The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-07-28
In New York
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BY GEORGE ROSS

NeW xoTk, July 70 - 1ncy CAiI that Main Stem in the town, broad- way, the Gay White Way, the Hardened Artery-and by at least c dozen other names. In the stran- gers mind, 1t Is pictured as the thoroughfare where glamor walks arm in arm with sin and strife, where success comes overnight, and where every third pedestrian S c potential celebrity.
 Sorry to dis!llusion you again, but as the rural visitor remarks il current comedy hit, when asked how he likes his first glimpse of Broadway. "I've never seen 50 many orange drink stands in ali my life" The tawdry, the cheap and the banal are on the march, instead of on the wane, along the street that once was colorfuliy dignified.
 The garish neons become q worse eyesore every night, the orange drink stands, the hot dog troughs and matted milk (nickel c glass; booths now possess c cor- ner on almost every block. Radio blasts from the beer and slug bars add to the growing din, and the duSky bootblacis at the nickel.a- shine machines are the most voci- ferrous bankers along the midway. Tn the general scene: eatery windows beckon fin the trade with offers Of Chow Mein and Peking Tea--i6c Haircut and Shampoo -35c a.. Planters Punch, New Orleans style-Two Bits Kun and Get a Cocoanut Delight-Sc Two Talkies for the Price of one--a Dime Sightseeing to Cltna- town-70c Spaghetti Dinner -- soc.
 Until . scenic railway winds around Times Square and 6 Chute. the.chutes ernpties jewellers into the Rockefeller Center Fountain. Broad- way will not be as degraded as Coney Island. But all the other props gre ready for the transform. ation. "% st. 'tf
 Pocketlng Prosperity .,.
 Of All the happy prophets during the Depression tremember7) those who nerited the most serious at. tention were hotel valets. Why hotel valets? Well, If anyone knew which direction the wind was taking, they certainly did. They sized tip the sit.
 iation merely by Investigating the pockets of clothes that came to them for pressing. For four hard, lean years they found only loose change and one dollar bills, forgotten by careless customers; and thus they were able to announce that pros- perity was not yet around the cor- ner. Then the upturn came and the pockets yielded bills of larger de. nominations and the vaiets knew that something good was happen ing. 1t' t'|Ff
 Well, things are getting even bet. ter. Hyman Ozersky the valet of the Hotel Picadilly tells me, because in ruinmaging through the pockets of guests clothing he finds an alarm ing number of i've and ten dollar bills. Hyman turns his findings in, of course, to the desk clerk. And he does not 60 unrewarded.
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 Many q starving composer has traded In . song for . meal, but Johnny Green once struck . better bargain than that when he swapped an arrangement of his hit tune Lover" for one years supply of spaghetti at the neW Latin Cafe just opened by the scfeen's Jack La Rue. JohnnyS song in the original manuscript b on display as c wall decoration in this new rendezvous. Just Practicing
 Clarence Muse forwards the tale of the wayward football star who never troubled to keep his coacht training rules in mind. This ciiap would report late to practise With many l1angovers. He smoked when he liked and he liked the ladies. Tiif coach and trainer tolerated his pec- cadilios because he was one of 6ncii star athletes. M
 Finally came the last game Of the season. When t was over this piayboy confided to the coach. "Whew, Tim glad this season is over Now I can break training and live normally" 1s<
 rIs that soi' snapped his mentor. what are you gonna do = teke