The Washington herald., 1921-07-22
NeAporkcity
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while strolling around New York;
A ranchman. booted and spurred,
dining at child's. Probably a movie
extra. Dwarfs with canes summing
themselves along the curb. Every
other window has a girl demon
strating detachable eye-lashes. A,
girl with a chinchilla dolman slip
ping into the side entrance of n
pawn shop.
A street of garages and dough.
nut shops. Hairy armed mechanics
with smudgy faces. Two blocks
away the docks. Smell Of dead fish
and bilge water. Barefoot women
hanging over fire escape rails.
Patient old kindling women with
mountain high bundles on their
heads. Economic ,heroines. Foreign
born children lolling about listiess-
ly in doorways.
Back on Broadway. Nat Lewis.
He haberdashes TO theatrical folk.
Never misses a first night. No
woman carries parasol any more!
All the Bronx is turning out to see
the fiddish movie THE Golem."
Rougishly rouged girls going to the
Columbia burlesque show. In the
old days they used to sneak In and
sit In curtained boxes. Now they
sit In the front row and smoke
| cigarettes.
Half the theaters dark. Hurrying
crowds filtering Into the subway
kiosks-like rabbits into their war;
rem. There goes Will Payne, the
author. Salt water taffy hutches.
broadway is looking more and more
like the Atlantic City boardwalk
Even the movies have ballyhoes to
coax in the crowds. A fallen horse
Crowds block the street.
New Jersey rustics gazing at the
metropolitan wonders. You can tell
! them by the red clay on their feet.
| You can't blame them for looking.
| Every summer the roof OF my mouth
gets sunburned from looking at the
tall buildings. And I've lived here
twelve years. And am still afraid of
| moving stairs.
moth eaten monkey clineing
| tightly around the neck of a leg
less. sightless beggar. Public
squares dust blown and stolid. Mid
summer loungers mapping and fam
ming away flies. A cool looking
restaurant. Here's where eat.
|
spendthrift mIllionaires. The head
waiter of a magnificent eatery told
me that for the bountiful gratuity
he preferred the visiting soG-buster
TO the son of a millionaire. The
young man from Hohokus having
his annual fling has read so much
about huge tips that he thinks any
thing under a SO bin will be tossed
back at him. The information VOL
unteered by the headwaiter came
after a well-known spendthrift had
| departed with two young ladies.
| His dinner check came to $25 and
he gave the waiter s2-the head
| waiter nothing. And" continued
the headwaiter, "ses that young fell
low over there in the green suit
| with large Adams apple. He has
! been shucking off IS bills to every
| waiter in the place. And he gave
me a half century note. Pm afraid
his keeper will be along soon and
make us give it back"
The motif Illuminating Mendels-
sohn's Spring Song" and a popular
Broadway chansom was the same,
thanks to the plagiaristic composer
who may be seen dashing through
the town any afternoon after his
o'clock breakfast in a demon motor
car made especially in France. In
his country place he hired an art
collector to doll UP the library with
some fine pictures. He arrived when
| the collector was hanging one.
This is a Vandyke," said the col
lector.
| "A Vandyke," said the composer.
81 didn't know that was the name
of a picture, 1 thought it was a
beard"
Madison Square Garden now has
the largest swimming pool in town.
1t permits the one piece bathing
suits and the Broadway chorus girls
are flocking to the place.