The Washington herald., 1920-07-09
New York City
d, .o' q. MeIntyre

New york. July G-rhoughts
while stroiling around New xork'
why do visiting ball PLAYERS eiw.ys
stand out in front, OF the noteis
There's an aeroplane doing tsii
spin. I've swallowed my gum. JACK
Boyle, who writes the crook stores
buying some salt water tany.
Blanche Bates, Henry Miller ana
Marjorie Rambeau chatting IN
| tea room window. Remindfu o,
the poets line Fling me q nandfui
OF stars"
Broadway fuii Of so-cailsd rsyues.
At one they have q song called the
Leg of Nations." with shapeiy nmos
fshown against black velvet drop.
Jupiteri What q pretty girl BUT
her skirt Is too tight. Hops- IKE 2
kangaroo. Farmer George Conan
Now raises pigs. He ought to give
a farewell! 1t would be some night
Wish Herb Roth would send back
my nask. Some more Of that crazy
art. Looks like pile OF ruboage
and supposed to have a soul. The
sun is shining but there's a smear
OF fog coming up from the haroor.
Soon summer will be gone. Ana
I'll be glad.
The way they polish those sky
scrapers with blasts OF sand Is
amazing. But there's. something
pathetic about newly washed sky
scraper. Looks like an old woman
with bobbed hair. Wonder II the
fellow what had the hat cheek
privilege at the Knickerbocker has
jumped into the river? Must have
been a blow.
Tall athletic fellow is Perry Hale.
former Yale football star. He II
blind. Premature explosion. Far
down to the south Is q flaming
, cross. The sun shining on church
steeple. a band Of Hawaiian trou-
badors. The procession has passed
them. Most Of them have gone back
to waikaiki. Too much wall to
i their music. - ,H-s. = go.
1t Is summer, on Broadway at
last. Look at the freshly shaven
poodles. And the staggering art
students. Trying to act blase. They
are here from Hillsboro on a two
weeks sightseeing trip. A hurdy-
| gurdy carols ''Ciri Biri Bin" and
| the Italian girls with their red
bandeaus are selling violets. And
at home the barefoot boys are driv-
ing the cows up Back street,
| So -s.-.-- -:
1t looks like New York is going
to be fearfully jammed In October
| when people come back to town.
Charles Morris. president Of the Van
Owners Association, says New
York's van feet multiplied by ten
wouldn't begin to handle the Octo-
Der l business. There's one answer
he says and that is to spread the
leasing dates from September / TO
November /. 49, e.
1t seems to me that, George Jean
Nathan Is the most unswervins
critic of the drama in New York
He has been reviewing shows for
sixteen years. although still a youns
man. He abhors cheap theatres
which are so artistically destruc,-
i've to the stage. Incidentally Ma
than believes that George Ade has
come nearer writing first rate. real
American drama than any other
dramatist
1t Is almost impossible for Man
haitian hotels to secure walters
these days. Nearly all of them are
short handed. The walters claim
that the tips are 50 small and that
the salary will not permit them to
live. Even the head waiter Is
scarce. Hundreds OF them have
gone into other work. The decline
came with prohibition. Many walt
ers used to make 500 a week in
tips at the better class hotels. Now
they say II is dificult 10 make SIS
The cheap lunch rooms have no
trouble. They pay bigger salaries
than the large hotels and the wait
er is able to wait on a large num-
Der although the size of his tip is
| generally a dime or fifteen cents
Ten years ago walters used to pay
| the head waiter perquisite for
being permitted to work He was
then able to make a large sum in
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