The Washington herald., 1920-05-13
New York City
B, o. O. Mclntyre

New York. May 1.-THE visitor
to New York is Impressed at once
with the namboyant note. Its metro
politan dare. 1t takes few years
residence here TO see the other side.
tho side that Is not rejected in its
scandals, its high life and the eco
nomic. problems which do not md
utterance In denim and gighamed
press agent parades on Broadway.
Back of II all there Is quiet and
intellectual life as easy-going as
tho so-called humdrum lie Of a
sleepy village. II finds expression
in choral unions, public lectures on
Huxley, Walt Whitman, civic dlsti
Ecussions and wanderings In the
Museum Of Natural History
a stranger was surprised TO see
a young negro girl in the subway
morning rush with Thomas iardyP
Mayor OF Casterbridge" in her
hands. There are thousands OF peo-,
pie who are untroubled by the
thought of SIS theater seats, new lid
eral weeklies and jazz restaurants
There are sections where people
are neighborly ana borrow cup OF
sugar, sit up with the sick and send
~
woman three flights up. II Is not
the life that the stranger sees but
IL is the life of the average mass,
A visit to any public library az
night will reveal New York with
social, consoiopsness. not reflected
| in first page news of Communist
trials Here they gather for diver
sion. They know each other ana
whisper the news Of the neighbor-
hood Just as the small town folk DO
when they gather at the. postofhce
to await tie mail on the SIS.
, There are mahy who have never
tipped a head walter SO for mere
bow or who know little about pate
! de fol gras. But they do not have
, to have a foreigner point out the
wonders Of the Metropolitan Mu-
scum or tho Geological Gardens,
He is a SQUAT, toad-lH<e man who
gained reputation around the
cafes for his wit. A venerable
widow met him and he paid such
fast and furious attentions to her
that she finally married him. From
cheap theatrical hotel room he
moved to a palace on Park avenue,
where he slept on a bed that cost
million francs. He was surrounded
| by masterpieces of Florentine
bronze. When he awakened he
/ could press any one of a row of but
tons imbedded in an embossed globe
that swung from the head of the
! bed and get snything from a coffee
servant to a physical Instructor. The
other day the widow died. The day
1 of the funeral they hunted the hus-
band. They found him in the great
| libra ryI-a library hung in imperial
purple. emblazoned with draperies.
lfilled with hand-tooled volumes and
upholstery set with gold. He was
rolling a cigarette out Of near
alfalfa and brown paper. And he
was reading a. trashy 25-cent novel.
Also he wore a. dazzling pink silk
shirt.
The high-priced hotels are put.
ting on a sneering front at. the
Take Your Lunch-to Work Club.
! They. say that they are not anxious
for the trade of those who cannot
dine there. The hotels say that the
charge of profiteering is always
made by the man with u champagne
taste and a beer income.
| A new producer has come to
Broadway to dazzle the T. b. M
with the girl and music show. He
| is John Murray Anderson He used
to put on. those littls revures st RecI
tors before prohibition came, ana
then he went to the Palais Royal,
and later put, on the ''Greenwich
lFoIlies." No one took him very Sc
riously. They never do in New
York. But just now: he , has the,
most popular musical review in
town in What's in a Name" 1t
has three distinct musical hits in
the songs That Reminiscent Mel
ody." In Fair Japan" and valley
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