Putnam patriot., 1927-10-27


 l If you Wantg to arouse torren ef wrath these days from the lips of any New Yorker who has just returned from a peaceful country or sea shore summer just mention the one word traffic. Probably you won't have to do any talking, for the New Yorker will start right in on his favorite thesis himself Traffic. he will tell you is running every delight of the great est and most kaleidoseepie city in the world Traffic IS delaying business Traffic is shortening the lives of the rseh and the poor. Traffic IS making the metropolis a Gehenna and bed. lam But. he will offer you no solu- tnn. Thousands of motors clog the streets. moving ever and ever more i slowly and exasperatingly, emitting i bigger and better clouds of poisonous gas and smoke Traffic moves through streets already torn up with those necessary ad justments of the under earth of New York which are forever pcrforating the asphalt. But what io do. what to do2 The city grows ap- baliingly and the inhabitants thereof must move Only in the deep recesses af the night may one move about with freedom. In q word, New York III the traffic problem today faces its greatest and most puzzling question Even the agile brain of Mayor N ak er becomes static al the thought oi the er0wding future.
 Round And About The Plaza
 1T you reach there. and afoot ls the safest and quickest way one should not visit New York this Fall without look at the completely changed Plaza al Fifty-Ninth street and fiftf Avenue. Of all the revolutions oi the past years here the contrast ls greatest The late Karl Bitterss sta tue of lady arising publicly from the bath still graees the little plat known as the Grand Army Plaza General Sherman with his stridnP angel still is led southward on his dis eolored steed. The white mass of the ever-popular Plaza Hotel faces solid lV to the eastward But to the south and the east all is changed The golden eagle on the Heekscher Build ine that used to nirt with the towers and pinnaeles If the Vanderbilt cha teaa now looks bit sadly dowf upon the white mass of new office building on the Vanderbilt plot Across the street where the old Savoy Heul sdbk slowly from smartnes- tf Haa5fiuerifv. stands the new and hand on5r Savay-Ptaza On the northeast corner. fMly emerged from is once l burned seaffaIing. shoots skyWare tbe narrow and really beautiful tower Hsf the Sherry Netherlands All thi= i fofm thr center If a picture that has i been evolving Ia completion through. l oui the summer months
 Tht new Savey-Plaza aS m adjunct ] 10 the original Plaza, K the last word l in New York Hotels When one books Ibaek un the roeeca splenduurs ai those hotels of Yore that were the E"1ast Ward" 7" one feels that in the dc. velopmeut of hotels New York E lover growing Gene are the vast and Igilded lohbles. the Moorisk rooms and the Louis Quinze parlours and the over decorated dining halls. In theii places. iu the Savoy Plaza me finds m almost stern simplicity. light ane air and soft eoloriugs to replace the Hoffman House decorations of pleas ant memory. One may dine wei and cxpensively at the Savoy-Plazi
 and if one is admitted Go an apart
 ment high up near the great greer roof one will be allowed a memor able view of this ever growing anC
 ever more amazing section uf uppel
 New York
 New Plays And Good Ones
 We went the other evening to SC, one of the successes of the new
 theatrical season, Miss Katherine Cor
 nell. young star with n multitudi
 nous following, in play of Somerse Maugham's entitled The Letter" fo
 more than a year profitably existan in the London Theatre where il i played by the fair haired Miss Gladly Cooper Why we were frankly dis
 appointed with Miss Cornell and "sfh'
 Letter" we are not yet quite certain
 "The Letter" is not bad play nor i 2 it a good one. Perhaps our dissatis
 faction began with Miss Cornell fo whom we have never been fan. Per [ haps. too. the unsatisfactory produe
 ton and as poor q collection of mal, actors as we have ever seen gathere,
 together. may account for it. "fh'
 Letter" tells the story of a woman
 murder of her lover and her success