The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1921-12-19
new YORKS COMIC
PAPER POLITICIANS
AMUSE M1NTYRE
Wear Noisy Vests and
Address Their Wives
As "Mom."
By o. o. M.1NrYRf.

Up anu pretty pieased with
the posture of affairs. Played q
tune or two on the harpsichord and
away to walk. meeting Emma Ca
rus the play actress, who told Of
her new play BY Harold Bell
Wright. Saw. too. A. Belmont, the
banker, who bowed In fine friendIi-
ness.
Sat awhile with Chic Sale in his
dressing-room at a playhouse and
then to H. Roth's, the thinner. and
he gave me a potion Of japanese
wine and I was most foxed and W.
sang Frankie and Johnnie" and
The Captain Went Below to Ligh,
the Cabin Lamps"
To a cellar place in aramercy
Park for lunch. but no one about;
and SO to The Players. where r,
Kelly paid the chit and / was holp.
en- twice to German pancakes with
jelly Of currants. To q toy store
and bought some things for Percy
Thomass boy. who is Ill of a fever
In the evening with my wife and
mistress Gypsey O'Brien to see Ed
wynn and laughed at his drolleries
yet an inept show and then for q
walk and saw a policeman shoot
tnrsce at burglar. Home, where I
was saiuted by . letter from nv
rather. and I am resolved to see him
soon. so to bed reading late OF the
IRE OF Herman Melville; the mariner
ana mystic, a sadly neglected man
of letters.
New York's ward politicians run
TO the comic paper type. Their
vests are noisy and they cling to the
massive watch chains. Thew call
tne mayor by first name and speak
OFTEN Of how they had to fight their
way to the top. They refer to their
wives as Nom" And they seek 10
Impress everybody except perhaps
Mom.' who has seen them in thar
night shirts. In the old days tho
corner saloon was their hane-out
and they held afternoon reception.
at 3. Now they hold forth in little
lunch rooms.
He Is a dapper young man with
SICK little pencil mustache. Before
.he war he was professional
cancer In a gilded lobster cave.
Two weeks in London during the
war has given him = very English
y SO very!-accent. met him the
other day, and he confded that he
was still a professional" but has
deserted terpsichore for bootleg
ging. He did not want to be con-
FUSED with the ordinary type OF
hooch runner. why" he said.
with supreme haughtiness. 81
wouldn't carry a bottle of liouor
across the street for my best
friend" He sends II in trucks.
In other days they sang Of the
moon and sycamores along the
wabash. and made fortune for
Paul Dresser. Now the sensational
dance craze Is wabash Blues" and
all jazzed up you wouldn't know
the serenity that once belonged to
the Wabash
New York Is still paying tribute
to Stanford White. the architect.
The latest Is pair of bronze doors
which have been hung in the Me-
mortal Library of the New York
University. The doors were designed
by Lawrence White. a son. The Ii
brary building was one of the finest
works of the slain architect
Here Is a unique job. In mu-
steal melange there Is a dancer who
wears q scant bit of gold cloth and
the rest of her body, even her face
and hair. is covered with gold
paint. The young woman who ap-
plies the paint goes to the theater
at o'clock each night. gilds the
lily and goes on her way. Her sal
airy is s25 week and with IL she is
educating herself for a professional
career.
The ticket choppers are to be
abolished at the subway. The chop
pers are the worn old men who see
to IT that passengers drop their
tickets in the glass boxes. The
new plan Is to have automatic gates
only opened by dropping a nickel
In the slot. Aside from the saving
In chopper salaries the new plan
viii prevent brash young men from
crashing the gate Just as train
comes in and then thumbing their
nose at the gateman as the train
pulls out. There are many people
In New York who boast of never
paying subway fares. They worm
their way through the crowds with
expert swiftness and II they hap
pen to be caught they plead absent
mindedness and try another gate.
Ticket choppers are about the only
uniformed attendants in New York
who are never tipped.
The last time a statute peddler
was arrested on Forty-second street
without a license IT was explained
to him that he must go to the city
hall and get one or he would be ar
rested again and perhaps sent to
jail. The police found him three
days liter. Around his nsck he had
dogs license.
Alex Sullivan, q re orter on the
World, now rides about In a plush
Tined automobile. His song "Geor-
gia Rose" n lsaid to be paying him
royalties weekly In three figures.
In an interview he said she wrote
the words after he had enjoyed o
real Dixie chicken dinner.
Sir James Barrie IL soon to re-
inforce the procession Of overseas
authors who have been visiting "the
States" Ibanez, Maeterlinck. Ches-
terton. Squire, Wells-and then per-
haps the most popular of all, shy
and shrinking Barrie. Those who
know Barrie from visits In London
raw that uhAn ha arri,zAa aud ally