The Washington herald., 1920-04-12
New York City
B, o. o. MeIntyre

New YORK, Apr1l ia page hfoni
the diary of modern samuel Pepys:
Walked betimes. A dirty veil of
vapor hangs over the city. the first
ever saw. Comes GIL Boag to tell
me of his new play, musick piece.
And with him through the town
running across Sir David Belascc
and I was presented. He seems q
kindly fellow, but his mind appeared
on other things. He spoke of going
abroad.
To a shoppe where I met my wife,
poor wretch. and the lady told us
that ladies are to 60 Into q new
fashion shortly, and that Is. even
shorter skirts. why not just a
loin cloth?" quoth I. at which my
wife gave me q quick glance and
subsided. chuckling Silly.
To lunch with s. ]. Kaufman, the
town chronicler. and he tells me OF
a country fellow from Georgia In q
playhouse who plays a handsaw,
making 1t sound like the clear notes
of Galli-Curci using a fiddle bow
and bending the saw to and fro. and
I told him of whitewash Joe in our
town who played nightly noble
ayres on a peach leaf.
Great talk of expelling the So
cialists. and fear ill-blood Is made
of 1t, but such matters interest me
little. This day I returned to the
ignoble tailor my breeches which he
cut too wide.
Home by omnibus. a gale blowing
which I liked. To dinner came E.
Galloway and his bride, and they
told of Palm Beach and was low
in spirits that my poor estate kept
me from such places albeit / would
liefer stay at home. Mr.. McAuliffe,
the St Louis editor, came, and we
played at cards and right merry
until the clock went twelve. And
SO to bed.
Mulligan stew has come back to
the waterfront When prohibition
came, banishing ale, the Mulligan
was dropped. but no dish SO satisfy
ing was found by the men who have
such enormous appetites. The Mul-
ligan stew is a mixture of boiled
meat and potatoes and onions and
plenty OF red peppers to make IL
scorching hot. The ale put out the
fire. the old timers said,
The old Anawanda Club on Sec
ond avenue Is being made over,
The members are super optimists.
In the center of the club Is a cir
GUAR bar and the architects, of
course, made plans to tear il down.
but the members. chiefly Tammany-
ties, would not stand for IL. They
believe a change is coming and that
the old bar will soon be needed. II
has bene the haunt of ward poIiti-
clans Of the East Side for years and
many political destinies were de-
cided there.
Charming Pollock and Rennold
Wolf were leaving the Lambs the
other afternoon when Pollock
found his overcoat missing. 1t had
been taken by another member who
must have been a giant for when
Pollock put II on il dragged on the
floor.
How does it look?" he asked
| Wolf
Fine" was the reply. you look
like the carriage starter at the
Automat.
The theater musicians are de-
! nnanding s65 a week. And IL is
likely that New York will not have
music with it's plays. except, OF
course, the musical shows. The
musicians claim that the high cost
of living is making ii almost i'm
possible to live on their present
salaries. We venture the managers
can tell a bigger hard luck story.
The demand for musicians is heavy
Nearly all of the movie shows now
have large orchestras, playing from
| noon until midnight. The Rialto
and Rivoli picture houses have
| symphony orchestras, each COM
prised of fifty members. There is
one little lunch room off of Broad
day that is supported solely by
these musicians.