New Britain herald., 1926-10-29


 forth at the entrance of buildings under construction in the metropo- lis appear none too robust. One Of their principal duties is to clear the way for workmen and the trucks that bring materials or haul away debris This they do with an authoritative air.
 The guardians of stage doors, on the other hand, are capable appear ing men of mien that hardly would be classed as gentle. Some of them remind one of the typical detective type of the movies.
 Scene on Broadway: A sandwich man, hunger showing in his counten- ance, dropping orlornly at corner, the advertising sign hanging some what askew from his narrow should e.4 Across the street, thin, stole faced old woman, seated on a box. a carton of hints in her lap, and seemingly 100 tired to care whether anyone stopped to buy a roll Of the confection.
 Giulio Gatu-Cassazza, general manager of the Metropolitan Opera company, impresses one with his polished serenity as he sits at his desk. A slight shrug adds expres- sion to some of his words.
 Wheezes about men waiting on street corners for women friends or relatives are common. But in New York some womel. wait at theaters for their escorts. About curtain raising time several usually may be seen waiting in Hobbies for their de- layed men companions.
 fruit peddler in Columbus Circle had a sign on his handcart reading, "Belgun Grapes, l5c pound" Two other peddlers came along with carts heaped high with grapes, priced at ten cents pound and established themselves opposite the first arrival. The latter, faced with such serious competition, hast iIy obtained a scrap of paper, mark ed it with a large "0' and pinned 1t over the "5" of his original sign.
 As a means of bolstering their rather slender pensions, many re- tired fremen and policemen of New York work as extras. The casting director at the Paramount Long
 ha ,,ar Nf 130 such men. They are reputed 10 De not bad actors and many are cast In mimic roles that they formerly lived in real life.
 Th. bronze bust of Washington Irving in Bryant ark just back Of the public library has been removed from it's pedestal and now rSposes on the paper-littered lawn with the countehance of the essaYist looking I'D toward the gold and Black tower of the American Radiator building The monuments base settled on one side and became so precarious thai the city authorities had it removed. A new one will soon be put in place and Irving will again be in position to look down with his analytical gaze on the passing throng.
 The br wnstone front houses in the Central Park West section, home of New York's elite of the Gay 9o's" and for many years used as rooming houses, are disappearing rapidly The old dwelling arc being razed almost daily to give way for modern apartment-hotels.
 Hopelessness is the predominant quality of oriental music, says Alex . ander Maloof, a Syrian living in New York, who has populari2cd much Of it. In dances, love songs and march, es the wc.rd minor quality is but the manifestation in different forms Of the philosophy of oriental life, he said. Even the most erotic and vol uptuous of the songs of the east never rise to the paeans of joy that appear in occidental music. A kind of wailing undertone underlles the oriental melodies.
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