The Washington herald., 1919-10-31
NEW YORK CITY
By 0. o. MCINTYRE:

New York, Oct 3o.-Thoughts- while
stroliing around Manhattan: Slick
ruse! Auto trucks with poster: "Give
the cops more pay" Now they can
speed. Horrors! An Englishman
chewing gum. The Millionaire's Club
lighting up. Think III step in the
foyer. Feel like Mrs. Hogan at New
port. Wonder how much money a
millionaire carries with him.
! There's Fanchon, the famous model.
Gets $500 a week just for wearing
snappy clothes. Nobody knows her
last name. Said to come from SYRIA
cuse. George Cohan's daughter Georg-
ette. Just here from Paris. Frank L.
Packard down from Quebec" Cleaning
UP on THE Miracle Man"
Louise. the blind girl. praying on
the Cathedral steps. Goes there each
day at the vesperal hour. Old men
making toys 80 early for Christmas.
I'm going to lay of this Xmss stuff
this year. Say 1t every year and al
ways go broke.
/ There goes a prominent editor Once
told me he could never resist taking
soap and matches when he left a
hotel bedroom. I generally swipe sta
tionery myself. Why such thrift? And
I never worry about the hum OF a
taximeter
| Old-tme carriage with faded occu-
pant. Declasse! Still they won't give
up the evening ride. Probably half
starved. DIR. Erdmann. Gets for
tune for cutting you up.N Comes from
Chillicothe. Ohio. Wonder II there are
any flu germs flying AROUND here
Kinda silly to fear a little fit of n
thing too small to see.
Card in window of cafe: Germany
lost the war. Russia went Bolshevik
and the United States went dry" John
ID. Rockefeller's town house. Looks
gloomy. Sons place next door Big
gymnasium on the roof for the chill
dren. Getting too dark. I'm go ng
home.
: There is a strange fascination about
the old, wrinkle-faced pushcart ped
dlars OF the Ghetto. What lies behind
the stolid mask? Even a big sale will
not make them smile. Yet they are
polite and never complain. A hardy
race. Their oranges might be golden
dreams of yesteryears. The cruel years
have drawn deep lines Of cunning and
guile, but there Is also great patience
and a noble scorn for those who ieer
| in mockery at their strange garb and
customs. They sit on the stoops at
night. exhausted and silent. They work
apparently only that their Young ray
go to the fine schools. Education is
their watchword. They know that per-
haps the future generation. their chill
dren, will lift the gloomy mantle and
hail a new dawn.
The movie industry has n new voca-
tion-a sort OF super press agency job.
Only trained press agents are filling
these jobs. II Is called exploitation
work. The exploitation men are get
Ting 500 a week. and one is getting
$50. Their job is to fill movie house
And they work one week one place
and the next week another. Circus
like spectacular press agency and sd-
vertising are employed. Big banners.
parades. mystifying advertisements.
personal letters asking the recipient
to see a certain film and signed Your
Friend animals loose in the lobby.
etc. Those are the things that the
exploitation men believe fill movie
theaters, and they are paid for using
them.
Ted Lewis. the so-caIIed jag king.
came from Centerville, Ohio. He play
ed around in music stores until he
came to New York and got a job in
cabaret. He pours sour notes out OF
clarinet. and between beats juEGles
knocked-in plug hat. The newest jazz
artist In the Broadway cabaret places
is man with a laughing trombone.
People have to have something like
that along with their 2.75 Beer. or they
won't come out nights.