The Washington herald., 1919-03-24

New York, March 23.-A page
from the diary of modern Samuel
Pepys: Lay late, the wind blowing
with great force and the cookmaid
not coming, so 1 fashioned a break
fast of cooked eggs and a skittle of
sausages, very noble. Came Mr..
Webster, the limner. to tell of his
new post and he recalled the days
we used to play high-jinks in the
same office; he being especially droll
in initiating an orchestra leader in
a playhouse by crawling out from
under a table. shutting an imag-
mary door and tapping the baton
for attention.
Mr.. Faulkner in on his way to
of a man we both know who is
reckoned a great man here in the
! city and that he hath three man
servants from Japan and rare tap
estries and a writing room draped
with velvet curtains and startling
japan silk robes and yet he owes
us both moneys. And so 1t goes al
belt II is pretty to see what money
will do.
News comes that Miss Rambeau,
the play actress, has taken a new
husband. Down through the town
by omnibus and r. Irwin to lunch.
and there came five other gentlemen
and 1 ate only a dish of frozen cows
cream and they made brave to
match Shillings for the entire bill
and I like a dolt fell in and paid q
reckoning of more than a pound
with poor grace.
Home where / read some letters
of Mr.. Riley and Bill Nye in Har-
per's. and laughed until 1 was weak.
My dog acting strange gives me the
belief he is again with fleas. In the
evening came Lawrence Dorsey. the
play actor, and he told me much OF
the late King Edward and OF his
| favorite wire haired fox terrier
| Caesar. And so to bed.
The most embarrassed man / ever
| saw in my life was leading a camel
| up broadway the other afternoon
about 5 o'clock. Atop the camel
was a veiled young lady in a COM
bination costume from Sixth avenue
and the Far East. The camel car
| ried signs on its sides advertising
/ one OF those wild beauty contest
| balls that are characterizing the
| final burst of speed before July l..
| The young man leading the camel
smoked a cigarette nervously, pull
ed his slouch hat far down over
his head. and had his coat collar
/ - NVV- I'll
and he was plainly in need OF an
overcoat. What struck one most
was the fact that the young man
was altogether out of the picture.
He was used to higher things than
being valet to a camel He feared
he would be recognized. Just a few
lines of dissipation had marked a
well chiseled face. Had Broadway
got him? Or was he only tempo
rarily down on his luck? At any
rate he was willing to work no
matter how lowly the job. It was
remipdful of an evening / dropped
into a cabaret with Fred c. Kelly.
the Washington wit. One number
showed a young man in evening
| clothes holding reins in one hand
and a white kid whip in the other.
driving two pretty little show girls
around the stage while they sang.
Imagine that young mans posi-
ton" said Kelly. when he goes
back home and folks say. Well
| Charlie, what are you doing in New
York; Charlie will give a nervous
laugh and say. %. of evenings I
have a whip and I drive some girls
around a restaurant"
Miss Gloria Gould made a public
appearance before a distinguished
audience at Carnegie Hall the other
night She is the youngest daugh-
ter Of Mr.. and Mrs. George Gould.
| She appeared in an Interpretation
/ of Springs Awakening" She is a
pupil Of the great Chalif. and danced
! 70 celebrate his twenty-ffth year
as a teacher. Chalif came from
| Russia twenty-five years ago with
| IS rubles in his pocket. Today he
owns a ten-story studio building
devoted entirely to dancing He has
been a vigorous foe OF suggestive
dancing such as came into vogue
shortly before the world war