The Washington herald., 1919-11-07
NEW YORK CITY
By o. o. McNTYRE

New York, Nov. 6.-Thoughts while
strolling around Manhattan: Hunters
of for the Maine woods! J.ike their
heavy shoes. Always smoke pipes.
Little Pietso singing while he sells
fruit in Herald Square. Jack Levy.
Broadway's promenadins diamond
merchant. Carries them in his pork-
ct. Rich. Oncc married to Della
Fox.
October blue dusk fails with mys-
like magical city Hour-fsr ro-
nance. Advcnturesses gather in he
hotel foyers. Polished crooks per-
fumed for dirty work. Flash of
sleek motors the tail lights g,ean-
ing red in the night. Believe I'll
write a mystery story
/ Actress leading n fnwn, Old stun
Gaby has the tazz ideh. She's Load
ing duke or something around.
Iiegfeld show girl. Lips like q scar
let smudge. Manicure girl pronounced
one of the six prettiest girls in
newspaper contest. She'll get a
movie offer.
Everybods wearing cards on their
bats reading: Wee on strike!"
Wish I gould organize. Guess every
body would be Slad IL I'd Quit. Two
well-dressed men carrying their own
trunks. Exprossmen on strike. BE-
bomber with searchlights circlin, :
Madison Square.
Walk down town tires me Getting
old. Wish could get hold Of a
good monkey gland. There's Fannie
Hurst! Knows how to sling LAM
guage. Women passing flask
Fnlfnd in lipnpttSina ho ot1i
ris In an autumnal brown. Yellow
hat. Black ascot tie. En- reSle!
Pen store has q cartoonist draw
news events as received by direct
wire. Some idea! Heavy short
necked man is burglar. Has n rec
ord. Headquarters man told me he
comes from fine, family. Wonder
what porch climber thinks about
while at work. Getting too dark
now. I'll turn back. Here comes a
bus. I'll ride upstairs.
The Cheese Club Is to move into
the home Of the National Vaudeville
artists in Forty-ninth street. Just
west of Rroadway The clubhouse
Is ono of the most modern ip~Amer-
lea. The Cheese Club is composed
Of the mon who write vaudeville re-
views and motion picture criticisms
for the daily newspapers and trade
papers. The Cheese Club had been
meeting daily in the restaurant of a
Broadway hotel. 1t is the intention
OF the Cheese Club to build their own
clubhouse shortly.
Irwin Cobb has at last written a
successful pay. He has had nothing
b,,t fzzles IN his credit hut his "Rovs
VIII BE Boys"-a homely story Of a
Paducah. Ky. waif and an unexpect-
ed legacy-brought The first-nighters
to wild cheering and applause. Judge
Priest is in the play. and there Is
also q freckle-faced boy Cobb select
ed himself for the cast. Every critic
in town, pronounced the play sue
cess. and to Mr.. Cobb's genuine sat
isfaction only one copy reader let
his first name go through rs ''1rv-
ing"
The Columbia students who filled
themselves up or 2.75 per cent beer
for court test purposes have been
trailed all week by news hounds
after the inside of their beer orgJ.
Said one: There was no more kick
in il than in one of the Kaiser'S
protests over wrong treatment by the
allies"
Big Mike. a Chinatown cop. stopped
a runaway horse the other day with
his fist and got two lines in the City
Briefs" in all the newspapers. 1t
used to be frst-page stun. but about
twenty New York coppers have pulled
the trick.