Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1936-04-09
Lights Of NewXork
byL. STEVENSON

ting steam, pulling huge coal trucl
The f1uted jade of the Hudson
The sun making sparkling diamond o.
a snow-coated roof-top water-tanl
The zig-zagging darling of the
Eighth avenue buses Wonder
If the drivers dream of being caught
in traffic snarls? and having
to keep schedules An old man
who looks like hold-over Santa, swip
ing banana from a push cart
and slowly walking away as he eats
1t Maybe he's trying for a
home for the winter BY get
ting pinched Such a thought
makes me uneasy inside Kath
airline Cornell, who is one of my two
favorite actresses =. Helen Hayes
also playing in town now, is the other
Richard Nancy. press agent
who did such a fine job for "Jum.
DO" many thought him a part of the
show.
Like to stare at pawnshop windows
In one on Eighth avenue, a
big roulette wheel The sign
says it cost $130 But can be
taken away for S65 Maybe the
house percentage isn't as heavy as IL
should be Also a mammoth
silver punch bowl A Tiffany
product that can be had for 800
Bet there's a story behind that
About egg nogs and gay parties
and then disaster that put the bowl
that flowed into the pawnshop
and that huge accordion with its many
and expensive trappings How
did it reach that window?
Window displays in the garment cen.
ter being inspected by experts
They can tell exactly what each article
cost by the dozen Or by the
gross and most of them are
unemployed The gay showing
ins the window of a house that deals
In piece goods and the mil
lions of buttons In a wholesale button
house window.
Mrs. s. Stanwood Mencken, who gets
much publicity because of her costumes
at various parties She shot
the chutes with others of society at
that Coney Island ball at the Elysee
Wish had time to go out to
Coney today There's something
appealing about the somber sullenness
of the winter ocean Hugh
Gray who has named one of his five
dogs, Contract Bridge Wilfrid
Lawton who turns in such a fine per
Torrance as the defense attorney in
that new hit, Libel" Maybe
! shouldn't kick because 1t means extra
revenue for the government
But Jim Farley's postage stamps tear
entirely too easily =. and the
pieces get lost The postmaster
general strolling along Broadway made
me think of that.
Carl Phillip, an electrical engineer
who, when out of work, refused to. 60
on relief =. Or take a WPA ioh
Instead, he toiled away in an
attic on an idea that had been in his
mind for years :. The result was
a toy ocean with toy lighthouse and
toy liners That steered by re
mote control It caught the
fancy of New York kids and
now Phillip has profitable business
/. Christopher Morley surveying
Times Square through pipe smoke
A restaurant window filled with fish
Of various kinds With designs
done In shrimps +. and huge
heaps of live Holsters Wonder
IL the old lobster palaces" will ever
come back? Heard of a lit
tie French eating place where If the
madam doesn't care for a customer
she invites him not to return!
Curious thing that in New York where
the struggle for business is so fierce
and the press agent of a res
taurant tried to get publicity by throw
ing party in honor of the one hun
dred and forty-third anniversary Of the
Earl of Sandwich -. Who. hun
CRY while gaming, had piece of meat
put between slices Of bread.
The opening of that new $4,000 bar
at the Hotel Aston caused Oscar F
Ostby. president of the Anthracite club
VINO was the first customer, to recall
those whom he met at the Astor bar In
the old days. Among them were EnricC
Caruso. Diamond Jim" Brady, Pierre
Dupont, George M. Conan, Raymond
Hitchcock, Edward Allen Woolf
Charles Splitdorf. Nat Goodwin, De
Wolf Hopper and Chauncey Alcott In
cldentally the bar, which was formally
opened by Frederick A. Muschenheim
owner Of the hotel with a gold key, 4:
Broadway's largest. 1t is an island
with a circumference Of 118 feet and
will accommodate $50 ISLANDERS, that Is
II they group up" bit.
Q Bell syndicate.-wNU Service