The Washington herald., 1922-07-02
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NEW YORK. July l.-Thoughts
while strolling around New York:
Laughing shopgiris summing them
selves on the library steps. The
old world and the new--the hanson
cab and limousine. Jauntily capped
Buttons from the big hotels with
short vest-like coats, airing poo
dies along the crowded avenue, and
always whistiins.
That bus nearly teetered over.
And / wrenched my neck. Ethel
Barrymore and two children going
to soda fountain. Groups of West
Indian boys chattering in French.
That plump little man In a derby
hat 10 one OF the city's shrewdest
criminal hunters Nothing so cum
ming as Chinese baby.
The call to tfffn: nobody calls It
tea any more. Anyway, it's mostly
gin. Mabel Norman in gingham
frock and bonnet. The duh. Ian
guid chess clubs: players sitting
like statues. / hope no one sends
me any more of those chain letters.
I've snapped three In two.
Stage supers, in Roman garb. get
ting fresh, air on IRE escapes. Cho-
rus girls chafing the street crowds
from dressing-room windows. As
kelcey Allen says, Good girls, but
not fanatics" Very few men can
resist a window filled with lounging
robes.
There's some talk of putting a
detective on the Ward case. Well
fed and healthy immigrants moving
like cattle toward the railroad ter
minals. Wish ! could think what
my wife put that string around my
nnger for. How the soda fountains
hum. And the cinemas are de-
serted.
Summer in New York, as Ring
Lardner puts IL. 10 hell. Inciden-
tally, Lardner has written the best
baseball stage skit ever seen in
town. But he's not funny to talk
with. 1t is too hot to stroll or
think. can think Of nothing but .
messy space under q tree by the
swimmin' hole.
There was a meeting In the Town
Hall one day recently attended by
writers and authors. A famous
judge of beauty declared that in all
his experience he had never seen
SO many downright ugly pople col
lected together. 1t recalls the time
Irwin Cobb. then reporting on the
World. referred to some prisoners
face in uncomplimentary terms. The
next day he received the following
note: Dear sir seen what you
said about me. You amt no Lillian
Russell yourself" 1t is true that
New York's writing crowd does not
furnish the handsome prototypes OF
Lord Byron. Yet IL has its beauty
squad. Winston Churchill has been
called one Of Americas handsomest
men Mrs. Mary Roberts Rinehart
IL considered beautiful. Still she 10
really from Pittsburgh and Church
Ill Is now in England. Let me
think! Maybe the beauty Judge
was right after all. Oh. yes! There's
Julian Street. He could serve as a
magazine cover model. Mrs. Wilson
Woodrow might. also. This thing Is
becoming involved. Full stop right
here
There Is a s-year-old younEster
selling newspapers At Fifth avenue
and Forty-second street who may
some day own the southwest corner
where he hawks his wares. He never
asks you what paper you want once
you have named the paper at the
irst purchase. His feat Of memory
IL remarkable for he has some one
thousand customs daily. and II Is a
change trade, too. He Is a Russian
lad who came over in the steerage
with his parents Ave years ago.
New York hotels are bowling
that the Broadway restaurants have
killed their dining-room trade. The
hotel patron only sleeps at the
hotel. The complaint is that the
restaurants along Broadway serve
liquor. The hotel proprietors may
not know II. but liquor may also be
secured, with very few exceptions,
from nearly all head walters. The
real reason for the success of
Broadway restaurants Is that there
is more life and excitement in them
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