The Washington herald., 1918-01-25

Special TO The washington Herald.
New York. Jan. 24.-Life in the
Ludlow street Jail these days is just
like a stay at Palm Beach. Ludlow
street is where they keep husbands
who refuse to pay their alimony. 1t
has never been a very rough exist
ence there, but with the entrance OF
David H. Knott into the Office as
sheriff things have perked up con-
siderably.
Sheriff Knott owns a flock of New
York hotels and when he saw the
kind of grub that was being doled
out to the Ludlow guests he was
simply knocked dumb with amaze
ment.
Instead OF bread and coffee for
breakfast he ordered the chef to
provide cereal and real cream, some
eggs, bacon and toast and a little
old-fashioned marmelade on the
side. The other meals were Tossed
up in proportion and for Sunday
there will be turkey and ice cream
and other good and tempting things.
Sheriff Knott does not regard ali
mony slackers as hardened crimi-
nails. There are celebrated play
wrights, actors who have starred on
Broadway. two literary lights. a IA
nous chemist, and many others who
have, or will shortly. break into
Who's Who" stopping temporarily
in the Ludlow Jail.
A famous vaudeville sketch was
written behind the closed doors and
a big financial enterprise was set in
motion there. Men who are doing
real work must have real food de-
crees the humane sheriff.
The guests at Ludlow have a
bridge club, q gymnasium and a
smoking room. With Sheriff Knott
on the job they are hoping for the
installation of a tents court. a swim
ming pool and billiard parlor.
Seen around the town: A famous
chorus girl who used to brag that
Prince Henry drank champagne out
of her slipper selling tickets in a
movie theater cage, A little old man
in a frayed overcoat gazing into a
window filled with sable furs. An
East, Side cafe with a sign: Spar
row pot pie" A hotel page boy call
ing in the lobby for Mr.. Hinden-
berg" An actress taking her pet
poodle into a Broadway barber shop
to be sheared. Women wearing
spring straw hats on Fifth Avenue.
A shooting gallery on lower Fifth
Avenue. A street hawker selling
dictionaries. A celluloid william of
the movies playing dominoes at the
Screen Club. A cabaret singer sing
ing to a diner wearing a monocle:
There's Just a Little Bit of Monkey
Still Left in You and Me-"
The why Work When You Can
Be Starr epidemic has hit Har-
lem. Persons who have never tried
to act, dreamers who have always
wanted to act and geniuses who
have tried to act and been pro-
nounced a bit ripe are meeting in
one grand struggle to attain film
fame.
Every evening an entire motion
picture is actually made upon the
stage of the theater. The artists, so
to speak, are amateurs drawn from
every section of New York. If any
show of ability is made the appli-
cant will be considered by the large
motion picture directors who are
conducting the scheme as suitable
prey for the wild life of the movies.
When the theater issued its Shrek
for amateurs to try their luck-bus-
mess in Harlem came to a stand
still. Young men who have been
told that they resemble Francis "
Bushman or John Barrymore report
ed by the herd. Young women VINO
would laugh aloud at Mary Pick
ford reported in full evening contu-
sion. The supply Of Charlie chapp-
Inns extended one fiatfooted plock
from the stage door. A dozen scena,
rio directors have charge or the oao
undertaking. After the first two
hours two were strolling around on
their chins and knees.
Speaking of monocles, Broadway
Is filled with wearers of them. ot
course everybody smokers at them.
But three years ago wrist watch
wearer was the object of much ridi-
cule. Now everybody is wearing
them. The same thing may happen
to the monocle.
Hamburg Liner Torpedoed.
LNfraf a.