The Washington herald., 1920-06-14
New York City
B, o. o. Melntyre

New York, June ia pdbe hfonH
the diary of a modern Samuel
Pepys: Up betimes and gay. sing.
ing until the dog howled. I made
the cook maid merry with the in
crease in wages and our household
In great content and my wife. poor
wretch. too in high spirits.
1t was pretty to hear C. Briggs,
H. Staton, C. voight and G. McMa-
nus make sneering remarks at my
new cloth top boots, knowing as
did 1t was their petty Jealous ma
lures. And ]. Weber, the Dutch
piay-actor. came to the eating
place and told US some brave tales
of the noble days when he trouped
with L. Fields and how they start
ed their famous choking act.
Through the town afoot. stop
ping at a chapel to hear some fine
music by Italian gentlemen who
sing sweetly. And came upon DIR.
de Santos. my old acquaintance. and
we had high words about the works
of Joseph Conrad. my conclusion
being that his novels start well but
end feebly.
! Then to a magazine editors Of
| fee and he told me the good news
that G. AIDE is soon to begin writ
ing his fables again. Meeting my
wife in a great store we had a cup
of Chinese drink called tea and a
lady there in Mysteries finding her
husband with brazen girl.
Home and at my accounts and
determined to stop some practices
lof wasting money, an. able mer-
chant telling me that he began to
get rich when he cut away from
the small extravagances. Yet these
tales of thrift do bore me and 1 be-
lieve 1 am happier when I spend all
and need more. Walked down the
Broadway with my cousin marvel
ing at the great lights. making the
night like a sunshiny day. And so
to bed.
What Is the most successful in
gredient of a musical play? Ned
Wayburn made one of the most
famous Broadway successes in re-
viving the air OF an old comic opera
and using it for a spectacular dance
on revolving platform. Critics
admitted II was the only thing
worth while in the show-yet 1t ran
year. whats In a Manner" is a
current Broadway success. And yet
II Is not a great show. 1t Is silly
in spots. But one song put II over
the famous. music box number
called "A Young Mans Fancy"
The orchestration gives the effect
of music box of not so long ago.
The tune Is haunting and people
flock to hear it. Ned wynn's Car
nival is another big hit. Wynn is
the entire show. His cast Is
mediocre. The chief reason for the
marvellous success of Irene" is a
perfectly drilled chorus. 1t is the
best chorus ever seen in New York.
Gauguin is the latest art idol.
| The South Sea Islanders work has
established a growing and enthusi-
astic cult. Not so long ago 1t was
Blakelock. Before that II was Re-
! noir, or did Cezanne come into his
own at that time? And some time
further back it was Dezas and
others of the impressionists. The
French-Peruvian painter is like
most Of the artists who have been
neglected for years and then sud
denly emerges into the blaze of
fanatical admiration. He is a figure
dear to tradition. His life in the
islands of the South Seas, strange,
picturesque and semi-savage. has
excited the interest of all those
who have a taste for setting their
wits to the solution of the human
problem. as exemplified in the lives
of noted men. Gauguin died in the
Marquesas twenty years ago and
was buried by the people who
adopted him. The paintings of the
native women in Tahiti and the
Marquesas are against futuristic
scenic backgrounds which have no
relation to realism in the tropics.
Somerset Vaughan in his story
The Moon and Sixpence"-and il
you have not read 1t get it at your
public library at once-is supposed
to have taken Gauguin for his hero
Strickland. who like Gauguin gave
up Western civilization to finish his
days with the people of the South
Seas. Gauguin lived like the ma
tives, wearing a loin cloth and eat
ing their strange food.