The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1916-09-08
NEW YORK, DAY BY DAY
BY o. o. MCINTYRE.

Special Correspondent Of The Washington Herald.
New York Sept Six years ago Earl
Carroll was program boy in a Pitts
hurgh theater. Four years ago he came
to New York with an empty stomach and
an empty pOCketboOk. lie almost hugged
Leo Feist when he gave him SO week
lob in his music publishing house
Today Earl Carroll is making more
| than $1,000 a week writing songs. This
sounds like the flight Of a Broadway press
agent, but | know Carroll and l am not
betTaying any condolences in telling that
three weeks ago | saw checks coming in
for a weeks royalties that tOtaled, as 1
remember it, S1,2l4.
He has two shows that have not been
brought into New York, but are making
him a fortune in Chicago and in Los An
sele.. They are so Long Lefty" and
Canary Cottage" He is happily mar
ried to Marcello, a French actress, who
is well known in film land.
They have a quaint little studio apart
ment above Bustanoby's downtown res
taurant, where Carroll writes his music
and lyrics. He is % years old and he looks
! like rah rah boy fresh from college.
! He does not smoke and he does not
drink
His bosetting sin is his greed for ice
cream. | saw him order a horrendous
connection in safe that he called baked
Alaska. The base is cake covered with
meringue, and then eXpertly baked until
the mrringue is Drowned.
| New Workers are beginning to believe
that it will be necessary for the common
sense of the community to call a halt
upon the activities of the health boards.
They are persistent in their efforts to
prolong life by actually making life not
worth living.
The iujUnCtions and restrictions is
sued during the past year in New
York have turned sanitation into
| tyranny-but the people stood for it
until tn" paralysis plague broke out
and then swept out of the grasp of
the doctors and spread not only all
! over New York but over the country.
! The latest hygienic splurge is an
agitation to force all soda fountains
| to have paper cups. There are a great
many people who do not like to drink
! out of soda cups and they will pos
| sibly quit drinking soda water as the
\ result
The Ink Pot is the name of new
| weekly publication from Bohemia
| that is to say from the Greenwich
Village Corrugated Brow Belt 1t
| seems to be about the sanest publica-
J ton that ever came from there and
the editor does not boast of living in
! a garnet,
! 1t appears that he occasionally
! treats himself to a hair cut and is not
unfamiliar with the plunge and show
err. In the first issue the editor says
| Greenwich Village is an interesting
place and it probably would be if so
many club writers didn't refer to table
dhote wine as red ink" and so many
unwashed lunatics didn't mistake dys-
pepsia for genius and pose as iii ell
! leCtuals."
There Is another thing about the
/ Ink Pot that is appealing. 1t is frank
! Across the cover page is the line
The Ink Pot carries fewer advertise
ments than the Herald and World
| combined"
| There is an actor on Broadway who
eats his breakfast each afternoon at
! l o'clock in cellar cafe near the
! Metropolitan Opera House. For six
years he has dined there and each
! afternoon his meal consists of a dill
| pickle, a slice of bread and a glass
of lemonade. Ten years ago he weigh
ed 256 pounds. Now he weighs l47
and the diet 1t is said has ruined his
health, but he will not give it up. 81
guess Tn a dill pickle fiend," he says