The Washington herald., 1920-11-12
THINGS SEEN
In PASSING
Writer Has Queer Thoughts
While StroIling Streets
OF Metropolis.
BY o. o. M,INTYRE.


New York, Nov. 1i.-Thoughts
while stroliing around New York;
The 10 o'clock parade Of women In
initiated motors. Many Of their an
cestors went to market at sun-up in
wooden shoes and sunbonnets. From
Broadway come the powdered. car
mined and thin hipped. lavish with
furs. Tall supple gold diggers.
Corn fed folk. too. And queer alien
faces.
Why don't the women wear the
seams in their stockings straight? :?
There goes Bat Masterson. the fight
critic. Used to ride the range.
Black dresses trimmed In coral
beads. The wife of q former west
ern governor. Now sings in o cab
atet. Banks have such stately
names. Still II slang keeps up We
may expect ''The Nifty Yankee Doo-
die DEPOSITORY"
The employment agencies were
lifeless year ago. Now there are
| crowds seeking work. Shy looking
fellow with nose glasses is w. l..
George, the feminist. He knows all
about marriage. Wonder IL he
could tell me why my wife becomes
irritated at egg stains on my lips?
A group collected to watch Pavlowa
enter q shop.
A lot of well dressed men cling to
| soft collars. There's a man who
wrote three successful plays. Now
he's a sort of super Office boy in a
| theatrical office. A fellow has
opened a shop proclaiming himself
as a moth-fighter. mo moth es-
capes met says the sign on the
window. There's a red-corpuscled
soul for you.
A Rip Van Wrinkle tea room. Won
der IL the name has any references
to the service? A healthy lookine
man whining for pennies. Thai
clerical looking person started tc
look at the Winter Garden poster,
OF girls in tights-then turned
away in jiffy. I'll not look either
Anyway I've seen them.
Three men with terrible whisker.
looking in a window. I'll stici
around. One might see a fielt
mouse jump from trellis to trellis
I hope when get old they don't lei
me, wear whiskers. The sun is 60
ing down. Opaque dusk. Il alway,
get sentimental. And think o.
1
lazy gondolas. Heavens! I've ruI
Into q post. And everybody's gig
Cling.
There's a rugged. two listed oi
man who has made his millions sud
denly. He used to be a driller an,
he talks in the jargon of the oi
fields. The other day he appeare,
at lunch table very much agitated
He was asked the trouble.
Jones'" he said. has just fel
plum from the top OF the derrick
meaning that he sunk to the loves
depths of degradation.
What happened to him." chor
used the crowd.
by gosh, was in the waldor
and saw him a sittin' there wearin
spats."
Edward Royce has produced eigh
of the most successful musics
shows in New York during the pai
, year. He Is a frail young English
man. as gentle as barrie, and so IA
az the records go he has neve
| | spoken a cross word to a member q
the companies which he directed. II
accepts them as ladies and gentl,
/ men and IL they prove otherwise /
quietly dismisses them. 1t is som,
thing new in the annals of Broat
I ways theatrical life to have a kin
| director. Most OF them shout, rar
and swear at women as we'll q
z men. One Is so notoriously profaI
that even the producers have bee
forced to muzzle him at rehearsal
s There is a quaint little book sht
down in Christopher street and Il
proprietor is a trusting soul. +
v has no clerks and when he goes
lunch in the ncighborhood his sh'
" remains open. A sign on a tabl
n however, says: IF you pprchase
book, leave the money in the ba
ket or pay the next time you cor
= in. Thank you" He has never 10
4 a book by theft. A crook rare
;, steals book, he has found.