The Washington herald., 1922-05-16
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NEW YORK. May is. Five
o'clock! The hour the Five Million
chuck their supremest blum. The
hour Fifth avenue preens and
struts. Vest makers rub elbows
with the royal purple on the same
social level. At 5 o'clock on the
avenue any man with a monocle
or pair Of cream, spats belongs to
the cognoscenti. A tiny feather in
his hat makes him a count.
Chorus girls loll languidly in
dollar-an-hour Victorias gazing
through lorgnettes at the great
middle classes. A delicatessen
clerk, boutonniered. slips into a
mansions grilled ANtrance, waits
awhile and steps out swinging his
cane as IL he had just come from
tiffin.
A fiat bowler derby resting on
the, ears, baggy tweeds and a cane
with leather loop handle-and 10.
chappie from Piccadilly. Not
really-just for the. hour. After
that he Is just Mamie from the
Bronx who gets that way working
in one of those side street London
toggery shops.
All may not achieve the coach
and four with the bugler in plum
colored breeches and a green vest.
Still one may present a Piping Rock
nair in equestrian togs even II one
never rides horse. There are, too,
the land voyagers" who pack lug
gage gay with foreign labels,
bought for 25 cents a dozen in a
Forty-second street souvenir shop.
Life bubbles in sketchy. super
ncial way. Movie queens take ad-
vantage of the hour to prove Holly
wood is pure by wearing ankle
length skirts. Leading men pause
in easy nonchslance before shop
windows to give their classic pro.
hles the best perspective.
Then there are the regulars.
Clubmen who come out of their
deep leather chairs for the first
stroll Of the day. Flirtatious wives
Dowagers who hope by exercise to
have one chain less BY fall.
Flappers adroitly seeking a ready
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with patent leather hair, buck teeth
and adenoidal spile.
All frightfully self-conscious vet
seeking bravely to appear indiffer-
ent. 1t is the soul of New York
on review. overdressed and under
FED. Vain and Snug. Light-hearted
gay and oppressively sophisticated.
Nine out OF ten are born Main
streeters whose earliest thrill was
In the arrival of the 9:45. Now
they brag about having never seen
the Woolworth Building.
Ocean liner attendants, who ex-
pected to clean up in hig tips, dur
Ing the enormous migration to Eu-
rope have met with bitter disap-
pointment. They have Jared well
on the outbound trips but coming
oack 1t seems everyone is broke
and miserly. The steward of one
trans-Atlantic vessel tells me that
recently crossing to SOUTHAMPTON
his fees amounted to more than
5000. On the return trip he got
s2s. why" he said wrathfully,
"one of the biggest restaurant men
In New York gave me a 75-cent tip
before landing"
New York is in the throes Of in
cessant drives for this charity and
that-many worthy and many not.
At every downtown corner coll
lectors assail the pedestrians with
their tin boxes. Robert c. Benchley
the humorist. is just now promoting
what he believes to be a worthy
charity. He wants to establish A
rest room for bootlesgers along the
Canadian highway.
Dog lovers are Just a bit trium-
phant over the way the big hotels
are now admitting dogs. During
the war crush dogs were banned
save in two of the most exclusive
hotels. Now the big spenders from
Europe are arriving and nearly all
bring along their pet poodle. The
hotels need the business. So rather
than offend the guest they permit
dogs in the room. Says one man
ager: The well-trained dog does
far less damage than the cocktail
drinking guest"