The Washington herald., 1919-10-06
NEW YORK CITY
By o. o. McNTRE
Especial Correspondent Of the WASH
ington Herald.)

Especial Correspondent Of the WASH
inston Herald)
New York, Oct. 6-A page from the
diary Of modern Samuel Pepys: Up
and found the air cool. p. simms. the
chronicler. came. To call on L. Marsh
and found him out Of order. thinking
himself to be In . it Of ague and
we breakfasted lightly on fsh and .
hot potato. Through the town and
saw knot Of people about an inn
door and soon Lady Pankhurst. the
sunrasist. came out and entered q
hack. She looked drawn.
The Lord Mayor is making great
ado about small matters while thieves
are looting the town and I deem him
70 be Dragging. bunleheaded fellow.
Tnis day got two brave brass locks
Tor my outer doors and I would get
q shooting iron but the sight Of them
made my flesh creep.
To the bookseller for The Moon
and sixpence." which I am eager to
read. many praising 1t. B. Tarkins-
ton. the talk is. hath written the finest
play OF the year and the critics In
accord praising II albeit II has the
horrendous name Clarence"
Home where I idled the afternoon
starting many things and finishing
none and am finding myself IN this
habit more and more. But by post
came q fyne note from Judd Morti-
mer Lewis, the Texas poet. who has
taken q new post and nightly cheer
ed did my stint.
In tht evening with gay roysterers
to the Bal Tabarin and painted women
shivvered through dances and I met
Gilda Gray. who excels at this sort
Of thing. and found her Just like
what I thought she would be. MY
wife, poor wretch. said I burst not
dance with her but did and felt like
q fool Then to Child's and a lot
OF college boys there throwing batter
cakes. very amusing. Anc so home
and to bed.
At least one dramatic critic has be-
come producer in New York. He
Is Adolph Klauber. husband OF Jane
Cowl, and formerly a reviewer. on the
Times. He produced ''Nishtie-N Nightie''
recently and II Il said II will run
through the season. It is q bedroom
farce, and speaking Of bedroom
farces they tell of an actor approach
ing A. H. Woods the other day with !:
"Al. this Is the last bedroom play
IN which I shall ever appear. I'm
getting tired of climbing IN and out
OF bed. and Of hiding under one"
Broadway now has a school for
chorus girls. Henry w. Savage open-
ed 1t to find material for a new pros
duction- There Is a physical instruc-
tor to teach the are of employing the
body In expressing thought. a teach
er Of diction and English and . vocal
and dancing instructor. The school
Is free and those who show aptitude
are placed in one Of Mr. Savage's
companies. either in New York or on
the road.
There are more perils In this great
city than one ever dreams about. An
indignant young man writes in to a
newspaper that he was slapped on the
wrist by a conductorette 1t seems
that something should be done to
safeguard innocent young men who
are unfortunate enough to pe out late
at night from the wild attacks of
female wrist slappers.
The thefts by Wall street mes
sengers Of hundreds of thousands In
valuable bonds recently has led the
astute detective minds to the belief
that somewhere there is a super
fence" whose managers know how.
while seemingly respectable. to mar
ket stolen goods. Somewhere there
is the Directing Mind whose control
over the messengers IL uncanny and
when ha is found It Il believed the
thefts win cease-and perhaps not un-
til then.