The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1921-12-23
MnVTYRE Tells
OF BRAVE ACTOR
WHO IS MODEST
Wounded in War, Curbs
Press Agent Who Would
Glorify Him.
By o. o. M'INTYRE.

NEW YORK. Dec. e2-Thoughts
while strolling around New York:
The drone of a plane. And nobody
looks up. That's New York. Su.
perior and cocky. Olivc-clad foot
men with feathered hats. Piumed
vassals Fiddle-faddie and nap
doodle. Self-conscious rustics rid.
ing on a moving stairway.
Ditch diggers chucking at a mon
ocied dandy. Nothing 50 gloomy
as an empty stage. Fine ladies
swishing to hear Farrar. More
scents than ever blew from Araby
Sallow'faced youths and bare
kneed girls filling the Danish pas
try shops. A group of Dervish
tumblers rolling dice.
Faversham and his canary gloves.
Sandwich men with heads bowed
to the wind and mouths in grim.
straight lines. ! wonder how much
I'm overdrawn at the bank! Tessa
Costa, the singer. Sounds like a
city In Ecuador. Play readers al
ways wear ponderous glasses.
shoppers taking free violet-ray
treatment through drugstore
window. That looks like Frank
Harris. Roses in jars OF alcohol.
Gay flowers, I'll say. Also. bum
wheeze. A horse and sulky. and
the crowds stare. Debbies tripping
to o'clock tea. Here are ladies'!
On with the dance,
Obscure little Punch and Judy
theaters spreading butterfly philoso.
ply. While the rabble goes to gim-
crack farces. DIR. J. Rankin Towse
the scholarly critic of the Evening
Post Wonder what has become Of
all the famous barroom paintings!
In comic opera in Columbus
Circle the newly elevated king
makes a grand entrance. A cou-
rier salaams and shouts: Your
highness" The king flashes back:
Five feet seven inches" and the
night I was there they had to take
a fat man out He was about to
expire from laughter.
In one OF the most popular plays
in New York Allan Pollack is the star.
He was the young actor who quit his
job when war was declared and came
back shot through the neck and
stomach and stabbed in the chest.
Most of the time he is in constant
pain and yet he says that when he Is
playing he is absolutely free from
pain. And SO he plays-giving a most
delightful performance. He has re-
fused to permit his press agents to
exploit him as a hero. The truth is
that he should have been a tiger Of
adventure in real life. but mysterious
chance made him an actor. He, like
Cellini. should have had priceless
jewels to play with and bombs to
fling. TO relieve the rich, eager nature
that came to him straight from the
steaming earth. I saw him the other
day. pale and gasping. making his
way through a side street. Although
In his early 3os his hair is silver
white and he looks 50.
The average tip to mattresses in the
Childs' restaurants is 10 cents. One
waitress in a lower Broadway link in
the chain has saved enough money out
OF tips in a years time to buy a
house on the West Side. Also she is
to marry a man upon whom she
waited and he is quite we'll to do.
They caught little rat-faced pick
pocket in the Times Square subway
station the other day. He had Just
extracted a hip roll from an unsus-
pecting pumpkin who was watching
the express trains fly by. The dip was
nervous from drugs and had a rack
ing cough. 1T was my last job" he
said. Il wanted to get enough to get
to Arizona"
Suppose you wanted to get we'll and
begin all over again." said a cynical
lieutenant Yes" was the reply.
We'll, what would you do then to
make a living?"
Lift feathers. OF course" said the
pickpocket.
There Is something engagingly
frank about the pickpockets Of the
younger set