The Washington herald., 1921-10-01
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NEW YORK. Sept. so.-The satur-
day afternoon lunch hour in New
York takes on the festival mood
Business comes to full stop at
noon even in the newspaper shops.
Cliff dwellers flock to gilded hotels
to celebrate, and the fete continues
until after tea time in the late
afternoon.
visited place where Manhattan
Is at Its gayest at the lunch hour.
The tables were filed with dilet-
tanti, demi-monde. dowagers and
dainty damsels.
One knew when the spender ar
rived by the leap of the headwaiter
to the entrance. Palms touch light
ly, and. there is a salaamins that
Is gagged by the size of the bill
pressed to the palm.
TIVE prim ladies-perhaps school
teachers from Dubuque-simulated
worldltness as the all-French menu
was placed before them. And stilI
two others at nearby table had fed
the dying spark of youth with cos
metic fuel and puffed gold tipped
cigarettes. waiting hopefully for
Sonneone 10 pay the check,
The gray marcelled dowager was
fussy about her shirred eggs with
chicken livers. Not like those at
Mentone" she shifted SO all might
hear. Young blades cried "L'addi-
ton" after ordering corn beef and
cabbage.
The majority indulge in Gotham's
supremest art-showIng off. A
Deautiful young stage star entered.
nanked by jealous courtiers, who
almost fought to pay the check. The
obese gourmet. with ripples of fat
overlapping his collar, squirrel two
hippant young fiappers and carried
the cocktails In q case camoufiaged
as a book.
1t was easy to see that their talk
would turn to fur coats, limousines
and duplex apartments. For ladies
must live! The light gossip of the
scandal weekHes is aired. People
who have only a passing acquaint-
ance bow in the manner of old
friends. 1t is an atmosphere redo
lent with cigarettes and surrepti-
tious cocktails. Sketchy and super
ficial-but impressively Manhattan.
There is one actor on Broadway
who is not given to boasting about
the part he now plays in a new
performance. He takes the part of
the bull ape in "Tarzan.'
Society is buzzing over another
one of those strange midnight slug
gings in the smart set, The son of
noted banker was found uncon-
scious just after he had left the
apartment of a young and dashing
widow. He was taken to a hospital
where he lowered between life and
death for several days. and now on
the road to recovery he refuses to
give the name of his assailant
Three similar affairs have taken
place this summer, yet the police re-
main strangely passive. Perhaps
they are too busy. Just now. they
are waging a fierce and relentless
war on unmuzzled lap dogs
Little 1rvie Berlin, who used to
tickle the ivories for tossed nickels
in Paul kelley's back room at the
Pell and Mott street junction of
Chinatown. is soon to open his new
Music Box Theater. which is just
finished at the cost of a cool million.
He will appear himself in the musi-
cal revue' Chuck Connors. the pearl
derbied mayor of Chinatown, said
several years before the great ad-
venture: "Irvie has gone up town
among the swells. But he'll get
along. He's got music in his soul
and a great head for figgers."
Chucks s prophecy seems fulfilled, for
Berlin is many times a millionaire
and he's only frail, swarthy young
boy