The Washington herald., 1920-03-15
New York City
By o. o. McIntyre

New York. March II. - A page
from the diary Of modern Sam
uel Pepys: up and bemoaned my
self for want of money and looked
at myself long In the glass to md
many wrinkles. At breakfast We
heard screams in the lift outside
our chambers and woman was
fastened there and crushed so
badly she lived only q few hours."
Upon a sudden notion took my
wife In q fiacre and We drove up
along the Hudson to Grants Tomb
and there light and over the town
to Broadway afoot and came upon
Robert Leonard, the picture direc-
tor. and I saluted his lady. Mas
Murray. who is bright and beauti-
full.
Visited the book stalls but could
find nothing to my liking save
Leonard Merrick's The Wordlings"
which / bought. Talked long with
my wife about \this and that and
agreed upon many things, the
tragedy of the morning seeming
heavy upon us.
For lunch at the Plaza where
came F. Frueauff. r. Long. c. Nor
ris, A. Roche and C. Norris did talk
bravely of his brother Frank. who
wrote The Pit" and The Octo-
pus." who forsooth was one of
Americas greatest writer's. all
agreed. and yet I did say in all
kindliness that he was no greater
than C. Norris wife. Mistress Kath-
leen. whose The Heart of Rachel"
deem a masterpiece of fiction.
Home through the park in the
late afternoon, a light rain falling,
and the place deserted which al
ways makes me fearful of I know
not what, being so gregarious that
L could not live in the country at
all. Dined on a chine of beef with
sweetish pears my wife's sister
sent US and then to reading and to
bed
1t was a rare tale of police graft
that has been unfolded in New
York and sent a chill down the
Tenderloin. Women of the streets
have been paying detectives for
protection and one plain clothes
man has been indicted. He was the
paramour of a woman of the un-
derworld although he had a wife
and family.
The woman told OF spending
more than $1,000 for his personal
adornment so that he might make
a good front along Broadway. She
claims her love for him caused
her to leave her husband Once
ne planned to leave his clothes on
the beach at Coney Island to give
the impression OF death by drown
ing and then take a trip to Lon
don and Paris with her. He got
some advance money for the trip,
but didn't carry out the plot.
There is returning conviction
that segregation for vice offers
the only solution for New York.
AS 1t Is the prostitutes live in the
best apartment houses and hotels.
Another development of the in
curry Is that the guiding hand of
the underworld is now in a State
prison and when the police expose
came a delegation was rushed to
him to ask his advice. He has ad-
Vised them not to "squeaI" on the
police. That Is what 1 did" he
said with wry smile.
Andre Messager wrote the music
OF one of the successful songs of
the theatrical season entitled I'm
der the Moon" 1t may be a press
agent story but 1t is worth re-
peating because of the songs un.
usual success. According to the
story Messenger had an idea for a
moon and girl" song but the tune
wouldn't galvanize into the wing
ing melody he desired. He worked
one night until he was tired ont
and stepped out on the veranda for
pipe and breath of air. A fulI
moon was high over him. He
awakened some servants and had
them move the piano out ON a
gravel roadway. He began To inn
provise and shortly before dawn
the piece was finished. He never
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