The Washington herald., 1915-12-20
SEEN and HEARD
BY GEORGE MINER
sIecisl Correspondent Of The Washington Herald.
iCnpgright 1915.
By the Mcclure Newspaper Syndicte)

New York. Dec. ls.-For a good many
years large number OF people in New
York have had a reputation for getting
"a skate on but its plural nnw-skates
One on each foot Skating is the fad and
fashion. Old and young. fat and thin,
they have all gone skating mad.
It's knocked the dancing craze right in
the middle of the tango. The dansantes
are deadcr than the discards in a poker
game. wear ago hundreds OF them
were fourishinS in the swell hotels and
the fashionable dancing halls. like Castle
House. Now they are nearly all closed
except the Vanderbilt Barn. which has
some attendance. Hardly any Of the
hotels started the dancing afternoons this
season. The Waldorf did and 7 went in
there Saturday expecting to see gayety
and beauty and lots of IL. II was about
as gay as a dentists Office and as crowd
cd as church on week days. Direes
would have been more appropriate than
ragtime. Three years the craze lasted
and many people thought It had come
to stay. But it was only transient like
any other fad
Dancers Have No Jobs.
All the chorus girls and hat-headcd
young simps who became professional
ballroom dancers and teachers and got
big money for it are out of a job There
should be a gIut now In the supply OF
restaurant mattresses and ribbon-counter
clerks
At any rate YOU can get into most
any restaurant now and not have people
dancing all around your table while YOU
are eating. In only the very fast lobster
palaces is that nuisance preserved.
Thank heaven, they can't skate around
dning-room.
What Diamond Jim Brady is going
to do for exercise now that dancing is
denied him ! can't think. Skating is too
dangerous. II he should slip up and come
down smash on all those gems II would
be like landing on a rock heap
Mrs. Saint-Gaudens. widow of the IA
nous sculptor. has come down for the
winter from her home at Windsor. VT
or rather. that Is the railway station and
her house is in Cornish, n. H.. close
to President Wilson's summer home Mrs
Saint -Gaudens tells me that the Presi-
dent called on her frequently and was
much interested in the art museum she
maintains there. She had more than
three hundred visitors who went up there
especially to see her collection during
the summer.
I notice that the newspapers are sar-
casticaliy referring to President Wilson
as "a stylist" because he used the ex-
preston butt in during a speech the
made concerning Mexico last week. Ii
a number of years ago the
President. then at the head of Princeton
University. told me that he did not con- !
slider collegiate English good and he did
think newspaper English to be very good, |
as il was concise. ,forceful and never |
stilted. Evidently he is of the same opin- |
ion still.
Coliseum VIII BE Plain.
Fred Mcclellan has bought for his
hackers. who are Chicago and San Fran
cisco bankers. the car barns on Eighth |
avenue and is going to turn them into |
a big amusement building. II will be !
I good deal bigger than Madison SQUARE !
Garden and second in size only to the |
Olympia in London.
ut will be only a she'd" said Mr.. Nc
Clellan. ''as every enterprise that comes |
In a place like that wants to decorate |
and fix up the interior to suit its own
show. So the Coliseum, as we are to !,
call this. will be nothing but four walls
and a roof - ....
The FIRST tenant will be the reproduc:
tioa Of the Panama Canal, which We