Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1937-04-01

Ramblings and nominations: A
blond applying lpstick as she
crosses Broadway at Fiftieth street.
Old vaudevillians budding in
front of the Palace. i. and talking
of the "days when" A fat tiger
cat strolling leisurely in front of the
Paramount. With pedestrians
making quick stops or detours to
avoid inflicting injury. . A cop
leading bewildered looking gray
head from the Times Square infor-
nation booth and pointing toward
uptown. That sea food place
with wall decorations of shells of
enormous Holsters. Whenever I'm
in Boston, I eat lobster fried in
butter. and keep my fingers
crossed for fear of indigestion. A
bootblack escaping a pursuer, evil
IDENTIFY business competitor. by
darting under mounted police
mans horse at Forty-second street
and Eighth avenue. Matinee
crowds barging into off-shoots OF
Broadway with commuters
looking a bit confused in the crush.
A window with a display Of i'm
ported caviar. A gaunt, seedy-
looking man gazing at it intently. :.
Another window displaying herring.
+. and no spectators standing be-
fore it. Dwight Deere Wiman re-
Gently returned from another Lon
don trip. A man carrying bass
viol into a subway entrance. :.
Won't he have fun with a turnstile!
:. A young man in a track suit
trotting along Fifth avenue. {.
Gives me goose pirnples. A door
man bowling deferentially to shop
pers entering one of those subdued,
but expensive establishments :.
Can't get used to the old Wendell
mansion having been displaced by
a dime store. and still miss those
well-tailored and tubbed gray gen
tlemen who stared with expression
less faces at the passing avenue
throngs from Union League club
windows. A gray-haired woman
ror admiring her mink coat. :. I'm
conscious of the fact that there are
two tags on the back which pro-
claim it's newness. The cost in
code, a disappointment to this in
vestigator.
A vender of puppies at Sixth ave
nue. and Thirty-eighth street. (.
Keeping a careful lookout not only
for customers but because the S. P.
c. A. may get him. :. The clatter
of trains passing overhead and
the old steel structure quivering
with the pounding. Merchandise
thrown into windows under going
out-of business signs Many of
those establishments have been 60
ing out OF business for years. A
group of men inspecting a hardware
| store window display of pocket
knives. and I haven't spotted a
whittier all the years I have been
here. The uptown traffic stream
at Fifty-ninth street waiting to dash
into Central park. Jean Paul
King, radio announcer, who has
three sets in his home. 4. and none
of them work. MIR. Powders who
operates several drug stores /.
Park boats piled up for the winter.
>. Won't be long now before they
are in use again.
Gutzon Borglum, sculptor, stroll
ing Park avenue. He came home
from short trip abroad only re-
Gently. Those buildings where
authors stop. They house offices
of publishers. Lucius Boomer en-
tering the Waldorf. Taylor
Holmes, whose Kipling records used
to give me a lot of pleasant listen
ing. That former actress who is
now a saleswoman in department
store. Parks Johnson and Wally
Butterworth who are known as 20
men," Because they interview
the populace for the radio. OF
all things, a Park avenue doorman
with smile on his face!
Back again in Times Square.
Edwards, who has been barbering
for Al years in this vicinity. :. i. Born
in midtown and never worked any
where else. That reminds me
that in the Chelsea section there is
a barber shop that gives "physiog-
nomical hair cuts". and does no
shaving. :. Tips also are barred.
A stenographer spurning the atten-
tons Of would-be Romeo. Who,
subdued by hard looks, sinks into
bar. /. A blind man tapping along
Eighth avenue. and singing,
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