Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-11-19
CROOKS RESTRICTED
BY GOTHAM Police
IN HOLIDAY SEASON
Mustn't Operate Between Union
Square and 59th Street,
Is Edict.

New York. Nov. 1S.-To say the
past week has been a lively one would
be as inadequate as to call the world
war exciting. AS in the war, every
thing has happened and you don't know
where to start telling about it.
Perhaps the crooks made as good a
beginning as any. OF curse there is
not a crime wave and never has been.
for Commissioner Enright says so, but
still, Chief Inspector Lahey has issued
his holiday warning to crooks. Thirty
years ago the late Inspector Byrnes
established a deadline, beyond which
every known crook was to be arrested
.on sight. Inspector Lahey has gone
further than that. He has established
half a dozen headlines. and has issued
a statement to the underworld which
says in effect, that my rock who
picks a pocket or stages a holdnp from
around Union square TO 59th street, in
Guiding the Fifth avenu section, isn't
playing fair.
For some reason or other there IS
gap around 23rd street where in GER
tain localities you get your pocket
picked at your own risk. But # any
crook has the presumption to "frlsk'
YOU while you're stroiling on Fifth
avenue between 23rd and 59th be
tween now and Christmas, you are
within Your rights in giving him a dirty
look. Inspector Iahey, one might go
so far as to say. is doing his Christmas
topping early.
Medals for Taxi Drivers
Passing lightly from crooks to taxi
drivers, we come to the legion of honor
idea suggested by the traffic depart
ment of the police department. 1t is
the traffic departments notion that if
the records of all taxi drivers were
compared at the end of a year, and if
those who had not run over anyone
were given a medal to tack on the
front of the car. all would be well.
BY which they mean that reckless
driving would cease. The only objection
to the legion of honor idea seems to
be that the taxi drivers themselves
don't like it. The taxi drivers ever
intimate that in awarding the medals
the police might play favorites. All,
well. driving a taxi makes one cynical.
perhaps.
Well, and there's Hamlet. John
Barrymore's acting would wiring tears
of sympathy from the fathers ghost
itself, and the Edmund Jones settings
are indescribably beautiful But the
play-the plays the thing. Never
within the history of New York has
the playlet wherein Hamlet catches the
conscience of the king been made so
striking apart of the tragedy. To see
Richard Skinner, Il Harvard youth,
come g~eorgeously TO the player queen,
swatched in golden wells and trailing
robes, gives to the role all the boyish
yet intriguing personality which the
role had in S~hakespeor's days, when
young men did the female as well as
the male impersonation-is to see
something at once PRIMITIVE and substle
in modern drama.
The gestures as we'll as the figures
in this play within the play are of the
old Italian school.
And then, of course, there was the
horse show. 1t was the 9th annual
show and as usual was better than any
( of it's predecessors. The air around
about, squadron A armory-it seems
Madison Square garden has grown too
small-was thick with chatter about
hooks and hoofs and cross saddle stuff.
A Matter of ChivaIry
Then there came along this little
. matter of chivalry. 1t would appear
that chivalry is indeed dead and bur
led. Miss Ellen Reeves of Brooklyn
was out walking the other night when
n perfect stranger addressed her as
sweetheart" and asked wasn't she
the least little bit lonesome. Miss
Reeves did what any lady would do
under the circumstances. She slapped
the mans face. Instead Of apologize
ing and sending her flowers as any
gentleman would do the brute actually
Bit back. He hit back with such vio-
Ience that two Of Miss Reeves teeth
went a glimmering together with her
precoAceiyed ideas of chivalry. y
But did the lady rest content with
the loss of two teeth? She did not,
more power to her. She had the young
/ g~entlemanly fellow arrested and while
This may not pay the dentists bill, it
does sooth the feelings. But of
course, the really big news of the week
is the announcement that Thanksgiv-
ing turkey is to SELL at 90 cents a
pound. 1