The Washington herald., 1921-11-14
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NEW YORK. Nov. ia page
from the diary Of a modern Samuel
Fepys Up and about early in low
spirits. At Cafe Franchise / had a
fried pullet. and Leon Enrol. the
comick actor. sat awhile telling me
q drollery and drove me as far as
his Inn in his benzine buggy.
strolling on Forty-second street,
CHANGED to see young Lord Astor.
who appears to have grown to good
health, whereas he was puny. Go
ing to an ugly street In Helrs
Kitchen, 1 made shift 20 secure a
joiner for my wife's mother, but
an ill-tempered fellow would not
take any work.
Home and at my serivenihg, and
jay Kaufman came. and We sent a
gay telegram to Miss Francins Lar
rimore, who Is play acting in Chi
cago. Our house maid in At OF
terror told us of a fellow coming in
from the street to an anteroom and
pistoling himself, and we watched
them take him away in q litter
from our window.
In the evening my wife and I be-
thought ourselves to go to a Kosher
inn on West Houston street for
dinner, where We had a mess Of
pottage, some chicken livers and
stuffed fish. very noble. and then
walked in the slums watching the
push-cart men sell their wares I'M
der the banjo torches. So home and
to bed.
The jargon OF the New York
newsies changes with the seasns.
They used to cry, Evening poi
pers? Then a few years ago they
sang. Here's y'ore! Get your
papes." Now, in the Times Square
district. they are yelling, (which
Is 1t Name your pape!" Pro-
nounced pay-po.
New York again has Louis Sherry
His old place on Fifth avenue was
turned into metropolitan bank. and
Sherry went to Paris. His new RESI-
taurant is at Park avenue and Forty
ninth street. When ! first came to
New York Sherry's for lunch was
my goal and my purse whispered
Child's. 1t was considered devilish
to drift intp the old Sherry's in the
late afternoon and pay 20 cents for
a Martini when one could go any
where else on Fifth avenue and get
the same drink for Is. Then. too,
Sherry had the never-to-be forgotten
olives and sailed almonds to whip
up the thirst for just one more. Up
stairs over old Sherry's were a few
rooms for bachelors-and the richest
bachelors in town lived there. The
old corner will never be the same.
SILK hat Harry and his barouche
drawn by two white chargers moved
to stand at Union Square. One
had to engage him days in advance.
Now he rarely has a customer.
Art is simply going to the bow
vows. Guy Pene Du Bots comes
out fatty with the shocking state
ment that no one is doing anything
for art these days but the Dadaists.
We know a lot Of chorus girls who
are simply devoted to Dadaism-at
least they are eternally talking
about their sweet Daddies-but we
didn't know II had reached such
high favor in the realms of art.
The native New Yorker feels
quite proud over walking one block
and meeting Admiral Earl Beatty,
>hiSi army ueneTdl DlaE OF italy
and Marshal Foch. The three dis
tinguished visitors happened to be
walking in the same bloch on Fifth
avenue the other evening around 9
o'clock.
There are a lot Of people who
| say George N. Conan left America
a broken-hearted man. His heart Is
with Broadway and he would rather
be producing a show than doing
anything else. Yet his recent split
with the actors organization has
made It impossible. Those who
saw him at the pier to say good
bye were struck with his change
in appearance. He was not the
jaunty, flag swinging comedian with
the nasal twang OF a few years
/ ago. He seemed far older than
his years and there was a lack of
his youthful enthusiasm. George
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