The Washington herald., 1919-04-25

New York. April A.-Thoughts while
taking a MONDAY breakfast at the
Knickerbocker: Tall fellow wrote
The Missouri Waltz" Comes from
Oskaloosa. Iowa. But doesn't look II.
This waiter cannot grasp even the
simple Anglo-Saxon words. All they
seem to grasp Is a tip. Best mackerel
I've had in a year.
My head Is hitting only on one
cylinder today. I'll never go to an
other boxing match. Too much
smoke. Spiffy dress Fay BANTER Is
wearing. Wonder how much she
makes week? I must speak to Ed
die Dunn on the way out. He prom
ised me two seats to see Mrs. Fiske.
Hope the waiter brings me a lot
OF silver for change. Funny how men
like lot OF silver. Something fas-
cinating about 1t. Zoe Beckley has
new fur coat. Looks like Justine
Johnson. She was quite the rage
,, a year ago. Wonder what became
Of her Little Club?
believe that waiter fell down
stairs. Tad" the cartoonist. is put
ting on the feed-bag. Amazes me
the way he learned to draw with his
left hand after he lost fingers on his
right. Believe I'll start studying
French. What a blockhead I was
to learn German. I can collect more
useless information than anybody in
the world.
There's an old Herald man. Bennett
once fired him by cable and now he's
got a seat on the exchange. Wish
some editor had fired me when I was
young. David Belasco coming in.
Great producer. I'd like him better
II he'd tie a can to that trick col
lar arrangement.
No doubt the waiter has gone to
Boston after the oysters. There's a
hot one for Briggs. Wonder what
an oyster thinks about? He ard
Jay Darling have a new vaudeville
act. 1 hear. Just for their friends.
Jesse Lynch Williams seems pros-
porous. Ordering a fruit salad. Fun
ny how the old Sun crowd he worked
with landed big. Let's see: There's
E. w. Townsend. Wallace and Will
Irwin. Richard Harding Davis and
Julian Ralph. Here comes Stupid with
the bad news. I'll not give him over
10 per cent Still. he's got to live.
Might have n big family. Well. I'll
give him 80 cents. Yee-a-aa-h.
feel bit torpid.
The energetic press agent OF the
circus playing at Madison Square Gar
den gave a dinner the other evening
so that the freaRs Of the aggreca-
ton could meet the gentlemen of the
press. Just a. though the gentlemen
Of the press had never met enough
well, anyway. Zip, the What Is 1t.
was POSTMASTER. And one OF the
chief speakers was Clico, the wild AZ
rican bushman. Clico told of living
with the apes for years and how he
never felt at home unless he had a
chimpanzee around his cage. One of
the newspaper men present said he
recognized CLEO and that he used
to work in livery stable in his home
town in Minnesota.
At great gathering at the Palace
Theater, the super home Of vaude-
vile, when the war waged fiercely
promises were made by twenty of the
worlds most famous stage stars to
go across and entertain the men on
the battle fronts. There was a great
fan-fare of tI1lmpets. The next
morning all of them catapulted into
the first pages of the newspapers
Brave stuff. indeed. / have no desire
to speak slightingly OF their patriot
ism and there may have been rea-
sons why they did not go-such as
red tape. etc. But the fact remains
that only one out OF that organiza-
ton that held the great gathering
went across. That single exception
was Miss Margaret Mayo. who has
just returned. In the theaters these
days it has been noticed that the
highly paid stars are not paid much
hand-clapping applause by men in
uniform. But the lesser lights and
the second rate vaudeville folk are
cheered and whooped. The reason:
Nearly all Of the entertaining on the
other side was done by the lesser
lights. 1 might add that Elsie Janis
is another exception.