The Washington herald., 1914-08-28
ON THE GREAT WHITE WAY.


Special 10 The Washington Herald.
New York. Aug. E.-Most any day
in New York now when you break
fast your eggs may be scrambled by .
$4,000 man. The war has forced the
high priced chefs to do real work
Head chefs, who for years have never
done more than nod approval to their
underlings, have been forced to Ill In
as stop gaps before the ranges. The
head chefs in the leading restaurants
are nearly all Frenchmen, but most OF
them are naturaliZed Americans and
have no thought of Offering themselves
up as targets for France. At the Hotel
Belmont forty cooks and walters have
left. and at the Baltimore twenty have
also left.
Broadway is aching for a moratorium
to be declared. The closed season for
debt In Paris has caused many Jealous
twinges here. 1T is a great idea" said
Fred Lennon in his private office under
an awning OF a Broadway cafe. I can
walk along Broadway safely II they will
only declare one" De Wolf Hopper
declares that IL a moratorium is de-
clarsd he is going to make lot OF
head walters and ordinary plain walters
mighty sore along Broadway. I've been
aching to get revenge" he said, and II
a thing like that would ever happen here
it would present the one grand oppor-
tunity.
Ring W. Lardner. sporting editor Of
the Chicago Tribune. was in New York
last week after spending his vacation at
his old home at Niles, Mich. While in
Niles Lardner went out in the country on
several motor trips and at one settle
ment he saw a boy walking along the
road pounding one side OF his head with
his fist and then the other. What Is
the matter, SOM" asked Lardner.
I've got water in my ears" he said.
II took Lardner back to some OF the
vexing days OF his youth when he too
got water in his ears. Il know what
it is son." he said, Il used to go in
swimmin' around here myself.
at amt swimming" said the boy, its
watermelon
There really isn't very much Joy in
life in being an actor these troublous
war times The cIink of arms along the
Rialto is incessant. Several hundred
thousand veteran troops, fresh from
their victories on the Long Time Cir
cult. are engaged in attacking the closed
door The managers are behind the
closed door. Broadway is filed with
hundreds Of actors looking for work. They
loiter about and watch the passing
throng, which seems to be made up
chiefly of actors looking for work. 1t IS
generally believed that there are more
theatrical folk out OF wrok just now
than ever before in the history Of the
Rialto.
Aside from the high-ups and mediums
there are the army Of "supers" George
L. White. king OF the stage mobs. says
the super" is about as interesting a
specimen OF humanity as one could cap
ture in a whole days hunt on Broad
way. He declares that there are mor-
sides to a stage super than any other
person in the world. He ought to know
for he has something like 5000 Of them
looking to him all the time for work.
at Is a fallacy to believe that 'supers'
are made up generallyyof college men. "
said Mr.. White. Il never gave a col
actually at college get no glad hand
from me for it is hard enough to find
Jobs for those who really need them.
Many a time I have seen men stand at
my office rail and have known they were
stalking their lives on a last throw. And
I have seen these brave lads do IL
without a soul except the experienced
eyeknowing that II was a case of food
tonight or the river tomorrow. They Will
never borrow a cent They are the gen.
uine sports Of the theatrical world and
no one ever hears them whine In ali
my years of handling the super I have
found him a human being. pathetic gen.
orally, terribly pathetic. but always hu-
man and the more l see Of him the bet
ter love him"