The Washington herald., 1917-04-03
New York, Day by Day
BY o. o. MCINTYRE.

Special Correspondent Of The wsshingtou Henld
New York, April 2-Broadway looks
much like midsummer just now. with the
White Rats on strike. The members OF
the White Rats are vaudeville artists
In the three-a-day houses and being AT
leisure. they occupy the most prominent
corners and discuss the hard life tney
lead. It Is just like the summer vacation:
When one song and dance team waitzeo
out on the stage of the Greeley Square
Theater the other night they waltzeo
right OF again, for they were greeted
with a fusillsde Of eggs, ripe tomatoes
carrots and a few cabbages. There were
no potatoes or onions, however.
1t might be said in passing that the
team does not belong to the White Rats.
In the meantime the pawnshops In the
'Fortes'' are reaping a harvest, for the
vaudeville actors bsnkroll is generally
in the shape OF jewelry.
Many Of the White Rats claim they
worked continuously from / p. m. until
II 30 and received a salary OF from IS tc
SIS q week, and a large portion Of It goes
to the agent and booking offices. Incl
dentally, the White Rats strike ha1
brought out the figures that there arc
$50 actresses, singers. chorus girls and
cabaret performers appearing daily on
the New York stage.
The White Way is generally the start.
ing point and finish of these thousands
The lure is there but what 1t is no ono
has yet been able TO determine
New York is not to be a Sahara City
IL the hundreds of food purveyors in
town can help II. They marched on Al
bany the other day TO try TO kill a bill
that will permit a wet and dry vote every
two years
The hotel men favor a temperance
| measure that would eliminate the dive:
and force a reduction in the number o
| licenses, but local option they claim
would result in chaos and the black nigh,
That prohibition is a near reality
Is evidenced by the fact that the own.
ers OF such hotels as the Biltmorc
waldorf. Ritz. Astor Majestic. McAlpir
and st. Regis went personally to Al.
bany 10 talk against the local option
measure.
1t Is their claim that the upstate
Prohibitionists want to force a meas.
ure on the metropolis that the metroE
doesn't care for at all
A dancing Instructor walls thar
three dances became popular and die
in as many weeks in New York. Tn,
craze for something new is so taxing
|
| many OF them are going out of bVsi
| ness and going 20 work
| Great grandfathers, who long az,
waved the white flag to gOut. may b,
| seen grabbing a COY blond in almos
any dancing place. and dancing to tn,
creak of their own knee joints
| At Sherry's recently a grandson tool
his grandmother to a private dane,
and she was the belle Of the ball Sh,
knew ten steps and everybody wa
after her.
| Thousands OF dollars are spent dali,
by those who want to know somethin,
new and snappy. Limousines in from
of the Chalif Studio. the most exclu
sive of the dance emporiums. empt
| children, middle-aged and white-haire,
men and women of the aristocrac
who want TO know every new detail
of the dancing art. In the meantim
the masters are being driven mad an
everybody dizzy.
Plain color silk shirts are to b
worn this summer by the younger sci
saw a young blond with a thousand
logger on his upper lip walking dow
Fifth avenue with a light green on
on and they are being displayed in al
the haberdasheries.