Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-08-30
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ing costs are higher in Manhattan
than anywhere else in the world.
(They are much higher, for example,
in Washington, D. G. For comparable
comforts and luxuries they are higher
in Paris, France.) That all night
clubs here are owned and operated by
gangsters. (They are not, L know OF
at least three which are run, to my
certain knowledge, by irreproachable
gentlemen) That you are likely to be
slugged and robbed if you stir out
doors INTO the poorer neighborhoods
at night. (The chances are overwhelm
ing that you will ice mOlested by no
one more sinister than a panhand-
ling stumble-bum. All the more COM
petent thugs have gone on relief and
scorn exhausting efforto
That the streets of Manhattan
swarm after midnight with beautiful
lost ladies, so that wives cannot let
their husbands go abroad without Sc
rious misgivings. (The truth is that
Manhattan is three times as moral as
Memphis, Tennessee Nymphs du pave
are rarer than blonde compilations at
a Communist rally. l am unable to
explain why this should be so, but it
ic fact) That subways are the safest
means of transportation yet devised.
CAS- far as dramatic collision or de-
railment is concerned, this may be
So but subways are really about as
safe as the quarantine ward in a hos
pital for contagious diseases)
That Chinatown is all wake, con
structed out of papier mache ty
shrewd showmen. (Tong killings are
still occasionally encountered by the
metropolitan police and the China
town detail comprises some of the
toughest and most experienced blue
coats on the force.) That all the best
plavs open for the first time on
Broadway (Most of the hits have been
displaced in Boston, Washington, Phil
adelphia or more remote points be-
fore they ever see Broadway. Very
few movies have what are rather
loosely called world premiers' here.
For example. | saw three movies this
month in Saratoga week or two be-
fore they are scheduled for Broad
way. once saw movie in Columbus,
Ohio, ten. days before it was due in
New York;
That all the Broadway panhandlers
ride to work in Isotta Fraschinis with
liveried chauffeurs. q know one who
is only able to support FordO That
if you are a young man and you want
to write or act, the place to rush to
is New York. actually, you should
in such a predicament avoid this town
like the plague-until you have plenty
of experience elsewhere.) That Wall
Street is controlled and manipulated
for their own profit by group OF
exclusive "insiders, who know every
day what the market is going to do
tomorrow; and that this fOrbldding
clique thinks and acts and pulls wires
as a solid, highly reactionary entity.
(There are almost as many opinions,
prophecies and political b1aSeS among
the big traders as there are big trad
ers. Many of them are, for example,
ardent New Dealers, for that way lies
initiation and the chance for quick,
immense profits, they reason rightly
or wrongly They are wrong as often
as if not more often than, the "pu =
lic"-the small trader. What fleeced
the small trader in the past and will
fleece him again is combination of
two things; timidity and greed. A
large-scale gambler has almost by de-
finition courage and the ability to
stake it, if he guesses wrong-qual-
tiles scarcely to be found in the reac-
tionary)
That all the lads who write col
umns about New York spend most OF
their time in Hollywood or Port Wash
ington, Long Island, and rarely II
ever get first-hand look at Lcngacre
Square. (This is the grossest Libel. 1t
is true that 1 am writin" these lines
in Quebec, Canada, but l have never
been in Hollywood and | take 1llght
at dawn for Father Knickerpocker's
River Rock.)