NEW YORK STORIES: "The Lady of the House," "A Manhattan Beach Melodrama in Three Acts," "Persistence of Vision," "A Knight-Errant on Cortlandt Street," "Swastika Sal," "The Safest Place in the World," "The Night of the Hunter," "Someone to Talk to," "The Midnight Room," "The Elevator Man," "Nowhere in Particular,""The Old Man and the Mirror," "A Rosary for Mrs. Hooks," and "A Short, Cold Walk in the Rain."