The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1914-08-06
On the Great White Way.
BY o. o. M'INTYRE.

New York, Aug. 6-John Ryan, the ex-
tanitor Of the city hall. and his wife
have finally been ousted from their
apartment in the city building. They
were both carried out on stretchers while
movie operators were photographing
them Ryan had been confined to his
bed with injuries received on the day OF
Mayor Gaynor's funeral. and his wife Is
bed-ridden with palsy. The Ryans were
given ten days to get out OF their apart
ment on the fourth floor Of the city
hail. but they refused. and while their
apartment was being torn down to be
made over for the municipal art COM
mission the occupants were carried out
to waiting ambulances. Their friends pa
raded behind the ambulsnces to a hos
pital In silent protest.
Mrs. Inez Milholland BoissevaIn Is be-
Ing subjected to quite a bit OF criticism
by New York newspapers regarding her
so-called uplift work. which has been
heralded about the country for some
time. She has just sued the Socioiogical
Research Film Corporation for 1900.
which. she says, represents her fee as
company produced The Inside OF the
White Slave Traffic" which the police
suppressed. Mrs. Boissevain was one
Of the stanchest supporters OF the NOR
Atty and uplifting qualities OF the film.
She now says that some of her efforts
were for principle. but others for pelf.
Among these were the writing Of letters
to newspapers and to personal friends
whose Endorsement would have been help
full, escorting working girls to see the
pictures and spending an afternoon with
Mayor Mitchell to get him to testify. The
general public did not know she was IN
der retainer then. and Mrs. Boissevain
Is liable to ind 1t hard hereafter to make
people believe that her opinions are not
the result Of retainers.
Good old Charles Emerson Cook who
for years exploited David Belasco so
cleverly as his personal press agent has
severed his connection with the Belasco
firm. and Is going to get a slice of the
newly acquired Hackett fortune by be-
ing the general manager for James K
Hackett. Hackett fell heir to 1900, 900
recently. and is going In for real theatri-
cal business. He is to put on three or four
shows next season. and the first star to
be announced under the new manage
ment Is Brandon lyman.
Literature and Art record many ex-
quisite visions of what heaven may be
like. but realism stepped in at Jersey
City the other day and offered this:
pickaninny locked in with a carload
Of watermelonA A Baltimore and Ohio
freight train pulled in at Jersey City,
and Fred Mitchell. thirteen, the pick
aninny. was found there with I;225 mel
ons. When the door was opened Fred was
still at work. He had become epIcurean.
and was munching on q melon heart"
Fred says he got in the car at Whining
ton, and he doesn't know how he got
locked in. and then. besides, he didn't
seem to care very much.
When Gaby Deslys comes back to New
York-if she does (she isn't as popular
as she was at one tims). It will be i'm
possible for her to pass OF as a French
actress. The Rialto has the goods on
her. Gaby, who has about as much real
acting ability as the justly famed Cherry
sisters, continually referred to her child
hood days in that dear Paris. She was
signing. too, for the bouIe-
wards. As a matter OF fact. II has be-
come known by the assignment of a
jeweler in Vienna that Gaby was a Pole
and that her real name is Hedy Nevratil.
Gaby owed the jeweler $3.50