New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-08-08
By Harriette Underhill

Broadway is a pass cut through
chain of skyscrapers from one end of
Manhattan to the other. 1t is 500 feet
wide at it's broadest point. and is lined
With electric lights of rainbow hue
which dazzle you and blind you and
warm your heart and fill you with &C.
stasy because you are living. If YOU
do not believe this. why just spend six
months in the Adrondacks and then
come back The rapture of the return
will be worth the ennui of the exile.
OF course. there is much. to be said
for the mountains. but it will have to
Be said by some one else. One who
believes that rising at IL and gazing
ont at Carnegie is 1000 times better
than rising at 7 and facing old Mount
Baker is not a fitting person to at
tempt anything in the nature of Than
stopsls. We always were decidedly
pro-urban. but when, after having been
sent up for six months, we returned
last week to sea level we decided that
New York was the most beautiful city
in the world. Yes. sir, as Thornton
Burgess says. in all the great wide
world there is not such a beautiful
city.
After putting up our luggage at
little, old, last years hotel opposite
Carnegie, and after being told by
everybody. from the manager to
Francis, our favorite elevator boy. that
ne looked twenty pounds heaviex and
ten years younger. we started out; for
when one has only four days in which
to De welcomed back by New York one
must work fast. We had two defin ute
engagements-the Pickford- Fairbanks
dinner at the Aston on Sunday, which
5. jay Kaufman came all the way up
TO Saranac Lake TO invite us to, and the
luncheon at the Ritz with Petrova and
Mary Fairbanks on Tuesday. The rest
OF the time was our own and we were
ready to listen to reason.
Before we left Saranac our doctor
had awarded us thirty minutes exer-
else, and. as we obey the rules reli
glously. we resolved to take this at
once. Strange as 1t may seem. we
chose Broadway for exercise. and luck
was with US. Almost the first person
we met was odd Mcintyre, and he req
istered amazement and said: care you
In town and we said yes" and he
SAID: GU must come up to the
Majestic Roof tomorrow night and
have dinner and later go to the Zieefeld
Irolc and hear Art Hickman's band"
So We said. delighted" and he said
"Ihatii be fine and we walked on for
almost tour blocks before we met any
one else who recognized u.s.
Then we saw Mr.. Gremker standing
IN front Of the Central Theater talk
ing TO Lee Shubert, and he too regis
tered astonishment and said, "Are YOU
IN town ~ and after we had said yes
ne SAID, Now. what can | do for YOU -
Of course, we said "Florodora." 1t was
really one of the things we came to
town for, having missed the opening
and having been one of the thousand
VINO were in the original sextet. So
ne, too said. "That'll be fine. How
about tomorrow night" SO we told
MN of our Majestic and Frolic en-
sagements and he said, mo matter:
you can do that before and after and
can take in 'Florodora' between and
H." So we did.
inns seemed to us full day, but we
learnsl later that it was because for
SIX nfonths our oQly dissipation had
been !he doctors visits at a. m. and
p. m. When We met Gil Boag our
10Y was complete, and when he told US
that we mustn't miss "Lassie" we as
sured him that We had no intention of
cong so. Three engagements weren't
SO many and so we told Mr.. Boag that
we had four hours before dinner and
"Vu4u awe 70 90 10 the matinee. so
we viewed "Lassie" from the second
row in the Nora Bayes Theater from
till 8. had dinner on the Majestic
roof from till 8, enjoyed "Florodora'
from 8:l5 till 10: so and reveled at the
trollc from IL till 2-and we hope our
doctor doesn't see this.
Victor kiraly met us at the elevator
eh the New Amste rdam Roof and took
Us to the incest table in the place and
made US feel exactly like the prodigal
Son.
The performance had not begun
Wnen We arrived and the people were
entertaining themselves and others by
dancing. And how styles in dancing
DO change in six months. Art Hick-
mans band was still downstairs play
Ing the finale for the Follies, so we
rad chance TO look over the program
"a thing no one ever does at the
Frolic. However. we were glad we did,
fol We discovered something that prob
ably Flo Ziegfeld himself does not
Know. The two young women who
mead the procession of feathered song
sters in the number called Tropical
BIRDS are named Billie Dove and
Florence Crane
BY and by Art Hickman's band came