The Washington herald., 1918-03-11

Special correspondent Of the Washington Herald
New York, March 10.-As Samuel
Pepys would record in his diary: UP
and my wife, poor wretch, churlish at
my unkempt appearance for which l
can find no blame at all and she did
say that at times / wore such brave
clothes she feared she might lose me
and at other times / looked so un-
kempt she feared she could not.
All OF which is true, Heaven help
me, albeit / would rather be garbed
as a rogue than a Beau BrummeII. To
breakfast with Richard Hatteras the
English P1ayactor. who is recovering
from a fit of sickness and came sever
al others and the talk turned TO the
play that most impressed US and three
agreed instanter upon Faversham in
the 'SQuaw Man" in the same breath
which seemed strange.
For a walk and learned that SIR
James X. Hackett was living only a
few doors away in a noble house he
has just bought To the gasoline wag-
gon shops and the most engaging
Wagon monger did almost sell me one
of his small chsriots before 1 could
tell him that / could i'll afford one
this year.
Home where came letter from
my old roommate Larry Morley, of
Buffalo. and then to see some fine
pictures Mr.. Van Veen has drawn in
France and is exhibiting in America
in especial the gnarled trees in the
forests of Fountainbleau, a spot that
has a fascination for me-
On a street corner a cracked brain
fellow was talking for peace and
chiding the English and a little man
with side wheel whiskers walked up
and basted the rascal soundly and the
crowd cheered nightly.
In the evening to the Chu Chin
Chow ball at the Hotel des ATtistes
where came Howard Chandler Christy.
Morris Gest, Prince and Princess
Troubetzkoy and danced with the
Princess. very neat. and Nine. Nazi-
nova and Penryhn StanIaws, Paul
Thompson, Arnold Genthe and after
wards a group took a ride in the park
in an old cab pulled by a skinny
nag and sang. all very merry. and so
home early in the morning TO bed.
Broadway has again become the
radiant lane, the G. W. w. of history,
romance and vaudeville jokes and so
it will continue-eXcept on Thursdays
and Sunday evenings. Why. Thurs
day is chosen for darkness is not ex-
planned. AS for Sunday. it hasn't
many friends and everybody picks on
Sunday.
Otherwise, however. the Broadway
prospect has again frightened and the
permission to blaze forth. radiate.
scintillate and errulge includes the
shop windows, the interiors, the busi-
ness signs and the hot drink boilers
as well as the moving electric signs,
the roof top fireworks and all the mag
nificenly brilliant advertising that
made the well known thoroughfsres
the envy of the world.
A New Yorker brings back a clipping
from paper announcing the arrival
OF Harry Lauder, at Saskatoon. Can
ada. The clipping reads: Harry
Lauder. the comedian. will spend next
Sunday here. and that is all Harry
will spend"
There is one commuter in New York
who at, last has rebelled. He has
been committing for 16 years and he
figured out the other day that he has
spent a year on the trains. He has
moved in a hotel next door to his
Office and he has so much time on
his hands that in two weeks time he
has doubled his salary.
1t is figured that there are 200 per-
sons in New York who live in Phila-
delphia but have their business Of
| fees in Gotham. They commute daily
which shows to what lengths people
will go to live in Philadelphia or to
| work in New York.
| Another rebelling commuter is out
with the statement that he had never
been in a New York theater in all the
20 years he lived there. The COM
muting life is strange one but there
is no accounting for tastes.