Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1937-08-05
Lights Of NewXork
by L. L. STEVENSON

York are not advertised as such
In fact, they may be in an entirely
different line of business. Yet they
serve the same purpose. Edwin
Macdonald is an instance of how
that comes about. He can initiate
six distinct Italian types with prop
er nuances and accent for each. He
has accomplished that through fire.
quent visits to Little Italy. There
he gets pointers from an elderly
Neapolitan fruit peddler, a we'll
read and polished art dealer from
Vlareggio, and seventy-year-olo
wine faster from Genoa. Charles
Martin, who often is on the same
program with Macdonald, spends
much of his spare time associating
with gangsters of various types. AS
a result, he can vocally portray II
different types. Fortunately, he
holds, none of those whom he simu-
lates has yet recognized himself as
teacher.
When Minerva Pious is cast in a
Chinese role, she merely makes fire.
quent and long visits to her laundry
man. When Agnes Moorehead is
to enact French ingenue part, she
goes to little French dressmaking
shop and chats about various mat
tiers meanwhile keeping her eyes
and ears wide open. Orson Wells,
Charles Cantor, Anne Elstner and
numerous others get their coach
ing from those unaware that they
are giving it, New York, with it's
polygot population and many quaint
neighborhoods, offers full opportu-
nifty for such study. Another advan-
tage is that more often than not it
is fun instead of work.
That the public is becoming more
and more string-music conscious is
the belief of Vincent Lopez. The
piano-playing leader is a constant
attendant of the opera and SYM
phony concerts and thus gets his
knowledge first hand. And so sure
is he of it that he has adopted a
new style for his band.
During the past season." said
Lopez, "audiences seemed most en-
thusiastic when string music was
being played. They just couldn't
seem to get enough of it. To my
mind this is sure sign we are
headed for a golden era of rich,
tuneful and graceful music, music
with a soul.
Returning prosperity is being re-
Elected in musical demands. With
peoples pocketbooks no longer emp
ty and life not so harsh, there's a
definite trend toward more pleasant
and more balanced music"
Rambling right along from music
to perambulators, it seems that
baby carriages are now the only
vehicles free to travel the streets of
New York without coming into col
ision with the law, no matter how
many shins they may bump. No
horns, lights, brake tests or licenses
are required for them. The ordi-
nance says there must be lights on
cart, tricycle., sled, kiddie car,
scooter, go-cart, or other vehicle of
any size or sort, but it doesn't men,
ton baby buggies. That information
came out in Traffic court during a
hearing of an eighteen-year-old lad
charged with riding bicycle reck-
lessly. He had collided with another
bicycle on the Williamsburg bridge
and that cost him 81.
Baby buggies and babies-there's
continuity. 1t seems that the Ora
ham family in Yorkville had fixed it
up that when the stork was about
to arrive, the father-to-be or some
other member of the family would
rush out and pull the handle of the
police signal box. Then an ambu-
lance would come. Instead of the
father, the aunt-to-be was on hand.
She rushed out and pulled lever.
But she chose a red box instead of
a green one and instead of an am
oulance, there was lot of fire ap-
oaratus. Only one policeman came.
He took the eXpectant aunt to court
On the charge of turning in false
ire alarm. She was in tears when
she appeared before the judge. But
after listening to the evidence, he
'orgave her and turned her loose.
Meanwhile the baby had been born
n Metropolitan hospital.
True Story: Jascha Heifetz re-
,ently took up a residence of the
suburbs. Naturally many friends of
he famous violinist make it a point
o drop in for a chat.
''Tell me, Jascha," asked one citv
lweller, "what have you missed
most since you moved to the coun-
ry?"
Trains" replied Heifetz.
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