Putnam patriot., 1922-04-07

toria. the Mctropole had a meaning all
 its own, and the days of the Knicker
 booker, the Astor and the jazz cabar-
 ct had yet Co come Rector's was
 name to eonjure with in the evening" 8
 entertainment. and Child's Resfaur-
 ants were a novelty and a delight
 But now again, regard youl Begin
 ming with the Circle and its new clus-
 ter of mountainous buildings, you
 move downward of an evening
 through q new Broadway, one that
 has gained multiplicity of theatres.
 of restaurants. and even brighter
 lights. Any one of six or seven vast
 movie palaces with their symphony or
 ehestras and their pipe organs may
 hold you for an hour And then you
 may start in search of night life-not
 the old-time night life when China
 town and summing were the vogue,
 but 8 new night life of small, crowded
 restaurants, of syHcopatei bands. of
 strange motions performed in the
 name of Terpsieho5e of straN clad fe-
 males performing the metropolitan
 idea of the eestaslas ef south Sea ls-
 hand prineesses.
 lt may be chat sou sill search in ihe flickerine si.ns af De theatres for che names of some aefar or actress who thrilled and uIeasei you on some former visit. YoI Maz Do some col lege youth gFowH HyrraleHt who isI still able to find JuIia sauderson, Bil- lie Burke and an rtrf decreasing nun bcr of Actresses of ihc bon-hon school But you may say e eoursalf. Where, oh. where. are Nat Goodwin and Max inc Elliott, where Blanche Walsh who writes the plass now that Clyde Fitch is gone: wheae s Hattie Nil- Hams, and where Is Frank Daniels, and what have they done with King Cole in the kniekcrhoe kee And you may ask in vain for you Nil not ind them Instead. your knowing friend may tell you that an actress of whom you have never heard. nameH Pauline Lord, is giving the best individual performance of the season. Tn respect to your age and traditions he Hsas take you to see .Mariolainc, whI6h lon years ago you saw as "PomaHder Walk. But he will advise hy ali means that you go see one of the Jazz shows. some thing like Good Morning. nearie, or Fer Goodness, Sake And sou will 2 probably find that geu, teo. hke New ! York. have changes saud deal. and E vou And the stronger dIet ef Coed 2 Morning. Dearie" more e year taste . than the daintier aad more frarile fare of Mari elaiHs=
 Or. fl you are musical. you Wtl van der towards Fifty Seventh Street and Carnegie Hall. and [ you are a Late Victorian you Will say But who are these people You wtll ask where are the stars of yesterday Ysaye. Paderewski. Zeisler. Godow sky. dc Pachman. Gadsh and Sem brieha You nay find, as in the the atre. one or two of your own epoch of reminiseenec. talve, for example. singing near sixty with a voice Of It E tie worn glory. and Hoffman and krcislcr, whom years ago you heard as child HrodiEies, now become the supreme artists of their time.
 Asain yeu may be literary and you may have known some of the lights of the books and periodicals of other days. You may have seen the genial HoWells m hi. morning walk on he Avenue. or nave known the gentle Glider and his more brusque and yer satile sister. And now you look in the new uptown windows of Scribner's and Duuons and Putnam. and you find them crowded with things that were not of your day-Rhotoeraphs of young authors writing successfully of aaraers. odd hooks about oddcr eN perimcuts wth the teachings of Freud. first novels of incomprehens bic content bz youths whose slick hair and shckeF brains you neither admire nor unaeHs anal Or again you may be asked 10 literary evening, and there yoa receive a jolt. For in this gathering of harn speetaeled women long haaHa nales. and short haired fensales, yaa see nothing that you rec arniac You hear queer lumhles of
 words called nortry ard stin queerer 5umbles called prose You come away ruazied ac,d reflective. fatigued lt is all so 6egll3ering IL Is New 1orl