The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-08-03
In New York
BY PAUL HARRISON

the tOWu. STANDING room at
premium in front Of the Taft Ho-
tel these warm evenings. A mas.
culine crowd. Across the street are
the open dressing-room windows
of the Winter Garden Theater
where other people pay cash mon
ey for q more formal viewing OF
Earl Carroll's cuties.
Periodically policemen come
and chase away the legion OF
peppers. Then the cops them
selves are jeered because they
remain and do little gawking
on their own account. -
The Earl Of Carroll always ad-
vertises that through the portals
of whatever playhouse he is occu-
plying pass the most beautiful
girls in the world. But / believe
his boast would haunt him IL he
were to visit a certain little res
taurant down on Seventh Avenue
near Thirty-fifth street. For
through this unpretentious door,
way pass most of the many hun
dreds of models who work in the
garment section. And they're the
shapHest young things in the
world, probably as a group. fol
each must meet a set Of rigid
specifications right down to the
last pound and the final quarter
inch of tape measure.
Forming q Crowd
You'll find them there alone
at noon, busy with Accent
.luncheons of salads and tea, Gig
arets and gossip and telephone
calls. Round up the smartest-
looking femininies from the
swankiest sidewalk cafes, and the
Colony, and La Rue's and the
Japanese Garden at the Ritz and
Sherry's summer terrace - and
you couldn't match them fol-
beauty. The models assemble
again after five o'clock. standing
three deep, around the bar, busy
with cocktails and lipsticks, wait
ing for their boy-friends.
The bathing season Is in full
swing at the ragamuffin Riviera
which is City Hall Park. Kids
mix pleasure with profit, for they
scramble for pennies tossed into
the fountain pool that surrounds
Gotham's sculptural atrocity, Civ.
ic Virtue. This year. for the first
time, little girls have Joined the
| frolic, but they're good dea
more restrained in their conduct
The mems dressing room is thu
City Hall lawn, with newspaper!
for towels. But the young ladie'
go home with frocks slipped ovel
wet bathing suits.
Pauper Merchants
| Down at the, pauper's marke
on Riyington street, loaf o
! stale bread will get you a shirt II
fairly good condition. A hat, i
you have found, one in a garbag'
can at dawn this morning up II
the rich East Fifties, may be ex
changed for two or three razo
blades, or perhaps for a niekle il
cold cash.
| Very little money change
hands at the paupers' market. 4
days wandering of the streets
with head down in that disconso
late but purposeful way that tn,
| city's dereiicts have. usually turn
I'M an item or two of some Sigh
value. "A rocket comb. q pair O
glasses. a pen knife. a handker
chief, a cuff link-all are nego
table in kind on Riyington stree
every Sunday morning. scaven
gers who are ambitious enough t,
work at dawn are the ones VIII,
come with the richest prizes =
shoes. trousers, ties and such
and here and there some articl
of feminine apparel.
There are men who specializ,
in certain kinds Of goods. an,
jeaIously guard their sources
Two or three always appear witt
loaves Of bread, begged from bak
cries. One fellow caters to tat
tered esthetes with a collection O