Putnam patriot., 1926-09-17

real New ! ear iAaN. for certainly this last holiday 1f che summer Is tte line of demarkati6u between tha daH summer period and the heeinni1e If the years activities. while the real New Years is more a matter-o act ending of the Christmas holiday and the beresome matter of business iapen- tory. But with Labor Day over. New York begins Co brighten up Every train of the many hundreds that come into the great terminals at Forty Sec ond and Thirty Fourth Streets. not to mention the tunnels and ferries, bring back their sunburned quota of summer soJourucrs. Apartments in Park Ave nue and mansions in Fifth Avenua and the side streets to the east and tu the west begin to show their windows and remove the boardings and wrappers ef the summer. Business men g-ho have franticaliy been trying @ ,fcek end with the family and make q living for them in mid-week welcome back their focks and once more sit at .he head of the family table instead cf dining in the eoldness and loneliness of rluhs and summer hotels.
 The Season of the Buyer
 If you are one Of those who know the marts of trade you will also know that July 18th is a great day in the retail dry goods business. for that is the day when legion of buyers sets forth for Paris and all those foreign way stations attendant upon Paris where those shrewd and clever French men and women. are about to show their styles and models for the winter. But all of the buyers don't go to Par is. \ great many of them come to that first port out of Paris. New York. These are the weeks of the buyer in New York. In droves they come from the north. from the south and from the west They crowd the hotels. jam the theatres and lill the night clubs and the restaurants. Their days they spend in he wholesale rooms and great Is the bargaining that edes an there in What your mother and sister of wife and daughter or son brother and husband. in fact. will wear during lhs winter months Is being decided ln these teepine markets today.
 But the buyer has another mission iH New York You wonder why the theatrical season opens to an carly start Ii ie very largely because of the buyer The theatre has no better emissarv to the far part of the cum try than the buyer The buyer comes to New York. works through the daN and goes ta che theatre by night He or she returns home with the ftrsf naWs of the New York season. Back in the store again. Mrs Smith. we'll say, of Sioux Falls or Little Rock or Bangor. will say to Miss Smart, the recently returned buyer of winter hats And what did you see m New York; Miss Smart will then respond with a list of the plays that she liked and didn't like. those that were funny and those that were not. those night clubs where the paVetV was worth something near the price and those shops where she saw the prettiest and the most modish fashions. Mrs. Smith. meanwhile. is making d keen note of all this infor- nation. and when she gets to town in the course of the annual fall or winter orgy of shopping and theatre going ,le will remember Miss Smari's words and heed them. IT Miss Smart liked play. Mrs. Smith will buy ticket, for TO other reason than to tell Miss Smart when she gets home. whether she agreed with her or not. The bay CT in this apparently trivial bu' really valuable wav. becomes a factor in the success or failure of much that New York presents during the fall and the winter for the delectatlon of its mil lions of visitors.
 What a City
 But it is not only tho buyer on his OF hcr semi-annHnl visit W1n will be astonished at some of the chang which New York has derlaued during the summer and aa9 ali rtadv for Hle. eantafIuu ta visitors Nh wonder If6 seasoned New Yorker who hae been at Mount Dearrt. er in California or in Europe duriue the past .rree months gives something of gasp wbpr he sees the sEN-ltna 1f nppcr Manhattan between Thirtv-Fourth and Fiftv-Ninth Streets. Here are r1.-a ris4raele and towers and eyer- rising etfasctures ta dizzYing heigkt Tn tha fffias. te inc west af The Ave nue. he will see two grea. new apart mont hotels rising to many storias. Where Delmouico's old building stood short year ago there is q colossal office building towering above all the others in ifs vicinitY In Madison Avenue there are similar changes and more striking buildings. This is the New York. the glory of the American architect who has created and ia ere ating here a city as striking and lrdt- vidual and as romantic in its tremen dous benutv as any Bagdad of Haroun- al Rasehid
 And Now the Theatre Opens
 For the benefit of tho aforesaid huvars as well as those millions If Nev Workers who haven't the benefit of the late summer soiouru. the the at.es are nightly epeniu heir doors to new and various eferinfs. So far there has been no great resoundlng hit. such as Rain which was an ear lt season offering four years ago that only closed on the road this seaenu. Trae. that gtrange pheaoner0u af the theatre "Abie's Irish Rose contin- mes "a rornp through its sixth year at tho Republic The Rose" was also aa aarly season offering and no doubt the huver had not a lirtle to do with its phenomenal success. for # was heartily and actively condef,1ed by the metropolitan critics when it first saw iht light of the footlights i've seasous ago. So far George T. C0han hns ranR one of the few sgccesses with a shrewd bui homely play entitled srhe