The Washington herald., 1919-05-27


New York. May IA quarter Of q
million people daily give to New York
the warmth. color and romance Of old
Spain and her children countries. In
deed. New York's Latin colonies form
the most picturesque touch 10 tie
metropolitan existence.
One finds a BIT of lisht-hearted An
dalusia has foated as thistledown on a
May breeze into New York. a note
of golden-throated Catalonia, a frag-
ment of a crimson waistcoat from
Galicia- a memory of old songs of
Seville. Spain has sent US mission
aries of her warmth. her color and
romance in a growing colony.
The New Yorker finds them in smil-
ing, uark-complexioned groups, all
about the city. Over in Central PARK
I they are casting mus to squirrels.
They Congregate IN and about the
Hispanic Museum and the contiSu-
Gus green squares on fete days. They
give hearty-handed and soft-voiced
applause at the theaters and operas.
Indeed. so great is their love for ro-
nance that a series of Spanish plays
and operas are now running In New
York.
In the cafes nightly they swarm.
All are splendid dancers. Indeed.
most of our artistic dances of Broad
way come from the Latin Americans.
The best professional dancers of the
pre-war period were Mexican. Cuban,
Central and South American. They
always dress for dinner-the men in
dinner jackets. and the women in col
orful evening gowns. The men. with
their straight. jet black hair. highly
brilliantined. present n striking touch
to the cafe life. Both men and
women smoke cigarettes.
Their drink is confined to the light
wines and beer. and always with food.
The police records show that among
the Latin colonies drunkenness is an
almost unknown vice.
The Spanish-speaking residents have
/ their daily newspaper. La Prensa.
and their magazine. La Revista del
, Mundo. There are local editors or
other magazines and a representa-
tive of the Mexican newspaper, En-
celsior. There are Spanish editions
I of certain OF the magazines. The Sun
has Latin-American page each Mon
day.
There are many Spanish restau-
rants. Perhaps the one most patron
| ICED by the Spanish is Angeles. on
Pearl street near Maiden lane. Then
there is La Luz. a Spanish club on
LenoX avenue. and in West Four
teenth street there is a Spanish
church.
The end of the war has brought
a return of that peculiar species
rsf T~l,-
ny. During the war there was less
! than one Johnny to a theater alley
This species of niGht-blooming ce-
reus was about played out. But
with ten musical comedies stretched
along Broadway. each with its
stage door. the Johnny has his
choice of the greatest variety of
feminine puIchritude in captivity.
| The Stage Managers Association
Classifles a Johnny as a simp with
a one-cylinder head and an eight
cylinder car. He is the type who
wears out more silk pajamas than
regular Clothcs-because ne sleeps
all day and frOlics all night. His
idea of life is to live part OF the
time in luury and the rest of the
time in the fond hope that somc-
time he may be able to deliver an
entire chorus to its several homes,
, and thereafter smoke a cigarette
and call il a perfect day. Several
/ fights have resulted from the John
ny getting too fresh. The ponce
are beginning to tell them 10 run
along: that the night air i bad
Tor them and they always exit
good naturedly.
They say that Diana on top of
the Madison Square Garden is 10
come down. Diana has seen much OF
the fast life of the city. including
celebrated murder. As a certain
poet wrote of her:
There's Diana on the Tower.
She don't mind when il stars to
shower
She amt got no clothes to spoil
My, amt she lucky goil?