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The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-10-10
BAKE SHOP TO STAGE.

Only "a few weeks ago Miss Kathleen
Bosch resided over a pastry counter in
Turty-second street restaurant near
the New Amsterdam Theatre. Then she
appeared under the spotlight before the
gay throngs that flooded tho Ziesfeld
Roof to Gee the Midnight Frolic."
She was In the chorus, 10 DO sure, hut
lively member OF u and not at all
excited. She danced and she sang and
those who saw the petite blonde did not
realize that ehe was not an experienced
member OF the Ziegfed troupe.
Mlss Basch thinks there is nothing
Cinderella like In the sudden transfor-
nation. IL all came about in n matter
of fact way. The restaurant was near
tho New Amsterdam Theatre and Mr..
ziegfeld used to drop In there for lunch
con. Niles Basch learned who he was
and one day said to him, mr.. ziegfeld.
am anxious TO 10 on the stage Won't
you give me a chance7''
He told her 10 call on Edward Royce,
who was rehearsing the Frolic. Miss
Bnsdl called and substituie chorus
part Nas given TO her. She showed such
enthu}tasm and aptitude that Mr.. Royce
made er a permanent member Of tho
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Mem Plays on This Weeks Calendar

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meanwhile calling out t. various voting
sters to take Off that hat" But dis
time there is new wrinkle, for the
magician peddles the tricks af;e-wayd
In the audlence--no, to be exact, no
gives one card outfit away free, but it
is wrapped inside a catalogue which
costs 10 cents.
Following several tricks in changing
the color of silken handkerchiefs. he
says: Now, with the performance over.
III any one cares to stay and have these
tricks explained and to look over the
novelties on sale outside he is welcome
to 30 do"
The audience vanishes as if by magic
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ART OF FRED STONE
NEVER CONTENT TO STAND STILL
BY LAWRENCE REAMER.

model artists 1t
He unring artistic Improvement He convuse any audi
two and cause himself no inconvenience
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The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-10-10
800 TIMES FOR "NIGHT BOAT

On Saturday of this week Charles
Dnlingham's nautical musical comedy,
THE Night Boat" at the Liberty The
atre. will celebrate its 300th performance
in New York. A special holiday natl
nee OF the play Is announced for Tues
day, Columbus Day The regular
Wednesday matinee this week win be
omitted. but the Saturday matinee win
be given as usual. ~
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10 Read her pIoy on Jews.

The Academy Of Music. Brooklyn, has
been engaged Tor Sunday afternoon, De
ember TO- for a reading OF the Jewish
Biblical play. Miriam" by its authoress.
Mrs. Minnie l.. Cummings. The play,
which is laid in the Maccabean period
of Hebrew history, seeks to showk the
Jews. not az race, but az n nafioK
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flcient to Justify the fame OF NJ. Fokine
IN the history of the Ballet Russo. Fred
Stone is certain to be one OF the theatres
sensations this winter. So will be this
wonderful ballet in Mecca" with its
myriad OF other beauties.
New-York tribune., 1920-07-25
Sales Indicate
Revival of Flat
Buying in Bronx
Apartments in Many Paris
of Northerly Borough
Pass to New Owners;
Dwelling Properties Sold

D. A. Trotta sold for the Gotham
Realty Company the, four-story apart
ment. 5ox1oo: at 1925 Prospect Avenue;
for Minnie Heck the four-story apart
ment, 25x106.5, at 241 East 148th
Street; for Boro Associates, Inc, two
wofamily frame dwellings,, 17x75 each,
at 1893 and 1899 Mansion Street; for
Dora Schackner, two-family dwelling,
54x60x79X50, at 2022 Eastchester Road;
in conjunction with Charles H. Baech-
Ter, for Henry I. Fowler, three e-story
two-fanlily dwelling, with store, 25x75,
at 170S Zerega Avenue, and in conjunc-
ton with +. w. Houghton, for Aurelia
Lange Leubeuscher, two two o-family
dwellings,, 44x100, at COL to 6O3 East
24lst Street, corner Bronx Boulevard.
Jules Nehring sold for Louis Mond-
scheln 80 Trinity Avenue, a five story
apartment, 37.6X100.
J. Trattner sold for Mr.. Helden-
reich 553 6Brook Avenue, four-story
double flat, with stores, 27X90, to Mrs
Anna Devito
The A. Aren't Company sold to an in
vestor the five-story apartment 878
Kelly Street.
Murphy & Murphy sold for Mary A.
Dermody, of the City Hospital. to Fred
erick Busher a corner plot, 75x10O, at
Crosby and Baisley avenues; also sold
for Matthew Culligan to William d.
Jennings, of West Chester village, the
one-family house, 25x1O0, at 3O13 Mid
dletown Road
New-York tribune., 1920-07-25
Otto Cerdau Sells Fine
Estate at WaIlack Point
Disposes of Property Fronting
on the Sound TO a New
Work Resident

Otto Gerdau has sold his shorefront
estate at Walack Point, Conn, to a
resident of this city. The property
comprises part of a tract Of about
twenty acres which the Indians in 1910
sold to white settlers. according to the
History of Stanford" by the Rev E.
3. Huntington, which forms d private
park by itself
Directly within the gates lies the
Gerdau estate, comprising about six
acres, conspicuous for its varied native
and imported shade and fruit trees.
Over 500 feet of the estate fronts on
Long Island Sound. There are delight
ful walks and drives on the property.
From the porch of the large modern
residence fine view of the sound can
be had. garage, boat houses and
piers for boat landing are also on the
property. The owner has been asking
$4,000 for the property. John Craw,
ford was the broker.
New-York tribune., 1920-07-25
Gets Commission Though
He Did Not Make Sale

LYNBROOK, L. l., July 24-Justice
+. T. Neu has handed down a decision
in favor of Thomas w. Lucas, Free
port real estate dealer, in an action to
recover commission on a prospective
sale of the real estate Of Charles Con-
nors. of Freeport. Mr. Connors, super
intendent of the ponds and pumping
stations of Nassau County for the
brooklyn water works, placed his prop
erty IN the hands of Mr.. Lucas and
later sold 1T TO buyer other than the
one Mr.. Lucas had secured.
Justice Albin N. Johnson, of Free
port. former Assistant District Attorney
of Nassau County, appeared for Lucas.
Assistant District Attorney Elvin Ed
wards of Nassau County appeared for
Connors. The verdict awards Mr..
Lucas SITS with interest from the date
of the prospective sale.
New-York tribune., 1920-07-25

The block front Immediately to the
north Of the site Of the big Park Madi-
son Building is occupied by Brooks
Brothers and the Borden Milk Com
pany Building now under construc-
ton. Immediately opposite is the sky
scraper home of the Equitable Trust
Company. The westerly block front in
Madison Avenue, between Forty-fifth
and Forty-sixth streets, just south of
the Ritz Carlton Hotel, is occupied by
the Abercrombie g. Fitch Building and
the new Marlin Rockwell Building, now
nearing completion.
Another most important improve
ment in the west side of Madison Ave
nue. is the construction of the $4,000
600 combination church and office
building by the Fifth Church of Christ
Scientist, designed to cover practically
the entire block front between Forty
third and Forty-fourth streets.
Vanderbilt Avenue, in the west side
opposite the Grand Central terminal
is the location of the Biltmore Hotel
between Fortythrd and Forty fourth
streets and extending to Madison Ave
nue.; the Yale Club and the Wander
bilt Concourse office, between Forty
fourth and Forty-ffth streets.
New-York tribune., 1920-07-25
Subway Station on 42d St.
Between 5th and 9th Avs.
Merchants and Property Own.
ers Pleased With Proposed
Transit Addition

The additional transit facilities pro-
posed for Forty second Street by Tran
SIT Construction Commissioner Delaney
has produced much satisfaction among
merchants and property owners in the
section. 1t IS proposed to establish a
station between Fifth and Sixth ave
nues on the greensboro subway route,
which is to be extended westward from
ITS present terminus to Eighth Avenue.
The extension will curve from Forty
second Street under Bryant Park to
Forty-tirst Street and then along this
street to the end of the route at Eighth
Avenue. 1t will have station at
Broadway and Seventh Avenue which
will connect the extended route with
the lnterborough and the Brooklyn
Rapid Transit subways.
The station to be established in
Forty-second Street will start about
100 feet wset of Fifth Avenue and ex-
tend to within 300 feet of Sixth Ave
nue.. There will be stairways on each
end of the station and on both sides
of the street
New-York tribune., 1920-07-25
Hopes of Home
Builders Raised by
Weeks Big Loans
S8, 100000 Given in Three
Loans; Most of Money Is
for Commercial Use: Nav
Mean End of Embargo

Several substantial loans for build
ing purposes were made by life insur-
ance companies and banks during the
week. Though most of the money
loaned was to carry through CONNER
cial projects the very fact that insti-
tions are considering investing in new
construction is development that
cannot be accepted with too much op-
timism
First money for construction nat
urally finds placement in business
buildings. 1t is the first principle of
economy to meet commercial require
ments so not to interrupt progress
Trade can afford to command capital
seeking investment because it is able
to pay more for the use of this money.
After the construction needs of the
business world have been satisfied
residential building promotions are en-
tertained
Usually the transition is rapid, but
with business space very scarce it is
likely that most of the money that
will become available for building pur-
poses for some time will be turned
into the production of business space.
The hope in the situation from the
standpoint of the home builder is the
fact that money in large quantities is
coming into the building loan market
The embargo against financing con-
struction, especially in this city, seems
to have been lifted, Judging by the
number of large commitments made
during the week. 1t is, perhaps, the
first time in months that so much
money has been offered for building
purposes. In three loans alone $S,700,-
600 was loaned. There were a number
of smaller loans
Most of the $500, ,0Oowent to the
trustees of the New York Stock Elk
change to erect the addition to the
exchange, which will be twenty-five
stories high and cover the south south
side of Wall Street from Broad to
New Street. The stock exchange Off
cials asked the Metropolitan Life In
surance Company for $7,5500,000 to
build the structure and they got it,
They will pay $412,5 year for the
use of the money.
The Bowery Savings Bank advanced
100000 to the Allerton Fifty-h fifth
Street Corporation for the erection of
a sixteenstory apartment house at the
northeast corner of Madison Avenue
and Fifty-tifth Street, and the Pru-
Dental Life Insurance Company gave
Joseph Palermo a 100000 loan at 5 "
per cent on the apartment house which
he has just completed at the northeast
corner of West End Avenue and f03rd
Street. The loan liberated money for
investment in another building project.
New-York tribune., 1920-07-25

they will represent cannot be exceeded
under the law, and it is doubtful if it
would be possible, even in the Grand
Central's property, to acquire site
of equal size for development. The
die. therefore, has been set for this
locality.
Surrounding them is some of the
finest commercial construction to be
found anywhere in the country. These
neighboring buildings, though they
represent a high grade of construction
as measured to-day, may not with
stand the revolutionizing force un-
leashed by the big cooperative office
building project, which win cost $40,-
100000 in construction and ground
lease.
Nearest Approach TO Finality
The Biltmofc and Commodore hotels
are the nearest approach to final de-
vc!opment in the section to-day Each
OF these structures raises high in the
air from a site an entire block square.
But like the Manhattan, the Knicker-
booker, Sherry's and some of the other
we'll known hotels Of the city which
have bowed to commercial progress. the
Biltmore and Commodore may some
day be turned over to trade, which
would mean their reconstruction.
New-York tribune., 1920-07-25

Big Wall Street has something to
fear from little Wall Street. Hap
penings in the Grand Central district
in the last few months have increased
the rivalry that has existed for the
last few years between the old and
the new financial sections of the city
Acquisition of the Manhattan Hotel
by the National City Company; Sherrys
by the Guaranty Trust Company; by
the Equitable Trust of the Madison
Avenue and Forty-fifth Street corner;
Astor Trust Of the Fifth Avenue and
Fortysecond Street corner; the Borden
Company's plan for the development of
the Madison Avenue and Forty-f fourth
Street corner, and the rapidly maturing
plan for the erection Of the Park
Madison Building, the greatest CO.
operative business structure in the
New-York tribune., 1920-07-25
Flats Occupying 9
Block Front on
7tll Ave. Sold
Tenant Purchases the Six
Story De Peyster and
the Kortwright, Between
10th and l2Oth Streets
Great Dwelling Demand
Operator Sells Fine House
in East Both Street, Re-
Gently Bought at Auction

The Morgenstern Brothers Syndicate
sold to Morris Solomon. tenant in
one of the houses, the two six-story
elevator apartments, known as the De
Peyster and the Kortwright, occupy
ing the block front on the east side
of Seventh Avenue, from 10th to 120th
streets, with frontage on that thor
oughfare of 202 feet and depth on
each street Of 100 feet The buildings
house sixty families and contain fiev
stores, Sunderland & Hamlet were the
brokers.
To Mr.. Lazar the same syndicate
sold the siX-story elevator studio apart
ment house at 140 Wadsworth Ave
nue., northwest corner of 180th Street,
120x90 and housing thirty-two families
Schwartz G. Bernike were the brokers.
The Morgenstern Brothers Syndicate
as was recently, sold to group of
tenants, who will own and maintain
it comparatively, the six-story elevator
apartment at the northwest corner of
Madison Avenue and Ninetl-seventh
Street, 95x100 known as the Mamma
dos. 1t contains eight stores and
houses twenty families.
Sales of Dwelling Houses
Henry Mandel resold through Albert
B. Ashforth, Inc 8 East Eighty-tifth
Street, five-story dwelling, purchased
at auction recently to Paul l.. Kier-
nan.
Shaw & Co. sold for the Payne
estate, 2156 Lexington Avenue,
three-story private dwelling, 16.8x40.
James H. Cruikshank resold to Leo
pold Turner, the four-story dwelling
at 1883 West 136th Street, 15.6x1OO.
James W. Durant was the broker
Duross Company sold for Anna
Rosina Williamson to Marcella T. Ma
honey the three-story dwelling 450
West 153d Street. Mrs. Williamson
owned and lived in the house for
twenty-five years.
Ennis G. Sinnott resold 551 West
152d Street, three-story dwelling,
15x100, to Marguerite l. Kelly. w. D.
Morgan was the broker.
The A. Kane Company sold the three
story dwelling 244 West 121st Street
DR.. Sidney F. Wilcox sold his resi-
dence, a four-story and basement
structure, 17x1OO5, at Al West sgd
Street.
New-York tribune., 1920-07-25
Ne,v York u City
OF Ups and Dozens

New York is city of ups and
downs. There are 22,423 elevators
moving up and down in buildings in
TINS borough from morning until
night. After o'clock in the evening
such traffic on the Isle of Man
haitian is greatly reduced because
the great system of lifts in CONNER
clal districts is closed down. The
great pressure of business has made
1T necessary to keep more lifts in
operation now in buildings below
Chambers Street than before the
war. For the purpose of lifting
foiks from the street level or the
subways' level to the tiers and tiers
OF Offices, apartments and hotel
rooms spread over Manhattan there
are 11,l22 cars; 5,955 cars carry
freight exclusively; 1880 lifts come
to the sidewalk level and are known
as sidewalk elevators, and there are
949 homes in Manhattan which are
equipped with private elevators.
New-York tribune., 1920-07-25

world, presage a competition for bi,
business supremacy between this dis
trict and the present heart of the
business world which will be most in
teresting to watch
Those who had doubts that big bust
ness would continue to flow as strongly
into the Grand Central section in the
future as in the past few years have
changed their views since the closing
Of the deal for the Manhattan Hotel
by the National City Company, the
start of a S3O0O,O00 skyscraner build
ing on property directly opposite and
the success Of the cooperative office
project which calls for the erection
of two thirty-one story buildings cover
ing four entire blocks just north of
the Grand Central Station. These deals
have gone far to convince many that
the new district is moving forward at
New-York tribune., 1920-07-25
Passing of 42d Street
Country Club Is Regretted
Destruction of Old Hotels
Links" They Were Called,
Leaves Big Void i'm Civ

The passing of several well-known
hotels in the Forty-second Street dis
trlct was the subject of an editorial
IN recent issue of "The American
Architect" The editorial regrets the
less OF these old structures, which had
become institutions because of their
association with the life of the citv
1t refers to them as part of the Forty
second Street Country Club, which
ended its many years of life when pro-
hibition came.
"Here were the links of the famous
'Forty-second Street Country Club.
Here, during the days before the Vol
stead act, the golfers would drive off
from the bar at the Grand Union to
the 'nine-hole course that took in the
Bel mont, Park Avenue, MURRAY Hill.
knlckerbocker, Walick, Astor, RITZ
carlton and anderbilt-'holing out as
sort OF nineteenth hole at the Man
haitian. And these things arc now ira
dltlon. The Grand Union is but a
memory; the Knickerbocker has closed
It's doors; the Murray Hill is soon to
pass and this famous and well-played
course is now no more.
with the completion of the viaduct
continuing Park Avenue to and around
the Grand Central Station. and with
the many important buildings compris-
ing the Grand Central group, that sec
tion of New York has risen from a
somewhat commonplace neighbornood
to one of Importance and dignity. The
construction of the three large build
ings now projected will give to this
section Of the city very decided in
terest. The addition of more than
5000 rooms to New York's hotel ca
pacity will merely fill present need
and not, as it might appear, provide
for future growth
New-York tribune., 1920-07-25
Cooperative Venture
Depends on Conditions

C. w, Griffith. of Slawson & Hobbs
who has given considerable study TO CO.
operative apartments, said YESTERDAY
that the success of cooperative house
depends upon many vital consldera'
tions, not the least of which is location;
These requisites enhance the value o.
the property and insure class OF yen
ants which seek good service and seiecs,
homelike surroundings, and are wiiiih'si
to pay d commensurate rent. Given e'i
these reousisites, il is then essen,inS. ~
to know that the purchase price Of the
property is fair and reasonable; thas
the mortgage or mortgages against 'he
property are properly financed so ..
10 insure the tenant-owners againss
exorbitant assessments; in other worIs'
to reduce the liability Of the sto'a
holders in the owning corporation "
a minimum.
New-York tribune., 1920-07-25
Space for U. S. Shipping Board
Recruiting Service Down Town

Pease & Gilman leased floor at %
fark Place to the United States Shin
ping Board Recruiting Service, and a
ioft at 43 West Thirty-eighth Street
The Literary Digest" leased two
noors at l22 to 12S West Third Street
a. an aggregate rental of $4,000.
brett d Goode Company were the
Henry Shapiro G. Co. leased to
Joseph j. Ncuman and Edgar A Col.
llns store at 815 Sixth Avenue
New-York tribune., 1920-07-25
Landlords Are Satisfied
ith Anti-Rent La,vs

Stewart Browne, the mouthpiecc
Of the United Property Owners AS
sociation, has no fault to find with
the present anti-rcnt laws. He says
they are working satisfactorily for
both sidcs-thc landlord and the
tenant-and he does not see the
need for additional rent legislation.
He said the present laws are CON
stitutional, but is sure that any
measure which would lower the re-
turn on real estate would not be.
The 10 per cent limitation was con
sidered before the Legislature ar
rived at the 25 per cent basis, he
said, and it was not accepted be-
cause it was regarded as unconsti-
tutional.
New-York tribune., 1920-07-25
Find Suits i'm Apartments

Pease & lliman leased two apart
ments at $40 Park Avenue to DR.. /. w.
Held; at 145 East Forty ninth Street
to Henry Sheldon; at 120 East Eighty
second Street to James Gould; fur
nished apartment at 1877 East Sixty
sixth Street for Mrs. S. H. Velie to
Miss Helen c. Muller; at 10S East
Eighty-second Street to Mrs. j. Blake
White, and at 584 Lexington Avenue to
Mrs. Harriet Stanton Batch.
New-York tribune., 1920-07-25
Former Thread and Yarn
Mill at Far Hills Sold

waiter N. Tuttle sold the former Su-
perior Thread and Yarn Mill at Far
HILLS, including Echo Lake and thirty
SIX acres of land, dwelling houses, etc.
to bleachery company, which will
enlarge the buildings. The same brok-
er leased the Powers & Robinson fac
.ory at Garwood, N. j., to the Esda
Mahulacturing Company for term of
years; also leased factory snace of
10000 square feet at Whitestono
queens, to the Bond Corporation for
New-York tribune., 1920-07-25
New Yorker Moves
To Mountain Lakes

James A. Mcknight, of Manhattan,
has purchased d semi-bungalow type of
home on Morris Avenue East, Noun
tain Lakes, N, j. 1t is on plot of one
third of an acre
The Rev. II. B. Wilson, of Boonton,
also has purchased a home at Noun
tain Lakes. 1t consists of twelve rooms
and three baths on corner plot of
about two-thlrds of an acre on Laurel
Hill Road.
New-York tribune., 1920-07-25

The Clinton Trading Corporation
sold to Louis Rubin the two-family
dwelling 23o Leonard Street. Thomas
Z. Rodgers was the broker.
Henry Pierson & Co., Inc, sold 46
st. Marks Avenue, a ree-story dwell
ing, 2ox100, stone, to John Ryan.
The F. c. Sauter agency sold the
two-story dwelling at 218 Ninth Street
for M. e. Richards to Fred Biscotti.
New-York tribune., 1920-07-25
City to Build Another
School at Far Roclsa,v.,

new public school is to be erected
at Roanoke and Cleveland avenues, Far
Rockaway, at cost of $134,OOO. 1t
will be known as school No. 80. Thomas
Dwyer, Broadway and 216th Street, has
been awarded the contracts, according
to Browns Letters, Construction Re-
ports.
New-York tribune., 1920-07-25
Rector Site for Chelsea
Exchange Bank
Old Restaurant Property on
9TH Avenue Corner Will Be
Used for Branch

The Chelsea Exchange Bank will es-
tablish branch in the old Rector res
taurant property at Seventh Avenue
and Forty-eighth Street, having leased
from the S. G. A. j. Cooper Realty
Company the northwest corner store
and basement measuring forty feet
on the street and ninety-six feet on
the avenue.
The lease is for twenty-one years
and will in, olive rental of close to
$l,2O0,OO0. Possession will be had on
August /. The Cross & Brown Com
pany negotiated the transaction
New-York tribune., 1920-07-25

development. The property from Forty
nth to Forty seventh streets and ex-
tending from Park to Madison avenues,
practically four blocks, will be i'm
proved with structures that will be
carried as far into the air as the city
Will permit buildings to be built They
Will be as tall as the tallest in the sec
tlon, which We're erected before the
zoning law became effective and on
sites of very much smaller area than
the Park-Madison Building.
The structures will mark the limit
of intensive construction in the tene-
ment section. The height level which
New-York tribune., 1920-07-25
Buyer Plans to Erect Movie
And Apartments at T,archnop,

Z. =. Griffin and P. H. Collins sold
10 1or the Larchmont Holding Company
10 hdward r Albee the property known
as the Yale Inn at the corner of
ppalehTont p Avenue and the Boston
Post Road, with extensive frontson
on both Larchmont Avenue and tbe
Boston Post Road. '''e
me purchaser intends to erect
apartments, stores and a moving nic-
ture theater in the near future.