The Washington herald., 1918-12-30
special Correspondent Of The washinston Herald.

Special Correspondent Of The Washington Herald.
! New York, Dec. 29.-As Samuel
Pepys might record in his diary: Up
early and met with Mr.. Smith, who
brought a new painting he hath lately
bought of the new school and these
strange colored pictures do grow upon
me as the talk is they do on many.
Abroad with my wife, poor wretch,
for breakfast and a frost over all
the trees and at the Dake-shop the
young girl told of the baker being
struck suddenly with the plague and
was healed by the devoted prisons OF
his neighbor.
Through the town and all the morn
ing in the toy shops, pleasantly 1
look forward to each Christmas tlme'
albeit l make few purchases 1 believe
that most men delight in these bau-
bles yet will not admit it. Even now
l have a great desire for q mechan-
ical train run by electricity.
On the avenue ! visited the Old
Mems Toy Store, a charity store to
give poor men now aged work. and
there were some fine old types, hoary
and bent, carving, painting and fash
ioning gee-gaws for children. 1t being
trade they seemed to delight in.
tiers from over sea and the trans
filed with wounded. To luncheon at
the Claridge With Mr.. Montague. and
he did so engagingly entice me to try
a mixture of his making that l be-
came almost foxed and blinked about
like a dolt. my head aching all the
afternoon.
To a playhouse to see Mr.. Belasco's
Tiger, Tiger" which has been taken
to the courts for its obscenity, but
was disappointed, it being a dull.
stupid piece with no need for such
action, 1t merely serving to bring
great crowds which were turned
away.
Home. where we supped well on q
fine new hot Cruel and a contentful
talk of many things to be done
against the coming of the new year
and after reading Mr.. Lorimer's jour
nal fell asleep in my chair and was
still there at the cocks crow.
Claiming Pollock is a successful
reviewer and playwright. He has
two successful plays on Broadway
The Crowded Hour" and Roads OF
Destiny" He says that during his
writing of twenty-one plays his
faith in the Intelligence OF the pub
lie has been encouraged because
every play written consciously for
! the box office has been a failure and
vice versa. He wrote his two pres
ent plays while sOjourning at At
lantic City and had no idea they
would ever be produced. One ex-
presses a theme and the other was
written to express the insensibility
and egotism of the mass of the So
ciety type to the war.
Speaking of plays and things.
Broadway has something new in the
ways of press agents His name is
L. o. RanCk and he writes all his
press copy as though he lived in the
iambic age of Homer. After sew
eral efforts as playwright, he sums
up his pessimism thusIy:
IF seven men for seven years
Should try to write a play.
Do you suppose" the Walrus said.
That it would reach Broadway"
1T might said the Stage Carpen-
ter.
But then it wouldn't stay"
l.. n. Bell. a Washington news
paperman. stopped at a typical the
atrical boarding house in the For
ties the other night on account of
lack of accommodations az his
regular stopping place. He came in
at midnight and saw a tired looking
crowd OF stage folk lounging about
with an air of bored detachment.
Getting his key and starting for the
elevator, the clerk suddenly called
out: "Oh. Mr.. Bell Mr.. David Be
lasCO called for you at 10" Every
person in the lobby sat up with a
start. 1t looked as though a ceme-
terry had suddenly come to life.