The Washington herald., 1922-04-14
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| while strolling around New York:
The Times Square nightly feast Of
fire. Excitement eaters oozing So
phistication. Pudgy little gournets.
Eyes popping and necks bulsing.
Lurid Brazil coffee shops. Charlie
Norris. the novelist. looking on
from a subway kiosk. Joy riders
hitting 1t up for the boulevards.
Wide-eyed spinsters in Chinatown
buses. Getting thrills to take back
to Big Pump and Orchard Hollow.
Visions of SUMMER. A straw hat
window display. The harsh overtone
Of the demi- i-mondaine. Killing of
men instead of giving them the
mitten. There goes Frank Munsey
in evening dress.
Old gallants twiddling their
thumbs in hotel windows. The cry
Stop Thief" And the chase is on.
They caught him-a pasty. white
faced boy. Allaire's luncheon place.
o. Henry once wrote II up in tale.
Arthur Guiterman, the poet. A fire
wagon flashes cross town. And
Broadway's heart skips a beat.
Ten Pin Alley grinding out its moon
and beach summer ditties. what
ever became of the thick petticoat?
Straggly cafe cats sniffinG the night
air. Frowzy women trekking to
cafeterias for buckets of coffee. Ten
p. m. and the beauty parlors are
having their biggest rush. The nat
tires" along the curb. waiting for
a windfall
Tall girls dangling with jade.
Costumed coryphees stealing puffs
In stage doorways. Armenian ped
dlers hawking honey soaked pas
try. The slash of music from low
| ceiled dives. Joy clutched in the
tentacles of horror. A sullen sort
of swiftness betokening jangling
nerves.
The lights blaze for the summer
/ revues. Madison Square hour light
blinking like a patient owl. The
click Of poker chips in the shady
] hotels. Hackmen bawling for mid
night fares. Fifth avenue tiara of
| amber lights. Soon the morning
breaks. And It's just another day.
The Palace Theater Is the goal of
! every vaudeville obscurity. Two
weeks at the Palace means a years
solid booking. And the Palace acts
do come from Plainfield. Hobo
kus and Cos Cob Each week the
scouts go out to the brush" to get
a line on some performer ripe for
Broadway. The longest run at the
Palace is that of the Dolly Sisters
| who recently ended their fifth week
tfere. They might have remained
Indefinitely save for a London en-
gagement.
A tattered group of youngsters
from the East Side water front
trickled into Park avenue last Sun
day morning with rag ball and
broomstick to open UP the baseball
| season. The malls were gay with
silk hated promenaders. Soon
four old buffers with closely crop
! ped mustaches. frock coats and
! pince nez had Joined the game and
a fifth acted as umpire. And they
| played for half an hour and then
took the youngsters to a nearby
| ice-cream parlor for treat. Best
time I've had in twenty years" said
| one.
A New York newspaper gives
| first page prominence to a dinner
in a hotel banquet room at which
not one drink Of liquor was con-
| sumed.
/ The red caps at the railroad ter
minals say that their smallest tips
come from passengers on the extra
| fare trains. Most of them want to
| carry their own luggage. The best
| Upper is the man who /. paying his
| first visit to the metropolis. He
generally wants to ask lot of
| questions and is also impressed by
stories of the generous tips that are
| bestowed in New York.