The Washington herald., 1922-04-06

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NEW YORK. April 5.-Thoughts
while strolling around New York:
Broadway beach combers in shiny
serge and faded derbies. Tight
Tipped mummies in brilliant set
tings. Once had their big dreams.
An old Tenderioin tap room. Had
its day-and many a night. Won
der II an ash man ever sat a can
down gently.
Ticket SPECTATORS. with faces
as keen as a sword thrust. They
have a way of talking to you
without moving their lips. Bell
hops hustling for actors breakfasts
variety and a packet of cigar
cites. A tolling church bell. A
note of Goethean melancholy in
pleasures chord.
Thavian fans going to the fnal
play of the circle. And gosh! how
they dread Il! Paintings by Lucien
Murstore. thought he was a
singer. Girls in ginghsm with
pockets for cigarette cases. Some
thing new and fapperish. The
galosh craze died quickly.
Ohiy olu Iuch SctH ITlNOlOuS
these days. There goes a Methuse-
lah with a purple feather in his
hat. And he doesn't look as IL he
will last until he gets home.
Window demonstrators bawling
through electrical telephones to
passersby. why do they have to
demonstrate a corn salve?
Drug store compilations like the
under side OF a rose. John Emer-
son and Anita Loos. Six people
have passed with Harold Bell
Wright novels under their arms
All the critics raillery can't stop
that bird. Billie Guard. the STAG
cato megaphonist for Metropolitan
stars. Crowds at every quick re-
pair shop window.
Scotch tweed "smugglers." An
old bunk game that never fails.
There's George Luks. the artist.
Pink and lavender limousines-the
gaudy efloresence of the nouveau
richie. Shabby French cafes-red
velvet curtains. mirrors framed In
lumpy gilt and always a cat
dying of slowly in the drought. A
sigh for the days of Laloy's-with
Name and Castor mixing the
double Martins. And win ordinairc
20 cents a quart, o. well.
1t Is a despairing cry that Edna
Ferber sends by wireless from mid
ocean to Franklin z. Adams, the
columnist. She Marconis: Mama
has Just called the promenade deck
the front porch. What shall I do?'
Twenty-Five thousand new plays
are offered annually to New York
theatrical producers. Most of them
are never read The obscure play
wright has a rocky road these days
for the managers seek the wares of
those who have registered hits.
There is talk now of a clearing
house for new plays to be con-
Quoted by all the theatrical man.
ayers with each contributing to the
upkeep. and in this way 1t is hoped
that more recognition will be paid
to the .unknowns.
In a line in one of Oscar wilde's
plays this philosophy is presented:
In the world there are two trage-
dies. One is not getting what one
wants. and the other is getting it,"
A New Yorker. born on the East
Side, has struggled all his life to
own a home on Riverside Drive.
His magnificent palace was finished
in January. He moved in. A week
ago he moved back to his home on
Cherry street and For Sale
sign was placed on the lawn of his
mansion.
Reindeer is now offered on the
menus of the exclusive hotels. 1t
is listed at $3.50 a portion. A New
said to be very toothsome. A New
York meat dealer maintains a REIN
deer ranch in Alaska and has cre-
ated a demand for the meat, which
is not quite so "gamey" as venison.