Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1937-03-18
Lights Of New York
by L. L. STEVENSON

VINO look AFTER STANDS at the OlLy
hall Have been there for years
Dress for warmth and not
for style Have to as they are
out in the weather all day :. The
big thermometer of the Sun A
lot of folks will turn up their coat
collars when they look at it on cold
days and fan themselves next
summer That triangle where
Nassau street comes into Park Row
/. and newspapers are sold at
the feet of Benjamin Franklin
With the World gone and the
Tribune moved, that statue loses
some of it's significance But
maybe it's a guardian of memories
=. AS is Horace Greeley in Her
aid Square With the Herald
Tribune seven blocks uptown.
and the old building occupied by
shops With a swirl of shoppers
filling the square Which, as is
so often the case in New York, isn't
square but merely an open space.
Night sights 1 like: The steady
flashing, now white, now red, of
the airplane beacon on the Man.
haitian tower of the George Wash
ington bridge over the Hudson
The red light atop the slim spire
of Riverside church as seen from
the Fort Lee ferry From mid
stream on dark nights, it looks like
fire-ball hanging from the heavens
by invisible strings Morning
side drive as seen from the roof
garden of Butler hall The
view from the top terrace OF Jean
and Ray Deinenger's penthouse on
West Twelfth street So in
tensely urban it's really gripping
-. The tunbling gray Sound from
the windows of the Larchmont
Shore club Times Square
crowds at theater time Broad
ways terrific glare The glow
ing tower of the Empire State
building.
Mitzi Hajoz, who plays the part
of an actress with a load in "You
Can't Take 1t With You" and
who holds it time to go to sleep
when she sees snakes In
cidentally, those green snakes in
the aquarium on the mantelpiece
aren't real The reason they
act up as they do is that AL Burk-
hardt turns crank behind the seen
cry May Todd, airplane hostess
who was sup in the air. when in
terviewed on the air But who
is never "up in the air" while up
in the air Figure that one out
:. Mabel Loucks, who teaches
bridge up in Westchester and who's
Just back from a Florida vacation.
James Cagney coming out of the
Waldorf Get giggle out of
Newark happening -. At we'd
ding party, there were two punch
bowls One for teetotalers and
the other for those who daily with
snickering soup The officiating
clergyman got to the wrong bowl
and when he said grace, re-
turned thanks for the punch
Get another giggle out of the plight
of a newly-married youngster who
came back from short business
trip with his Gladstone filled with
women's silk things The bag
bore his initials but there really
had been a switch Which was
finally Strengthened out by the rail-
road company's lost and found de-
partment But not until many
tears had been shed.
Ragamuffins in a free-for-all at
Broadway and Fifty-second street
and quick peace as cop
approaches Street snap photog-
raphers passing out cards
Monotonous calls of soft drink and
hot dog vendors Crowd watch
ing an Italian restaurant chef doing
tricks with spaghetti Wonder
where Teddy, my favorite oyster
stew concoctor, is located now?
If I could find him, I'd forget
about the waistline . K. The clang-
ing of an ambulance bell and
a clearing of Broadway traffic.
Bulls s-eye: Dave Schooler was
being interviewed just before his
opening at the Hotel Piccadilly. One
of the reporters present asked him
what his lucky day was.
Sunday" was the prompt reply.
"Why?" persisted the Fourth Es-
later.
Because returned Schooler,
with a smile, that's the day the
stock market is closed"
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