The Washington herald., 1916-08-03
NEW YORK
DAY BY DAY
By o. O. MCINTYRE

SPECIAL corTespoaaeut Of Ths w.shinrsr BerzId
New York, Aug. 2-when Emma Csru,
was In London In July. 1914. she tippee
the beam at exactly 20 pounds Marie
Nordstrorn. the wife OF Henry z. Dixie.
weighed 20 pounds. Collectively, they
weighed SSo pounds-which is some weight
for two women Of their age.
Broadway has not seen either Of them
for some time, but as it happened they
both appeared on the same bill at
Broadway vaudeville thester the other
and did not know who Emma CArus
was until / looked at the program, and
the same applies 20 Miss Nordstrom
They have not given their reducing Sc
cret away. but the fact remains they
have fallen TO shadows. Emma Csrus
weighs 1ls pounds and Marie Nordstrom
weighs exactly 100 pounds. People who
have known them all their lives would
not know them on the street.
Emma Csrus ia hitting her old stride.
She 10 singing a song that suits her OF
course, II IL about the Irish The titIe
is, what's the Matter with the Irish
and Jack Glog6n wrote the music One
can imagine the Old Emma Osrus walk
when she comes TO the lines: ''ThougH
their fight for Home Rule seems In vain
You can bet your life they'll try aFsin.
They're getting better every day"
Gordon Ross is an artist He 10 about
seven feet tall and just as skinny ss h.
is tall He went into the World Building
the other afternoon. A new once hoy
looked him over. and then piped Gee,
look at Jim woolworth,'
Leo Marsh. who writes a snappy column
about the boulevsrdiers for the Morning
Telegraph. has young friend who is
very literary. In fact, 80 much so that
he practically stArves TO grind out his
masterpieces. He bemosns the fact that
his manuscripts come back so quickly.
He has been sending them 70 the sstur-
day Evening Post in PhIladelphis-and
they come tipping back 30 fast It maxi
him dizzy.
The other day he met Marsh, who asked
him how he was getting along. Rotten"
he said. Why now they're interoepting
my manuscripts at Jersey City and firing
them back TO me-"
Jake RosenthaL who runs tn. Bronx
Opera House, was talking TO his son
Jack the other day. Jack" he said, Il
had a strange dream about you last
night l dreamed you had pair OF
wings Peter had just given you and /
was trying to At them on you. Wasn't It
strange that your wings didn't ht?''
Yes" replied Jack, but that wasn't
the strsngest part"
Wat was?"
The fact that you wss there?' replied
the lad.
A man lost his false teeth IN the e.
tinge Theater the other night The house
manager recaptured them. but not until
they had snapped at him several times
A Columbia graduate convicted in Bos-
ton OF distributing birth-control liters-
ture, has been sentenced TO three years
in the house OF correction. The sgitators
who have been inviting arrest in Union
Square for a similar ofTense can reach
Boston from New York in exactly six
hours. But it seems their desire for
martyrdom does not extend 10 that
length. As a matter Of fact, the police
have been so lenient with them in New
York that they have Ervvr insolent.
They like 70 be arrested II u results in
them breaking into print, but II there is
a real sentence attached TO IL they de-
velop into shrinking violets and declare
there were only kidding.
The leader Of the birth control move
ment has returned to New York happy
as a lark. She was arrested in Port
land, Oregon, and got a lot OF publicity
out of IL.