The Washington herald., 1922-01-28
MINTYRE TELLS
OF POET CRUSHED
IN COILS OF CITY
Lashes Gotham in Verse
And Then Puts Bullet
Through Head.
Py o. o. M'INTYRE.


that Is told of New York's sulleh
cruelty to those struggling souls
who beat valiantly against the
rocks. He came from a Far West
ern city with his fair-haired bride
"a boy and girl in the first flush
of loves young dream.
They established themselves in an
attic near Sheridan Square. and he
set about to carve a niche for him
self as writer-a fashioner OF
rondelays and sonnets.
While hand in hand they climbed
Parnassus the gross mater'ality Of
months their meaGer hoard van
ished. The world gives little to
its sweet singers. but bravely they
thSilled to a high hope.
Nightly they went to the dingy
cellar cafes and partook Of the
scanty fare while he racked his
brain for inspiring lines. One by
one their articles OF clothing went
TO poverty's Unsuitable NAV - the
pawnshop.
unable to accompany him he took
baby's silk dress and placed II
on pawnshop counter to buy "a
bottle of milk for his bride.
The noYt morning, they took her
away to a hospital. and that night
they found him Sprawled across "A
bed-a gaping pistol hole through
his head. on a nearby table he
had poured out his venom against
the city's stern bludgeoninE with
his last hit Of verse. 1t was dedi-
Gated to New York" and it read:
Vulgar of manner. overfed. over
dressed and underbred.
Ucartless. Goddess. Hel's Delight.
Rude by day. and lewd by night.
BcGwarfed the man-enlarGcd the
brute
Ruled by boss and prostitute
Purple ROBBED and evil clad.
Raving. rotten. money mad.
\ squirminG herd in mammon y
mesh;
wilderness OF human flesh
Crazed with avarice. lust and rum
New York, Thy name is deltrium.
Haywood Broun tells Of star APP
pearinG in Pittsburgh in a play that
was attacked by the local critics
for its unseemly display Of passion.
The next night the star was in an
angry mood and il was intensified
when he saw a number of peopie
get up in the middle of big scene
and walk out. He finally rushed to
the foOtlights and shouted: ANY
one who thinks this play is immorai
is a pinhead." Several more got up
and walked out. sit down..
shouted the star as others got up.
At this point a stage hand stepped
out and laid his hand on the stars
shoulder. Mister" he said. its
fire"
Flask or tube walking sticks are
not new. At the Metropolitan Mu-
scum they have seventeenth Cea-
tury canes with tubes inside. Only
in those days the tube carried
smelling salts.
Two subway travellers got on Il.
Times square. They had inbibed
potent liquor and were in hlissful
mood. As they hung to straps one
made an aCrobatic effort to face
his friend and said thiCkly: What
tho baIly time is it," The other
fumbled in his VCStCoat--the on" IN
which the watch wasn't-and drew
forth a gold matchbox attached to
a watchchain. lie looked at il
seriously and observed. "lSh shuts
day" The other stared hlankly for
an instant, and then as he made
scrpentinc movement toward the
door. hicCoughed: Gosh. I-hic---
must get off here"
The New York drama has as its
prime motif these days rOllickinE
smashing fist fights where the hero
is. of course. always victorious.
Five current plays have as the big
scene bloody fisticurfs. In one the
thing is So real and ~nry- looking
that several women have actually
tainted. Another fight show heard
about it and secured a dozen or so
women to faint at the right mo-
ment. and then called for an am
bulance and had them taken to
hospital. But somehow or other
the newspapers didn't print any
thing about 1t.
There is an actress in New York
who is said by artists to have hands
as beautiful of those of Eleanora
Duse to which d'Annurzio dedicated
his Giaconda. They are as deli
cately Chiscled as a bit of sculp-
tors art and yet she has fat ankles
and ungainly feet. They were dis
cusSinG play for her in a pro-
ducer's office. 4 vaudeville actor
happened to he in the room. Fin
ally he thought up a bright idea.
why don't you have her do sin
clc-walking on her hands, he
suggested.
Wun,C WHO