The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1932-06-06
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IF WINTER COMES

IF WINTER COMES
New York. June 6.-Because it was
May, someone recalled that it was
Mayor Jimmy Walker himself who
had penned the refrain will You
Love Me in December as You Did in
May?"
December is quite few months
off! Nevertheless, two newsreel cam
era directors, from their vantage point
on the stern of truck, made mental
notes to suggest musical bunch to
the sound track experts.
X X X
NEW YORK PERSONIFIED
Whatever may happen between this
May and next December insofar as
Mayor James Walker and Samuel
Seabury are concerned, Jimmy will
remain a symbol of one phase of New
York life that gets most often into
the public prints.
To begin with, there is the Walker
esque blue silk handkerchief. II is
such a handkerchief as carries the in
delible brand of Fifth Avenue. So do
the other sartorial fancies Of hiz-
zonner!
Other ingredients: an apartment al
the Mayfair; quiet cornered reserva-
ton at the swanky Casino cafe; first
row seats at first night Broadway
shows; a certain manner of flicking a
cigaret; nervous habit Of seeming
to arrange an Immediately trained
!. tie; a reputation for rapid fire repair
. tee; wisecracks that carry bite and
!: Manhattan philosophy; keen per-
. ception of audience moods and a
quicker turn in the direction Of the
theatrically sentimental; birth GER
. tificate with a Greenwich Village ad
dress; a Tin Pan Alley legend
, Or restless combination Of nerve
: and nerves; Broadway sense Of
5 crowd psychology; keen capacity 70.
shoWmanship; reputation for never
4 being on time or not showing up al
all; but rarely failing to show ur
e when the spotlight glares properly; ar
: accident of being photographed If
: such ease and at such places as al
t weary New Workers envy; a finished
It performer and political trouper VIII,
: can play any town from London II
n San Francisco; double match TO
o any heckler and capable Of silencin
: with a phrase the loudest haranguer
Is at home in any company, with Flori
IS da or the Riviera for his winter re
Is treats; q ringside scatter at the priz
n fights.
In a word--a type! And a Me-
York type! Perhaps "ths" New Yor
type! George M. Conan caught pa,
Of this type and all the nation recoe
% nized It. TO thousands and thou
q sands, q sort Of Freudian wish-fulfil
u ment! If they didn't love him in Ma
n as they did in December, the stree
le crowd Of New York was with him.
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It. THIS, TOO, IS NEW YORK!
Which may be why Seabury, with
Re mop in his hand and statistics in h
l. pocket, looked to young men fro
le elsewhere to carry on the crusade tn;
Of led through coppers and judgeshil
le to the seat Of the city's chief exec,
e tive. Here were impersonal your
er men from Texas, Oklahoma ar
IS. points west and southwest hacking
cd the regulations of Tammany's might
:n AS for New York, large percen
III age cares little where money com
q from. It's the story of Manhatt,
IN that green goods or Wall Street h
had definite part in its daily e
OF counters. Whether or not a Walk
a. toured on someone else's checks wou
cause little civic unrest. Such thin
~ bother the few.
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Ia, The scene itself reekS Of New Yc
- --the supreme court building, with