The Washington herald., 1921-12-01
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NEW YORK. Nov. ao.-The East
Sides Fifth avenue il Division
street, dark and clamorous from the
Second avenue elevated that squats
above 1t like an ungainIy centipede.
A street Of adventure indeed!
Within half dozen blocks are zoo
cloak, suit and fur stores.
From the eternally lighted door
ways come the besuiling voices Of
the merchants: ''Niftick bargains.
something in dresses, ladyv--a
6aoei OF commercial droning that
tries to raise above the screech of
steel against steel Of the elevated.
1t Is teaminE center Of barter
and trade with people OF aIl> kinds
drifting along the pave. The
wealthy wife from uptown, tenn
porarily out of funds, drops down
there for an afternoon frock. Hood
ed Niobes and dusty Priams, with
eyes too dry for tears, stroll by
with gazes fastened hungrily on
the waxen models buried in wool.
fur and chiffon.
Gay, smiling young foreign girls
feast starved longings on the sar-
Florence in its happiest days must
have been something Of the same
thrill to the young Florentines.
Division street is single minded.
Not q pastry, art or collie shop
breaks the impressive march of
wearing apparel. No world of small
business swirls up to break the
monotony of Cloak and Suit Row.
Along the. Bowery not many
blocks to the northward is the
jewelry exchange, where hundreds
of trinklet sellers crowd one an
other daily outside their auction
rooms to swap wares.
A curb" where. diamond mer-
chants congregate for similar pur-
pose Is located at another compar-
atively nearby point-Forsyth and
Grand streets. But Of all, Division
street seeths with a peculiarly hu-
man and realistic atmosphere. 1t
Is all good natured. too. II one
merchant doesn't make q sale he
gladly passes the customer over to
his fellow merchant with a bow.
A very conscientious and ultra
hopeful author writes the following
letter to a New York magazine edi-
tor:
IT am enclosing herewith a short
story OF about 1900 words entitled
A Scream Kindly notice on page
5. in the last line. whether I have
spelt humble peg (the game boys
play with a knife) correctly. and IL
not please correct and publish
New York telephone girls never
talk back to angry patrons-they
just sing few bars of Wagner or
trill Pardon. so sorry" Even the
other day after an exasperated man
had spent ten nickles and shouted
Central. I hope your mashed po-
tatpes always have Jumps in them"
there was no echoing retort from
Central.
h A Broadway chestnut vender was,
rendered a $50 note for payment of
a 10 cent bag of chestnuts and rem
dered the change Immediately with
out comment.
At Brentano's the three best SELL
ing novels OF the week were: IF
Winter Comes" The Day of Faith"
and Main Street"
New York's social season is on.
The opera and the horse show have
opened. At the opera Galli-Curci
trilled through her role of violetta
in La Traviata"-a new Metropol-
itan star. At the horse show the
hackneys stepped up to their chins
in an entirely new surrounding.
Madison Square Garden Is now
given over to pugilisrn and aristo-
cratic sport lovers wended their
way to the armory, up in Ninety
fourth street.-the new home. Only
a few weeks and New York's myth
ical 400-really 10.000-will be
away to Palm Beach.
At 4 private dinner given whHe
Charlie Chaplin and Douglas Fair
banks were in New York the come
dians gave an impromptu satire on
a French drama. Douglas in per-
feet French told of his dead love,
his sense OF loss over the faithless-
ness of his mistress. Caplin replied
pathetically through the use of
such simple words as demi- -tasse,
garCon and donnez- moi l'addition.
Impromptu-but few well trained
acts ever registered such a hit.