The Washington herald., 1919-09-26
NEW YORK CITY
By o. o. MCINTYRE

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New York. Sept. 3.-Thoughts while
strolling around Manhattan: Pink
checked fellow with blonde, curly hail.
and cherubic face Is a famous white
slave agent Been in prison three
times. Looks so angelic. There's
Caruso's son. He Is jszzed up in Broad
way clothes all ready. Hope Enrico
makes him lay of those one-button
coats. Another Danish pastry shop.
\ great season for pie and cake-and
what the guests bring with them.
Partisan looking girl with deftly
shadowed eyes. Eyebrows are shaved.
The henna touch to her hair. or all
things! Dress ends just below her
knees. Some people would stick around
for breeze. l won't Golden quill
pens for sale. Never saw anybody
write with them, except on the stage
and in the movies. And how quickly
they write note on the stage or
screen. Zip. and it's done.
ChaDning Pollock with bang-up liter
airy looking glasses. Wonder how you
pronounce pince-nez? A good line he
pulled. Rushed into the Authors
League breathless. Shouted: my
Heavens, the tattooers are on striker
Wish somebody would give me a good
collar for my dog. Engraved and
everything
Tough looking customer with 4 blue
black beard and wearing an undershirt.
Nobody wears only an undershirt In
New York but ice wagon drivers. Back
home We used to put on u clean one
for Sunday and be dressed up. Little
Frances White in a gray racer. Got
the smallest foot in the world. they
Z L.
Rock. Too bad. Still it's none OF my
business.
I A lot of pretty girls serving the
orange juice drinks now. Ought to
draw better than red-headed boys. See
there is an Egyptian princess In town.
New York falls for that stuff like n
load OF bricks. Hello, West Forty
sixth street. Most interesting block in
town. Between Broadway and Eighth
, avenue. Table d'hotes. Magic shops
Theatrical boarding houses. Chop suey
joints. Dime museums. Vaudeville
Actors Clubhouse. Think I'll live down
here.
He wore English tweeds. n jaunty
cap and across his shoulders a .strap
and below. a la racing. a leather case
of the large field-glass type. On his
arm was a young lady quite easy to
look at. And they entered one of the
smartest cafes on Fifth avenue. He
carried the leather case so carefully
/ that one might well think it contained
the Kohinoor. Inside they were seated.
And then the clever bit OF camoufiag-
ing was explained. In the case were
two bottles. A New York firm makes
them in this way. and the sale of
fhapn 10
have to have tweeds to go with them
And that reminds me-a friend Of Tad
Dorgan's was going to England. At
farewell party. Tad asked his friend
to bring him some tweeds-and then
added. "If not tweeds. at least a
tweed
! The phrase. "Giving the raspberry" {"
was coined on Broadway. And George
NJ. Cohan made il part of the Eng
lish language by declaring that the
actors on strike did that to him. 1t
is the theatrical idea OF sabotage in
! the strike. The phrase has finally
broken into print. even into the staid
old Evening Post. where editors come
to work IN frock coats When George
Bernard Shay used bloody" in its
slang sense in a play. the audience
! felt that all was over with the Eng
lish language. and when George NJ.
Cohan commented bitterly upon the
raspberry" il assumed genuine i'm
portance in the strike news. and all
, the copy readers agreed to let it pass.
In London theaters the raspberry"
! has a synonym. The bird" Every
now and then the expression IL heard
in connection with raw deals. Thomas
Hardy unwittingly gave the phrase a
lietrary standing when he wrote his
poem, "A Gagged Goldfnch." and had
these lines, THE grave to be her false
ones. who when wooing gave her the
bird"