The New York herald., 1922-10-15

ture. Friends, meeting, stopped to ex-
change word; men in groups told
stories, laughed; policemen did not ask
them to move on. The moulds of form,
the glasses of fashion were John Drew
and Herbert Kelcey, Robert Hilliard and
Berry Wall. Equal centers of interest and
prompters of good nature were Barry
more, Coghlan, Goodwin, Hopper, Digby
Bell, Dixey, Charles Stevenson and Frank
Carlyle. A certain challenge went with
Ted Henley or Lackaye. To leave out
the fine barrooms' of the day." says Mr.
Thomas, "is to attempt a portrait with
half the face concealed. Any one of those
important men just named could be
stopped in that parade, and under the pre-
tense of business or pressing communica-
tion enticed for a moments misleading
conference into one of those convenient
snares."
MIR. THOMAS pictures them all-the
41 old st. James, where, above the
glassware, were the three dashing caya-
liers, plumed hats, flowing cloaks and all.
portraits of Billy O'Connor, of Charles w.
Brooke, of Louis N. Megargee"; the
Knickerbocker of later years, with Max
field Parrish's Old King Cole; the Hoff-
man House cafe, perhaps the finest in
the world" where, guarded by brass rails
and plush ropes, hung a heroic canvas
by the great Bouguereau. painting Of
several nymphs trying to throw fighting
satyr into the water. This prophetic
symbol was years before the general
adoption of woman suffrage" Also Mr.
Thomas tells of the old chop houses--for
example, Brownies on Twenty-seventh
street just off the Broadway corner; lone
stone step to the hallway and turn to
the right for the parlor dining room with
it's little tables, to which third chair
could be drawn; the hot water dishes for
the mealy Welsh rabbit and the pewter
mugs for the musty ale."
TROM THE Print of My Remembrance"
J. it is natural turn to two recently
issued books by Mr.. Alexander Woollcott
HERALD. One is Shouts and Murmurs'
from the press of the Century Company,
and the other Mr.. Dickens Goes to the
Play" published by G. P. Putnams Sons.
In chapter of Shouts and Murmurs"
Mr. Woollcott recalls the Trilby craze of
the middle nineties, to which reference
has already been made in this depart
ment. 1t was not mere matter of young
men parading Fifth avenue arm in arm
dressed in real or imagined resemblance
to the Musketeers of the Brush. Accord
ing to Mr. Woollcott "'Trilby' was read
aloud in drawing rooms-to music. There
were "Trilby' tableaux of painful memory.
There were songs and scenes from
'Trilby.' This restaurant sold 'Trilby'
sausages, and that confectioner served his
ice cream from mold that aspired to the
lines of Trilby's left foot"
UTF you rushed for surcease to the cir
i GUS" continues Mr.. Woolleott, 'yOu
found Trilby riding bareback. with a
particularly venomous Svengali cracking
the whip. Were you patron OF the dime
museum in Eighth avenue? Then you
were asked to vote on the handsomest of
Twenty Trilbies-Twenty.' There were
sermons on "Trilby,' and there is the ac-
der Club, of which other detail than the
name has passed mercifully into oblivion.
Out in Denver some one tried desperately
to make off with the play on the grounds
that il was a mere admiration of Nodier's