The Washington herald., 1917-01-23
New York, Day BY Day
By q. o MCINTYRE.

Special Correspondent Of The Washinston Herald.
New York, Jan. 22-Percy Heath. the
press agent for the Cocoanut Grove atop
the Century Theater. was gazing out his
once window one day last week. trying
to get an idea for story out of the
slush in the street. when he was heard
to murmur:
will get to the theater for rehearsal
without wetting their various feet"
II was just one moment later that he
witnessed strange sight. Coming down
the sidewalk was Dorothy Leeds one of
said girls, walking on stills.
Now isn't 1t strange that. just after Mr..
Heath had INDUCED In his thought, Miss
Leeds should come along on stills?
Most anybody would say that IT was
nothing short OF a coincidence, or even
put 1t stronger than that
So Mr.. Heath took the lid off his trick
typewriter and In a short while was
hammering out story about this pecu-
liar-nay weird-instance And almost
every paper in New York printed 1t.
For the benefit of Miss Leeds Il might
be we'll to say that stills are sticks with
steps on them. One stands on the steps
and walks. If ons can.
The Avon Comedy Four are back on
Broadway. 1t is about the last of the
oid-time vaudeville quartets. They have
the tramp, the Irish and Hebrew come
dian and the corpulent city slicker who
sings tenor.
Years ago II was predicted that the old
quartet Idea had played out in vaudeville
and yet l happened to be in a theater the
other night where they appeared and
they got the most applause OF all.
Somehow it takes US back to the small
town days when the quartet sings.
Peculiarly the public has never known
who the members of the Avon Comedy
Four ago. They do not belong to any
of the theatrical clubs and they travel
together-rarely mixing with others.
They sang some Of the songs I heard
them sing ten years ago, but the songs
that brought down the house were
Mother" and You May Hold a Mil
lion Girlies in Your Arms There seems
to be great opportunities in these songs
for rare harmony
a well-known Broadwayite has Just
made his first visit to Boston. To feel at
home he wore horn-rimmed glasses and
practiced on saying 'sawr' for saw"
Imagine his surprise when he found that
Boston was Just about the same as New
York. He simply could not believe 1t.
He had secured all his ideas from the
stage about Boston
He found that the ladies at the news
stands and at the telephones kept the
same patrician manners and the same
tones. He went into one store and after
he had made a purchase the lady yelled
Say. boy. wrap up one O. them for this
here gent" The Broadwayite nearly
tainted.
At his hotel he could not find Goldfish
on the menus and there wasn't any pie
for breakfast. either. Also he didn't no.
uce a single passerby reading a volume
of Emerson. Instead he saw the same
type OF "Flappers.' with their checks
red-waterproofed. and impoverished as
to skirt. Boston to him was a distinct
disappointment.
He was just a little bald-headed ma
gician. the last of long line of mounte-
banks. His back was broken in his cir
Gus days and he amuses children in the
Fifth Avenue homes at Christmas par
ties. He is cheerful and represents the
Xmas spirit.
Last week he was in a millionaire S
home extracting gold fish from the air
and chickens from bric-a-brac. He got
a silk hat owned by the master of the
mysterious passes over 1t. Then he put
in his hand. There were three guinea
pigs instead of one Even the professor
was surprised. Figured out for your
self.