The Washington herald., 1920-02-24
New York City
By o. o. Mcintyre

New York, Feb. 23-There is a
small dining room in a hotel in the
heart OF the Tenderloins-a low room
with soft lights and deep leather
chairs against the wall One corner
il occupied by theatrical managers
and playwrights. The celebrities Of
the White Way gather there at noon
for breakfast to exchange greetings,
discuss scandal and show their
clothes.
The movie hero alone idles over
his grapefruit so that the hoi-polloi
may see his form fitting coat. his
sleek hair glistening. with perfumed
pornade. He opens his diamond
studded gold cigarette case with
careless nonchalapce. At another
table sits the adventures type in
an aroma of Babyionish perfume.
Her face is washed in white resem-
bling the belly of dead fish. Jew
els. Furs. Silks. She is waiting for
someone to pay the check. Some
one always does.
over at another table sits Lew
Fields, surrounded by cronies. tell
ing side splitting yarns and lighting
one cigarette after another In the
extremely long holder he carries.
In another corner still is Anthony
Paul Kelly.Just a boy in his carly
! itwenties. He has two shows on
Broadway and his income is $4,000
a week.
Tommy Gray, the Broadway wit,
strolls in. Every day he has a new
story. And he never checks the ever
present pearl gray derby. He is the
'last laugh" man for vaudeyillians.
( 1t Is an axiom that you must make
them laugh when you exit. Tommy
Gray supplies that last laugh" only
and make a good living. His once
is under his hat of pearl gray.
! In the old days breakfast or lunch
were mere interludes to a flock OF
cocktails and life ran high. Now
they don't get going with their per-
sifiage until the food is on the table.
That serves as an eXhilarator. The
tall serious booking person with a
goatee and pince-neZ is an ocean
| liner card-shark. He has a title.
And once he took a cosmopolitan
crowd to Egypt where his aides were
In waiting. A dice game was played
on the desert sands. He came away
with checks totaling s26s.000.
He raced back to New York and
cashed them before payment could
be stopped and now he lives the life
of Riley. No one talks to him but
he doesn't seem to care. There is
the leer of the cynic about his face.
He is the paramour of a celebrated
beauty and lives in splendor in a
palace on the Drive for his SECS, 200
went into a war baby stock and
was more than quadrupled.
New York seems to do things
pretty-welI. There is that s5, 900, 900
Wall Street bond robbery for exafn-
tple. The intricacies OF the scheme
and the business like methods by
which Il was to be worked out were
worthy of a fiction writer. The
band was organized like an army.
There were captains and privates.
The captains were criminals who
coached the privates. The privates
were the guluble Wall Street mes
sengers, the youths to whom hun
uEtOS OF lHouSdnuS OF OOIidTS worm
of negotiable securities are en-
trusted for delivery hourly in the
financial district.
a sister to the Statue Of Liberty
on BedIoe's Island will be brought
into the world by Americas noted
sculptor. Frederick MacMonnies.
who is at work in his New York
studio on a model for the Marine me-
mortal to be known as americas s
Gift to France" This will be made
possible by gifts Of s250.00O. Mar
shall Joffre will select the exact spot
near MeauN on the Marine River. The
/ figure to be used is of Liberty in
distress. 1t will be the sister of our
Liberty in the harbOr here. 1t will
be as though the Statue of Liberty
had been desecrated and attacked.
The whole thing will be kept in the
shape of a pyramid.
The bigger the cabaret, the poorer
the food. That is a maxim of the
GuZzling Gulch but now that cab
arets sans booze are passe the chefs
are getting a chance to show their
artistry. The real restauranteurs
know that good food cannat be
served in huge rooms. Consequent
ly the stunty places now are little
places on the quiet streets. Prices
are outrageous but the epicures will
pay for 1t.