The Washington herald., 1919-08-17
STAGE FOLK CAY
DESPITE STRIKE
Broadway Greets Artists In
Carnival Spirit Booze
- Protected.

New York. Aug IA little Broad
way squab. attached to a closed musi-
cal show, stood in Times Square the
other day watching the striking ac-
tors. and with a sigh turned to her
companion with: Cert. II this strike
keeps up don't know where my next
limousine is coming from"
"A new White Way resulted from the
strike. The famous lane, without
booze. was becoming a bit hectic
Laughing Water. the Broadwayesque
Hiawatha. at least made the street a
street OF song, laughter, wine, beauty,
color and life-aIway5 life. But with
out Laughing Water tho heart Of
Broadway was palpitating feebly. the
Iisht was growing dim, the fires burn
ing low.
And then all Of those dashing-look-
ing actors and gowned act
resses began to parade the pave, Gee.
II has been grand, Stars that rolled
to work in limoUsines and walked to
the stage entrance on a path OF tan
bark rubbed elbows with clerks. push
cart peddlers, noney-bags and all the
rIf-rafr that collects in the Tenderloin.
Broadvay's spirit has become the
spirit Of the carnival The camaderie
Is as free as the air. Men standing
at the curb suddenly find themselves
talking to some beauty that gets 1900
or so a week. The stage folk are
plainly CourtinS the public sympathy.
Forty-ffth street, between Broad
way and Sixth avenue. is the scene OF
the actors strike headquarters. We
hicular traffic has been barred, so
ETrnnrr q
policemen keep the actors and act
resses exiting laUGhinSly' when they
choke the two narrow lanes at either
side Of the street
The sidewalks are the galleries
where Gus from the Bronx brings mis-
WiHs and three kids to watch the
''swells OF the fOOtlghts-" Speeches
are made from soa ap-boxes.
Are the actors downhearted? They
are not The actor always turns his
face toward the light. He is the super
Cptimist His pommaded head is most
generally in the clouds. The spirit OF
POlIyana is the spirit Of the stage
folk, and New York loves them for it.
The Rialto has become an exClama-
ton point, Nothing but cheers. The
actor folk bulge Cheerfully out into
the streets. We are bound to win"
they say.
Have you a little vault in your
home2 That Is the question New
Workers ask their friends. For II
they have-no little vault how are
they going to keep the private stock
OF liquor safe?
The answer to this question is
now being constructed in many
homes Of great wealth in Gotham
and suburbs. II applies particular
l- 10 big country estates in West
cTester and on Long Island and so
On.
In previous years the owners OF
these demesnes have improved their
places with Italian gardens. The
switch has been thrown now to-
ward French wine cellars.
These are '-'sIIent urIDroyements."
30 TO speak, because the proprietors
say little bout them. except TO
chetr close friends.
The vaults arc efficient affairs.
constituted or steel "ue agent for
a n-ht structural .t.a1 concern is
r0nkrr= Crdo-s rapidly nogea bout-.
If you see loads Of stone anI
crUent-lOr foundation worE-an1
NJ fancy sheet steel being uaioaded
ar any EentIeman-s country place
about nOw-wel. You know.
SoIk who take their daily con-
sttutional around the central Park
reservoir will mis-, the clipper little
bIrd-like figure Of Andrew Carnegie.
The steel king with his cape coat
and heavy walking stick and ac-
oOmpanied by a nurse made the
reservoir trip twice daily except in
heavy weather. He never failed to
bow pleasantly to those who recog-
rfzed and bowed to him. I saw nm
"A couple Of years ago holding =
long conservation with a workman
who was repairing the iron fence
that skirts the reservoir. Great
old feIler." said the workman, after
Mr.. Carnegie had passed on. H
asked me all about my old woman
and the kids and made me promise
to interest the boys in good books"
Another genius passed on this
week with the demise of Rarpn
BlakelOck. the artist He was per
haps the greatest landscape artist
the world ever produced. He was
self-taught \ day after his death
was announced his art works dou-
bled IN price. Moonlight" will now
bring a fabulous fortune Blake
lock once tried to sell it for $50. but
failed.
Genius is proverbiaIIy sIighted.
hut in BiakelOCk's cases the cir
'umstancss were unusually tragic
The bodily torture he endured while
trying to paint and 60 hungry az
the same time so clouded his mind
that he never fully enjoyed his
celebrity Friends managed to get
him out Of an insane asylum for
short time before he died.