The Washington herald., 1918-12-05
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Special Correspondent Of The Washington Herald.
New York, Dec. 4.-1Ne Gay White
Way has come back with bang. Not
even a world war could suppress the
gay leviathan-that monster with
million eyes. Broadway Is as gay as
ever, the same throbbIng street from
one irridescent length TO the other.
The millions iof lights have popped
into action to cheer, tc dazzle or TO
scorch the wingless moths below
The syncopated blasts of the jazz
shows the Sleeping tango parlors
have awakened, the parlor cobras
are coming out of their long snooze
and young blades are breakfasting
again at p. m. The whirr of mid
night 'taxis, the sizzle of seltzer and
the tinkle of ice chunks against high
ball glasses prove that Broadway
soon, forgets a war.
The flapper, leading a lonely board
ing-house life may now be seen
every afternoon tripping along the
east side of Broadway between Forty
seventh and Forty-secord. She goes
to bed at dawn now and gets up
when the home edition OF the World
comes out.
The boys with the belted coats and
cute jokes are cOngregating again in
front of the Claridge. the Automat, and
the Astor. War plays are dying
quick death and musical comedies are
breaking out in evefy new place that
they can.
New whispers go up and down
Flash Alley. Old gossip is revived.
In a stroll from Herald to Times
square one hears that Nat Goodwin
Is going to take the sixth, that the
Shuberts have patched up their trOu
BILE and are speaking again. that
young Erlangef or young NJ. Klaw
will not produce on his own hook.
All of this is old stuff of the grills
and it died during the war for the
talk of uniforms and cantonments
and trenches.
Lotharios joke about the new Soviet
rule for Russian maidens. Wilson
Miner has sprung a new storv-all
of this is BroadwayesQue. Up at
Healy's there is new life, fresh spend
ers. and they say that Bustanoby is
to open a new night life cafe at Co
lumbus circle. Heartless Broadway is
throbbing with new vigor.
This is the story of the RiaIto.- 1t
lives of those OF the stage. Johnny
Dooley is a singing, dancing flap
jack humOrist of the variety houses.
His wife is Yvette Rugel Dooley and
his stage partner. They have lived
a mighty happy life together. free
from the petty jealousies that come
with stage careers. In a Western
city Yvette DOOley was stricken with
pneumonia. Johnny Dooley never
left her bedside. When the crisis
came he was told she could not live.
He took her up in his arms. half
shouting and half praying. You must
live. I will not let you die God
couldn't have let our little boy come
into the world as He did and then
want to take you away from him and
from me. You must live. There is a
God and He hears me" When day
broke the fever had dropped. Yvettc
DOOley lives and I saw them dining
together the other evening and he
never took-his eyes off of her all
during the meal
Seen around the town: King Bag
got buying chewing gum from a
street hawker. Alan Dale wearing a
fuzzy green hat. James J. Corbett
running to catch street car Marcus
LOew getting candy out of subway
slot machine. Al Woods sitting out
in front of his theater reading one
of the classics. A rich man entering
cabaret place and the manager i'm
mediately calling the "piffawmers"
from their dressing rooms. A French
ace watching the batter cake iugglers
al Childs. Charles NJ. SChwab talking
earnestly with a bus conductor on
Fifth avenue bus. Richard lie Gal
lienne coming out of movie palace
where Charlie Chaplin was the fea-
ture attraction. Marion Davies in a
$1,000 ChinChilla coat. A dancer at
jazz shop dropping a hypodermic
syringe accidentally from his pocket
\ striking waiter hooting Mattresses
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