Life — September 21, 1928 — page 7: what you’re looking at

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5 m- Go Places and Do Things are holding ch their so-called orgies in apartments, which ry- is another good way to break a lease... .. rid Did you know that ers Si zg . cre Ouo H. Kahn has ur sree - more foreign decora- PS, tions than Pershing? nt ALONG THE MAIN STEM -You can't buy he dice or playing cards Dear Pac Witarp: author of many “blues”; Evelyn Preer,| at Wanamaker's.... s Since the Republicans sent their | the leading lady of several colored revues,] The local smart revenoors out to close up the Broadway |and other persons of color and wealth.|alecks are ending their letters with: places to embarrass Governor Smith, a]I think the late Florence Mills owned|*Yours until Coolidge makes a talking lot of us do not know what to do with} some of the property on it. picture!””....When Emil Jannings first ng our evenings. So I toured the Harlem) J got my daily chuckle from one of| came to this country, they say the first 8 belt again, for a change, and outside of the less fortunate black natives of Lenox | words he picked up were: “Applesauce” hi the Sere Club ane Connie's Inn floor] Avenue, who told me that it is nick-|and “Cash on the table!”... ~Long be- a revues, there 15 HOw fo wnterest you UP | named Striver's Row “because yo’ sho’ | fore she starred in the show by that tag, ids there, os perhaps, the most exclusive have to keep strivin’ to be able to live| Adele Astaire was cece “Funny lay thoroughtare in the You probably never on it!” . Face”... .Cecil B. DeMille, the flicker BS heard of it, Willard. The lads and lassies who simply must] impresario who is always being kidded They call it Striver's his Row and it is the sepia-shaded_native’s ANGY eu, tall millinery sector. a @ soa c4 4 Striver’s Ro w is G35 aire c, 139th Street between 229 OF Re cat Seventh and Eighth HH OE RS of Avenues, and the Soe — the aristocratic dwellings on it were ae Dur terned by that famous architect, Stanford . White. No whites live on it. ith The street practically has its own gov- sed emment, which is named “The 139th ith BP Sucet Block Association,” and it is a srict outfit. No stores, shops or signs, ber for instance, are permitted on it and only eC shingles for doctors or lawyers are dis- of played. All but two of the homes are 32 owned by the Negro dwellers themselves ers and children are not permitted to be eit boisterous. No one is allowed to move in ign the daytime, and newsies and peddlers ew must not frequent it, for they might jar with the tone of the place. It certainly wears its high hat at a saucy angle. A branch of colored Elks locate on it, however, and the street contains more shady trees than any other part of New York City. Music or loud talking is barred after midnight. Tenants must not kean out of their windows and only motor car traffic may pass through it, including, of course, police, ambulance and fire ap- paratus. Once the Block Association shooed a restaurant out of the territory— giving you an idea of its authority. Most of the high-class inhabitants of Striver’s Row are professionals who scored on the sage and wisely chose to save their mazuma, including Flourney Miller, of the team of Miller and fa fe Fletcher Ienderson, the orchestra director and | “Hey, Joe—run over here—we got Beethoven's ‘Moonlight Sonata’ comin’ in swell now!” comicbooks.com