The Washington herald., 1920-08-06
New York City
A Few Thoughts.
BY o. o. Mcintyre.

N
New York, August 5.-Thoughts
while stroIling around New York:
Longacre Square at 1880 a. m. Scut-
tling beetle-people. A few electric
signs still winking. No place so
quiet as a cabaret at this hour. The
fappers now dress like twins to at
tract attention. There goes a pair
in red. A window full of TASKS. A
leather lung hawker demonstrating
steel tires for autos
Blind Gus talking to Legless
Mike. Both subway news venders.
A porter asleep on a beer-keg. Two
| dead cats on a rubbish heap. A
jerking, pinch-faced drug nend.
Nuns escorting a flock of kiddies TO
school. The boys who wore the
sport shirts are now wearing pat
ent leather collars of all colors.
Margaret Anghn looking in on the
ruins of the Knickerbocker.
1t is 9 o'clock on Fifth avenue.
Freshly barbered brokers riding to
offices in limousines. Faces buried
in the financial pages and putting
| cigars vigorously. The mannikins
| showing up for work. Too much
| rouge and powder. The cabbies be-
| gan securing both sides OF the
| street for fares. There goes the po-
| lice commissioner car like a shot.
White capped nurse maids max
! ing for Central Park with their
charges. Anna Held's daughter on
the steps of the Savoy. A coupe
awaits. A ten-story building for
! dentists only. How do they murne
the screams? An opaque blur of
swirling rain. How quickly the
streets are emptied.
I'll got a toothpick here in the
Plaza and stand in the lobby. Maybe
live here. Gruff man Is known as
Merciless Blank. A Wall Street op-
orator who fought his way from
the bottom. 1t must be a lot of fun
to have money.
The sun is out again. A fruit
vending troubador playing a guitar
atop his strawberry cart. Here
come Ali Babi and his thieves
group of cloak room attendants on
| their way to an afternoon dansant
A group of Scandinavian sailor:
scuffiing on the sidewalk. What dc
they think this is? Scandinavia?
Broadway Is Amused.
Broadway has been greatly
amused by a young actor who wa:
picked out of a repertoire company
in New Jersey for a two-line part
on the Big Lane. He stands out In
frcnt of the Claridge daily boasting
: of his ability. the other afternoon
another actor came by.
How are things?" he asked the
/ new conner.
Fine" was the reply. I've Just
told Belasco where to get of anc
I'm waiting here to lunch with lie,
Shubert. I'm closing in my present
play to play a leading part mex
. week"
by the way" said the actor
friend as he started of. "is Eddi,
Sothern still with your
Billiard Ball Material.
There is good billiard ball mate
} rial in the head of the New Yorl
bigamist who kept a diary. Nov
they ere reading 1t in court and h,
hasn't any alibi.
= Hula Craze Flares Again.
E The Hawaiian hula dance Graz,
has fiared up again. The creates
exponent was Doraldino, who is sai(
= by the way to hail from Muncie
> Ind. She was the rage for a tim
and then she drifted to the cabaret
and finally the hula and shive
dances became passe. But neV
one has arrived from Frisco. Sh
: shivers nightly in a musical shoV
r and has a high sounding Hawaiian
name. She won fame at Tate's ii
the Golden Gate and the nigh
E crowds of Manhattan are gettinI
excited about her new shakes. On
Hawaiian band remains in tow
playing at a second rate resort. Al
the rest have returned to waikiki
Eeach.