The Washington herald., 1920-08-03
New York City
neAe.ia HiSes Cowardice.
By o. o. Mcintyre

Nav York. August 2.-There is
little waffle shop on Fourteenth
street run by a literary hack VINO
formerly occupied an attic In Green
uriob Village. Beside she waffle iron
Is a typewriter on stand ana oe-
tween the fiip-fiap of the wafnes Is
heard the click of the Keys. Inc
income from writing pot ooliers
would not meet the high cost Oh
even attic living hence the CASTRO
nomic Interpolation.
The place is an old cellar and
through the grating the visitor sees
brick courtyard with It's criss-
crossing of fire escapes and clothes
linas II Is a yeritable Port OF Lost
Uopes and at nightfall come the ut
srary and artistics cynics who look
upon the modernism with contempt,
Rack In a dank corner sits Irma-
She is the high priestess Sf the
downtrodden cult. She once had
short story in nationally impor-
tant magazine Then the muse
halted and she has never been able
to sell anything since. She rosters
the belief that 1T was because sne
thought her first check too small
and returned 1t. Thus she was
black LISTED.
Now she works in corset rae
tory. 1 visited the place with a
fairly we'll established writer who
could easily explode the theory OF
literary repression. He faced the
music in boyish escapade and
spent six years rejecting over the
folly in a. prison cell.
From that cell, and writing not
under a name but convict num-
Der, he won literary recognition so
] that when he came back into his
freedom he was successfully estao-
| lished.
"The trouble with these folk" he
said, looking about the room, rs
that they do not believe that writ
ing is a profession, more difficult to
learn than any other. They lack
sand. Bohemia is merely place
whore cowardice hides"
"Come sevenr on Broadway.
octavus Roy Cohen has brought
his famous negro characters to
Broadway in a play called Come
Seven" It is the first time an en-
tire cast has appeared in burnt cork
outside of the minstrel. The public
seemed to like ii although the crit
icisms were many by the reviewers.
But any play that can make a ne
gro, upon being asked his opinion
of a certain scheme. reply: That's
1.-THE schenfest scheme that ever was
schum," has my respect.
| BIonds for Cubans.
There is a cabaret left on Seventh
avenue where girls alternately sing
in the chorus and then sit at tables
with patrons urging them to pur-
chase drinks. The other night q
rubberneck wagon drew up in front
of the place. The manager stepped
to the door, took one look and then
yelled back to his performers: Put
on your blond wigs, girls, Here
comes a gang of Cubans."
Chicken. Get EN- All.
There is little difference between
the old boys of Broadway and the
worm" remarked James Gwynn, the
boulevardier, under the Astor can
opy the other day. Then he yawned
and started across Longacre square
with: The chicken gets them al
finally"
Succeeds In London.
Word comes back that ReinalG
Werrenrath - whose name was
spelled right only once in a tour OF
100 cities-has made a success in
London in concert. He is one OF
the few American singers to land
with the Metropolitan. His English
victory was scored with the song
The Radiance in Your Eyes" which
was written by Lieut.. Ivor Novelle