The Washington herald., 1920-04-30
New York City
By o. o. Mcintyre

New York. April 20. Thoughts
while strolling around Manhattan:
There goes a newspaper man in an
automobile. laugh. ironically.
Hope he runs out OF gasoline on q
hill. Strange part OF town. Type
founders. leather. hides and oyster
houses. And there's q big melo-
drama poster. Ah-h-h! Curse the
cards, the dogs have eaten the
bridges! Those were the days.
A young STRIPPING with a Vanity
Fair mustache. AS Oscar Wilde
said: All beautiful things are use-
less. The smell Of train. smoke. 1t
always thrills me. II had time to
leaf 1t would be in q depot train
shed. Ruddy jsweled butcher. arms
akimbo, reading the Jewish Day. /
can hardly speak enough Yiddish to
get around New York.
Long row OF brownstone houses.
Must have been terrible before pro-
hibitlon. Unless they had illumi-
mated keyholes- A slatternly wom-
an hanging clothes on fire escape.
And yet I'd rather talk to her than
the Dowager Duchess type. Once
one looked At me through her lorg-
nette. No one will ever know the
agony Of that moment. The suillo-
tine would have been heaven.
A beautiful summer sky. Clouds
like q pun of beaten egg white.
Hope Judge buys that poem Those
cramped streets look nAenacing. No
wonder they have vendettas. N" one
over heard of vendetta in the
country. Fresh Strawberries. Noble
paesn to esrth's glorious yield. A
dollar a box. Quick, the ambulance!
People are beginningNto sit out on
their front steps at night. A lot OF
scandal Is brewed there. Still like
to gossip myself. Lillian Lorraine,
the show girl, airing her wolf hound
The cafe musici ians going to work.
1t Is tough life for them Casting
peals Of melody before swinish guz-
zlers.
The first lighrs Of Broadway. The
bull and the big auto tire. The sud
den hush Of the dinner hour. Clerks
stand in the doorway. People loll
along sullenly. And then will come
an electric moment when the street
Us galvanized into dynamic life. It's
great little old street, I'll say.
And now I'll go to dinner. Back
home 1t was supper.
The success of Fritz Kreisler in
the fleld of operetta has resulted
In hischa Elman falling for a man
ayers bait. Elman will try to do
for Flo Ziegfeld what Kreisler did
for Dillingham; in writing Apple
Blossoms" the big success of the
year. Nearly every manager in
town has been angling for the
great violinist but not until last
week did he sign on the dotted line
1t Is perhaps the biggest musical
announcement of the season. Ell
man is going up into one of Zieg-
fields country places in the Adj
rondacks and write the operatta.
Augustus Thomas is to write the
libretto and Gene Buck will do the
lyrics. Elman began his public ca
reer as boy prodigy in 1904. He
was the first of the Auer pupils to
spread the masters fame as an i'm
parter of phenomenal technic. His
advent into the world of the thea
ter marks a new epoch in the mu-
sical field.
One Of the Oldest man-made
| things on public exhibition in New
York City is the Roman vase. or
urn. in the grounds of Grace
Church, at Broadway and Eleventh
street. Standing inside the iron
fence. thousands pass each day
without knowing that it is a relic
| of the remote past. The vase Is
more than 5000 years old. and has
| been standing in the same place
| for thirty years. 1t is one of pair
dug up when excavations were be-
ing made for the foundations OF the
| American Church in Rome. The
next Oldest exhibit in town is an
Egyptian mummy at the Metropoli-
tan Museum. 1t dates from the
twelfth dynasty-2.o50-17s B. c.
The mummies, incidentally. are
viewed with. perhaps. more interest
than any of the other exhibits at
the Metropolitan.