The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1928-03-23
IN NEW YORK

New York, March 23.-Manhattan
snapshots. Those monocled
men, seemingly fastened to the win
dows Of Fifth Avenue clubs. :.
Wonder if I'll ever get used to
them? Except George Ar.
liss, the actor, for whom the monocle
seems to have been invented. :.
And he generally wears one.
What a contrast to those growing
herds Of men who form the Bowery
s groom s1 men in Fifth Avenue: be-.
draggled, hunger-haunted men Of
the Bowery. Yet each class
stands gaping into space, DULY cx-
pressionless. Can the man
in the Fifth Avenue window be as
hungry as his brother of the slums?
Why '.ot? Man hungers for
things other than food.
Those poets dinners on Monday
nights. They call it the Grub
Street Club, believe. And
they gather in an arty-looking lit
tie eating place OIL. the fringe of
Greenwich Villag, and lead their
verses, hour upon hour. Most
of it pretty bad! Ar idea here
and there, and hint Of poet ~.
Moon-struck maids from
Brooklyn tuning in. With a
little "necking" going on in the cor
ner. In poets corners as
well as on Fifth Avenue buses, or
Squeedunk High School steps. :.
And Lew Ney, self-imposed mayor
of Greenwich Village" acting as
interlocutor. An odd duck who
tries to keep the old traditions
of the Village alive. Don't ask
me why.
Which reminds me of the girl
they called "the mayoress." :.
A tabloid newspaper gave her the
name and the poor kid believed it
Her real name was
Schmaltz, or Klein, or something
like that and her father ran . tai
Tor shop. When she left home
and appeared in the Village as
model she became Aimee Cortez.
A good looking youngster,
with q nice figure. Just an
other attractive girl, but with very
little background or education in
life. And with clouds drift
ing about her head. S. Her feet
not very solidly on the ground. ;. j
And with the notion that the
old fictions Of the Village had TO
Be lived up to. Publicity piled
up on her, but she didn't know how
to capitalize it. One of
her best jobs was that Of dancer
in Z $3.50 Village cafe. And
the candle went on burning 1t both
ends. One night she found
herself alone with her thoughts.
~. Which threw little light Of
hope on life. She was tired
They found her dead body
in 4 gas-filled room. And took
It back to the tenement on the East
Side for burial. :. Thus for the
gay ..'mayoress Of Greenwich WI
la9e." Just another ct those
things that wear the brand Of Man
haitian upon them.
It's Z funny world. Not 20
many years ago, = cute little red
headed girl, with freckles over the
bridge Of her nose, used to flirt slyly
from q seat IN the commuter train
tt~t took me from . log cabin in
Mil Valley, California. to my news
! er task in San Francisco. !.
She was going to high school
then. The other dsy ! was
nyited to have lunch with Sally
'ipps. the 'sbaby star" that Fox
Inns Is grooming for m impor-
mt place IN thu screenlight. s. :.
hadn't seen her IN the pictures,
Tor some reason or other, though .
b 4 sc critics had advised me to take
e. look - ssThe High School Hero"
Anyway, whom was
Eunherod into til room there at
80 cuto rcd hajred flapper Of the
@cc1snu14er train, occupying IN elab-
@cf56to aGd expensive suite IN An ,ex-
GILBERT SWAN.
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