The Washington herald., 1920-01-23
New York City
By o. o. Mcintyre

New. York. Jan. 22-rhoughts q while
strolling around Manhattan: Old Paul.
the blind whisk- broom man. swaying
like chained elephant in the crisp
air. Knows the classics. Sees with
closed eyes. Yet he. is an Argus.
Pretty little Circassian Girl clerks In
Turkish rug store. Wonder what a
Turkish rug dealer thinks about be-
tween sales? There's De Casseres,
the poet. And thinker. Began as
a printer and his knowledge is startl-
ing. Has the face of a man clambor-
ing from star>to star.
Hebrew teacher going about the
neighborhood to teach the children
the holy characters. Their poverty is
proverhial. Yet they get a great JOY
in keeping the rock Of Israel from,
crumbling. A white tiled market
place. Looks too sanitary. Why
not the good old Bazaar of the ORR
ent which gives an opportunity to
outwit. outbargain and outcheat?
A vaudeville agency. Always
queer crowds about the doorway.
Faces tsA of years of daily disap-
pointmefNs. One senses a Arm.
loyal friendship among these folk.
The women paint and powder but
their faces are kindly and have no
resemblance to the wanton- Why
Is an actor usually a poor talker?
Maybe it is because others supply
his words. Or because he's dream
ing of other things.
New shops springfng up on upper
Fifth avenue. Soon 1t will be
street for tradesmen only. And the
exclusive hotels are centering on
Madison and Park avenues near the
Grand Central station. Mrs. Oscar
Hammerstein in an electric. She's
going to enter the opera field as
a manager. Get tired of reading
about Maeterlinck. A great philos-
opher but not worth all the space
they give him.
Trees of ice in Central Park. The
wild ducks never leave the lakes
here. Pool parlors doing land
office business since prohibition.
most people associate incompetence
with good pool playing? And not
with billiards? It's strange
world. Think I'll buy an apple.
The harbor of refuge that the
newly rich OF New York find in get
ting away from a cold and snob-
bish world is the Turkish baths.
In the hot room they may make
acquaintances. They lean back in
their steamer chairs. draped in h
sheet per lady and a towel per head.
Only their toes are left to betray
I'll lkN
odist is not in the hot room to
read pasts. Some say the Turkish
baths are now inhabited by the
cooks and scrabwomen OF yester-
year spending their new riches.
They are fat. dumb-eyed. lonely
creatures and the bath is a blessed
institution where one may kill fou
whole hours every week-what
with eyebrows shaped and hips vi
brated.
The passing of Pauline Hall re-
calls the halcyon days of "Erminie."
An interesting story comes to light
following her death. She went out
while she was playing a good part
in a Broadway show-a good part
compared With most parts that fall
to the old actress whom the years
have robbed of her public and fame.
lasco's Gold Diggers" was more
sincerely welcomed than Pauline
Hall as she walked on the stage as
Cissy Fitzgerald. the one-time toast
of the town, who was now reduced
to selling soap to the stage folk of
another generation.
Very few OF 1.-The audience knew
/ her. She was a tradition. 1t was
during the years 1926 she star
red. But they knew her by reputa-
/ tion and she got the same ringing
applause as other members of the
cast. The third week of the en-
gagement she was stricken with
pneumonia
Bachelor friends OF young Arthur
Loew. son of Marcus. who ran a
penny arcade in Cincinnati into a
countrywide flock of theaters. gave
him a dinner the other night at a
/ famed night resort. Young Loew
was married to the daughter OF
Adolph Zukor, another movie mag
nate. The dinner was given right
out in the main restaurant and
moving picture men filmed the en-
| tire proceedings. This was done
merely for present and future mem
l-bers of the Loew family. Several
Fifth avenue church weddings are
being filmed every week for private
use.