The Washington herald., 1920-01-30
New York City
BY o. o. Mcintyre

New York. Jan. 9.-Thoughts
while strolling around Manhattan:
Is there gnything SO funny as life
itself? There's an actor who owes
me money wearing a monocle and
lavender spats. All. we'll Lavender
spats bring us just that much
nearer the commune. Speaking or
humor, I wonder II Bryan Is really
going to run?
Big strapping fellow with the
white Samoyed dog is Prince Paul
Troubetzkoy. Played cards with
him once and he amused us. by bend,
ing quarters with his teeth. At
tributes his strength to vegetarian
ism. He ought to see Dempsey COB
Bile up steak or Carpenter a cou.
I'm not troglodyte but I'm INTEL
lectual, as Clare Briggs says,
The doorman at the Plaza looks
like stern old general. Only he
has more gold braid. Wonder what
other ability a doorman has to have
besides opening and shutting q
door? Think I'd make a good door
opener but I'm weak on the shut
ting. At least my wife says SO.
Still doormen have their place in
the world. More than 1 can say for
caracuf. John Masefield's poems and
bronze statues.
Yet / once wore a plaid vest and
mountainous toed shoes and thought
L was a city slicker. Heifitz. the
vfolinist. Something of the spiritu-
ellie about those guys. Soulful eyes
and all that. They tell of a hard
ened Park Row reporter making a
tour with Paderewski once. And
nc hnpL
Hubbard tie.
Glad haven't anything laid
away. Gives me a chance to break
with some of my roughneck friends.
wire says ] have too many of them.
still she likes Pedro. the Greek,
VINO comes every month to call and
wears his hat all the time in the
house. Getting hungry.
Think I'll go down in the Syrian
quarter for dinner Like that
sweetish coffee and l like to hear
the chant of those parchment-f faced
philosophers who smoke constantly
and quote the Koran. Most of them
peddle rugs by day and phIIoso-
phize by night. Happy life-all but
the rug selling.
A young Turkish Jew, just begin
ming the practice of dentistry, was
murdered in a Harlem apartment
house the other morning by an ex-
convict. 1t was in the crowded dis
trict where there is Babel of a
thousand tongues. The young dem
tist had his Office in his apartment.
When his aged, religious father
found the body the building was in
an uproar-screams and walls on
every floor. 1t developed that
thirty relatives OF the young man
lived in the building. When the
undertaken took the body out in a
pine box two women leaped out of a
window after 1t. and one old man
climbed out on an electric sign
which gave way with him with a
crash. The dentist was supporting
his parents and other relatives and
was writing out a recommendation
10 get the convict a job when slain.
His education was received while
studying at night and he was still
studying, after he received his
diploma. That is the spirit of the
Ghetto-and yet folk wonder how
push cart peddlers of yesterday are
the merchant princes of today.
Tin Pan Alley now EMPLOYS nsv.
choloEists. They are men who nm
derstand song psychology and can
anticipate the public taste. Leo
rest has n group of them and a
New York newspaper quotes him as
saying that he can prove the new
departure pays. Five of the i,st
songs he published have been the
biggest sellers.