The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1921-08-08
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Lucy Jeanne Price

New York. - Never has New YorK
city gone a-gypsying so numerousiy 40
this t, season. Maybe it's TIE high rent &
ais maybe it's some post-dated erect
of the war. Maybe it's the sumuia'ive
effect of the use Of the automopiie'
Anyway motor gypsying' mas ah
amazing proportion Of our popu'a-
ton strongly in hand. Special BUN
galow bodies" are passed every lew
minutes on any country road leading
from New York which one may choose
these DAYS. With windows, hunks ana
cooking facilities, the motor gypsy mas
the world at his command, accoralhs
to those we stopped and talked TO- All
regular, longtime Manhattan is'a"
ers, they were too.
Ny
Why be content with simple musl
curtains when at his command are all
the weayes Of Florence and wherever
Duchesse and the rest Of the laces are
,,odoo On argued a rather skillful art
lat nthe uptown studio district OF
New York. Consequently passersos
- nowadays enviously admire the hahs
,nes in that second floor front apart
ment But those who get inside-tahe
It out in gasping. Ror the curtains are
made of paint, just simple oil paint
The pattern is done right on the VIII
dow pane, but so cleverly that from
the sidewalk the deception is compie'e
Ny
F. M. Cowell, manager Of summer
hotel Just north of the New YORK Guy
limits, has discovered the truth OF the
fact that no asset is unalloyed. "A
pretty little lake shimmers d short DIS
lance from, the hotel and the goil
course hugs its shore. AS piece OF
scenery it was fine, but people kept
jumping into 1t to swim, and the MI
Cowell was all against his lake peihs
used that way so he bought MIN d
fine. vigorous alligator and gave 1t the
lake for is home, Great! Not SWIM
mer swan there any more. But the al
ligator clings close to the shore ano
the golfers get so fused they can
golf. Also 1t eats up all the balls ina
slip to the waters edge. And golfers
are as essential to the welfare OF tn
hotel as swimmers are not. so MT
Cowell is in deep quadry'
: NY
Gertrude Anterior is one of the fic
ton writer's who give particular fas
cination to the days just preceding IN
Civil War - particularly the days a
spent in San Francisco. She has don
this specially we'll in her new fill
drama, Don't Neglect Your WIRE
Mrs. Atherton is always picturesqu
and so is the city Of the Golden Cat
The combination results In stor
with big dramatic interest, told witt
cleyerness and subtlety. From u
title. one would know something OF tn
plot; but the complexities, the inten'
tiles. which Mrs. Atherton can weaN
= around a plot framework are new
completely unrolled until the last mil
ute before the curtain falls. The stol
carries one from San Francisco SOC
ETY., where DR.. Howard Talbot neglec
his young wife he brought across. u
continent from Boston, to thu. FL
Points in New York City, and bal
again, with drama in every film al
geographical fact, And the best pa
of It is that is never becomes mel
drama which might so easily have ha
pened. Mabel Julenne Scott IS t
young Boston bride, and Lewis $40
plays the part of Langdon Nustus,
man who takes the place In her he'
lost by the neglectful husband. Cnar
Clary, Kate Lester and Josephine q
we'll are others who stand ont In
cast. It Is well-acted throughout, a
well-directed.
Ny
The first time that the state
making marriage by contract valid
been invoked was in the marriage
other day of DR.. Leslie Speir, an
sistnnt professor at the University
Washington, now here giving su
mer course at Columbia, and NJ
Erna Gunther, of Brooklyn The m
rage contract was signed in Bro
way law Office, after permit had b
granted by the Supreme Court.
that was all there was to the cerem'
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Next October, New York is to b
a Swedish celebration, as a suplen