The Washington herald., 1915-02-13
THE GREAT WHITE WAY
Gal to Ths Waahington Herald.
By o. o. M'NTYRE.

Special to Ths Washington Herald
New York, Feb. 12-Harry Kemp, the
famous tramp-opet. correspondent and re-
cent newly-Eed, at one time roomed with
family Of actors in a boarding house
in Harlem Kemp had just come from
Kansas and was always Just about .
day away from starvation.
The actor was also eating. he saia.
on the last link OF his watch chain, when
an opportunity came to him to go on with
tank show. Kemp went with him in
the booking office.
The agent told him the terms and. In
speaking of the route last. said: Now
We are going to open in Toledo and
jump to st. joe"
You might call that a jump" said the
actor. but 1 call that a leap"
The booking agent said they also need
ed a blond for a juvenile part. The
actor had a young daughter who was d
brunette That night she was missing
and Kemp inquired OF the father where
she was. Il sent her," he said, Ito have
her dome giIded.'
Jerry ]. Cohan. father Of the nIustri-
GUS George NJ. was given a banquet
the other night by the Friars, OF which
his son-the same George Ms Abbot
All Of the prominent folk in stagelanu
were there and there was some good
natured kidding matches staged
After George Cohan had made his
speech. Charming Pollock arose and
said il was the best he ever heard
In fact Pollock said it was the best
he had ever written and the Yankee
Doodle comedian blushed
One of the surprises of the evening
was a speech by Irwin Cobb without a
war story. Cobb praised the elder
Cohan and said that he had been on
the stage fifty years and had not paid
a cent of alimony.
Sam Harris told OF the days when
money was scarce with him and said:
We occasionally went to Jerry Cohan
and no matter how many people he
owed he could usually scrape up some
money. 1 can't recall a single time
either when he charged US over Is per
cent"
Nan Corrigan is back behind the news
stand at the Hotel Vanderbilt. The whirr
OF the alarm clock sounds better to her
than the toot OF her wealthy husbands .
auto horn.
1T is no fun being the wife of a mil
lionaire," she said. Il like the hotel
crowds. I'm tired OF costly clothes and
expensive briC-a-brac. Give me a crowd
ed subway car to the Bronx instead of a
limousine to a lonely part Of Fifth ave-
nue."
New York is trying to develop neigh
bors. There are no neighbOrs in the city
and an organization is being effected to
make them. The city is Il huge filing
cabinet. rows and stocks of pIgeonhOles,
into which families are tucked. in which
they live and move and have their being.
There is the true story Of the banker
who lived next door to a counterfeiter.
The surprise was mutual when the bank
er. called to court one day to repudiate
the signature to counterfeit notes, found
the risponer was his neighbor. who had
not even known that the signature he
was forging was that of the man mex;
door.
The organization is being fostered by
prominent society folk and the idea was
worked out by Louis H. Chalif the Rus.
sian dancer, who peculiar to his calling.
takes a live interest In civic and uplift
work in New York. The slogan OF the
will be BE a good neigh
bor."
And this from Charles Hanson Towne
the new editor of McClures: II wish ]
could have enough money to buy a big
block Of stock in the Federal League
I'd 20 to San Francisco with t. -