The Washington herald., 1920-06-05
New York City
B, o. o. Mcintyre

New York, June s.-More and
more Saturday Is becoming . fun
holiday in New York. Wall street
10 deserted. Many of the Broad
way and Fifth avenue shops are
closed an day and nearly All close
at noon. The newspapers are OUT
at IL o'clock.-the last edition OF the
day for in these days Of print paper
shortage 1t takes something coios-
sal to bring out an extra. !,
The subways and trains are niled
early with Coney Island crowds-
fiashy boys and girls VINO carry
their new store clothes very seH
consciously. Coney Island Is TO the
great working class what the VII
lage green Is to the rural commu-
nifty.
Even the painted women OF the
Tenderloin are out by noon with
their pitiable efforts to be sKitish
and effervescent in the presence OF
potential dinner buyers. Those VINO
lead silken lives are away early oy
motor to the country CLUBS anu
homes on Long Island.
The spirit OF the carnival exists
In the cafes. The chop suey places
also show the festal side OF life.
Beggars find Saturday the most
profitable day of the week for In
these days nearly everybody goes
on a shopping jag and change Is
plentiful.
In the soft drink places the cash
registers begin to clatter and ring
by 10 o'clock and the turmoil OF
glass and voice sounds like the old
days in the saloons when the free
lunch was a Saturday institution.
The flower boys reap their mar
vest selling drcoping violets. lilies
Of the valley and soiled carnations.
, The pearl-derby boys with their
checked vests delight in Saturday.
1t gives them a fine chance to pa
rade. over in front of the Colum-
bia Theater-the mecca of the bur-
lesque devotees-the pave is bulg-
ing with burlesque actors, actresses
and their admirers.
The Saturday matinee packs ev-
cry theater. Even poor show
looks like a winner on Saturday
afternoon. And the movies give
extra performances and are even
then unable to prevnt the long line
blocks long that stand in line walt
ing.
In a review of a recital in New
York one culls the following from
a morning newspaper. Her plan
turous touch Is not only the out
come of a happy confluence of mus
cular and nervous energies. but Is
made more visible by the cunning
interplay of pedal and a variety of
! finger, wrist and arm attacks" In
other words the lady can hit the
ivories. And the old Henry James
tradition of piling verbal Pelions
on Ossas survives!
It is common knowledge in the
atrical circles that the recent ILL
ness of an internationally known
male star was due to drugs, and
there is a certain blonde star of
| the screen who makes no secret
she has been addicted to cocaine
for six years. One shabby Broad
wayite expressed it thus: with
rot gut whiskey at a dollar a swal-
| low and coke at twenty cents a
sniff-well, what are you going to
do?'
A team of horses drawing a load
of hay on top of which was seated
a gentleman with chin whiskers
! and a wide straw hat passed up
| Sixth Avenue the other morning
Crowds rushed to the curb TO
watch and as usual everybody
| thought 1t was some kind of a new
advertisement and expected the
/ band along at any moment. But 1t
wasn't. 1t was just a load of hay
And the news Of ii passing through
] town even broke into the newspa-
pers. Some confessed that they
| had never seen a load of hay be-
fore.