The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1928-06-15

York. NOT the New York Of Broad.
way or Of Fifth Avenue or Of any
single section or street. It is the
whole great city, chattering in a
scare IF strange tongues. Chinese,
Russians. Jews, irish. Africans,
French. Italians, Broadwayites and
HaT'emites. Fifth Avenueites and
East siders. Brcnxites and HelIs
A.tci,enites.
I3a.ically, fundamentally. Coney
Island is the playground Of the
masses. It is the turgid. GLORIOUS,
piay-iluigry, boisterous. escaping
herd. It is the crowd the folk
who make Up the side street popu-
latlon Of great city. And great
percentage Of these are foreign
born. Turned loose upon the Coney
saI.ds they converse, shout and sing
n babel az langua ges.
Il is sight w,ich every distin-
gusied foreigner has asked to
look upon. and looking has mar
veied. And | have contended that
no che can truly claim, to have seen
New York until he has millad
through the vast Sunday throng.
what strikes one about this in
tarnatlonal holiday is the manner
IN winch al nations manufacture
Their gayety out Of the simplest of
materials. Give a Russian, an TIA.
Ian or Britisher a pretty girl, a
ukRleie. or harnlonica. a bottle of
pop and some ice cream, and within
4 few minutes q ofle-r.,7 CIRCUS will
be under WY. II -et~,-v knows
no geography and So .9r'' seems
TO have irs syrony-1 ii every Ian
guaTe.
Then there are those off-stace
p,crures Of tenement family life.
The fat mama and her brood ex-
ci!ange cuffs. caresses and catcalls.
Those Justly bursts Of temper asso-
GATED with fire escapes and East
side pavenlents are carried over to
the surf side. Their expenses are
limited TO the five-cent car fare. the
lunch box contests and a few dimes
worth Of the goodies to silence the
youngsters. IT they roam from the
sand TO the carnival parks, It il
general generally in the role of window
Perhaps, with much suffering
and tuning, little Antonio or Becky
may achieve ride on the merry-
These family arguments
can be heard at every handsome
IN herman, some in French, some
For this is indeed the melting
ppor, and those who would see the
New York that dwells within that
other New York must come to Cos
1ey to see it in its fullest opera
ton.
Noted in passing. The sudden in
vasion Of tan and white trench
coats. The fad's taken nearly
a year to get over from Paris.
As usual the collegians started it
!. e. Chain-Store beauty parlors
Modernistic door bells.
And knockers, too. A speakeasy
decorated with coats-o arms Sc
cured from an ex-nobleman down
on his luck. =. And with armored
figures standing about.
youngsters beginning to swim in
the City Hall Square fountain.
Those garish flags Of huge dimen.
SONS which now wave along Broad
way bearing the titles Of movies OF
OF film stars.
Greta Nissen, at the opening Of
her picture, "Fazil." And very
pea tiful she seemed l1mbrei-
la vendors looking very wet upon
2 RAINY day, because they fear to
use their own wares. =. Sketch
artists all but blocking sidewalk
traffic. And the impressive
hole workmen have dug lust across
the street for the biggest hotel in
the world. The d-lookine
salesgirls OF the ten-cent stores.
. And the hordes Of visitors IN
town.
GILBERT SWAN