The Washington herald., 1920-12-17
New York City
Day by Day
ny o. o. MCINTYRE.

while StrOlllnS around NeW ioTh.
A white-haired dandy in a check
cred suit and a feather in his hat.
Another Oriental cafe. There goes
the great symbolical poet. He feels
everything in symbols. And cadges
meals from miserable trades people.
never saw a pair of spats that
fitted around the ankles.
A group of immigrants herded
together like cattle in storm.
Texas Guinan. She does something
or other in the movies. A new
feminine conceit. Wearing an ear
ring in only one ear. Those people
at the curb are pretending to wait
for a bus. But they are really
peeking into Delmonico's mellow-lit
dining room.
Those bobbed women who wear
Russian batik blouses always have
loads of jeweled chains around
their necks and they have ia
tigued air. Probably tired from
their exploring for the Great
Truths. An office where you can
hire pretty young girls to read to
you by the hour. You even state
your preference for a brunette or a
blonde.
You never see a corn cob pipe in
this city. This is a great time of
year for the window shoppers. But
1 can't understand why they have
fans on display in the winter time.
Still / was 16 before / knew a
chicken had anything but a neck.
| Live and learn" as Steve Brodie
or some philosopher used to re-
mark.
There is something odd about
the women who wear those costly
fur coats. They seem to use more
| rouge and powder. And they have
worldly look. Three times in the
past week ] have just been in the
nick of time in jumping away from
taxicabs. There's a bargain. Two
dozen cocktail glasses for a quarter.
They say that the guitar is be-
coming popular again. Probably
due to the Mexican influence. When
my ship comes in I'm going to
have a place where l can keep nifty
dogs and learn to play an accordion.
Edna Ferber back from California
1t is about time for lunch. And
here's the Automat.
The motion picture folk in New
York are incensed at the news from
tkos Angeles that people with apart
| ments and rooms to rent advertise
/ the line: mo dogs or movie folks"
In an interview in New York news
papers one film comedian says the
| movies made Los Angeles and that
| the attitude now assumed will re-
suit eventually in the East becom-
| ing the hub of the cinema world
| Professional people, however, will
| always be subjected to certain
| scorn. 1t is their cross. The Los
Angeles incident is remindful of the
old story of the Shakespearean actor
who raped at a brown-stone front
| boarding house. When the landlady
| came. he inquired: Madam, what
are your terms for actors?" Dead
beats and scoundrels," she replied
and snapped Sths, door in his face
1t was inevitable-yet rather un.
expected. One of the large depart
ment stores has installed a counter
on the main floor where nothing
but flasks are sold. 2Flasks of sill.
yer, gold and gun metal. Some
studded with jewels and all have
places where they might be en-.
graved. There was one 1 saw Of
4 II karat SOlQ, curved TO mt th(
pocket and studded with diamonds
Young bloods who formerly de
lighted in displaying their elegant
cigarette cases now take the sam,
pleasure in exhibiting a sniftA
flask.
| A patient in a New York hcspits
died from a leopard's bite recently
The clerk saw under the report tn,
line: "Cause-Leopard's bite IL,
thought it a mistake and so mad,
it in the official record, "Leprosy.
And as a result the entire medica
machinery of the city was given /;
Jolt. The board of health called /:
special meeting and one saffroI
journal had an eight-column scar,
head of a leprosy epidemic.
Tin Pan Alleys success depend
upon song boosting. II a firm cal
interest such artists as AL Jolson
John Steele or Eddie Cantor In
singing their tunes their fortune il
made. A song called "Grieving Fo
You" had only small sales an,
then Al Jolson took it up and start
ed singing il in his jaunt across th
country with a show. A milliol
! copies have been sold and it i
still selling like hot cakes.