The Washington herald., 1922-07-26


NEW YORK. July 25.--Fifth ave-
nue's kaieidoscopics shifts offer an
everchanging vista of the varied
metropolitan moods. Even those
merry souls In four wheelers who
leave the supper clubs in wilted
evening clothes to watch the "dawn
bust" are Indicative of New York's
restlessness.
But II Is around O'Clock when
the tide of traffic has run out that
Fifth avenue becomes the highway
of aristocratic spiendor. 1t Is
claimed by its own. The fhen in
dinner Jackets take their constitu-
tional-jauntily correct In every
sartorial detail.
The drawing rooms shed their
soft glow. Immobile buffers take
their naughty stand at the iron-
studded double gates. The smartest
horse drawn vehicles with their Sc
ductive figures in gay evening
frocks flash north and south.
The soft cadence of stringed or
chestras from the -fronted
court yard dining rooms and the
odor of expensive perfumes float
out upon the cooling night. Far up
where the mansions have their
lawns Is the CLEAN of marble. walks
and fountains. 1t, Is a solitary,
dreaming atmosphere smacking of
riches.
The great cathedrals present
subdued gloom. relieved only by the
tall altar candles. There is, too.
thick stiffness about the club lounges.
Indeed the entire avenue appears to
be hushed in a silence of mutual UNI
derstanding.
II Is the only hour during the day
when the street Is not cioggeds with
its racing. jostling tide of humanity.
A famous millionaire dying in Flor
ence recently said to his wife as the
soft beauty of the Florentine evening
came: I'D give all own to have my
last hour on Fifth avenue between
and -
Artists have painted and poets have
sung the beauty of the flood of amber
lights. cleaning like some magic
necklace. up and down the avenue.
But they have to be seen to be ap-
preciated
1zzy Einstein. the demon hooch
sleuth with a hundred DISCUSSES,
has been offered $500 a week to
star in melodramatic offering. He
turned down one offer to appear In
a modern version Of Ten Nights in
L L.
lyn product who has become as ia
nous in New York as the Wool
worth Building. No morning paper
is complete without some account
of his rum hunting exploits.
There Is a piano player in a mu-
sic shop on Broadway who has
memorized every popular tune in
the past five years and can play
any one of them withou: missing a
note. He works from noon until
midnight. And no one who listens
to his tunes would ever imagine
that he Is stone deaf.
The society reporters are broadly
limiting that a divorce Is soon to
cloud the romance OF the youthful
head of one of Americas richest
families. The young husband. it
Is said. has become enamored with
former vaudeville cancer. So far
they have never been seen in pub
lie together, yet he is said to pay
frequent visits to her at her hotel
suite. The chief basis. however. for
the rumors of separation Is that the
young heir and his wife are never
seen together. That is enough to set
the tongues wagging. 1t is remind-
full of Ren VOLTS meeting with an
old acquaintance. How Is it," in
quired the acquaintance. that you
never write anything about me any
more in your column,
II don't know of anything to write"
replied Wolf.
WELL" said the friend. lust 'ru-
NOR me-"