The Washington herald., 1917-01-30
New York, Day by Day
BY O. o, MCINTYRE,

Special Correspondent Of The Washington Herald.
New York, Jan. Gas Samuel Pepys
would record in his dairy: Up betimes
and read in the public journals that Wit
ties increase in price and it depresseth me
very much what with Christmas state
ments pouring in from doubling creditors
find no heart to labor at my task.
Each Yuletide season I vow never
again to purchase silly gifts that no one
uses But my wife, poor wretch, chides
me for being like Dickens character, Old
Scrooge, and I give in and yet when 1
cast my ledger l always find a heavy
deficit.
DR.. F. NJ. Planck. who lives in Kansas
City. deem him a man more character
full than most men l know in his profess
sion and when l was young and head
strong his kindly advice kept me out of
many scrapes. If ever a man lived to
serve his fellows only, he seems to me
10 be that person, albeit his innate
modesty makes we churlish.
For a walk in the late afternoon down
Broadway and saw Chauncey NJ. Depew
in colored CATERS and a becoming scarf
looking very Beau Brummelish withal
Recalled the day with quaking nerves 1
essayed to interview him and clumsy
lout that I am. tripped over a rug and
fell at his feet. You have an odd way
of presenting yourself" quoth he and
my face Redeemed like the glowing Goals.
His quips and Quirks amuseth me al
ways. For dinner at Mr.. Regans Inn
with H. Roth, the comic sketcher, and he
wagered one pound that he would for
swear nicotine on the new year. To
variety hall where brazen huzzies por-
tray a new dance forsooth the tango and
it angereth me greatly. And so home by
stage and to bed.
In a motion picture actress popularity
contest Just closed in New York. it is
noticed that an actress named Margaret
Harmon wins with 327,O63 votes, while
Mary Pickford finished twenty sixth.
with 10000. One cannot help but wonder
what film magnate would like to trade
Miss Pickford for Miss Harmon! Step
back-don't crowd!
1 was dining in a quiet little restaurant
off Fifth avenue the other evening and
at another table saw Miss Dixie Gerard,
Hippodrome prima donna. After she mad
paid her check, l went over and sat down
at her table for a few moments.
Miss Gerard comes from st. Louis al
though she has quite lived 1t down. she
Is on the stage In two different scenes
and has little opportunity to display her
engaging personality-and yet she Is one
of the real attractions of the show.
II she can interest so many people IN
so short a time it is hard to tell what
she would do in play of her own. 1t
Is my guess that some enterprising man
ager is going to come to his senses ana
put her name in electric lights over some
Broadway theater next year.
And incidentally Miss Gerard is one OF
| the few stage stars that does not employ
| press agent-which also pleases me.
That old Isle thread savings bank
where the modern woman used to stow
her money has seen good service. but 1t
has been superseded by a silk carryall
which she wears doubly strapped around
her knee
Anything from a roll of bills, pocket
ful OF change. powder box and pun 10
a chifon "nightie" can be tucked into the
convenient little article which is held Sc
curely around the leg. just below the
knee, by two frilled silken garters.
The pretty little things are now on eX-
| hioition in the shop windows. And II
skirts don't get any shorter or any
tighter. the changes are the new Doodle
sack will stay put 1t is too convenient
to lose entirely.