The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-10-07
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 Mornings cushioned with velvety winds made by angels .. Hitching posts near Washington Square-a relic of the time when New York wore knee britches Radio City chin-deep in silence during the nyem hours. So quiet, you think you can hear the huge clock on one building stitching the minutes :. Delicious sprays of laughter coming from the throats of children bub- bling out of school Hoity-toity first-nighters entering theaterS in a blaze of mink accompanied by :, the sizzle of silk Broadway loafers brushing away precious time like lint Soldiers back from the World War, wearing their cam paign ribbons proudly preferring to 4 gah about the World Series .. l Pretty girls waving their wile-power in the joynts, while stares nibble at their charms.
 Mary Small of "Early to Bed," lust voted Pin-Up Girl of all In- dependent cab drivers, with her likeness appearing in their hacks throughout the land The se- Cluded corners of night clubS-the chatterbox pews of colyumists .. The rows of flower rlarts on lower Third Avenue The tapestry of the greenery in the park, slowly slipping its Autumn finery The hiccuping of hips during the rhumba sessions in the Latin places .. Full blown dowagers waddling into ewanky cafes like glaciers and in- Epecting themselves in the large mirrors, which give them the truthache Torch -carriers draped around bars, suffering from blonde poisoning Lovers walking through the dimmed streets warming their hearts over their natural fire.
 Broadway commercials running &heir lives on skunk-power .. Cpen-air book shops on the East Side where you may buy classics for Q few cents Hollywood stars thrilled by the Big Burg, while most New Workers dream of living in Q place like California .. walter Lippmann, who will make the principal address (after receiv- ing the Freedom House award from Wendell Willkie) at the Astor on the 24th Macoco, just unraveled from lovely model-actress, Kay Will Hams, wounded over reports that he neglected her financially and displaying cancelled checks showing otherwise The tablet about Clemenceau on Loew's Sheridan the- ater, now ulumined by an Eternal Light" The Tavern-cn-the- Green Gin the Park which reopens on the 11th, where diners on the terrace will witness ice-skaters Phillip Jeff, @ Journal-American editor, who drives off bores with his gift from Guadalcanal-a Japs skull. VI Actors and actresses sitting in producers offices for hours - calm ly twiddling their hopes Show girls who are fussy about their shapes spurning desserts with that do-orsdiet look .. The galaxy of Broadway characters trying their darndest not to be caught acting like human beings Celebs try ing to clutch the spotlight, giving others bore,S-eye view of fame in action Society matrons wasting their time in beauty parlors in or der to fight time wasting them The people who gripe about the war in hfted-pinky places where food Is served that few people can afford N. Larry Adler, just back from en- tertaining the troops in the field, telling colyumistS he last saw their stuff in Stars and Stripes" at this and that place and in the Pal esttne something or other.
 The escapist gab in one late place: @Whose picture appears in most of the delicatessens from coast to coast l--Joe E. Lewis or Rubinoff's?". .... Have you ever been in one without seeing either? Clayton Collyer, who is Superman on the air. In real life he's supt of Sunday school The residents in the 100 block on West 73rd street being unhappy over the many brownstone lplaceS where vocal lessons are taught F1ops who are inceSs- Iantly grooming about sour breaks living on sour grapes .. The slant ing penmanship of rain tattooing store windows Showfolks try ing to keep their romances in the spotlight instead of enjoying them in the moonlight Social climb CTS trying to reach the best peo- ple, who aren't.
 New York, the worlds most so- lphisticated city, where over 350,000 linen and women (25 years of age and older) never went to school. Ask the N. Y. Adult Education Council, then Frank Vreeland, Iformer theatrical page editor, now lin govt service, who renamed it lBondway . Card hustlers play ling the trains carrying troops. The cheaters are usually old folks, who Guddenly raise the ante Sim atra, Brisson, Began, Downey Gall eAnarieS) being adored by Series HmsSEis4s and tohers in MT. Billing
 nys Cub Room -. Louis Brom- Old, whose current Cosmopolitan lMkory is word- d-embroidery Debu- |tanteS who waste their lives sitting Iin the shade of their family trees. The swanky Lexington avenue food stores, where tomahtoes are Window-displayed like gems . Dingy Times Square movie theaters lWhere million dollar epicS go to die.
 Unsung Heroes: The trafficops @ho sit on their patience and keep ahe bewilderness of Broadway traf- 6ic running smoothly .. Dancehall barkers who keep up their spiels
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