The Washington herald., 1922-05-30
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NEW YORK, May 2s.-where Sec
ond avenue and Tenth street meet
on the East Side there Is a section
of New York as detached as the
Orient. 1t presents a dipper full OF
life. highly spiced and colored,
ready for the melting pot. It Is tho
promenade of immigrants gathered
from all corners OF the earth.
When smoky dusk settles over the
picturesque section there ebbs and
flows a never ending parade OF all
races. Grotestque costumes mingle
with Kampus Kut clothes. The old
world revels In the new. Grim
shadows are pierced by blazing
banjo torches. Haggling traders
give the drab corner the glamour
Of the bazaar
Across the way. st. Mark's-in- the
Bouwerie. with the churchyard of
silent statues, is etched white
against the sky. The famous old
church rests on elevated ground
surrounded by an ivy clad brick
wall. In the winter II houses tho
bread line from the Bowery.
When summer comes beggars rest
against the walls barring ugly
wounds to passersby. droning wierd
incantations the while. Soap box
orators are as thick as honey.
They expound everything from So
cial to health reform-from Marx
to McFadden.
All sorts of faddists are there to
pluck new converts. Street meet
ings bulge from curb to curb. From
the seething cauldron of gaieties.
mysteries and sorrows rises an
atmosphere of new found freedom.
Movie houses herald their stars in
signs of Yiddish, Turkish and
Arabic.
Blind guitar players strum their
way through the crowds. From the
Easements come the noise of beat
ing tom toms and plaintiVe reed
pipes. Now and then a veiled wom-
an darts furtively from doorway.
pauses rabbit-like and rushes back
to the bat-like shadows.
From dank shops float the langur-
Gus odor of hashish and there are
sullen red eyes that mark its de-
votees. Coffee shops. pungent with
sandalwood. are filled with polyglot
groups-Afghan traders, Moroccan
Jews. Arabs and Turks. A strange
world fifteen minutes by subway
from Times Square.
Fifteen years ago Rube L. Gold
berg, the cartoonist. came to New
York from San Francisco and tried
to batter his way into the news
papers. Every newspaper in town
refused him a job. He was about
ready to strike back for the coast
when a new sporting editor on an
afternoon paper decided to give him
a trial. Passing near the home OF
Charles NJ. Schwab on Riverside
Drive the sightseeing bus barkers
now call: ITO the right, the man
sion OF Rube Goldberg. the eminent
cartoonist"
Movie first nights are so differ
ent from the regular theatrical pre-
mieres-indeed they vie in splendor
with the Metropolitan. A con-
spicuous example was presented In
the premiere of silver Wings"
with Mary Carr at one of the larg-
est Forty-second street theaters.
There was not a person in the audi
ence who was not in full evening
dress. Society editors described
the gowns of society next day in
the same fashion they employ in
their descriptions of occupants of
the Horse Shoe Circle at the opera.
There was such demand of
Hawaiian orchestras in New York
four years ago that agents were
dispatched to Hawaii to sign up
musicians and help to supply the
demand. More than 200 are now
stranded here-many of them TAX
ing jobs as elevator operators in
apartment houses. Those who have
musical jobs are playing in obscure
cafes in the Harlem negro section.