The Washington times., 1923-01-23
JULEP ON
SALE IN n. !.
CLUB
Greene Discovers SoIace foI
Manhattanites Left in Palm
Beach Rush.
BY WARD GREENE,
Cosmouoaitnn News Service.

Cosmopolitan News Service.
NEW YORK, Jan. 23.-Million-
aires. movie stars, crooks, and
walters are fleeing Manhattan, NOV
ing South to meet the sunshine"
I saw a score shove off today when
I told Pop Meter, the cameranan,
good-by. He's going to Florida to
snap Rockefeller golfing and Nita
Naldi in bathing suit.
Winter moaned drearily outside
the Pennsylvania station, but her
painted prophecy Of hot hand and
cold highballs in forty-eight hours
bags OF shiny golf clubs, cutie in a
cherry sweater, man practicing his
swing with a malacca stick, d. w.
Griffith in an old felt hat looking
very dreamy, little Patricia Ziegfeld
with spade and q bucket; voice of
a Pullman porter, "Yas-suh, dis de
Royal Palm" Pop Meters whisper
broke reverie of blue sky:
''See that guy? Natty little man
in the gray suit? He's one OF the
slickest wire workers in the country.
Shook down the Palm Beach crowd
for two hundred grand last year.
He'll make Miami this year. Flor
ida's as full of grafters az it il tin
him? That's what's.his-name, the
breakfast food king. They're talk
ing already. Bet Abe has been
hooked before we reach Washing
tom"
A babble of voices, bobbing hats,
skirts awhirl, wave of perfume
down the stairs ffocked a dozen
debutantes. Probably Muriel Van
derbilt off to Join Papa Willie K, on
his $4,000, 600 yacht, The Ara. An
other explosion of femininity-
Leatrice Joy en- route to be 9 Tahiti
beauty at Key West.
1--WE can't stand this, Pop, it's too
tantalizing," We said. Hope Rookie
Teller gives you one of his famous
dimes. Good-by and good-by." And
out we plunged into the slush Of
Seventh avenue, with dreams
dancing in our head of gamblers,
henna bathing suits, tarpon leaping
in silver spray. boats from Binini,
moonlight on Biscayne bay, sunshine,
California, Bermuda, Florida. palm
trees, kisses, waltzes, music, money;
''Robert?" the strange waiter re-
peated in our favorite Broadway col
ored -help coffee house. Robert don't
work here no more. He's gone South
got him a job pushin' a roll chair
at Palm Beach"
Bartenders' guides went on sale
today in a Vesey street book shop.
and mint julepS in a famous club not
a thousand miles from Fifth avenue.
GO easy, sir" says the barkeep
who decorates ones frosted glass
with sprigs from Jekyl Island. "Do
you know the temperature of a julep?
Eighteen above zero when it's prop.
| erly made. They act strange. The
| first goes down so slick you don't
taste anything but chill. You've had
! three before the alcohol melts in your
stomach. Then No. ! thaws out and
| goes off-pop.-and Nos. 2 and g ex
pIode at the same time. That's when
you know you've been drinking mint
juleps. Better go easy, SIR
Impressions of three New York
| studios:
| Isadora Duncan's suite at the Bre
voort-Orange light. Chinese em
broidery, incense, tea, caviar; the
dancer in gold, supine on a black
couch; Essenden. her young Russian
husband, in a lavendar silk dressins
robe, shouting poetry; I'VE work fol-
the brotherhood Of man." land this
country thinks it's a democracy
my art. nay husband" Hawaiian
music on the Victrola.
| Leon Bakst's apartment on River
side drive - Mauve rugs, mauvt
draperies, mauve smoking packet
two burning black eyes, two twirlinl
black mustachios; clouds of cigarette
smoke; thin white hands splashins
red and purple from a palette; 6
| voice, my dear, isn't he wonderful,
He's doing me in colored crayon. yor
know! And only $3.50 for a genuine
Bakstr'
John Barrynore's rooms on Sutton
place-Rickety stairs, pitch blacl
corridor, q door: sudden flcod gate.
of light, in which piano. rugs, ANNA
| skins, pictures and all dwindle be
side the glorious view of the East
river through the wide windows; thu
caretaker, "Only a hundred a month
4 sir! Mr.. Barrymore is very anxious
to rent it now before he goes to
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