The Wyandotte herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1879-1943, 1939-05-12

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This and That: The street clean
ing department seems to have at
last taken its cue from the Broad
way scene !. Along the main stem
these evenings, aluminium hued,
streamlined rubbish trucks parade
with this legend prominently dis
played: Department of Sanitation
! Broadway Night Squad" -. :.
Down on Stanton street, on the low
er East Side, is pushcart that sells
caviar Apparently Rudy Val
( lees vaunted powers as star
maker didn't work with rags"
Raglund, a comedian featured on
some of his broadcasts Rags"
is back working in what used to be
the Broadway burlesque mills
New York's oldest street, Pearl, got
its name from the numerous oyster
shells found on nearby beach
It's also the crookedest street in
town The carousel in Central
park is so years old and many
kids can't find il because the signs
read ''carouser' instead of merry
go-round."
The house on Park avenue on the
northeast corner. of Thirty-fourth
street has no number Once it
was listed as Park avenue ;.
and when the number was shifted to
an office building, the owner refused
to accept a substitute What
has become of wooden barber poles?
During intermission periods at
swanky East Side night spot noted
for its food, members of the band
can usually be found in Third ave-
nue. hamburger joint The food
is different there and so are
the prices New York has 1888
licensed taxicabs The number
was fixed by an ordinance passed
in 1887 limiting the total to those
then licensed It can be in
creased only after public hearings
| have been held The measure
was adopted to prevent overcrowd-
ing of the streets.
Appearances Are Deceiving De-
partment: Ernie Hoist, husky band
leader at the Ell Morocco, looks like
| football player But his in
strument is the delicate violin :,
Artie Shaw, swing bandsman at the
Hotel Lincoln blue room, reads trea-
tises on social and political economy
;. and topped his N. Y. u. class
In calculus Phil Spitalny, who
leads an all-girl group at the Bow
man room Of the Biltmore, prefers
the company Of his own sex, getting
| together twice weekly for a poker
session with such cronies as song
writer's Walter Donaldson and Joe
| Young and Paramount manager Bob
/, Weitman . Kay Kyser, who bur-
lesques college quizzes at the Penn
sylvania Manhattan room, comes
from a very hterate clan His
father taught courses at North Car
DINA college Fats Waller,
playing swing ditties at the Yacht
club, once acted as organist in his
fathers church.
Manhattan-nites las seen by Bea
| Wain): The milling crowds of ski
| ers coming out of Grand Central
terminal Sunday nights after a full
day on snowy hills Tired but
happy, they add picturesque touch
to Forty-second street with their
colorful outfits The seh-con-
sciouS attitude of the newly arrived
vacationers from the Southland with
their suntanned faces in startling
contrast to pale phizzes of stay-at-
homes The sorrowful express
sion of the young woman whose hat,
caught by sudden gust of wind,
took to the air and ended under the
wheels of q Broadway trolley.
Clishmaclaver: Have you heard,
asks Jerry Cooper, about the ball
| player who missed out with the mill
ionaire's daughter No hits,
no runs, no heiress Overheard
on Swing lane: Joe, soms0ne
stole that expensive solid gold Haskl
| Of yours" "Oh, that's an
right. There was nothing 6f value
in. it." Al Donahue tells about
the dealer in oddities who Was eager
to get rid Of some curiesifies i
Those Of his wife and his paother-in-I
law and Genevieve Rowe told
of a sign in Brooklyn market:
Fish and Sesfood.''
Short story: At recent private
banquet in the Tsft grill, one Of
the newly hired walters finding in
sufficient coffee cups, served . guest
his coffee m . bouillon cup. The
irate guest called the captain over
and wanted to know what was the