The Washington herald., 1916-06-10
NEW YORK
DAY BY DAY
By o. o. MCINTYRE

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Special Correspondent Of The Washington Herald
! New York, June s.-The community
masque at the stadium on Washington
| Heights seemed to tickle the critics even
II II might have gone over the heads OF
the populace. "Csliban by the Yellow
Sands" is being produced with an infinite
amount of detail.
Those who attend had to climb all the
way to the Heights and sit two hours on
concrete seats as hard as a barker s
heart. The masque was produced by
Percy MacKays and the ampitheater was
| crowded with people who wondered just
what 1t was all about.
In the preface. Mr.. MacKaye says;
Artists advocate the total elmina ton
of speech from the theater's art as a
whole. The reason for this, think. is
because the sensibility of the artist Is
prominently visual"
| And again: The association Of ideas
and emotions, which only the spoken
word can evoke is, therefore. a dramatic
value which the art OF the theater can
not consistently ignore
Get II? OF course. Simple, isn't It!
And strikes US that nothing could be
fairer.
! A man who said he was Christolph
Quigmiller, of Harlem. walked up to the
! box ONCE of the Globe Theater. He said
I he had lived in New York twenty-five
years and he had never seen a moving
picture show.
he said he didn't believe films were
any good. "I'll tell you what I'll dc
though. I'll 60 in and see the show. II
, It pleases me I'll come back and give
you a half dollar What do you say?'
The proposition was accepted An hour
later he came back to the box office. The
manager of the theater had called re.
porters to interview the New Yorker who
had never seen picture show.
We'll, what about it," asked the boz
Office man.
II liked the show all right" he said
but 1 fear I can't pay you"
Why not?"
| Well, I've lost the half dolla your
press agent gave me to hand you"
| The reporters skunk away into the night
THE gnashing of their teeth rising above
the roar of Broadway traffic.
| Fiction writers have long declared that
the girl in New York has no chance tc
{ beneath her station because she does not
meet the proper man on account of the
| citys bigness.
This little pet theory was blasted to
bits during the convention of clubwomen
in New York Five young girls who were
with their mothers and were stoppins
at the Hotel Majestic met young men al
various social affairs at the hotel.
! All five were engaged before they left
| for their homes. Two live in the South
and three in the Middle West. Also two
OF the young men who proposed have
! established themselves in business, one
has so much money he doesn't have tc
! do anything, and the other two are en-.
ployed in good position-and all are OF
good families.
| Also 1t shows that the girl from the
smaller cities with their simple charms
appeal very much to the New Yorker
who has a large field to choose from.
An all-negro play is to be produced in
New York and not one OF the characters
| Is negro. The scenes are laid in New
York and in the South. No attempt is
to be made to make a burlesque out OF
| the story. The play tells a tale of ne
groes in a digniied manner Edna AUG
has been selected to head the cast
The new type OF bathing suits seen at
| the beaches are Of a zebra pattern and
the stockings are Of the kind that will
no doubt worry Anthony Comstocks sue.
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