where
they advertised the temperature to be
"6S cool inside" AS it was 80 on the
street, there was no other place to go
but in. And these three performances
constituted my view of New York's
show industry.
The theatre is wonderful thing and
/ WIl0u L llN0u III SCI NAIAOo L oONN
| to "eat it up" There is glamour
and Illusion about the stage that
makes life happier and more colorful
to those who follow it. At it's best it
lexemplifes great art and genius. In
| its ordinary sense it isn't life and
can't see that it makes a person any
bigger, better or brighter because he
| has seen a hundred late productions
instead Of two or three or none. And
| if the play influence is cheap, sensual
or unreal think it makes him worse.
Nevertheless, it's amusement from an
urban standpoint and you can't blame
the poor folks who live surrounded by
prosaic bricks, stone and asphalt
| for wanting to catch hold of little of
the beauty of life and doting on it.
Getting out of ''NOO Yawk.'
Getting out of New York is no mean
task. To leave an hotel you take
| taxi to your station even though it is
| but two blocks away. It's supposed
| to be bad form to walk and carry your
grips from the hotel to a depot and
while the average out-of-town hick
| like me may be used to walking from
six to ten miles a day, often toting
heavy loads, he recreantly gives in to
custom and takes taxi.
Instead of being peeved at it have
| to laugh to see how the famous New
York "ovn'' works 7 think it cost me