The Washington herald., 1919-12-12
NEW YORK CITY
By o. o. McINTYRE

New York, Dec. 11-Thoughts while
strolling around Manhattan; Couldn't
see that any place but New York.
Man in a high silk hat rowing, boat
In Central Park lake. Bert Williams
Horseback. Say. he's worth a quarter
of a million. Whadda you know
about that? Tattooing parlor on
Fifth avenue. I'd like to tattoo q
millionaire.
Hope no one sends me a cocktail or
highball set this year. See they are
advertised one-half price. Town full
of nouveau richie. Story going the
rounds about a woman buying a dla-
mond necklace in Tiffany's. Paid for
II in cash with ten one Thousand dol
lar bills and put It around her neck.
Clerk told her New York women
didn't wear diamonds In the daytime.
They wore pearls. She said to show
her some pearls and she bought a
$15. 900 strand.
Lot OF parlor Bolsheviki fear the
Lusk committee. Hear a couple OF
society leaders and a noted reformer
have been CORRESPONDING with Lenine.
One thing Lenine and 1 have in COM
mon. We like silk shirts. There's
William Raymond Sill, Lew Fields
major domo. He comes from st. Jo.
Mo. women's shoe buckles on dis
play 800 a set Think I'll turn here
for Broadway.
Hello! They're Frightening up the
owls on the Herald Building. Tony
Sarg with one Of those fore and aft
caps like the travellers used to wear.
George Wortz and Herb Roth going
to China for q year. Pretty soft.
Everybody else going to Havana
where there's rum.
More people than ever on Broad
way since the bars closed. Actors.
actorines and chorus girls get all
dressed up and there's no place to 60
except the street. There's Sir Thomas
Upton. Got twinkling eyes. Great
crowds in the French pastry shops.
Think I'll have a couple OF eclaires
myself.
1t has just leaked back to the Rialto
that Gaby Deslys is not French but
a Bohemian and was once a servant
girl in Prague. The fair Gaby, she
with the charming ankles and whose
coquettish ways resulted in the fail
of a potentate. is in real life Hedviga
Nawratil Imagine trying to star
even a beauty with that name on
Broadway.
Back home folk are not the only
people to hang around the railroad
depot. Now a man who has studied
the question declares that at most
hours Of the day the New Workers in
the waiting rooms OF Manhattan's
two great terminals outpumber the
passengers.
They do not come to see the trains
come in or go out. Reverberating an
nouncements that the Philadelphia
express will leave on track II cause
no emotion among them. They Just
come to the depot waiting rooms be-
cause there is room. There is very
little room elsewhere in New York
New Workers nearly always make
appointments to meet people in depot
waiting rooms. They like these large.
warm marble halls. bigger than the
throne room of Cleopatra and mod
eled. indeed. in the case of the Penn
sylvania after the famous public
baths of ancient Rome.
Jazz Is dying a slow death. They
still play the jazz tunes in the cab
arets but just a few for those patrons
who cannot live without "shimmy-
ing" The new tunes are more like
the old-time songs. For instance. a
song called There's a Lot of Blue
Eyed Marys Down in Maryland" IL
one of the successful songs OF the
month. The shoulder-shakers do not
applaud anything but jazz tunes, but
the majority OF people are glad to
see the new type of sonG-or rather
the old type-come into popularity.