The Washington herald., 1920-11-25
new COIFFURES
AFTERPAINTING
Mona Lisa Sets Fashion
Arrival Of Fruit Steam
ers Interest.
BY o. o. M,INrYRE.

NEW YORK. Nov 24.-Thoughts
while strolling around New York:
Women are wearing Mona. Lisa coif-
furess Matinee girls with their
boxes OF candy. Too bad John Bar
rymore married.! Still there are
others to worship. After years Of
petty economies here / am at my age
figuring on a wrist watch. How
come! The blue grey clouds Of
evening forming.
Soon the lights will be kindled
and scarlet Tipped Folly will beckon
from every corner. l wish / was 20
again. Plump ladies hurrying away
from Turkish bath. They seem
embarrassed. We can't all be
svelte. Anyway there's something
comfortable about a double chin.
A window displays pipes for women.
They're doing 1t in England.
There's man for you. He's
wearing a cap with evening clothes.
II Beaunash saw him he'd swoon.
ward Crane, one of the handsome
boys OF the movies. He carries a
cane. Only a few sparrows left In
the parks. l wonder if the name
Crane suggested sparrows Crowds
rolling up to corner crossing.
Tension tightens. A nervousness
sets in. Then a hand wave and II
breaks up like a Yukon, river in the
spring
The dinner hour. Limousines clog
the big hotel entrances. Life
quickens its tempo. Well fed men
and women hungering for a new
thrill. Ten dollar dinners and then
a mad rush to the theater. I'll have
better? time with my book and my
dog. An eNcitable Frenchman talk
ing to his girl. Wish / could under
stand him. 1t may be quarrel.
And l love quarrels.
Apples in drug stores, Lots of
bunk about eating one every night.
l tried it once and laid awake all
night. Tinny music from a dance
hall. Children who shouAl be in
bed dancing cheek to cheek. And
curtained rooms where the girls
smoke cigarettes. I'm getting to be
an old fogy. An East Indian dinner
for 81. Curry. Rice. ,Paprika. I'll
try it. 1t it's too hot 1 can dash
out and pull fire plug.
An ambitious office boy in a
Broadway theatrical Office made a
killing on the ponies--a 3eO-to-I
shot-last summer and started out
to produce his own play The play
opened in a small town in New Jer-
sey and then tried out a few larger
cities. The other day the producer
returned to the theatrical Office
wearing an overcoat from the first
act and in grip he carried $50
worth of negligee displayed over a
bed in another act. He says the
trouble was that the play should
have been produced" Otherwise he
would have had no trouble. He now
studies the form sheets daily.
An idea of the poverty of a great
city is gained when the steamers
from the tropics arrive at the New
York piers laden with fruit. Crowds
Of thinly clothed men. women and
children stand about waiting for the
fruit handlers to throw away some
of the rotting fruit. They seize upon
it like ravenOus wolves, and what
they do not eat they carry to their
tenement homes.
Tho much talked of "Afgar" ha,
set the town by the ears. The music
is declared to be the most tuneful
ever heard on Broadway. and Il Is
being played everywhere. The Lon
don production deals with an at
tempt to organize the ladies' OF
harem into a union. There is
walkout. The costumes are by Poi
ret and made the audience gasp. 1T
also presented for the first time
Lupine Lane. the English comedian.
whose fame is constantly being
shouted by his English admirers in
Gotham. The production is due for
long run-not because of its cos
TUNES, stars or scenery-but becaues
IL has brought something Broadway
has needed for many months--new,
whistling. tuneful tunes.