The Washington herald., 1922-10-21
Nes0 York City
Day by Day
By Q. 9. lleIatyrs.

NEW 1oRx. Oct. so.-fhs New
rerk studio u : cloak for vice. So
says the Artists' LEAGUE. Il states
that 70 per can't are used for ques-
ttonabls purposes. Many are ONE
day-s-vssk rstreats fer Wall street
high hiers and cloak and suit mer.
chants- "stswdio" u the jsstins
name. but Il iits.
The average studio tenant thinks
the Luxembourg 10 kind Of cheese
and Van Dyke is'a beard. Art
consists In having weil-niie
'ciuckbook" with chorus girls
names and phone numbers. II
frosting Q cocktail shaker 10 art,
the studio tenant 10 an adept.
The tragic side Of the story 10
that the sincere and struggling Or.
tist has no place to work. In q
stable In the Fiftiss more than so
have banded together ana are trying
to impress their talents amid the
depressing squaior. one 10 q Dor.
trait painter whose pictures hang In
Ftft havsnue galleries.
Landlords have found they can
exact higher rents from the pseudo
| artists. OF course, the artist 10
privileged to have his models come
and 20 At all hours OF day or night.
And no questions are asked. In one
| Of the finest studio buildings on
sixty-ssvsnth street there 10 only
one artist
The remainder Of the studios arc
occupied by moving. picture direc-
tors. button makers, and young re-
mittance men. When the musical
shows close at night, the street 10
roaring with automobiles frsighted
with front-row charmers from the
| chorus.
The landlord Of one building was
asked BY . prospective tenant about
"privileges" He smiled and replied:
I'VE require all Of our tenants to
bring their own mops to mop UP the
blood. and we insist thet they shall
always hide the bodies."
The studio has biighted cafe pa
tronage. No cafe can permit the
| latitude Of "free life" that exists in
the studios. New York police will
raid q craps game among dusky eIe-
vAtor runners on the ground hooY
and ignore drunken, hysterical
screams above.
In short. the term studio 10 used
to stress the fact that loose living
is not frownsd upon.
New York book reviewers without
exception praised "Babitt," the new
novel by Sinclair Lewis. The car.
| rot-topped young author, however.
Il II hoH a.
not without it's hardships. All Of
his intimates hav. suddenly ceased
| calling him Red" 1t IL like CALL
ing H. G. Wells 'Erb.
I had promised myself that 7
would not refer in these daily tFivi-
day. however, I am breaking the
London was spent prowiing about
mingling with the street characters
and street entertainers. The sight
Of human creatures, thieves. drunk
ards. prostitutes. each striving for
happiness and missing It. as most
Of US do. has always fascinated me.
In Soho I talked to q wait man." Q
tSitO~ WHO III OF 4SOh~
| don Theater canopies during inter
missions and does his little act for
| pitched pennies. His monologue vas
| really funny. Last night at a musi-
cal revue an American comedian did
the same act and used the same lines
and got generous applause. He re-
turned from London only recently.
| somehow wonder II the outcast
wait man" Is receiving royalties.
A fre wagon came rushing ana
| changing northward on Fifth ave-
nue.. The traffic towers winked
their signal warnings for trafIic to
stop. But an apple-cheeked butcher
boy on a bicycle kept on his way
across town. The fire wagon bare
ly grazed the rear wheel and turned
the boy quickly around in the other
direction without upsetting him and
he peddled in the direction in which
he had come. It looked like vaude-
willie slapstick stun
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