. The Ladies' home journal. JOURNALABOUTTOWN filMMER nights in New York jirekw wonderful for making a miniaturetour of the world. Each section of thecity where the various nationalitieshave clustered has its own identity;so much so that you are suddenly sur-prised to look up an open street andsee Rockefeller Center in the people are on the streets, and youget the flavor of foreign tongues, thefragrance of foreign foods, the sight ofunfamiliar costumes, as you movefrom one strange land to another semidarkness. Perhaps the mostexciting section of all, if you pick theproper ni
. The Ladies' home journal. JOURNALABOUTTOWN filMMER nights in New York jirekw wonderful for making a miniaturetour of the world. Each section of thecity where the various nationalitieshave clustered has its own identity;so much so that you are suddenly sur-prised to look up an open street andsee Rockefeller Center in the people are on the streets, and youget the flavor of foreign tongues, thefragrance of foreign foods, the sight ofunfamiliar costumes, as you movefrom one strange land to another semidarkness. Perhaps the mostexciting section of all, if you pick theproper night, is Little Italy, down onthe lower East Side; for when they arehaving a festival, it is really somethingto see. The streets are brilliant withligbts and seething with people; little. Fiesta in Little Italy. orchestras everywhere, playing Sicil-ian airs; tables in the streets; diningand dancing alfresco. . Seemspretty sedate back at your little mid-town apartment. Getting on the moving stairway in theconcourse of the new Esso Building upthe street the other day. Hit-hardPratt noticed that it went up fasterthan any hed ever been on before;and later, at lunch with his architectfriend, Robert Carson, who de-signed the building, he asked aboutthe speed. Turns out it is the fastestmoving stairway in town—125 feet aminute; most are 85. Speeding it up,Bob said, certainly helps traffic, buthe is a little worried about timidwomen who are apprehensive aboutall moving stairways—even slow fastest in the world, it seems, arein the Leicester Square station of theLondon Underground—the longest,too, and the oldest. Theyre 180 feet aminute. Slowest is on the fine Dutchliner Nieuw Amsterdam—45 a min-ute. And to be accurate theyre Esca-lators only if theyre made
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