The Washington herald., 1920-04-02
New York City
By o. o. Mcintyre

New York. April 1.-Thoughts
while strolling around New York:
Wonder what has become of the
oId-fashioned beggar who address,
ed everybody as Cap" Titta Ruff
70. the singer. window shopping.
Name like a lace collar. So many
people seem to be loafing. Ought
to work. 1t takes the mind OF OF
what one owes the tailor.
Queer crowds stand around the
newspaper bulletin boards. For
lorn old men. craving a chance to
talk. Bareheaded clerks stealing q
cigarette smoke. Lonely foreign
ers. Actors are now having their
summer cars put in show windows
with cards announcing their pur-
chase. Odd appeal for notoriety.
An April shower. Everybody
scurries for the hotel Hobbies. New
Workers hate umbrellas. Rain al
ways brings business to the cafes.
Mrs. Rida Johnson Young going to
tea. Has had "a stage successes.
A woman with five little dogs. My
ambition is to own fifty. Fleas and
all.
All the spring hats for women
turn up in front. Sort of chickeny.
Old Lincoln Hotel being torn down.
Never a week passed without .
scandal there. Zip! There goes a
man-hole covering. Now the
mayor will get some indignant let
| ters.
Almost warm enough for sum-
mer furs. Hear that a millionaire
is building a theater for his favor
ite actress. And she won't know
about 1t until she gets back from
Europe. How considerate these
millionaires arc of their actress
| friends?
There's David Warfield out on
crutches. Broke his leg IN San
! Francisco. They say he's on his
second million. Those stores that
ask you to walk up flight and save
$40 always seem busy. The latest
one ON Broadway has a huge cleo
trio sign reading: Mamie and
Sid-Parisian Tailleurs."
The owner of a large apartment
hotel writes queer complaint
| against prohibition to a New York
| newspaper. His place is the kind
| where elderly married couples make
an event of the evening meal. The
men in dinner jackets and the
women try to outdo each other in
| evening clothes.
Before prohibition a cocktail be-
fore dinner was as important as
dinner itself. Now he says his
guests go visiting from one apart
ment to another and by the time
| they have made several visits
| well they call up James to bring
around the limousine and they
| romp out to a roadhouse and don't
eat dinner at the apartment hotel
He declares that the roadhouses
permit them to bring their own
drinks and serve them. die obeys
the law and refuses to permit them
| to drink their own drinks at his
tables. And he consequently suf-
fers a heavy financial loss.
They were talking at the Lambs
the other day about a certain ac-
tor who for three years has suf-
fered almost every calamity. First
the loss of his devoted wife. then
| a speculation that swept away his
fortune and finally an accident that
left him helpless. A group of his
fellows went around to cheer him
up at a cheap lodging house.
He was in good spirits and re-
fused any pity. Il think some
times that I've had a rough DEAL"
he said, but I'm heartened when
l think of an actor friend of mine.
He had been working ten years to
get his name up in electric lights
| on Broadway. The night of this
| event he stood across the street
from the theater to watch the
lights turned on and there was a
faint glow and an explosion. The
fuse had blown out. Boys. there's
a man who really suffered" Hem
ley must have had a similar case
in mind when he wrote his famous
In the fell clutch of circumstance
poem"