The Washington herald., 1919-10-12
CHORUS GIRL MARKET BOOMS:
$50 SPEAR BEARER Is IN SIGHT
The Merry-Merry Is at Last Coming Into Its
Own in Gotham - Other Sprghtly
Gossip of the Metropolis.

lowing statement in extremi. by a
shipping clerk who was asked by
the 1nquiring Reporter:
What would you do with the
time il you had only twenty-four
hours to live"
The answer came from James
Ecroyd. shipping clerk: 1T would
be an agonizing twenty-four hours
TO many. but I think could meet
II peacefully. Shelley was told he
! had but a short time TO live and
plucked rose and said: The dews
shall weep as they fall tonight for
thou must die Ne all must, as
peacefully as We can"
It's difficult to conceive a hap
pier death than this for a Bronx
bricklayer who mekes an especial
study OF Keats on field poetry and
the AnglO-S Saxon poets on the judg-
, nient day.
Personally I do not care whether
wartime prohibition is lifted or re-
mains clamped tight. But like most
folks I resented the statement by the
| anti-saloon head in New York that
/ drinking orgies of all kinds will fol-
low the termination of the wartime
act. man writing to the New York
World sums it up succinctly:
The statement is Enthusiastically
insolent. 1t constitutes an Indictment
! OF the American people. 1t charges
the whole people with a tendency TO
unbridled dissipation and indecent be-
havior.''
! Gotham film fans are anxiously
awaiting the first release of a Young
I film star who was found PLAYING on
the streets on the East Side. Accord
ing TO the press stories she has "the
tragic eyes of Nazimova. the coyness
! of Mary Pickford and the beauty OF
Mary Miles Minter," which ought ia
! b" enough for an East Side girl to
+ get by on.
/ The girl was found by a director ol
ne Roma1New York Pictures Corpo-
ration and was sent TO Italy to appear
: IN a play especially written for her
, Her father was a push-cart peddlel
and accompanied her abroad.
/ The book of the week in New York
seems. taking the viewpoint Of the
critics. to be THE Yankee in the
British Zone" which is another tri.
umph for the newsps perman as a wal
hook producer. The book was written
by Even c. MacVeigh and Lee n
Brown. editor of Peoples
! 1t is keen analysis Of the way the
Yankee acquitted himself in Britain
and gives an insight into the great
friendships that were welded there.
Says the book: ITO watch the Brit.
ish and American officers covertly
studying each other was in itself ar
interesting study. From pre-war i'm.
/ pressions we were resigned to the
prospect of finding English officers
cold and reserved. And they would
not have been surprised to find Amer.
cans satisfied that they knew the en-.
tire game of war as it should be
played.
Somewhat timidly. members Of the
two groups began inviting each other
TO mess. or to tea, with which the
, British broke the monotony of every
day that bid fair TO be monotonous.
| THE little social overtures proved a
quick success, doubtless to the surprise
of both groups concerned. The truth
was that each found the other a great
deal more like itself than 1t had
ever suspected. The Britisher was
not like the mental picture that mosr
of us had formed from impressions
contributed by the stage, fiction
movies and after-dinner Jokes. MOI
did he appear to find the American in
khaki very like the mental picture
formed from similar sources and from
some Of the pre-war tourists bragga.
docio."
| The book abounds with amusing
sidelignts, striking characterizat tions
ind wholesome philosophy. Londor
newspapers pronounce 1t one of the
best books of the war.