The Washington herald., 1922-06-05

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NEW YORK. June 4.-This is the
story of WI Kim. To the narrow
crooked streets of Chinatown he
came fresh from the Dragon Land
only few short moons ago. He
wore robins egg blue Jacket.
trousers of yellow and a gold bro
caded skull cap. For weeks he
ventured no further from the dried
fruit store of his cousin than Cnat-
ham Square.
His father was a great tea mer-
chant in Hong Kong. And Wu
Kim had been schooled In the an
cient China fashion. Some day ne
might have been a mandarin. He
had the naivette of country
school girl. When he smiled ne
showed cleaning. firm white teeth
and when white women mission
aries spoke to him his cheeks
famed red.
His eyes glowed with wonder
ment at the new land. Hal, who
sets type on a Chinese morning
newspaper and Is also a scholar,
took a fancy to the young man
and one evening they decided to
explore the Occidental flair of
broadway. Their steps took them
to musical revue in Forty second
street.
In the balcony wu Kim beheld
the magic of the theater's Area
dian abracadabra. He saw a rural
garden agleam with lights sud
denly fade into a heavenly dome
OF blue and clearly etched against
the background was a white but
terfly poised on one toe for flight.
Wu Kim sucked in his breath.
She Is the fairest white lily ]
have ever seen" he said
To Hal In perfect English for WI
had mastered many languages. In
that mysterious. unobtrusive fash
lon OF /the educated Chinese he
learned the dancers address.
He stood one night near her
apartment house door just TO
When the vision of his dreams
appeared she glanced at WI Kim
and bis odd dress. "Ooow she gig
gied, >"1ook at the comic Chink
You Can have the pants, I choose
the coat" And they went laugh
ini: down the street.
Ard so II was tina. late ;hat
night in a Doyer street fruit store
a pistol cracked. The police came.
Wu Kim stood m thc center Of
the ship coughing jerkily. Then
he slumped to the floor. In his
Jacket pocket was a picture torn
from a newspaper of the fair
lily"
There Is a type of glad person
who will insist to cashiers thai
too much change has been given
them. They know perfectly well
that II is not the case, bbt they
get a kick somehow or other in the
pose. There is grouchy cashier in
a Longacre Square restaurant who
cured one the other day.
You've given me a dollar too
much change" he said.
.All right. Good-by." said the
cashier snatching the dollar bill
and tucking 1t back into the till.
Now that New York has read that
King George wears a brown derby
the hat shops are displaying them
in their windows. A few weeks
ago a brown derby was an tnfal-
Indeed the flappers called rural
visitors brown derhies.'
1t has been discovered that the
first cabaret in New York, where
the dancers and performers ming
led with the spectators, was Pal
mos Concert Hall at Broadway and
Chambers street 1t was very pop
ular in 1854. Men drove there in
four wheelers behind spanking
bays-it was then uptown New
York-and the bellies of the town
made the resort a show place for
their new gowns. Today there Is
cabaret at Broadway and 242d
street with a. jazz orchestra. And
the real cabaret belt is in Harlem
at 125th street. Only two restau-
rants in the entire Times Square
section are presenting cabaret per-
formances.