The Washington herald., 1917-09-29
New York, Day by Day
BY o. D. MCINTYRE.

Special Correspondent Of The Washington Herald
New York. Sept. 2s.-As Samuel
Pepys would record in his diary: Up
betimes and by gasoline buggy TO
scarsdale with A. Roche. the novelist
TO see the new home he has purchased
on a high hill, very beautiful. Yet
would rather forsooth reside in the
squalor of the city and he did chide
me for my pig-headedness.
The city" he averred, lis no place
to live" And l avowed that the fact
that there were cities was the argu-
ment that people wanted To live IN
them which 1 deemed keen philosophy
and made n note of it to repeat when
| meet other gentlemen farmers
For breakfast at Tongue Nue over
looking the Palisades and had three
helpings of wild strawberry jam anu
thin toast, very tasty, and a beaker
Of iced coffee and resisted feebly when
my host paid the serving man.
Home at noon and find my wife, poor
wretch. in a high temper because.
duilard that l am. had taken all the
keys and left her to wait OH the
stoop. Came Bud Fisher, the sketcher,
10 bid farewell before he goes TO JON
his colors and he seemed glad that he
was TO give up his huge stipend tenn
porarily to serve his country and this
1 deem fine patriotism.
To a moving picture studio where
meet the most prominent cinema
vampire Of the younger set and watch
ed her vamp in her own devilish way
and ! was disappointed. She seemed
TO revel on stage and of in being off
in being n Sircen, serpent, phsyne.
Cleopatra, and leopard cat all rolled
into one. In real life. she could never
wreck home. Indeed do not believe
she could be waitress at Childs.
For a walk through the town and
see l.. Mann. tie play actor, \. Bris-
hane, the editor; ] Morgan, the bank
er: Lord Mitchell, the major; I.
Eppstoin. the newspaper vendcr. and
many others. And home to read late
and so to bed.
Gene Buck. major domo for
Florenz Zicgfeld, is back on Broad
way after his run over to Lon
don to stage a big production. A
rare genius is Buck. lie is the
modern Berry Wall of Broadway
the man who sets the sartorial
pace. He represents the ideal of
every nifty dresser up and down
the Flashy Alley. His silk shirts
are futuristic rainbows and his
scarfs contain all the colors in the
spectrum and a few that are un-
known.
He is the man who picks the
feminine flowers for the Zicgfeld
choruses. His speciality is beauty.
He came to New York not many
years ago from Detroit strug-
Cling young artist. He was the
first 20 draw the flashy pictures on
the pages of the popular songs.
He originated the idea and sold
200 two days after he came to
town.
But this was too trifiing for his
talents and he ,branched out into
the theatrical business. The set
tings. lyrics and general ideas of
the Ziegfeld productions are the
work of Buck. He has written
three song successes during the
past season. He is still a young
man but wise in years in all that
concerns Broadway. TT is a grand
little street" he says, "if You STAY
away from it and just look on"
Smoke, who has no more pedi-
gree than hornet. went away
with the xty-ninth-headed for
France-as official mascot. Smoke
is Scotch collie that wandered
out of a fire in Mercer street and
for three years has been the net.
of an East Side engine house.
Last year he removed a fragment
of the heel of a rufiiian who came
into the engine house looking for
trouble. For three weeks the
board of health watched Smoke
issuing hourly y bulletins regarding
whether he had rabies or merely
good sense. He was found to nos
sess the latter and when the Sixty
ninth got ready to- go the fremen
decided that Smoke would be good
company for the boys abroad. They