The Washington herald., 1920-03-22
New York City
By o. o. Mcintyre

New York. March e1.--A page
from the diary of modern Samuel
Pepys: Lay late reading the diary
OF the suicide girl In Chicago.
Comes C. Ryley Cooper. the Denver
gazetteer. who spoke sorrowfuly OF
the posture of the times that he
must be up at the cocks crow
while I lay abed and in truth
should rejoice that life Is beer and
skittles as the saying goes.
To the picture framer for the
painting of my mother I did leave
there and a great lovely lady she
was but have no memory of her
soever. Met Miss Edna Ferber. the
scrivener on the highway. and did
chide her for being without go-
loshes and she wagered Ave cents
that when my wife, poor wretch.
came along she would be without
them too. And she won and ! paid
with good grace.
Lunched alone on raisin pie and
beakers of whey and thence to call
on Capt. Moreland. blinded in the
war ard he was quite content and
held a noble philosophic view of
his plight. Home through the town
and bought an idle, rougueish book
writ by a silly woman.
Our street in a hub-bub at dusk
over a young girl who found
thief in her bedroom and called
loudly for the police and the neigh
bors hunted all about for him and
nausnanar falIowa can1a and
found she was cinema play ac-
tress and they merely chuckled, GER
tain II was n hoax.
In the evening to Delmonico's inn
to a dinner party and came Mistress
Rida Johnson Young, Leroy Scott,
Rupert Hughes, George Creel, Will
lam Johnston, Frank r. Adams and
their wives and all very merry un-
til late. And so to bed.
The revival of Florodora for
Broadway brings with 1t fond men,
ories of the good old days when to
attain the chorus was not only an
achievement but career. Nearly
all of the original seXtet married
millionaires-save Nan Patterson.
No group of chorus girls have ever
received so much first page public
cess II was by the single efforts OF
the late Melville Ellis. who had just
come over from England, and was
only 81 years of age. 1t was his
first theatrical production and his
greatest. Ellis was a dyed-in-the-
wool member of the dilettanti. If
he didn't like a show he wouldn't
direct it no matter how big the
salary. Once a red-headed chorus
girl irked him because of her awk
wardness. But she was a hard
worker. I'll make a star Of you
yet" he said one day doggedly. And
he did.
Christopher Morley finds night
life on upper Broadway-between
Ninety-sixth and 103rd streets-has
a flavor all its own. And indeed It
has. There Is a panorama OF small
bright shops-all new looking and
clean. Each block has a rotisserie
where the browning fowls twirl
before a rosy grill. The delicates-
sen windows are full of amazing
salads, devilled eggs and stuffed
tomatoes.
Then there are the combination
book and tobacco shops where sets
stand side by side with Trine's
Talks to Young Mothers" Around
o'clock in the evening there is a
delightful gayety and hustle all
down the pavernents. The elec-
trfc signs of theaters and MOVIES
foam and bubble with red and
green and amber light against the
night sky.
The people are trinity clad. The
| ladies have a Partisan chic. Up
from the side streets, waited by
vigorous airs from the river, step
dapper, plump men with silk hats
and little silver crooked canes.
Taxicabs spin clicking down the
windy eXpanse of shining asphalt
Up from the subway. the cockpit
of New York, come young men clad
in overcoats of magnificent swag-
ger. gently incurving at the waist.
In their eyes one sees the premoni-
tory zest of those about to visit
the movies. II Is all sparkling and
mundane. And there is a feeling
that most of them are spending
more than they earn.