The Washington herald., 1922-06-13
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NEW YORK, June '12.-Thoughts
while strolling around New York:
The matinee hour. Idle thralls to
pleasure. Charles Sherry in pongee.
No bamboo canes this season. The
blooming of lacey summer frocks.
And mushroom parasols. Each side
street has its radio school. Fat
women lunchers picking their way
like naughty macaws.
Hook-nosed ticket spectators
calling from the pavement hutches.
Tea rooms chopped up with par
titions, like roulette wheels. Tour
ing busses filed with lunch boxes
and peevish babies. Ornamental
apartments. Opuient fronts. Bleak
interiors. And grinnIng West Indian
hall boys.
A street blocked off for a movie
scene. Pseudo gypsies dancing to
the pulse OF castanets. OF course.
somebody has to get shot. Always
a band or something on the librar~
steps. The first horse drawn dray
I've seen in years. Barefoot new
sizes. Wonder if city boys get stone
bruises.
Another restaurant tries a side
walk cafe. All before have failed.
An Arab wearing a silk turban. The
peaceful little gardens of Madison
avenue. Children skipping the rope
while nurse maids thrill to novel
ramances. The home of J. p. Nor
gan. Same two guards on duty.
The gloom of Madison Square
Garden. 1t seems spooky despite
Its gay posters of boxing festivals.
chicken shows and wrestling bouts
sporty little hotels with Pullman
car names clustered all about IT,
Erentano's. The most fascinating
spot in town.
The new automats Arthur Train.
the novelist. The beggars swarm
about old Herald Square. A cloth
ing store now occupies the remod.
eled building. Hawkers selling dol
lar wrist watches. Fokine. the bal
let master. And thatll be all.
OF all the suburbanalities the
most ridiculous is the one that COM
muters rush out OF their homes
each morning with a wild yell to
catch the S.O7. Comic weekHes
make the suburbRnite's life one
mad rush after another to depots
People who live in New York sub
urbs so train themselves that they
can reach the depot without LOOK
ing at their watches-at least five
minutes ahead of time. And so
rapid is the train service that IL
they miss one they never have TO
wait more than ten minutes.
When a show opens cold" on
Broadway il means that IL has not
had a preliminary engagement at
one of the three trying-out points
Washington. Baltimore and At
lantic City. There is a theatrical
superstition about opening cold
Yet Of late .he expense of the try
outs has resulted in many shows
foregoing them. TWO of the most
successful musical shows now run
ming opened cold" New York au-
diences like the premiere presen-
tation here. 1t gives them the op-
rortunity Of seeing many things
that are to be deleted later--in
other words, more for their money
Little groups began to clot about
street car on Seventh avenue. AS
Is the custom. bigger crowds gath
cred. Soon the street was blocked
The reserves came from the nearest
police station and two fire alarms
were sent in. Work in office build
ings had stopped. The cause: a
workman was tapping one of the
wheels with a hammer.
This is a story told to me by the
head of a chain of optical houses
in New York: Every salesman in
his employ wears glasses. Many
Of them do not at first. but after
six weeks they do. He makes no
attempt to explain the reason.