The Washington herald., 1922-11-12
New Young Set Gay and Merry Pace in New York;
Grandfathers Jam Broadway Traffic, "Cuttin' Up''
Flappers Forced to Seek
Aged Rather Than Be
Sought at Dawn.
CELLARS BIG ASSET
Chased Out of Comfortable
Corners by Flood of
Jazz.
ny O. O. MCINTYRE.


New York has worried about its
iappers and its cake-eaters but II
is not giving the slightest throught
to its New Young.
1t Is a mad pace they are set
ting-these old boys. who used 10
sit around in their carpet slippers
waiting for the ether cone.
No more do the graybeards
gather around the evening lamp
discussing the latest fox trot at the
Palais Royal.
And what is more. when the
lights come on brightest they are at
the ringside tables in their dinner
Jackets and patent leather pumps
Hot cat, And o! for the crying out
loud.
Gwendolyn runs home from
boarding school for the weekend
so that grandpa may teach her the
intricacies OF the latest shimmy
And grandpop shakes a wicked
hoof. I'll tell the world.
Tables Turned.
Nor OOes RrdHuudu wait ot tHe
top of the stairs with candle to
shout rs that you granddaughter"
at the stroke of IL. Instead grand
daughter gets a flock of taxis end
scours the town for granddad at
the blush OF dawn.
And she doesn't find him in the
park picking violets either. the
New Young rascal. Turn on the
Io. hA
1t may not be the gilded age but
age is putting on quite a tint. In
deed age is not even wearing
binders for the brightest spots. 1t
rushes in where Young feet fear
to tread.
Grandma. too, is having her fling
She doesn't travel with grandpa.
She has her own escort-sleek.
suave and broke. A changing world.
my masters. And what. oh. what,
nre we going to Go with our New
Young?
Somehow We believe Grandpa is
tired of repression. tie has found
that In New York every mans home
has ceased to be his castle. Rather
is it his jazz parior. Gay life has
been swept out of the cafes and
not an apartment any longer. 1t is
a studio-and the pronunciation
can he left to the imagination.
Cellars Count.
Manhattan docs not judge its gay
places by the magnifcence of the
electric signs outside or the food
within. 1t is the cellar that counts.
The nose knows
And SO it is that the changing
world has flushed grandpa and
grandma out of their chimney
corner retreats. They had to be-
come the New Young in se.f-de-
fcnse And having tasted of the
fruits-well 60 to any midnight
supper club in town and see who
is receiving the head walters
lowest bow and best tables.
None other than Foxy Grandpa!
Leave the apartments to the
happers and cake eaters but give
grandpa and grandma the wide
open spaces of the big cafes.
New York BARRIERS report that
the silver threads are now turning
black. The Old are dying" to be
Young. Kampus Kut Klothes have
supplanted sack effects. You
can't tell college hoy from John
j. Methuselah himself.
Go to the tea places in the after
noon! That frisky. youn:;ish look
ing fellow who is so full of the
old Harry cast his first vote FOR
Lincoln. The cute young thing with
him with the prettily pursed lips
is what he waits for nightly at the
stage door OF the place where the
hilarious Girl Company is showing.
jazz Is Cause.
The New Young Is indigenous
only to New York. of course. In
other communities grandpop has
not slipped the halter. But in New
York he was forced to.
He either had to get out of his
corner or he suffocated with
Jazz. The biggest dancing acad-
denny In New York has 1000
pupils. More than so per cent of
them are past SO and quite num-
ber are in their late SOS.
And If you don't think this group
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