The Washington herald., 1919-04-05

! New York, April 6.-Thero Is q Wild
gallop by hardened Broadwayites
every night to be the first to como
and the last to leave in Broadway
cafes. All the world seems to be
drifting through the cafes nightly.
Head walters are being slipped fifteen
lovely dollars for q single table seat
South America, France. and Eng
land are well represented. Tall state
fy men with funny looking boards,
swarthy ladies in tight fitting black
gowns and swapping eyes, dapper lit
tie Frenchmen with corset fitting
coasts. penciled mustaches, and lacka-
daisicsl Englishmen with dropping
mustaches and monocled eyes are to
be seen in every cafe.
| Super jazz music is in demand Jim
Europe and his negro jazzers, Just
back from Europe, have been offered
81. 900 a night for one cafe-but they
are booked to go on tour. The Czecho-
Slovak Orchestra is one Of the Jazz
features. They play weird. syncopat-
ing strains at high speed. and ao-
centuate with full stops.
The latest Broadway ditties, so the
leader Of the Black and White Or
chestra in Jazzland tells me, are:
Dixie" "Aloma." and BLUE Eyed.
Blond Haired. Heart Breaking Baby
Doll''-the latter a vampire creation
that is a riot with the shimmy shak-
ers.
There are very few new dancing
steps. The shtmuly- h-wah is
danced where the proprieties are OBJ
served by the dancers, but the one
step and fox-trot still lead in popu-
larity
Those who are not dancing on
Broadway are hunting out the odd
little places of the beaten path. A
rotisserie on sixth overue where ~ ~
cook milk fed chicken on spits be-
fore a great open fze Is the haven
for many OF the theatrical folk Many
rotisseries have bid for Broadway
favor but have been forced to give
up In a few months.
ke's Coffee Shop Is another rem
devious for vaudeville folk away over
near the North River in the Forties.
It is a dingy little dump OF a place.
Ike Is an Armenian and the word
got out that he used to be the Sui an
of Turkeys chief coffee maker. The
crowds came. AS a matter OF fact,
Ike never saw the Sultan.
David Graham Phillips last novel
| THE Rise and Fall OF Susan Len
nox," is to be dramatized and Is TO
be called Susan Lennox." The press
agent, 1t Is reported, is already fgur-
ing out how he can get some s0ci tv
to ask for it's suppression. That is
the way to make a play have nice
long life on Broadway. Witness
"Tigerl Tiger!'-a mediocre play and
yet the effort to suppress II has made
II one of the best known and best at
tended plays in town.
This Is the season Of the year when
Hughey Fullerton begins to tell who
will win the pennant next fall. Over
| in Central Park a couple OF robins
frightened up the day for a couple
OF street cleaners. The chestnut ven
ders are appearing with a new lire
Of merchandise-violets.
Spring seems to be about here Harry
Stevens. frankfurter megnate at the
! Polo Grounds, has announced that he
has hot dogs" trained 10 follow
famished customers at Conev. II Is
called the Stevens Fireless Frank
furt Cooker. 1t receives them red
hot and delivers them red hot to any
part OF the Polo Grounds, Coney Is
| land or Mpdison Square Garden.
with the further development Of the
Stevens Fireless Cooker, T. is to be
hoped they will be controlled by wire
less from a central station. Harry
Stevens, by the way,&is tha nan who
controls the sandwich ard lemonade
concessions at all of the big places of
amusement in New York. He is a
millionaire