New Britain herald., 1930-10-17

New York, Oct IT - Thoughts while strollng: So many young men could pass for Irving Berlin in this town. What became of the Brox sisters? Refrigerated window dis plays cold squabs in aspic.. Those and Chablis '91 yum, yum! Art Young looks like a philosopher. And | is. Dawn Powell, the Ohio girl au- thor.
 Enticing ads, of primitive Africa stresses Barking baboons.' Why Africa with all the columnists loose? Those gum chewing ladies who gather about the entrances of up- stairs dance halls. The swellest building front in town-the Bowery | Savings bank on 42d street.
 Herbert Bayard Swope, a St. i Louis boy, who made good in the city. A gentleman with a plumed hat. buckled knee brooches, lace cuffs and periwig-carrying a pain less dentist sign. Those three Gen. tral office dicks who scan faces at the Grand Central exit. Wish could play the harmonica like Britt Wood.
 An auction room displays one of those Diamond Lii shaped beds. A night flying school. But most of us continue to ride the nightmare. Tobacco shop sign: Queen Mary smokes" And got talked about, too. Bud Fisher and Mayor Walker look a little alike. Frazier Hunts long steps.
 Window dressers who stand out side plucking mustaches and view ing their handiwork. A pretty name for a tea room-"Trail's End" The Daily News building suggest a Fol- lies back drop. And if you dizzy easily don't look up suddenly at that new tower at 5th avenue and 42d. Many night beauty parlors are said to be speakeasies. But what place isn't? A Japanese novelty plant shop open all night. And a handout for chorus girls. Hand blocked lnens-with pictures of Uncle Tom and Eva, Moby Dick and the whales and skating scenes in Central Park.
 Black evening coats for men with white fur collars. Harry Richman and Jack Buchanan could wear them and make 'em hum. Dull-eyed, silent men who eat alone at lunch counters between ten and midnight. Percy Crosby snooping around toy stores Maybe that is where Sklppy gets his childish heart!
 That serene strip in old Chelsea lying between 23d and 24th streets and 9th and 10th avenues so fruitily ripe with Victorian houses and their high ceiled rooms, front yards iron fences and curlicued foot scrapers is no more. For years 1t stood, subdued and mellow, q me- mento of days agone.
 Today on the site arises two req brick apartment houses known as London Terrace with doormen array ed in uniforms of the chin-strapped London bobbies Very, very British. The roofs are lined with pent hous- es, each with a cracking log ire place and a spacious terrace.
 There are swimming pools gym nasiums, tennis courts and an array of chic shops. The l6-story build ings are constructed around rosarl- ums with walks and a center foun- tain. If the experiment is a success the idea will be employed in several Greenwich Village developments.
 The polo shirt becomes a demo- cratic bit of wearing apparel. Or iginally it marked the flop, but today graces the tough mug and lnterna- tional banker They are seen at Newport and Coney Island, on Park Avenue and Avenue A. and are prlc- ed from s1 to $42. New York sa" the polo shirt first on Vernon Castle.
 The radio, to my notion, with all it's manifold blessings, has failed 10 develop a single outstanding voice. Out of the conglomerate cacophonE' it has brought only the crooner. h.