Life — March 15, 1929 — page 24: what you’re looking at

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22 The Deserted Village REENWICH Village, today, looks very much the same as any other middle-class section of Manhattan... but one short length of 4th street, between 6th Ave- nue and Sheridan Square, retains any essence of Bohemia . . . here you will find tiny “Tea” rooms, very villagey night clubs, second hand book stalls, and antique jewelry shops .. . many “antiques” parade the sidewalks also «atthe “Pig & Whistle” you may still get a very good dinner for cighty- five cents ... in the “Golden Gate”, a rather dismal “arty” restaurant, you will see anaemic looking villagers “ex- pressing themselves”... the men have long hair, the women short and in the dim light it is very difficult to dis- tinguish between the sexes. The Air Is Like Wine! NOTHER colorful part of the vil- lage is the Italian section in Jones street... old tenements line one side while the other is more mod- ernized . . . walk along this thorough- fare at night and you will be surprised to see barrel after barrel of empty grape skins lining the curbs . . . wonder if Grover Whalen knows about this? The Poor Working Girl OOR but proud chorus girls (And there are some, mind you!) don’t always live in hall bedrooms and cook their meals over gas jets... now don’t you yell “No, they live on Park Avenuel” ...a group of eight from a well known musical comedy on Broadway have rented a house over in the great open spaces of Jersey . . . between them they have bought a car and every day they drive to and from work in regal, if somewhat crowded, style... the girlies take turns driv- ing and they never fail to have an escort of motorcycle cops! . . . it costs them just half as much as it would to live in the city. Poor little chorus girls going to work. Tu it f= tHe 1 ae ee iP} fg if Avil van Water Sports HE latest nut stunt among the D. S. O.’s (Dirty Stay-Outs) is to top off the dawning with a swim at the Park Central... the pool opens at 7 A. M. and many a morning-after you will find a noisy whoopee party splashing around in the water... and there’s no getting around it, it does tone one up for the day’s work! Strong Silent Men T THE hockey game the other night I sat directly behind the De froit team and got the surprise of my life... not once during the entire game did any of the players speak to each other! . . . you'd think that when they “came in” they would remark “What that blankety blank Ranger did to me” or something like that, but they would hop over the fence and sit there like so many dummies. Sh! Graft! T'S bad enough to have to pay five dollars a ticket to some ruthless speculator for a hockey match but it's much worse to have to sit in your tenth row seat and sce the ushers escort gate-crashers to select loca tions! ... this nefarious practice seems to be common at Prize fights also... how about it, Mr. Madison Square Garden? y tpic Ly HE let ¢ writ allad “¢ You're love fou're 1 grou comicbooks.com