The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1939-09-29

UOdIS ILldt pllcQ Lie WHGeTS around
Manhattan Island have abandon
ed their summer time schedules.
Passenger lists are of on the
New York to-Albany route aboard
the Hudson River Night Line.
LANDLORDS
PLEASE NOTE
Apartments are dank and damp
in the interval between a sultry
summer and steam heat.
Night club decorations have
gone wintry now that the summer
draperies have been consigned to
the basement. -
The cold germ has invaded the
city and New Workers have re-
sumed their defenses against the
public sniffle.
First-nighters have taken their
best bibs and fuckers from moth
compartments for those nightly
fashion parades In the Hobbies.
First nights have been far and
few between, however.
Windiest thoroughfare in Man.
haitian, now that fall Is here: the
one that bisects Radio City and
cuts across the Sunken Garden OF
Rockefeller Plaza.
The hanson cabs from the Plaza
again equipped with the fall sets
of triple e.
The pseudo-Latins have struck
up a lively season in Greenwich
Village, advising the rhumba for
keeping warm.
COLD SOUP is
NOT so HOT NOW
Air Conditioning has taken a
back seat, although here and there
a banner flies in the fall breeze,
counselling synical passerby that
it is at least 80 degrees cooler
inside!
Creme Vichysoisse, summer
time soup, has disappeared from
the menus of the finer restaurants.
New Workers meet other New
Workers all day long who chide,
"Why didn't you send me post
card, it was lonely way up there
in the mountains"
1t is too late to take a loafer's
excursion, to keep cool, on the
Staten Island ferry.
Brightly hued awnings have
been stored away.
Chorus girls again look as If
they, will freeze to death in their
scanty attire.
Theatrical producers are back
in their inner sanctums, guarding
themselves against the invasion of
unemployed actors.
A publicity man already has ar
rived to celebrate the happy eli
matte conditions in Florida when
snow is on the streets of New
York.
The fans in the subways have
been turned of.
COPS BACK
IN FULL HARNESS
Roadsters have given way to
broughams in the general traffic.
The gendarmerie have resumed
their full-uniform regalia, after
having spent. a privileged summer
in their shirt-sleeves.
The swanky Rainbow Room now
demands tuxedos and formal
gowns Of its guests.
Broadway's mazdas are aglow
again in the height of their mean
descence. They were rationed in
wattage during July and August.
The transient population has
drifted away. with the Worlds
Fair at Flushing Meadow prepar-
ing to shut down for this year.
Therefore, souvenir shops are
folding and the sightseeing guides
have decreased in number.
The glib gents who would lure
you to Chinatown in the rubber
neck" chariots have retired to
then squirrel-havens around the
corner until next spring.
The male populace has. begun
to be topcoated; straw hats are
banished and white paltns now
are worn almost exclusively by
internes and white wings.
The perch of the Empire State
Building, popular eerie in spring
and summer, is less populated now.
FALL OPENINGS" s-t'..
OF WHAT?
Children with Schoolbooks under
their arms, rather than ball bats,
course the streets.
The out -of-door music enthusi
asts go to Carnegie and Town
Halls, since the concerts under
the stars at Lewisohn Stadium
and on the Central Park Mall
are over.
The small craft; plying the Hud-
son are tied to anchorages off
the Drive. They will hibernate
there until the spring thaws.
Everybody announces a Fall
Opening" although nothing has
been closed the year round.
Men attend business in Slip
over sweaters.
Wall Street has abandoned its
al fresco concerts on the steps of
the Sub-Treasury Building.
The unemployed musicians at
Broadway and 48th Street have
taken to the doorways. The sun
is not strong enough on the cor
ner.
Vacationland ads will have to
wait until another year, though
South American cruises have
taken precedence.
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