The Washington herald., 1919-02-01


Special Correspondent Of The Washington Herald.
Special Correspondent of The Washington Herald.
New York, Jan 3l.-The gossip of
the drawing rooms. cafes, grills and
I lobbies concerns New Yorks newest
''million-heiress." She is Miss Alice
Antoinette de Lamar, the Paris-born
daughter OF the late Capt. de Lamar.
mining magnate and heiress to his
vast fortune, town and country man
sions filed with treasures.
| Miss de Lamar is %, and her father
left her $lO,0Oo,00o aside from the
many millions he had given her dur
| ing his life. No other young girl In
America ever had so much money
lavished on her-and, well as New
York is the place to spend money,
the gossipers are curious as to just
what will happen to the young
heiress.
| Until she made her debut at an
elaborate dance at Sherry's three
years ago, the world didn't know
much about this girl. The first act
| OF Miss de Lamar after her fathers
death was to desert the massive De
Lamar mansion, which stands heavily
on the corner of Madison avenue and
| Thirty-seventh street, and betake
herself to an apartment.
Not a change inspired by thrift
She is moving into an eighteen-room
apartment on Park avenue, in the
great new establishment called the
| largest of its kind in the world. Her
summer home will be Pembroke. the
De Lamar country home at Glen Cove
and one of the show places of Long
Island
The girl was the bright and shin
/ ing jewel in the life of her grim
mysterious and eccentric father, who
was Lord of International Nickel and
other stupenIOus properties. lie
/ showed her a side of his nature which
| he hid from the world. He built
houses and filled them with treasures
for her and he always desired her to
| be waiting for him in that setting.
| Imported maids and governesses
were the companions of one side Of
her life: but until the day he died
| her father was her pal. Still, her
| friends hint, there was a lonesome
ache in her heart for the beautiful
mother from whom she was separated
before she was years old, and
who has been living in Paris all these
years.
! Miss de Lamar is pretty. but not
strikinFly so She has not the airs
of her millions. She might be passed
in q crowd and never he noticed. uu-
less one looked for a demurc and
rather pcnsivc girl
: Down in Mulberry street. the little
Italy of the downtown East Side. lives
I Silvio Romano the barber who is the
musical authority for the neighbor-
I TH..V, h. 10 H.
toners he is sitting out front playing
his guitar and singing the most select
arias. Young students who go to learn
from the great masters uptown seek
the advice of Romano in their musical
careers. His little shop IS in the midst
of the busiest section. Young men
walk up and down the sidewalk. call
ing to each other; the pastry shops,
wine shops and cafes are always full
of people talking about everything and
the barber shops are, as they have
always been. the centers of art, litera-
ture and politics
| New York's theatrical reviewers
/ have had a habit lately of picking on
titles OF plays. All the reviewers
| picked on the title of Listen, Les
/ ter" because it had no connection
with the spirited action of the play
/ They said nothing about Dear Bru-
tus." the Barrie play. Listen. Les
| ter" has a hero named Lester. but
Dear Brutus" did not have "Bru-
tus." Another play with horrendous
name is The Riddle Woman" Most
all of the critics agreed that THE
/ Crowded Hour" was a corkinc title,
/ hut hooted at BE Calm, Camilla" A
group of critics were Iunching after
! n first night at a Broadway cafe. and
a discussion came up of the most
striking title in the past ten years.
/ Nearly all agreed that Eugene Wal
ter's Paid in Full was the most
descriptive and most striking of all
The next was Walters play. THE
Knife" which did very little slashinS
along Broadway.