The Washington herald., 1919-03-11

New York, March 1o.-John Gals
worthy, the English novelist. came all
the way to America to attend the
James Russell Lowell centenary celc-
oration and since that time he has
been the most widely dinnered guest
New York has had in years.
The Fifth avenue clubs, the serious
thinkers Of the village, the sturdy lit
erury clubs of the West Side. the the
atrical clubs of every description, all
have paid him homage. Galsworthy
has the physique of the stevedore and
the profile OF a Greek god. And he
smokes cigarettes almost necessarily.
At one of the dinners In his honor
a Vachei Lindsey poem was read by q
British army officer who spoke OF
Illinois as 'Illanwahs." and Stephen
Leacock, the Canadian humorist, who
followed, made one of the funniest adj
dresses New York has ever heard.
Galsworthy has spent much time
down in Park Row. He Is intensely
interested In our American newspa-
pers. The first page ''moidahs," the
Little Lessons on How to Hate Your
Husband and Beatrice Fairfax's
advice to Young g-Girls-to-Beware-of-
Fiends-inHuman Form and the
general conglomerate of shrieks and
salaciousness that make up the more
saffron press tickles the Englishman
nightly.
Most English newspapers are pedan-
tic prints for pallid pundlts. and con-
sequently the vilire type OF red-inl.rd
journalism appeals to the Brltisher's S
Imagination. The posed photographs,
showing how modest young maideus
may jiu-jitsu white slavers, and SYM
pathetic sob sisters interviews with
refined young common law wives who
have pistoled the wretch who ruined
their lives as soon as they realized the
horror of their position, when his
money gave out (full stop for BREATH
well. these things are not done on
the other side-y'know. really!
| Galsworthy is by no means a snob.
He has eaten IN several of the sheri-
dan Square ,garrets with struggling
authors. He has strolled over the
East Side and scanned the fire escapes
with its balloon-lke bedding, and he
has talked to the submerged tenth
and learned many things.
! Frank Mcintyre, the best comedian
that ever came from Ann ATbor.
Mich. has written popular song II
Is a tear jerking tune with a lugubri-
Gus Tilt, and already II is being sung
in cafes and bars until the places are
flooded with tears. The title is: How
Are You Going to Wet Your Whistle
When the Whole Darn World Goes
Dry?" The song has been published
by a big publisher. Percy Wenrich
helped Mcintyre over the rough spots
with the song.
Not since Pericles appeared at the
Athens city hall in a neat-itting HI
nation to argue before the Board OF
Estimate for larger appropriation
for the municipal works department.
have the clothiers been up against
such a lot of little problems as they
| face today. The abrupt skidding OF
the war left the tailors with too much
cloth and customers with skinny
forms that they wanted tightly
clothed. The wearing of puttees and
/ ieggings has created, a trim-at-tNs-
shin feeling that most of the New
Workers have shown a desire to con-
unue. Then there Is the trim waist
line that army men have. They are
proud OF it and want to show It of.
The tailors want to make loose-fittinp
coats
The managing director of the big
Terrace Garden dancing palace has
opened dog-checking room for pa.
irons. 1t is in charge of a young
woman named Ina Barker.