The Washington herald., 1919-01-13

New York, Jan. 12-As Samuel
Pepys might record in his diary: The
clouds heavy. l donned my tweed cap
and with my pipe, we'll lit, and dog
l walked far across the town and
through the poor districts of Avenue
A, the people being not yet astir. In
side street came upon a tiger
stone in a shoppe window and made
brave to enter. but the chapman. a
surly fellow. fell to angry words at
my questioning and in pet / flung
myself out of his shoppe.
Meeting with Jean Knott, the lin
ner, and n friend of his, we did go
TO taverne under the ground for
breakfast and most excellent carv-
ing OF bacon and cooked eggs and
thence home. where I find Mis-. Edna
Ferber has come to town for the holi-
DAYS. At noon the rain fell heavy and
a bad leak spoiled u ceiling so it
must be all new whited, which will
be laying out unexpected.
Comes news that Weber and Fields,
the comick players, are to 60 to
London on the morrow to go on the
stage and l wonder how their buff
1oonery Will be received, Up and
down the streets Is cried nightly. 1
near, the plight OF many returning
courtiers who cannot get their old
places back, which seems bad judg-
ment
All the afternoon puttering about
the house. and in an old closet came
, across a group photograph of my old
newspaper associates and they are
scattered to the four corners of the
earth, one being in Alaska and an
other in Bombay. and so on, and we
vowed to keep in touch but never
have.
rms day l received a post from c.
u Norris. the editor in London. who
writes entertainingly of things there.
IN the evening, with my wife, poor
wretch, to see "LiGhtnin.'" a plav
well writ and well acted, and then
nome by omnibus and fell to reading
late and so to bed.
Nora Bayes. now has a theatcr
named after her in Forty-fourth
street. She is playing there herself,
entertaining crowds nightly with
her song repertoire. She has only
one set of scenery and such is the
power OF her personality that she
coulu probably do without any
whatsoever. Nora Bayes is by no
means a stage beauty. but she has
yep ana personality. She never tires
ana as long as the audience an
plauds she will sing. with the eT-
ceptl"n OF Al Jolson do nor he
lieve there is a person on the sta.
VINO works so hard as Miss Baycs,
, only few years ago she was an
obscure chorus girl.
Even the minor New York n,sts
oesin to feel the impulse of the time
toward organization. Ten of them
got together in church the Other
day' and after a sermon by the
rector on poetry, the ten read their
own poems to each other. 1t is re-
Hhlhdlul OF one of the religious or
carnations reported by Mark Twain.
uuI ing MS travels in India, where
ne iound a sect consisting OF one
H''hS goa and single worshipper
neat ana compact system. There
Is another story about a poet c.oirr,
the rounds. Charles 1. Edison sod
poem to a magazine about two
years ago. He dropped in the othrr
udN ana learned that it had NOT hcr,
printed. He bought it back for hair
the price that was paid him He
nad no particular use for il "T
merely wanted" he said 10 no - =
only poet in the world who bougbt
oack one of his own poems after r.
celVing real money for it" Whom
ever Edison wants any extra money
ne makes round of the magazin >
ShoPs and writes poetry on ord.r
rlght IN the shop and stops at thc
caShier's with his money order on
the way out.