The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1920-02-03
New York City
BY o. o. Mcintyre

New York, Feb. 2.-These are piping
days for humorists. The call is loud
and the demand tremendous. News
papers and magazines are fairly beg
ging for the snappy phrase, the
punchy paragraph and the zippy cpl
gram. Even the staid old Evening
Post-where editors don frock coats
and wear them around the copy desk
has hired a columnist-a funny man.
Christopher Morley will shortly
make his debut as a column con-
ductor there, leaving the editorial
page of the Philadelphia Evening
Ledger. Ben De Casseres. an erudite
ex-printer and poet. is writing funny
articles for the Herald and Times.
What do the funny men look like?
They are so seldom seen that the
public always asks editors that ques-
ton. There Is Franklin p. Adams,
of the Tribune, who is rarely seen In
public. He's that shy. He Is a tall,
boyish-looking fellow with an engag-
ing smile and a companionable way
when you know him.
Don Marquis, the sweet singer Of
the Sun. is stout and round faced.
His cheeks are rudy and there Is an
expression of j6viality. But you
would never take him for a verse
maker and fashioner of witty t.pi-
grams. Roy X. Moulton is of the
same style of architecture and Is ad-
dicted to the same habit that has
blighted many lives-commuting to
the wilds OF Brooklyn.
Haywood Broun, who began his
literary career as a circus press agent,
and now writes weighty book reviews
and drama criticisms for the Tribune.
is almost as big as Albert Payson
Terhune-and Terhune was big
enough almost to lick Jim Corbett in
his palmy days. ale looks lazy.
dresses like the thinker-and writes
more good stu than almost any man
in town.
Robert Cortes Holiday is another
free lance humorist, whose work is
in constant demand on New York
newspapers. He's Hoosier-In-
dianapolis 1 believe is his home. He
does a lot of his writing in a limou-
sine. having had an automobile tn
stalled in his car. During his odd
moments he edits the Bookman.
One of New York's best and most
famous humorists, Frank w. O'Mal-
ley. of the Sun, recently quit the
newspaper profession and went into
the literary business. He sold his
first story to the Saturday Evening
Post and every story since that has
been sold, and the editors are crying
for more-and readers OF the Sun are
writing in letters demanding his re-
call to the back page of the Sun,
where his unsigned stories appeared
for years
Broadway merchants have started
movement to seek the removal of
all surface cars, with the substitution
of motor buses just like Fifth avenue.
1t seems to be the idea that IL the
Great White Way acquires this one
similarity to the avenue II will be
Immediately transformed in other re-
spects. It is to chortle. A street
expresses the mental attitude of It's
residents. That has been proved time
and time again. Broadway never
thinks the 'sweetly perfumed thoughts
of the avenue.
A monkey store has been opened
near the Valid f. The proprietor is
a. South American and his store is
fitted up in luxurious style, white en-
ameled interior and stained windows.
He has been selling monkeys in a
vicarious way for years. but recently
the demand was so great that he
opened up the shop and is not able.
he says. to supply the demand.