The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-11-30
In New York
By PAUL HARRISON

New York-All around the town: From soupe du jour in Ninth Ave nue beaneries to the snooty mais-, ons of Madison Avenue. Gotham seems to have gone just awfully continental. With a hey-ponny- nonny, a si si, and a s'il vous plait. On the Rue de la Play, which IS Broadway, yo III find French ac- tresses, English producers, German musicians and Italian opera sing ers.- Around the corner on 44th street, Lucienne Boyer and .Yovon- ne Printemps are starring at couple of theaters. Elsewhere there are a French play and French film. The Casino theater rapidly | is being remodeied into the French Casino, which will house the im- ported Folies Bergere.
 Chariot is bringing over another revue, and there'il soon be another Bal Tabarin somewhere along | Broadway, can-can chorus and all. | Already, of course l, there are half a dozen Frenchy night clubs with something of the Montmartre att mosphere, Beatrice Lillie, who is Lady Peel, is going to sing in the Messrs. R o kefellers' Rainbow room.
 \ In Chinatown.
 never tire of strolling the lower | east side Nearly every ship n | Chinatown now offers sugar cane. from short penny lengths to tall | stalks for Is cents al watch | wizened old merchant addressing packages with re paint and fache | brush. He grins and explains that they're all going to friends in Can- | ton, China. Not for Cnristmas, though =. A Chinese happer stroiis | through Mott street humming "PoS
 Goes My Heart"
 Little Italy is plastered with posters advertising Grace Moore's picture, "Una Notta D'Amore" |. ]. Strange, gay fruits on the push- carts. Artichokes, cents; they he A dollar at ritzy hotels farther untown A creaky little restau-
 rant is named the Siatica Ne II beggars in this part of town; the H people are too poor. One side II walk merchant offers long under I wear. d score of assorted sizes nap ping from e pole he carries.
 on Broome street l notice a meerschaum pipe shop and wan der in. to discover that it's the old- est pipe stroe in the city. Old JOS. eph Dickheiser has succeeded oid Gus Stehr, who inherited the shop from his old ffssher. OtnerWise nothing has changed much. bio~hS of meerschaum clay still are m, ported from Asia Minor and turneu into pipe bowls. Chunks of ampcr are machined into stems.
 Dickheiser still carves some ol
 the pipes into fancy desisnsL5
 dragons. horses, mermaias anu aa such-and offers them Tor as
 mnch as SIS. Doesn't sell many though. Only the older men. he savs sadly. seem to remember how
 good is the meerschaum for smok. ing. Nowadays he has to sell all
 kinds of pipes, from Turkish
 hookas to trim little sets. in satin
 cases, for lades. MT. Dickheiser smokes cigarets.
 Poultry Mart
 foot across Manhattan, and seek out West Washington Market,
 which I've lonS been intending 10
 visit, It's hard to find. From Little West Twelfth street, an orphan
 thoroughfare, you come upon | TnlrteeuLn ANeHucs wAASh AS
 500 feet long at this part Of the
 island. There's little penin-
 sula which juts out into the Hud-
 son River, and on it are ten minia- ture blocks of oddly shaped brick | buildings, all exactly alike, This is the market, worlds largest cen ter for live poultry.
 The narrow lanes all are brave iy named-Lawton, Grace, Thomp- son avenues, and the like. but it's doubtful that any taxi-drtver m Manhattan ever heard of them.
 There are hundreds of stands. big and little, most of them piled to lthe roofs with crates of squaking
 fowl. About $60.000,000 worth
 of chickens ducks, geese and tur- keys come here every year, addins their raucous protests to the yells and curses of the dealers. In holi-
 day season it's plain bedlam.
 Visitors are a good deal sares
 here than the poultrymen them-
 selves, because racketeering always has been rife in the industry and the rowdy little streets have seen many a murder and brutal beat ing. It's no place forsa chicken Ihearted merchant.