The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1922-01-17
GOLD DlCCERS"
TREAD GAY PATH
IN new YORK
More Than 5000 of Them
In "the Roaring 40's,"
Says o. o. Mcintyre.
By o. o. M'INTYRE.


hotels raise their renaissance amid
the cafeterias, gown shops and
manicure parlors. there is a con-
slant eruption of brazenly tinted
faces moving toward the pleasures
and romantic hazards of life.
Girls. seeking recompense for
vanished days and the thousand
and one conflicting theories of cY-
istence, race blindly toward the
golden aura that is always just
around the corner.
The street echoes the spirit Of
the Roman hoIiday-each fling may
be the last. There Is a metallic
GOODNESS in their expressions and
feigned insoucience in their laughs
and they accept fattery or scorn
with equal complacency for neither
viii buy fine furs or jewels.
broadway knows them as gold
diggers' or lilies of the field"
More than 5000 of these young
girls live in respectable hotels in
the Forties with no occupations.
They are not hardened creatures of
the underworld and heightened by
the naivete of youth they are above
the average in beauty.
Mornings and early afternoons
are spent in refreshing sleep. The
dinner hour is for cleaning and
late night finds them ensconced in
Illuminated dance palaces. Their
mental stimulus is found in zippy
magazines and the local Broadway
scandal sheets.
In Forty-seventh street the other
night one came along with her
escort. Some acquaintance hailed
the man. All halted. Jerking his
thumb toward her. the escort said:
81 want you to meet my 126 pounds
of crime. She's all stuffed with
larceny and ice" And she bowed
as II compliment had been paid
Outside her fur coat she wore
large corsage of lilies of the val
ley, studded with orchids. The new
acquaintance complimented her on
their beauty. Yes" said the e.-
cort scornfully. doesn't she look
like well kept grave? Good kid.
But expensive. o. very! And the
girl laughed unabashed.
There Is a theatrical manager
who is noted for keeping people
waiting in his outer office after
setting time for appointments. The
other day a booking agent arrived
at noon with his appointment card
He lounged about until 5. getting
angrier all the while. At he sud
denly flung the card down on the
secretsry's desk. Tell your boss"
he shouted as he fiounced out, that
I've grown my last beard in this
office"
1t Is customary for big hotels
when a distinguished guest arrives
TO name some expensive dish in
their honor on the printed menu
But the zenith in propriety is
reached by a Broadway cafe that
names jelly after its spectacular
shimmy dancer.
The millionaires who live in
their bungalows atop skyscrapers
in the financial district are facing
real servant problem. Servants
! are unwilling to spend their nights
Ah NhiS
! matter how high the wage. They
assert that one might as we'll live
on a farm so far as excitement is
concerned.
One lesnrs one new thing every
day, in this big city. A new wrinkle
Is telephone call from a sweet
voiced lady who announces herself
as the manager of press bureau"
She wants to take your picture
| for all the newspapers and maya
zines" She is employed by a
| photograph studio and the theory Is
that II you have your picture taken
and see the proofs you are bound
to order some
Flirting in a revolving door has
It's drawbacks. A young blade from
| brooklyn walked into the revolving
door OF Broadway cafe. He saw
ahead OF him a very beautiful wu-
man and so he stopped the door
from revolving. gave a second hop
per smile and lifted his brown
| derby. The derby tells YOU a lot
about him. The woman saw the
| derby and the smile, leaned heavily
on the door and sent tho flirt spin
| ming into the arms of her hus-
band. He did the rest One black
! eye. two teeth gone. but the brown
| derby intact.