. The Ladies' home journal. fMary Petty, another New Yorker con-tributor, has now gotten out a hook, East of Fifth, The Story of an APARTMENT HOUSE, which peoplefrom other parts of the country willlove. // (is a book of sketches of the tenants inthis one apartment house during a periodof twenty-four hours. In it the maids dis-cuss their mistresses in the laundry, achic-chic couple gives an elegant dinnerparty, a girl in a two-room-bath-kitchenetleapartment has love troubles, the superin-tendent has tenant troubles, a woman ofmystery wakes up in the late afternoon(I think Ill skip breakfast and
. The Ladies' home journal. fMary Petty, another New Yorker con-tributor, has now gotten out a hook, East of Fifth, The Story of an APARTMENT HOUSE, which peoplefrom other parts of the country willlove. // (is a book of sketches of the tenants inthis one apartment house during a periodof twenty-four hours. In it the maids dis-cuss their mistresses in the laundry, achic-chic couple gives an elegant dinnerparty, a girl in a two-room-bath-kitchenetleapartment has love troubles, the superin-tendent has tenant troubles, a woman ofmystery wakes up in the late afternoon(I think Ill skip breakfast and lunch,Marie, and just have a Martini), hus-bands and wives bicker, radios go on for-ever, and one small child goes to school. It is one New York, no doubt, anda tragicomic one perhaps, but it is notthe New York that takes the subway towork, good-natured and busy, or theNew York that makes world-shakingdecisions daily in finance and businessand politics, or the New York that goes REPRINTED COURTESY THE SATURDAY EVENING POST. / hate to intrude like this, sir,but I wonder if youd mind turn-ing your radio down a little bit. to church (there are some 450 churchesin Manhattan alone, and Brooklyn isknown as The City of Churches), orthe New York that takes books out ofthe public library and goes to concertsand visits the zoo and the museums, orthe New York of hundreds of thousandsof shopkeepers. We did hear abou t a New York beautysalon where a customer can have herdress remodeled, her feet pedicured,her lunch served, her jewelry re-paired and her theater tickets pur-chased, all while her hair is being not a bad idea. San Francisco,Chicago and Cleveland please copy. The literary scene in New York getscaught in a whirlwind as spring comeson. Everyone who has been writing abook comes to New York to see a pub-lisher. One of his editors entertainedBruee Marshall (VESPERS IN VI-enna; father m alachys miracle;The World, the Flesh and Father SMITH) at the enormous gatheringon all flo
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