The Washington herald., 1919-08-29
NEW YORK CITY
Day-By-Day
By o. O. MCINTYRE

New York. August 28.-Thoughts
while walking around Manhattan:
Andreas deSegurola wearing a mon
ocle. Takes nerve. to wear those
things. Natty fellow in the import
ed car made his pile out of orange
drink stands. Used to be a theater
usher. Savoy and Brennan, OF the
Follies, telling Jim Corbett a funny
story.
Bleary eyed woman with q weary
eyed dog. What a sight! Both
wrecks. Look like the front OF
Days theater. I hope they jail a
shoe proflteer and throw the key
away. Vaudeville actress has ev-
erything in the world on. Beads.
Little travelling bag. Reminds me
of Tim SuIivan's chowder.
Gene Buck. Broadway's snappiest
dresser. in a brown suit Comes
from Detroit. Ziegfeld's right hand
man. Brown seems to be the color.
Think I'll dig up the old brown hat.
There's Csnfield's old gambling
house. Next to Dear Old DeTs.
Used to see young men focking
there in evening clothes. Wore
white kid gloves to play poker.
That's putting on the dog, I'll say.
All the life's run out of this town.
| Only the rich can get a drink. Wish
| had just half million. I'd order
one hundred silk shirts and buy a
dog farm. There goes Dean Corn
| well. A coming artist. Wears a
mustache, distinctly visible on clear
days. Pelham Wodehouse with him.
! \ whimsical EnglIshman who is
golf mad.
Young curly haired Rollo with a
hoop. Prim nurse in black bonnet.
; Looks like she's going to d funeral.
BOY looks anaemc. Will develop
squirrel teeth and wear heavy con-
professor at u. Needs to play round
livery stable in a small town and
go swimming in the creek.
Tin Pan Alley. which used to be
( in Fourteenth street in the good Old
DAYS Of which Don Marquis writes
when the Battery was far uptown
and Bowling Green was In Yonkers"
seems to have settled permanently
now in the Forties. The din now
reaches LOngacre Square. Every
! little office has a dozen or so more
pianos all its own and they keep
them going from morn until night.
The other day Irving Berlin broke
away from his partners and started
new house all his own. New ones
: bloom OVerniGht-wither and die.
but some are century plants 2os-
sibly the most successful of all is
the house OF Leo Feist-wherc
Shrewd hard headed business men
, study song conditions before pub
fishing song. To this psychology
Is attributed the success Of cover
There, "By the Campfire" and Sand
Dunes"
To tnN men standing on the curb
stone OF Tin Fan Alley listening u
new world is born. He hears the
. ame1t OF a soul In anguish because
OF tn" booze that Is lost: the aspi-
/ ration 20 be a child again to milk
the COW and feed the hen: tender re-
minlsCences of the spoon-croon-
tonn-JoOn moon: expressions Of a
phflOe Ophy that recks not one whit
Of III" morrow and joyously admits
that brains are entirely remote from
things that satisfy the soul
There j. p telephone girl in the
lobby Of a Broadway hotel who has
HhoUt the toughest job in New
York. Thousands drift through the
foyer every day and many try to
tiirt " w.th hcr. while others ask silly
questions and still others come to
get telephone numbers. When she
returned from lunch tho other DAY
little printed card was hung over
hnr Switchboard II read: Dear
God. help me- TO mind my own busi-
ness"