The Washington herald., 1920-03-08
New York City.
BIZ o. o. McIntyre

New York, March IA page from
the diary of q modern Samuel
Pepys: Uu betimes and away In
some haste to ibid farewell to A
Hart. the silk merchant. who took
a barque for London, but was too
late albeit I managed to twig him
going up the plank. Our hand
maiden Anna appeared this day In a
great fur and Lord! the conceit.
Troubled at my hair coming on SO
much and I had it burnt at the ends
and rubbed with paste of sweet
odour.
My tailor came today clamoring
for moneys and I gave him his due
but with no easy spirit. Through
the town and saw Heifetz. the nd
dler. in a purple great coat and Mr..
Klaw, the theater man. and Miss
Maggie Teyte. the singer.
To- lunch at q coffee house and
saw G. Creel there and his lady.
Mistress Blanche Bates. who Is be-
ing uncommonly praised in her new
play. And r. Benchley came and
talked Of the Einstein theory with
mock intellectually. very amusing.
Home through the town afoot, the
cars not being run in the city, and
at my booksellers I bought two
volumes and fingered there SO long
a man I believe to be q detective
kept near me and II was pretty to
hear me call him a dolt and other
things and I stamped out Of the
place resolving to give UP my Gus
tom there.
Dined all alone with my dog. my
wife, poor wretch, going to hear the
singer, Miss Garden. Fell to reading
tale by Sax Rohmer. a myste-
rious piece where dwarfs clip OF
mems hands in busy streets and ]
was glad when my wife returned,
being a great poltroon. And SO,
after a contentful talk, to bed.
Telephone service in New York
has passed the stage Of being anus
ing, IL now a tragedy. Indignant
folk are writing to newspapers and
there is talk of municipal action but
as usual nothing will be done. A
man walked into the lobby of q
New York hotel the other day, put In
q call for Chicago and then stepped
into a booth to call up his home
here. He got his Chicago call ~
minutes before he could get his
home. And when he told the tele-
phone girl about 1t she parked heI
gum, looked at him Indignantly
and said: We'll, why don't you
move to Chicago?"
Charles Chaplin, formerly city edi-
tor of the Evening World, is re-
calling the inmates OF Sing Sing
with his experiences while work
ing on newspapers for 40 years. He
is the editor of the Sing Sing month.
ly newspaper. Chaplin was the mosi
feared city editor on Park Row
But he was a great judge Of news
1t was an old trick to catch Chapir
at his office at o'clock in the
morning and ask for a job. Ever,
newspaperman knew about It but
Chaplin didn't know that they knew
Invariably he hired a man who wa:
up that early.
One of the best stories told about
Chaplin is when he sent a reporter
to the home of a Fifth avenue mil
lionaire to ask a rather persona
question. The reporter was thrown
out by a butler. He tried again anC
was thrown out again.
He called UP Chaplin: Mr.. Chaplin
I've been up to see Mr.. Moneybagi
and asked him what you told M
but he has thrown me out twice.
| We'll, you go back again." sale
Chaplin in his queer nasal drawi
I'll show him he can't intimidat'
me-"
| 1t happens even in New York. !
young man ran out into Broadwa!
from a pool parlor the other da!
with both cheeks puffed out. H,
had accepted wager that h,
couldn't get a billiard ball in hi
mouth. He got it in but they hat
to take him to a hospital to get 4
| out.