San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-04-15
BY JESSIE Henderson,

BY JESSIE HENDEhcON
Copyright. by The San Antonio Light.
New York, April 14.-No matter
how refined you try to be, no matter
how you attempt to make an art slow
or the new green of tulip sprouts the
real center of the weeks spotlight,
you can't get away from the more
zippy things very long. Not in New
York City, anyway.
For example, the trees in the park
are all bulgy with the little knobs
that mean spring time. The grass is
green as a new dollar bill. In Madi-
SON Square the prim round beds are
spiked with jade spears that will soon
be flowers.
But is the town talking OF these
things. The town is not. 1t is talk
ing about the Ward case. deciding
that it is as dangerous to send tele-
grams as it is TO write letters.
Next to the Ward ease, the town
is a-chatter on the subject of the po-
Iicemen stationed in Broadway cab
arets. Somebody discovered all OF
SUDDEN that nobody in particular had
told the policemen to stand Sowing
at the diners. 1t seems to be an idea
of the policemen's own to pick up peo-
pies coffee cups, peer within and
decide at length that the stuff was
coffee and not cognac. Diners get
bit FESTIVE. The caberet proprietors
didn't like it any too well, either.
Somebody began scurrying around IN
an ATTEMPT to find out who was
responsible for the order, and nobody
is willing to admit that responsibility.
Things happen like that in this town.
On Hearsay Corner.
Another topic Of sprightly specula-
ton is whether the Presbyterians will
bring hearsy cherges against the Rev
Harry Fosdick, the Baptist clergyman
who breaches each Sunday in Fifth
Avenue Presbyterian Church. His
church is on Heresy Corner, so-called
at present-the corner adjoining that
on which stands the church where the
Rev Percy SticAney Grant Illuminated
against bishop, Bible and bigotry. 1t
is strange that in what the Methodist
conference has just decided to be an
ungodly and stiff-necked town there
should remain such avid interest in
heresy charges.
This is the psychological moment
too, when DIR. Grants fiancee. the
twice-diorced Mrs. Rita Lydig. places
her property in trust. Under this
agreement, Mrs. Lydig receives from
the trustee OF her estate such part
of the proceeds "as tire said turstee
should in his sole discretion deem
proper, II seems a strange idea and
-as always when Mrs. Lydig or DIR.
Grant 90 anything unusual--leads TO
renewed talk of any approaching mar
riage.
Certainly this week there's no lack
Of things to talk about. There are.
for example. three shows under way.
The travel show and the paper show
are on at Grand Central Palace and
the open-air sculpture show is on in
the grounds of the Hispanic. American
Geographical and American Indian
museums, far up Broadway.
Sculpture for Culture.
line travel SNOW Win us seuuetiNe
glampses of Egypt and JapaI, of Cal
ifornia and the Great Lakes. makes
you wild TO hop a train and travel
anywhere. At the paper and wood
pulp show the awe-struck New Yorker
who has forgotten there is such thing
as paper from trees is shown paper
pulp in its most extraordinary forms.
There are crockery dishes of it, and
tine "silk" hosiery; there are suits
Of clothes, photograph records, dyes
and cure for hook worm. This
is a revelation 10 the city dweller
who thought the only things that came
from trees were leaves and caterpil-
lars.
Three hundred exhibits make up the
outdoor sculpture show which is the
largest so far held in America. There
are 200 sculptors whose work is rep
resented. including some Of the best
known sculptors in the country. Go
on now. Don't tell us New Workers.
we aren't cultured. Three hundred