The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1935-09-05

Woolworth buildings. Also pointed out
to us was the one-time house of Mark
Twain where he finished writing The
Connecticut Yankee. A visit to The
city would not have been complete
without having Wall street and the
stock market pointed out to us. An
other point of interest was the old
Tombs prison, mentioned so often in
stories and news dispatches; also, in
contrast, was the Little Church Around
the Corner, and the great towering
church over which Fosdick presides,
the famous preacher with tend
encies toward modernism. We passed
Columbia University and also New
York City University. both right
in the heart of the business
district. Our attention was also called
to the home of Nicholas Murray Butler,
well known president of Columbia, the
largest university in America.
On the East Side.
While all these buildings and institu-
tons held our constant attention, yet
it took something that was more out
of the usual to arouse our keenest in
terest. We found it while driving
through the Ghetto and the East Side.
There we passed through block after
block the streets of which are
given over to street vendors. There
sidewalk merchants have set them
selves up in business, their quarters
consisting of a small cart and a small
ca p{ y,,oro1 a,,ltra II
ceivable thing under the sun" The
small carts are covered with canopies
to keep off the heat and rain. This WIS
purely foreign section, squalid and
terrible. To one from the clean sun
shine and clear air of the mountains,
life under such conditions would not
be worth living And yet suppose
1t woald be impossible to drive many
Of those people away from that en-
vironment, so enthralled are they with
that manner Of living.
Turning to something more pleasant.
We walked through Radio City one
afternoon, that great undertaking of the
younger Rockefeller Again we say
we shall make no attempt to describe
this outstanding structure in the heart
of the city. Magazines, with their
illustrations, can do it SO much better
and are doing it nearly every day. But
we found Radio City wonderfully
pretty and we spent couple Of hours
in one OF the theatres in this marvel
Gus city" in a theatre entrancingly
beautiful with architecture and dec
orations of the modernistic type. And
there we enjoyed a fine program Of
lovely music and beautiful entertain
ment. In Radio City is also found the
headquarters of N. B. c., the National
Broadcasting company.
On Glamorous Broadway.
A trip to the city would, of course.
not be complete without paying visit
to the theatrical section, around And
street and Broadway. He walked up
and down this great white way" one
evening and took in some of the shows.
The theatrical section is truly a mass
of glittering lights, flashing and blink
ing And yet was somewhat let down
by Broadway. For years ! had read
Of the great ambition the people Of the
stage have to see their names in lights
on Broadway, which means that they
'have arrived" in their chosen profess
sion. suppose that must be true, that
only the best finally climb the heights
that leads them to the glitter and froth
Of Broadway. And yet as ! stood there
in the heart of this great theatrical see
ton | could not but think that in APP
pearance at least it was not so very
different from similar sections ! had
seen in other cities-perhaps a little
larger, that was all could not be inn
I pressed with the wonderful pre-
eminence Of Broadway
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