New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-05-28

"Spectacles amt matter of eye.
sight no more"
the scene Is laid in studio close To-
Washington Square, and what nearly
happens in them studios, according TO
the stories, Birsky, has created such a
demand for studios close to Washington
Square that all the furriers and cheap
clothing contractors has got to move
away from there; and the old rundown
houses they used to occupy is being
made over into studios and filled with
magazine readers at rentals which a
furrier or a clothing contractor would
consider high for a sprinkled freproof
loft with two elevators and light on
three sides"
"Aber what does all the people want
studios for?' Birsky asked. They
amt artists, are they?"
Listen, Birsky," Zapp said. IF all
the people which rented studios in New
York was artists, understand, the CON-
petition in the picture painting business
would make the cloak and suit business
look like it was run by virtUous mo-
nopoly. As a real estater you should
know it, that from reading magazine
stories a lot of people has come to con-
slider as a studio any cold water fiat
above the third floor without elevator
service and within ten block of Wash
ington Square, and in changing over
such flats into studios, Birsky, the only
decorating that the landlord must do
to raise the rent from $50 month
up to $50 a month, payable strictly in
advance"
We'll" Birsky commented, cts time
somebody done something for the real
estate business in New York"
Zapp disregarded the interruption.
Another idee people gets from maya
zine fiction" he continued, "is that
spectacles amt matter of eyesight no
more, Birsky. They come under the
head of clothing, and young Teller that
reads the stories in an up-to-date maya
zine would consider himself practically
naked if he was seen on the streets with
out his rubber tired spectacles. Then
again in former times d young Teller
was lucky if he had three suits OF
clothes, understand - his working
clothes, his best clothes and a suit OF
clothes he kept to go fishing in, suppoS-
ing he ever did go fishing, -dber now
adays not alone does young fellers like
to act in real life like the young fellers
in magazine stories, but they also want
to look like the Illustrations An up-to-
date young teller has got different suit
of clothes for every purpose mentioned
in a magazine story, even if he has to
go without lunches to do it, Yes, Birsky,
the magazine artists which is always
drawing pictures from a young man IN
full dress suit, a cutaway or a tuXeoo
leaning over a grand piano while LADY
is playing her hardest to keep the blood
circulating so she wouldn't freeze from
the waist up, understand, such mag
azine artist is doing more to make young
men who are good dressers raise cheeks
gamer the petty cash and practise
double-double entry than all the pool
rooms, racetracks, poker games ana
roulette wheels in America"
Then, after all, Zapp" Birsky SAID.
magazine stories has bad influence.
"Not on the dress suit. tuxedo and
cutaway business" Zapp replied, nor
on the rubber tired spectacle business
neither"
And how about gollef?' Birsy
asked.
81 got no kick about gollef. Birsky,
Zapp concluded. "If my competitors
only devote enough time to it, BirsW'
am satisfied"
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