The Washington herald., 1919-05-02


while taxi-cabbing through the
after-theater hour traffic: A
debonair figure is Otis Skinner.
Suppose he is hurrying to the
Claridge. All the stars seem to go
there for a night supper. Always
wears sulphur colored gloves and
a, Tower in his buttonhole. Jim
Corbett in front of the Fitzgerald
l'uilding as usual. Not as hand
some as he was ten years ago.
Took twenty minutes to go a half
block. Always see bedraggled look
ing women budding in the shadow OF
the Times Building late at night. Sug-
gests melodrama. Expect to hear a
shot and a scream. Like that hum OF
cheery sound from the sidewalk. Say
what you will. Broadway is a rare
street. Twinkles with lights like a
fairyland.
Right there was where the gambler.
Rosenthal, was pistoled. Pearl White
In her purple car. Louis Sherwin
calls movie fans liens addicts." Six
little photograph while you walt
shops in a block. This chauffeur takes
more chances than Steve Brodie ever
did
| Why do I always think of that in
crowds. Never fail. The suffragette
at EPSON who lost her life throwing
the kings horse. Psychology could
tell me perhaps. Look at the crowds
trying to break into the cabarets
Hear highball is sl.25 in some of the
gilt places. Top price.
! IL this beetle-browed fat-head gives
this taxi another jerk I'm not going
to tip him. Vera Michelana going
| hnr1a III
pire. 1 hear. There's Pierpont Nor
gans car Been to the opera. | sup
pose. Pretty fat, I'll say. Wonder
if he's ever been in a dairy lunch?
Eunny | never saw a Pittsburgh
millionaire jazzing around Broadway.
Wonder how that fallacy started Ned
Wayburn at the Winter Garden curb.
Just put show on in Paris. Hear
chorus girls despise him more than
any man on Broadway. Maybe it's
because he knows his business. Co
lumbus Circle Childs' packed. New
might life rendezvous. Thank heav-
ems! In the park at last without los
ing limb. Guess l better give him
a dime at that.
| group OF smudgy-faced youngsters
were playing marbles near the garden
wall on the west side of Central Park
Coming north was DISTINGUISHED
silk-hatted aristocrat with the most
magnificent gray whiskers | ever saw
They were parted in the middle. each
frond in place. A huge black ribbon
held horn trimmed nose glasses. His
vest was piped in white. a carnation
in his lapel and his cane gold topped
Scarcely anyone happened to he near
He stopped for a few seconds tC
watch the marble game. Finally one
brazen youngster said: Want to play
Mister" He looked all around, then
bent his knee and taking a marble
shot 1t across the ring. Then he got
up quickly. blushed and hurried or
northward.
| Should the 30 per cent beer become
a national beverage. there IS little en-.
couragemcnt for the New York topper
who sees in il a semi-surcease from
absolute prohibition. According to an
expert in New York evening news.
paper the 30 per cent beer canno,
make man drunk. The expert de-
clares that the human stomach can.
not hold enough of beer of this per.
centaSe to give what the topper classi.
fies as the kick" The corner saloon
evil will thus become relegated to the
limbo of forgotten things. The new
type of saloon. if there is to be any
so the predictions are. will be like the
old fashioned beer gardens with mu.
sical concerts nightly.
The police are to war on the rubber
neck wagons. The ballyhoos stand al
the entrance of side streets and ac.
cost the wayfarer through mega.
phone to come. throw dull care away
and see the sights O. Chinatown. Ir
some instances they are not satisfied
with yelling in the ears of passersby
but actually grab them and try tC
force them to see the opium den hor.
rors.