The Washington herald., 1920-09-10
New York City
Thoughts While strollI.g.
BY o. o. Mcintyre.

New York, sept. s,-inousnts
while strolling around New York:
A blonde young man in a sport
shirt. 1 thought there was some
law against those things. Hard
faced woman in the door Of a dan
SAINT. They dance now from 10 a
m. until midnight. Chorus girls IN
sweaters and bloomers getting
breath of fresh air at the back stage
door. An itinerant photographer
takes their pictures in tin types.
Chattering loft workers pour Out
of buildings for lunch. 3" All the girls
are touching up their lips. willie
Collier tells of hair-dresser
who announced in a rage that ne
would starve before he ever shaved
another eyebrow. There's red
corpuscled man for you. 1t was IN
this hall that first heard Paderew-
ski. You can never tell about these
pale, thin fellows.
James X Hackett standing in
front of his theater-the Criterion.
1t is a movie palace now. The first
overcoat! In a few more weeks I'll
look and see what the moths left OF
mine. Everything seems quiet
around the Lambs. But you can
never tell. Europe was never so
peaceful as il was few months
before the fight. \ Syrian woman
talking to Chinaman. Both are
street peddlers. Joe Weber now
calls himself Joseph Weber" on
the billboards.
They're marking shoes down to
SIS. There's too much reckless price
slashing in this town. VIII Rogers
in town from California. Still chews
gum, Great comedian. And the
movies nabbed him. There goes the
Floradora troupe to the train. Bet
some of the girls come back with
millionaires. Sailors working with
their arms around their girls waists.
It's great to be young.
An old gentleman taking an ice
cream soda out to the traffic cop.
An omnibus filled with blind chill
dren. They are all laughing. Cap
Churchill has opened his restaurant
again for. this winter. He's going
to stick to the cabaret business un-
til, the last gasp. Only about four
first class cabarets left. Prim old
ladies in cabs come up from lower
Fifth avenue-the last remnants of
shabby aristocrscy. -.
The Worst Spoilers.
Comic strip artists and cartoon
lists are reputed to be the worst
spoilers in any profession. Almost
every cartoonist has a dictionary on
his drawing board. Yet a glance at
signs around New York shows some
rare feats of spelling. A huge cleo
trio sign on Twenty-third street
carries the catch line: For he who
knows" Drive Slow" is a classic
in almost every public park A
Broadway window carries the word
Cafeteria" Ten signs on Column
bus avenue announce: Stationary
and Cigars"
Latest in Announcements.
Members of the social set in
Long Island colony have received
the following engraved announce
ments from Reno: MIR. and Mrs.
- announce their divorce on the
grounds of fncompatibility. They
wish their friends to know that
they part with good feeling and
mutual esteem"
Ben de CnssereS Returns.
Ben de Casseres. poet and phi
losopher. brown and fit from a pro-
tracted vacation at the Polo Grounds
returned to his night haunts of
Broadway recently for the winter.
He found all the old familiar faces
gone. At II Jacks was as quiet as
stuss psrlor before the usual
tipped-off raid. The jazz shops held
only only few sleepy. yswning
walters at midnight-and the CEN
ter of night life three years ago
was-apad adlocked. The head waiter
was going over to Central Park.
where a lot of roues play croquet
under the electric lights and eat
pickle sandwiches and drink sarsa-
parilla. On the surface New York
sleeps, save for the theater crowds,
at II. But peep into the private
clubs, apartments and residential
sections reveals that there are some
faint flashes of gay life left -