The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1921-11-21
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NE" YORK, Nov. 20.-A page
from the diary of a modern Sam
uei Pepys: Lay late. This day my
wife' poor wretch. good naturally
instanced many of my frailities and
am resolved to labor more dill
gently Came A. Dwan and e. Sell
~yn TO tell OF trip they are to
make shortly to India to make a
cinema play and | wish / might
go.
AFTER breakfast, by DR.. Dorsey's
lucky advice, l went to an auction
ana got great writing table with
many drawers and a soft chair for
to. which put my heart into great
JOY. V. Porter told me OF M.
Nicholson. the Indian pamphleteer,
oeins in the. city i'll and / called to
see him but found him away.
Home where. Grace Corson, the
fashion thinner. came and drew a
picture Tor our guest book and so
at my stint, doing many things
that should have been done months
ago.
In the evening to the invitation
performance of Billie Burke's play
and found her delightful; also Mr..
Lunt. Saw there Mistress Marlowe,
Mr.. Sothern. Frank Craven. Mar
Jorie Rambeau. AL Jolson, Lionel
BARRYMORE. Victor Herbert AID F.
Ziegfeld. who made sport of my
gay surtout. So to bed
Peter Maher. hallowed by blessed
memories. is now working for the
city along New York's docks.
Twenty years ago, a broth OF boy.
black browed and blue-eyed, he
was the idol Of the pugilistic world.
He packed mighty punch and his
orogue and sunny smile endeared
him to tickle public. He reigned
in the days OF Bob Fitzsimmons and
Tom Sharkey and once gave the
latter fearful drubbing.
A New York wife declares that
she bobbed her hair so that she
might go to the barber shop with
her hubby. o, yes, she was a
newlywed
A block on West Fifty-seventh
street. directly off Fifth avenue.
has become New York's Glittering
rue de la Paix. 1t has become the
sacred pasture of the rich shoppers.
The little shops are in private man.
sions and laden with the. intoxicat-
ing flair of wealth. They are as
quiet as a museum. thickly carpet
ed and only tiny brass signs
herald the name. The street is
lined with expensive motors. Now
and then r. broueham drives UP and
shy old ladies step forth to be re-
ceived with great Difference by the
uniformed doorman. The doorman
knows his New York. The salmon
pink limousine may shelter a
chorus girl but the brougham in
variably means Knickerbocker ar
istocracy.
One-O'clock Sing Hoy has re-
turned to Chinatown. He is a
dwarfish Chinese who came there
long before Chuck Corners and
his pearl gray derby. Every night
at l o'clock he would go to a little
shop in Pell street and read a
chapter from the Bible that he kept
in the back room. He never ex-
planned why he performed this
nocturnal ritual. Two years ago he
disappeared 1t was whispered that
a Tong was was too blame. He
came back as mysteriously as he
left. Jus been all samee away"
was his laconic comment. And
again he is making his nightly pill
| grimage to the little shop in Pell
| street
On the Bowery are "reliever
shops" where unfortunates may go
and exchange a fair pair of shoes
for shoes beyond repair and get 10
or Is cents in cash. Just now the
"reliever shops" are doing a flour
| ishing business.