The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-03-09

What the Great Metropolis Means to You Depends Upon
Your Vewpoint-Drear Gay, Freakish, Ancient,
New, Are Some of Its Many Moods ..-"

his labor. For it is labor. George W.
Lederer, long the manager OF the
Casino. said: THE actor does not
work long. but he works hard" His is
indeed Commemorative task.
The Gl!ttering hotels built around
the axis Of Broadway and Forty
second street owe their being to the
theatre folk and their patrons. In
smart apartments near Central Park,
yet within few minutes walk or a
few seconds drive OF the theatres in
which they appear, live Frances Starr
Florence Reed, Florence Nash and
Gladys Hanson. On the cross streets.
in boarding houses or lodgings. live
humber folk OF the stage. IL one of
these. a IS a week abode in the West
Thirtles, lived the young woman
, known in the motion picture studios.
who. sick and in a state of semi-star-
vation. passed forged check and was
paroled by the court because OF her
need and the fact that she pleaded
that she committed the crime while
under the influence OF a will stronger
than her own.
From such meagre quarters come
!
of the stage. The most notable of
these was that of Miss Elsie Clarens,
the beautiful stranger from Australia,
the termination OF whose earthly
career coincided with the completion
Of motion picture she was making
with Miss Jane Cowl.
Stageland has a conspicuous charac-
teristic besides its oft cited streams of
light and its refectories where. in COM
pany with ornaments of the chorus
land Holsters consume those OF the sea
variety. That characteristics is the
Broadway smile. The knight Of the
Rueful Countenance never stalks on
the bias street. The only Dolores who
ever walked its length was an
elongated model OF that name, who
strolled sans frown and with an in
termittent smile.
II is a common law on the diagonal
highway that no one must ever appear
or IL WY disconsolate 'ra;dge His
heart may have been broken. his life
shattered by some new, overnight
merger OF amusement interests, but
he must smile until he reaches the
corner and turns. into side street
Then he may blow out his brains If he
likes. In this respect. and in the mat
TER of its big stakes OF hopes and
money, it is like the gaming paradise
OF the Mediterranean. 1t is the West
ern Hemispheres Monte Carlo.
Shelf Town is moro imposing than
its name. 1t comprises that vast area
Of the city which is occupied by those
who live In the substitutes for homes
classified as apartment hotels. It
reaches its pinnacle Of magnificence on
the borders Of Central Park and on
that part of the Hudson's shore called
Riverside Drive.
The latest development OF the c!tys
resources of beauty is that avenue Of
quiet and Of green oblongs that has it's
beginning at Thlrty-fourth street
above the subway's incessant action
and continues on its northward way
with the interruption Of the Grand
Central Stations marble edifice.
Park avenue is the new favorite
home OF lelsured folk who reckon their
fortunes in seven figures. Mr.. and
Mrs. John Hays Hammond, coming
from Washington's circle Of homes
chose Park avenue for their habitat
Alice de Ia Mar, heiress of the late
Capt. dc Ia Mar, elected TO live there
rather than on Fifth avenue. When
Elsie Ferguson married Thomas Clark.