The Washington herald., 1916-09-25
NEW YORK, DAY BY DAY
By o. o. MCINTYRE.

SPECIAL Correspondent q Ths wGshinTtou Hs=.N.
New York. Sept Alt was In ons
of the red-ink table d'hotes a few
steps from Broadway. Tn. hour Wa,
late and the curtains pulled The cafs
cat was asleep atop a table Uttered
with demitasse cups, hHlf-smoked Gig.
arettes and cigars and stale red vins
Madam. her shawl drawn tightly
around her shoulders. was countins
the nights receipts CASTOR. the man
sger, and a re6-lipped French wait.
ress were Quarreling. Five Of Us sat
In corner near the door, waiting for the
storm TO subside outside.
Across from Us she sat- little be-
iuooled by wine-but thinking. Her
eyes seemed always looking at her
memories and her ears seemed listen
Ing doors Of pasts Upon her large
voluptuous lips alone sat Hope, which
dead.
Languidly she purfed at a cigar
ette. And then he came he was
coarse and brutal-lookinE and talked
out OF the side Of his mouth His
hair was cut short and stood UP
straight and a white scar ran all tn
X.
an EFFORT and followed him out.
The next day we read tn. story in
the newspapers. He had beaten her,
and q night watchman down at the
docks had snatched her from a wstery
grave. She had come from a little
town up New York State and had fall
en- in with man who kept disorderly re-
sorts and-drifted down and down.
She is being cared for now at a char
q
Broadway.
The Bull Ring" h the newest
amusement place offered blase New
Workers. It has opened atop the For
ty-fourth Street Thester and is q con-
glomeration Of vaudeville and musical
comedy revues. II resembles the Win
ter Garden entertainment NOR. than
anything else.
At the opening the usual nrst night
crowd was on hand and as a famous
frst-nighter sauntered down toward the
roped ring where the performance was
given, with a handsome-gowned young
woman, the big orchestra struck Up the
song hit You're a DogEone Dangerous
Girl and the first nighter blushed and
the crowd Uttered
The entire cast is composed Of Amer
leans and no foreign acts will be billed.
1t claims to have the ''prettiest chorus
girls in the world" thereby stealing
Florenz ZiegfeId's stun.
The Lambs gave an entertainment ths
other night and q prominent theatrical
man was called upon 20 make q speech.
He made it-and II was a dandy The
applause at the finish was esr-splittinF
and then one sctor-with no decency at
sll-1umped UP on a chair and began
shouting Author! Author
AmeHcanism has penetrated the Rus
sian ballet. The ballet may Try to be
Slavic. II may talk OF the Little White
Father and II may insist on having its
tea served out Of samovars. but Il has be-
come permeated with the spirit OF
America Just the same
The great Nijinsky-my dear, dio you
ever see anything more beautiful than
his ashes-of-roses legs in The Spectre
Of the Rose" last year?-wss at q ~
hearsal the other day, very busy and
busting not at all in & terpsichore1l
manner
One young dancer was being drilled.
She squstted low and tw.rled about race
fully into the air And then she as
sumed new pose. Her feet pointed
outward and in a strange gait, rem mis-
cent Of penguin, she Ehsmbled about
the room. The young lady was initiating
Charley, the well-knOwn Chaplin