The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1922-06-07
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NEW YORK. June s.-Theuehts
while strolling around New York;
Young ROLES in Elton jackets. MD.
inettes and parvenue. Sparkling
like wild wine. The overtone of
romance bridal pair leaving the
St Regis in q milk white car. Soggy
women flower vendors trailing be-
hind.
A Chinese laundry in the per-
fumed area of Madison avenue. My
boyhood ambition was to learn their
labial technique of sprinkling shirts.
street of private boy and girl
schools. An air of profound peda-
gogic runblebumble. My vote still
goes for the little red school house.
And the bean shooter.
A Russian prima donna. With coal
black eyes and a passionate gusto.
Conway Tearle with a white Es-
kimo dog. Blurred faces in the dim
lit waiting room of a Swami. How
does one learn the Swami business?
A Greek theater for al fresco spec
tators. Many of whom couldn't
shirt-sleeved fellow with hairy
The push button period. Front
doors that swing open to cleo
tricity. Always a crowd gazing at
the facade of st. Thomas. Bronzed
and worldly sea captains enjoying a
promenade. The sailor boys spend
their of hours rowing in Central
Park Lake. Prof. Brander Matthews.
Shifting procession Of glossy
motors.\ A lap dog in every limou-
sine Weary ditch-diggers stop to
watch and attempt feeble Jocosity.
Riding academies and groups of
lank, ashen grooms. There goes
Mrs. Howard Chandler Christy out
for a canter. A Viennese pantry
shop heralds: All OF our mattresses
are red-ha'red."
Frederick Macmonnies, the sculp-
tor. His Civic Virtue" pufted him
into the first pages A fat. beefy
shirt-sleeved fellow with hairy
forearms carrying a butterfly net
Doesn't seem right. Anyway IL a
fellow wants to chase butterflies
why not go over on Broadway?
A Lothario came out of the ex-
elusive East Side recently to mingle
with the white light crowds. He
was attracted to a reigning beauty
in a musical comedy that has had
long run. Her part in the show
is negligible save that she wears
stunning gowns. An Introduction
was sought and several nights later
he took her out for an after-theate.
evening of the cafes. The sum total
of her conversational powers was
expressed in the one line: Amt
that just perfectly dandy"
Gypsyland, a nocturnal haunt that
had a sudden popularity after mid
night, has been CLOSED. 1t was over
on Second avenue, but 1t brought
the Broadway pleasure-chasers. In
fact. too many of them, for the
police stepped in. One of the cher
amusements of the evening was a
pair OF roosters that were placed
on table in the center of the dance
floor. A pan of Scotch whisky was
furnished from which they drank
copiously, and the amusement was
furnished by the interest of the
crowds in watching them get glori-
ously spiffliCated. They staggered
about. tapped their wings and at
intervals would crow Justify.
There is another story about a
poet who took a Broadway chorus
girl to the Metropolitan galleries.
She gazed about at the fine paint
ings and listened to the Inspired
eulogies OF the verse-maker. As they
were leaving she turned to him and
said: We'll. l amt taken up culture
yet but when l do I'll make it hum
Educational Note: The building
now occupied by the Faculty Club
of Columbia University was former
ly an asylum for the weak minded.