The Washington herald., 1919-02-04

| New York, Feb. 3.--The Lambs gave
dinner the other night IN their club
house in the Roaring Fortles to G"n.
Buck. Broadway fashion plate, picker
/ of Ziegfeld's chorus beauties. writer
| OF songs and Iibrettos and the man
who. next to Ziegfeld, made the Fol
/ lies shows and the Midnight Frol-
| les"
/ Gene Buck is the out-of-towner"s
| idea of a Broadwayite. He wears the
snappiest clothes. the silkiest shirts,
| the rainbowiest scarfs and the fuz-
ziest hats. When he stopped carry
! ing cnne-alI Broadway stopped and
three cane shops between Thirty
fourth and Fifty-ninth went into
| bankruptcy.
When Gene Buck lunches with Eirl
at the Knickerbocker-it is the picture
of real life of those smart drawings
YOU see in Vanity Fair of the New
Yorkish looking couple taking lunch.
His female companions are always
the jazziest looking on Broadway.
I have known Gene Buck for several
years. and my suspicious are that he
plays Broadway as II game, just as
the shrewd financier plays Wall street
Back OF it all believe Gene Buck is
Il . o'clock guy in l. o'clock town"
and that when he makes his big
stake he will shake the dust of Broad
way from his feet and retire to Il
country estate and play his favorite
game. checkers, with the boys at the
country store.
There is nothing fOppish about Buck
He does not breakfast at o'clock in
the afternoon on Scotch highball
He is generally up at a. M. and
probably has written a set of lyrics
by noon. and he has never taken =
drink He is also an athlete Of no
mean ability.
One hot night last August Gene
Buck appeared at the Lambs with
thirty wounded soldiers who had Just
returned from France. He led them
into the main restaurant, gave them
a hearty dinner. sent 70 a band and
then asked the actors and singers who
happened to be in tho club to enter
tain them. The following might Ee
repeated the perfOrmanC" with fifty
soldiers.
Since then WcEn"sday aud Sa:Lr-
day nights for wounded sOldiers nave
become a Lamb ''mb INSTITUTION. 1t
was always Gene Suck who wont to
the various deha .,ltiOn hospitals
gathered the woundcd sold crs 'D-ctr
~ and arrar.:nt other details IIC
tl:.O acted rs head waiter.
Others who waited on the tables
were William Farnum. DeWulf Hon
per, John J. MCGraw. David Warheld
Frank Mcintyre. Willie Collier. Rap
ley Holmes. King Baggot, William
Courtenay, and Thomas A. Wise.
, All of this !" Why 'r" Lambs gave
"a dinner to Gene Buck. Broadway
ite. the other ni..ht and the mo t
prominent men in New York paid
him homage. He came to New York
from Detroit and his first Job was
drawing cover pages for popul r
songs
There are times when | Tfnc for
the EOod Old days OF the dancing
teams of yester wear in vaudeville
You remember them. Of course. the
tall and short ones in plaid vests,
bamboo canes. silk hats. and spats
They came on the stage in step sing
ing "Whilc Strolling in the Garden
One Shmmcr Day in June" then they
would execute IL rata -tat-tat with
their clogs. Then there was the
Sister Dancing Act, and ne "sistcrs"
would whirl, then walk, and as they
would glide don toward the lights
one migh' whisper 10 the other:
Say. Sadie, wherc'I YOU get that
grease spot on your ti-hts." Now
the dancing acts are different. They
are either eccentric like Frisco with
his cigar or couple of ballroom
danCers who t"kc themselves seri-
ously, and only favor the audience
with an occasional smirk.
\ series OF murders and hold-ups,
the like OF hicH New Yo"k has
never seen before has been sweep
in- over the ci+y. There were ten
murders in thr"" lays u9d FIVE women
were assaulted il twcnty-four hours