The Wyandotte herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1879-1943, 1938-12-16

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By L. L. STEVENSON
Ramblings and nominations: A
jittery young man trying to ADJUST
his tie before q mirror In q Broad
way restaurant window @. and
making q rather poor job Of it q.
A newsboy darling into traffic at
Forty-fourth street to rescue a be-
1drakgied and bewildered little dog
and taxicab driver shrilling
to a stop with shout of "Attaboy"
Theater folk bound here and
there for matinees With pa
irons beginning to assemble in thea
ter lobbies See ms good to see
marques illuminated again after
weeks of darkness and to see
chorus girls assembling in response
to casting calls j.. A blind VIC
linist playing "Alexander's Ragtime
Band Which takes me back
to the old days when Henry Mont
gomery had a new player-piano :.
Sad sight: A beautiful little girl
walking on clutches With one
foot dangling uselessly Three
drivers jockeying for vacant space
which is marked plainly, Zone Taxi
cab"
/ Sea food display in a restaurant
window looking like a work of art
-. With brook trout as the center
piece Bet they don't taste like
the trout cooked with bacon beside
some swift-howing stream With
the scent Of pine and balsam in the
air =. A group of girls all wearing
those hats with feather sticking up
like q spear Makes me want
to give an Indian war shoop
Buyers from out-of-town roaming
the wholesale district They get
trips to New York i. But they
work every minute of their stay
If they want to hold their jobs
Shoe models entering Seventh ave-
nue. establishment and they
have looks as well as perfect feet
/. Seventh avenue in the garment
district no place for one in hurry
Gesticulating crowds make
sidewalk progress difficult.
That gray-haired traffic officer on
duty on Forty-fifth street during the
theater hour Works with a
smile and a pleasant word now
and then and gets results even
from taxi-driverS and lone
peddler of bachelor buttons :.
He gets as much for a blue bloom
as the gardenia seller does for a
white one A panhandler with
a beautiful black eye Maybe
it's only part of his make up :.
AS years come on me, grow more
suspicious A bewildered
Frenchman trying to get informa-
ton from a still more bewildered
theater doorman Maybe the
visitor takes the doorman for a
gendarme But a volunteer,
with a command of French, straight
ems things out 4. and the French
man goes jauntily on his way.
Backwater streets in the vicinity
of Brooklyn bridge Where the
dark-skinned residents bring pic
lures Of the Near East Little
shops in charge of swarthy ancients
-. Who seem to resent the en-
trance of a customer =. But who
come to life when bargaining
Barges beginning to assemble in
Coenties Slip BY the time
winter comes, there will be whole
colony of them Barge children
get q break They do not start
school until their floating homes are
tied up for the winter Curious
little currant cakes in store win
dows Sailors entering Sea
mans Church institute Where
they find a home until they ship
again.
Wonder what's become of all the
canes that used to be carried on
New York streets? Only see
one on occasions now and moi
so long ago. the tap-tapping was q
part of the Times Square scene
Spats seem to have disappeared
also But with my new blue
suit I'm all set for winter
Brooks Atkinson who writes critical
pieces about the theater Cam.
eron Hall, the cockney porter ir
Come Across" whose stage name
is Lacey But l don't spell my
middle name with an re" Joe
Howard who is nearing Is but who
is still turning out songs.
Subway talk: KNOWN he can't
fight, / asks him if he wants to
make sumpin outta it-that's how
got this sinner"
. Bell Observation-Disclosures Service.