Imperial Valley press., 1935-12-24
NEW YORK
DAY by DAY
By O. O. Mcintyre

NEW YORK, Dec. 24.-The many
sided Prince Mike Romanoff, be-
coming a country squire on Vir-
ginia estate, adds another chapter
to the amusing career of one OF
the phoniest phoneys in Broadway
history. Mikes appeal was because
he admitted his spurious nobility,
yet continued his royal role.
Thus he gave. his fellow false
alarms the glow of superiority. Ar
rested several times and frequently
given the air in night clubs and bars
he rarely failed to bob up next day
serenely smiling and exploiting his
Oxonian accent and courtly old
world manners.
But eventually he tired of being
cuffed about, and vanished. There
were rumors he had gone to South
America, to Hollywood. But recently
he was recognized along a country
road near Fredericksburg with post
hole digger over his shoulder and a
sack of salt in his hand.
He processes to have gone COM
pletely rural and wants no more of
the camaraderie of the cafes. But
Broadway smiles. 1t knows he will be
back, slick and smiling, the he-moth
to the flame. For there's no other
place in the world so tolerant of the
Prince Mikes of the world.
Herman Patrick Tape in closing
his 57th street dreSSmaking and mil
linery shop, removed for few weeks
a dominant figure in the style
scene. But he has opened up again
on the avenue The name Tape has
a Frenchified sound and Tape has
the exquisite manners of the Paris
salons. Although he was born in
Sidney, O., where his generation re-
membered him as a Temperament
tai boy given to dressing his sisters
dolls. He has fashioned gowns for
many notables in society. Fiji Wi
dener, for instance, was a Tape GUS
toner from her 18th birthday When
he tires of a shop, he merely closes
up and goes to Europe awhile.
Hickson'S was another famous
high place 25 years ago that Peggy
Hoyt and Hattie Carnegie occupy
today. HickSon was an eXpertly tail
ored floor walker type with pinCe-
nee who met the public in his ave-
hue atelier. But the geniuses of his
business were his two sisters, who
did the designing. They were lost on
the Titanic, and the business slow
ly faded.
Many city men bound to their
inches in the man-made gibraltars
of steel and stone respond to the
outdoorsey tug by prowling through
Abercrombie and F'itch's or the
sporting goods departments of de-
partment stores. You can see them
dry casting, peeping through gun
sights or gazing longingly at camp
ing outfits. The majority do not
come to buy, just to look and dream.
Among such providers are often, how
ever, real hunters and fishermen,
such as Rex Beach, Corey Ford and
Bob Davis. Corey Ford, incidentally
has probably capitalized his adven-
lures more profitably than any
other writing fisherman.
Among the celebrity hunters and
fishermen, too, are Amos n Andy
and Courtney Ryley Cooper. Each
has the distinction of having fly
named in his honor. Amos n Andy
missed their only broadcast by poor
timing on a days hunt. Cooper has
a fishing lodge, or is it villa? (Some-
times I think I try too hard) on the
coast of Florida, to which he fits
to think up another yarn after one
is finished.
Some of the most interesting
evenings in New York are the small
dinner parties given by the Walter
Damrosches around the open