The Washington herald., 1918-09-16

New York. Sept l.-As Samuel
Pepys would record In his dairy: Up
betimes and churiish over a poor
breakfast, badly cooked. On the high
ways many In uniform stopped me
for a service ticket. pleasing my van
ity that I should be considered 10
young. The news Is that hundreds
have been clspped up for not having
cards.
To Brooklyn with Mr.. Bushnell, the
cartoonist, to bowles in his ally and
great sport too and then pulled of
our stockings, and bathed our legs a
great while in the bay. Going home
I found my lips greatly gnat-bitten
and swollen. which vexed me.
Came a chamber-mayde my wife.
poor wretch, hath lately hired. She
is very ugly. but competent dare
swear. With Sir John Callahan, the
Bowery parson, to the Five Points
neishborhood and visited Ill tenements
and found much emulacion, poverty.
drinking and swearing and loose
amours and one man sickly with
feyers told how he had fallen through
drink and drugs albeit he was a great
scholar and once a man of fine estate
To a most excellent lunch of a
hashed pullet and then for brave
walk and saw Sir Oscar Hammerstein
| in his top hat on his way to his little
| shop where he still rolls his own
cigars and too Rex Beach, the panph-
| leteer, wearing a fine tan and great
wide hat and in front of a little hat
store was Nine. Galli-Curci, the great
singer, gazing in the window.
This day ! took the lyrics I lately
composed to the music publisher in
the hope of having them set to tunes,
but very doubtful OF the results albeit
would liefer write lyrics than prose
but fear l do them badly.
Home where I set my papers In Or
der against tomorrow which hath
been proclaimed a holy day. Going
over my accounts / find myself worth
but little more than at the last reck-
oning and I resolved as / always do
| to be a great saver.
Dined alone and then TO the play
house to see Sir Booth Tarkington's
"Penrod," a merry play well acted.
And so home and to bed.
Courtney RyIey Cooper, the maga-
zine writer. has moved his type
writer 20 Washington. where he 10
heralding the fame Of the U. 6.
Marines. While in New York the
other day he told an amusing tale OF
/ Irish wit.
An Irish officer was about 10 lead
/ his charges over the top. Men" he
| said in his rich. thick brogue. the
! great moment has come In a short
time we are going over the top. This
is the supreme test What are you
going to do? viii you prove to be
men or cowards7'
I'VE WILL" cried the men in unison.
"We will whatT' snapped the Irish
man.
I'VE will not" was the reply.
"B'gorra, l knew you would" he
replied.
A theatrical manager brought an
old fashioned operetta, with a deep
chested prima donna, to Broadway
( the other day and scored a hit. From
its success. it would seem that peo-
pie are tired OF the noisy vulgarity
Of revues and the jazz. and pine for
the shows like The Chocolate SOL
dier' and the like. Broadway be-
lieved that this type of amusement
had lost its usefulness, but II proved,
as usual. TO be wrong.
incidentally a shrewd bit Of press
agenting was done. 1t proved again
that II You arose New York's Gu
riosity. New York will ill the cof-
fers. All Of the press notices CEN
tered around the query as to the
identity Of Tavic Beige, the prima
| donna.
After the first night Il was learned
that Tavic Beige was none other
than a singer of songs in a high
| class moving picture theater, and
had been singing on Broadway for
two years. But, she scored a success
and Broadway will forget her past
The old fashioned operetta was re-
vived with bang and there promises
to be many Of them on the White
Way before the winter season is
ended.