The Washington herald., 1922-02-20
SLUMP IS CLOSING
GAY ROAD HOUSES,
M1yTYRE NOTES
New York Furnishes Too
Much Competition :
In Jazz.
By, o. O.. MCINTYRE:

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NEW YORK. Feb. ia page
from the diary OF modern Samuel
Pepys: Up ard like a doft bounced
around:the PARK on horse almost
breaking my foolish neck. But the
air tyne and Lord! how pretti,y the
ladies ride. Much talk of the In
fuenza plague again and everybody
In great fear. -. - TN
On my way home I bethoueht my
self to buy a baubie against my
wife's birthday and meeting Mr..
Rothaker walked to his building
and talked of the Hollywood AFFAIR,
both believing 1t hath done the pho
TO drama Unreasonable hurt.
rome where many people, all
mighty merry, yet, the pleasure not
worth the cost to me, having had
PREPARED much yictuals and a quar-
ter Of fierce of grape juice. Ny
head full business but no work
done for these two days. ,
At night in a public benzine wag-
gop to Mistress Hattie Bells home
for dinner where came K. Kitchen,
the scriyener, and his new bride, a
comely lady, and afterward to the
play which 1 could not watch for
gazing at young Lord and Lady As
tor in a stall and wishing I might.
possess his riches. So home and to
bed. =
Arthur Reeves. the novelist.
was having some dental work done
the other day and the dentist COM
mented upon the fact that while
he was working on a tooth never
touched bef>re there were makes
OF gold on his drill - d,
Nothing unusual" groaned
Reeves, you merely bored into my
back collar button" t. -.. ~.
Speaking. of dentists, there is a
building at Fifty-ninth street and
Madison avenue that has ass dem
tai ofices. b The only person I ever
heard moan in this building" the
elevator starter told me. was one
of the dentists with an earache."
The new nothing at all" stock
inss from Paris have come to Fifth
avenue. giving 1t all the flair OF =
summer bathing beach. One hos
iery| shop has sign in its win
dow reading: I'VE carry invisible
stockings. Our guarantee: They
cannot be scent"
One Of the laughs in a current
musical play concerns q comedian
who goes to the telephone and
when Central Immediately answers
fsints. Telephone service in New
York is not the best, yet the op-
orators have q way Of trilling the
number three that, Is an art in
itself. The number that is most
difhcult to understand Is nine. 1t
Is usually mistaken for hve, so
the operators. now pronounce nine
"nison." The busiest exchange in
town Is Bryant in the theatrical
and hotel district. "a.
The gay road houses near New
York did . hourishing business last
winter. but this year they are clos
ing UP one by, one unable to stand
the slump. Too many places In
New York furnishing the same
Jazz : atmosphere and alcoholic
drink; say the proprietors. The
man who was formerly the hat
check king OF Broadway opened up
chain of road houses wher the
cabarets, lost their appeal. For 4
time he did an enormous business
but just now he 'has found them
white elephants. ...-
The New, York Society for the
Suppression Of Vice is in favor OF
State censorship of books. And
Harvey O'Higgins writes gayly to
one Of the. newspapers that despite
the fact he is an author he Is for
it. Think" he writes. "what pro-
hibition has done for the consump-
ton of alcohol. Imagi what it
would do for authors IL we could
get them bootlegging; books. All
book shops and. public libraries
handling, only near books contain
ing one-tenth OF 1 per cent kick,
and Illicit book bars selling us at
bootleg prices. Everybody going
out Of an evening with. a book on
his hip" p. a..