The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1921-01-28
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New York. Anyone who lays
claim to being real denizen Of any
part of Greater New York and then
admits to having not been psycho-an-
alzed will shortly be met with scorn
and reputation, Unless you know
Just exactly what little complex" you
are carrying around with you, your
insistence upon ever having seen the
Grand Central station will be doubted.
It goes right along now with mani
cure and eyebrow shaping. | met one
apparently perfectly sane, balanced
girl the other day who told me casual
ly that she had tragedy complex"
and that ut was quite unfortunate, be-
cause she COULDN'T let anything in
her life reach happy ending Love
affairs, work, everything-this trag-
edy complex just compels her ito turn
them into sadness" And she is only
one of, I should Judge, at least 1,50O,-
900 New Workers. who have had some
such revelation made to them by the
experts who analysed their solids for
them.
Never were New York hotels more
constantly crowded than they are this
winter. What is the answer? Usually
quiet times In business mean plenty of
room. It used to be said that the price
Of securities on the stock exchange
would let you know how much trouble,
fanny, you would have in getting good
hotel accommodations in New York
on short notice. Stocks up, no rooms;
stocks down, all you want. But here
1t Is after the Christmas season, after
the motor show, with stocks still down
and every hotel in the city filled.
The liner Imperator brought "Pus-
syfoot" Johnson home from Ireland
the other day. He predicted that
northern Ireland would so dry but
didn't go into any more details as to
conditions a broad. He made two
speeches on the ship, coming over
"Did the speeches seem to affect the
sale of liquor aboard?" a reported
asked him. Mr.. johnson laughed.
"There wer more people drunk when
I goot through than there were be-
FORE" hereplied.
Frank A. Vanderlip has more i'm
mediate method of stopping such
sales. He bought pretty nearly all the
village of Sparta fe wmonths ago.
because 1t was a neighbor Of his and
he wanted it changed into more de-
sirable community. But one man held
out. Nick SelazzO, who owned a sa-
loon which Mr.. Vanderlip declares
was q real saloon in spite of this day
and age, refused to sell. Finally az
ter making the capitalist buy all the
property he had anywhere in the VI
cinty, including some land near Sing
Sing, he sold out to his completed. And
now the atmosphere is entirely as per
Mr.. vanderlip's instructions.
After so many "quee' plays, sad'
sordid, tragic, bleak, or uncanny, that
New York hos seen this season, there
is something exceedingly enJoyapie
about a production like Dear Me-"
which Just opened with Hale Tamil
ton and Grace LaRue in the leading
parts. It is Just another Cinderella
story, obvious in its plat, and not al
all like life. But it is as happy ana
cheerful and we'll done as was the
cinderella of our youth. And the audi
ence liked 1t Just as we used to that
story of tn slipper and the prince
Greenwich, Conn, the most effete Oh
all New York's environs, Is in the
throes of a hidden treasure craze. II
all developed when strange man
sought permission of the police CHIEF
to dig In the park. The story came ou'
that the would-be digger was an ex-
convict who had found note from an
other prisoner, since then electrocuted
for murder, stating that he had buried
$4,000 in that Greenwich Park. II
was all in real gold he said, and the
man left minute directions for find
ing. Now the police have taken charge
Of the park in its entirety and moi
even a child can carry toy spade into
It, until the law and order Of the towr
has got the gold in Its own right
hand, LUCY JEANNE PRICE.
The tandard Oil Company Of Cali
fornia is preparing to drill for oil In