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drifts through New York hotel
foyers these days. Each ocean
liner unloads its fashionable far
rage, for in Europe this is the
American season." Ladies' with
chic maids and fiamboyantly labeled
luggage. Men with black boards
and 'Homburg hats. And a lap dog
is a symbol of class.
To wax Gilbertian there is much
society Of very doubtful propriety."
The greyhounds, who ride the liners
to pluck victims at cards, are sprin-
killed. through the crowds. their keen
eyes aglitter in hawk k-Iike faces.
The adventures runs to tyne.
Black tailor-made suits, picturs
hats and touch of brazen in
science.
They chatter in French, at times
in German. and dining out is a xor-
geous event. At night the Euro
peans select the sedate French cafe
where soft lights and silence cast
shop not with the hoi-polloi but at
the shops cached in signless mag
nificence.
] sat the other night in n eaf.
given over to Europeans. The
walters have acquired the art or
dignity in .servitude and utterly
awe the bourgeolsie. They receive
a gratuity not as IL it was a de-
basing act but as II they were
granting a privilege accorded only
to the elect.
The women in low-cut evening
gowns had their long cigarette
holders to match their dress. They
leisurely blew ringiets ceilingward
In studied indifference. America,
they seemed to say, does not, know
| real suffering. Look at us.
There were men, too. in tweeds
with strong buck teeth and glacial
exterior. Cuff shooters who con-
tinually peeped at platinum wrist
watches and talked the monosylla-
bic chatter of the Strand-"My
eye" MY word" and "Cheeriom
At a table next to mine was a
fussy little man with side wheel
whiskers dyed black. One eye was
owlish from monocle. He slipped
Turkish coffee. Across from him
sat beautiful young girl. whose
eyes wandered about like those Of
Gagged animal. The garcon re-
| referred to His Whiskers as Your
Grace.
When the pair departed the gar
con. touched by the spirit that i'm
pels a monarch to speak to the
peasant. said to me: Another
UOOd American u;r
l used to valet that old bird and
| twenty years ago he was so gouty
he had to take his cocktails with
| out orange tuice!"
This new barber shop with the
symphony orchestra in the office
building that was once the Knick-
erbocker Hotel Is proving a great
source OF material for the Sunday
space writer's. Even New York Is
getting a thrill over a barber shop.
1t is supposed to be the largest one
in the world and 1t is indeed a lux
urious place. The BARRIERS speak
ony when spoken to, which is a
reason IL will never get my patron
age. There are a lot of things I
like to take up with BARRIERS. One
of Italian extraction has taught me
all l know about grand opera and
swedish barber tipped me on to
the finest and oldest restaurant in
all New York. And 1t was of no
consequence that when / visited ii
found the barber was the pro-
prietor. 1t was a good place.
In the past ten days it is esti-
mated that 5000 moving picture
players have arrived in New York
from the coast They are marking
time until the studios open up
again. Speaking of the movies,
Mary Pickford is playing next door
to Douglas Fairbanks on Forty
second street and a man who knows
tells me Doug is getting nearly
twice the patronage of Our Mary.
1t is perhaps just as well that they
went to Europe when they did.
Taking up the subject at the break
fast table might spoil an otherwise
perfect day, i imagine.