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the re - opening THE NEW YORKER'S CONSCIENTIOUS of a ( From Friday , December 11 , to lates epigrammatic crooks . FULTON , 46 , W. Distinguished Old Friday , December 18 , inclusive . ) of B'way . THE BUTTER AND EGG MAN – Gregory Restaurant THE THEATRE Kelly as a Merton of the Theatre . George HAMLET IN MODERN DRESS — The float S. Kaufman's kiddingest of comedies . LONG ing edition of Shakespeare's Freudian drama , ACRE , 49 , W. of B'way . once again spared from sudden and un AMERICAN BORN - Mr . George M. Cohan merited death . NATIONAL , 41 , W. of B'way . rescuing American superiority comedy from THE VORTEX - Rigorous dissection of Britain's Banal Street . HUDSON , 44 , E. of B'way . most indecorous and rancid . By and with MORALS — Reviewed in this issue . COMEDY , 41 , Noel Coward . HENRY MILLER's , 43 , E. of E. of B'way . B'way . A LADY'S VIRTUE — Reviewed in this issue . A MAN'S MAN — The unclassy lives of the met Bijou , 45 , W. of B'way . ropolitan Main Streeters , unclassily , but bit CHARLOT'S REVUE — England hasn't as much ingly told . With Dwight Frye . FORTY reason to be proud of this year's Charlot's NINTH STREET , 49 , W. of B'way . as of last . But there are Gertrude Lawrence , CRAIG'S WIFE - A successful attempt by George Beatrice Lillie , and Jack Buchanan . SEL Kelly to define utterly selfish femininity . WYN , 42 , W. of B'way . THE picturesque Old Trenchant and adult drama . MOROSCO , 45 , MERRY MERRY — Tuned merrily , danced Tally - Ho Restaurant , W. of B'way . merrily , sung merrily , and acted merrily by YOUNG WOODLEY — A first play by John Van chorus and principals . VANDERBILT , 48 , E. formerly in the Astor Druten delineating the devastation of calf of B'way . Stables , Twenty East love . Quickened to a white - hot glow by SUNNY - A happiness show , very , very tasty Glenn Hunter . BELMONT , 38 , E. of B'way . with talent . New AMSTERDAM , 42 , W. of Thirty - fourth Street , will HAMLET — Shakespeare à la classic . There is B'way . re - open its doors at none of this nonsense about Shakespeare in THE STUDENT PRINCE - Cohorts of singers , armies of principals , plus maudlin , soul . Eighteen West Fifty mufti : HAMPDEN's , B'way and 64 . THE GREEN HAT - Heavy clouds of Mr. tearing music ; equals hippodromic satisfying sixth Street on Decem Arlen's perfumed literature for your sensual operetta . Jolson's , 7 Ave. and 59 . THE VAGABOND KING — A splendid gesture ber Fifteenth . delectation . BROADHURST , 44 , W. of B'way . ACCUSED - Down a legal alley with Mons . of a musical show . Casino , B'way and 39 . The new Tally - Ho will Brieux . Mr. E. H. Sothern is there for THE CITY CHAP — You couldn't get it pleas relief . Belasco , 43 , E. of B'way . anter if Aristophanes had written the words , have the same manage IN A GARDEN - A playwriting symptomaniac Socrates the music , and Jupiter the humor . ment as the old . It will ruins a pleasant enough marriage , with REPUBLIC , 42 , W. of B'way . Laurette Taylor . A civilized drama . Ply PRINCESS FLAVIA— “ Prisoner of Zenda ” put offer the same delectable MOUTH , 45 , W. of B'way . to music . CENTURY , 62 and Central Pk . W. cuisine which has made STOLEN FRUIT — Imported spaghetti drama NO , NO NANETTE – Well , well , well . Now it a rendezvous for those embellished with the wondrous acting of Borneo is to have a permanent Nanette Ann Harding . ELTINGE , 42 , W. of B'way . Company . GLOBE , B'way and 46 . who appreciate and de EASY COME EASY GO - Owen Davis's nine MAYFLOWERS — Ivy Sawyer and Joseph Sant mand the best things hundred and ninety - ninth farce . Geo . M. ley are here to talk , dance , sing and amuse Cohan , B'way near 42 . the citizens . FORREST , 49 , W. of B'way . to eat . BEWARE OF WIDOWS - Owen Davis's thou- DEAREST ENEMY - An operetta of dullish sandth farce . But there will always be only book , but lovely old Colonial setting and Here one will find not only all one ( 1 ) Madge Kennedy . MAXINE Elliot's , sageraceous music . KNICKERBOCKER , B'way the unique charm of former 39 , E. of B'way . and 38 . the surroundings but also an THE JAZZ SINGER - Effective hokum with ARTISTS AND MODELS — The best revue added artistry of design , George Jessel , hybrid crossing of mammy Shuberts have ever produced . WINTER GAR singer with cantor . CORT , 48 , E. of B'way . DEN , B'way and 50 . creating an harmonious en ANDROCLES AND THE LION — The one by THE COCOANUTS — Les Marx Brüder in a semble , as necessary to dis Bernard Shaw , metabiological pentateuchist . new musical show . LYRIC , 42 , W. of criminating people as a well Klaw , 45 , W. of B'way . B’way . ARMS AND THE MAN — Mr . Shaw on the appointed table . OPENINGS OF NOTE Great Delusion . GARRICK , 35 , E. of B'way . TWELVE MILES OUT — Rollicking melodrama MOSCOW ART THEATRE MUSICAL Luncheon , Afternoon amidst our most prospering bootleggers . STUDIO - JOLSON'S FIFTY - NINTH STREET . Tea and Dinner a la Carte PLAYHOUSE , 48 , E. of B'way . Dec. 14 . THESE CHARMING PEOPLE — Mr . Arlen MERCHANTS OF GLORY - A play from the transmutes much nonsense Special Table d'Hote and small talk French with Augustin Duncan , Helen West into a glittering farce . With Cyril Maude ley , Jose Ruben , George Nash and others . Dinner $ 1.50 and Edna Best . Gaiety , B'way and 46 . Guild THEATRE . Dec. 14 . NAUGHTY CINDERELLA — Introducing , be- THE WISE - CRACKERS - A comedy by Gilbert sides the famed spaghetti , the next best Seldes . 66 THEATRE , 66 5th Ave. Dec. 15 . Franco - American product : Mlle . Irene Bor THE MAKROPOULOS SECRET - A play by doni . LYCEUM , 45 , W. of B'way . Karel Capek , with Emily Stevens . CHARLES OUTSIDE LOOKING IN — Legal and romantic HOPKINS THEATRE , 155 W. 49. Dec. 16 . bums tomfool slangily along the Great Open ( Dates of openings should be verified because of Road . Maxwell Anderson's wise dramatiza frequent late changes by managers . ) tion of Jim Tully's “ Beggars of Life " . THIRTY - NINTH STREET , 39 , E. of B'way . MOTION PICTURES IS ZAT SO ? —The toughened and the decadent THE BIG PARADE — Laurence Stallings The Tally - Ho provide pyrotechnical New Yorkese comedy . " helped ” by the gifted scenarists writes a 18 West 56th Street With the able Mr. James Gleason . CHANIN'S sentimental one about the recent holocaust . FORTY - SIXTH , 46 , W. of B'way . At the Astor . New York THE LAST OF MRS . CHEYNEY — Ina Claire BROKEN BLOSSOMS — A one day's revival in as trivially interesting comedics as Mr. by the worthy International Film Guild of Lonsdale has to offer . This time he manipu D. W. Griffith's poetic tragedy of young 7 THE NEW YORKER

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METROPOLITAN OPERA Sat. , Dec. 12 . House , Sun. aft . , Dec. 13 . --gifts that compliment ! New York SYMPHONY , Damrosch conducting . AFTER THE THEATRE CARNEGIE HALL , Sat. morn . , Dec. 12 AMBASSADOR GRILL , Park and 51 - Hancio ( Children's Concert ) ; Thurs. aft . , Dec. 17 ; Genuine Royal De Medem and Evelyn Grieg dance at mid Fri. eve . , Dec. 18. Mecca TEMPLE , Sun. night in charming surroundings . Excellent aft . , Dec. 13 . dance music by the Larry Siry orchestra . STATE SYMPHONY , Dohnanyi conducting . CAR Irish Poplin BARNEY'S , 85 W. 3 — Bohemia meeting Park NEGIE HALL , Sat. eve . , Dec. 12 . Avenue and Broadway halfway . Midnight PHILADELPHIA , Stokowski conducting . CAR Neckties revue . NEGIE HALL , Tues. eve . , Dec. 15 . BILTMORE , Mad . and 43 — Roger Wolfe CLEVELAND , Sokoloff conducting . CARNEGIE Made exclusively for Kahn and his orchestra in a spacious room Hall , Sun. aft . , Dec. 13 . 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CLUB MONTMARTRE , 205 W. 50 — Charlie WOMEN PAINTERS — NATIONAL HEADQUART Journal holding a quietly smart clientele ERS , 17 E. 62. Showing of small canvases Stockings despite competition . No entertainment . and marbles by the women . - fashioned . NEW WING - BROOKLYN MUSEUM , Eastern Full and most COUNTY FAIR , 54 E. 9 - The latest Parkway and Washington Ave. American Spalding designed , eccentric of Village places following the Pirate's Den type . Good food . No en and European masters and architectural in cheerful color drawings tertainment . by Ferdinand Boberg . combinations.Also THE FLORIDA , 144 W. 55 — Frances Williams JOSEPH PENNELL - ANDERSON GALLERIES , more conservative Park Ave. at 59 - Process of making Pen entertains at midnight . patterns . Woven of KATINKA , 109 W. 49 — Russian gaiety and nell's latest book , from original drawings to binding the finest imported informality at its highest point . Spasmodic . entertainment . MAXFIELD PARRISH – Scott & FOWLES , 667 yarns . RUSSIAN SWAN , 161 W. 57 - Following the 5th Ave. Large showing of original works . pattern of the old Russian Eagle . Classi FIVE WATER COLORISTS - MONTROSS , 26 E. cal music and some dancing . 56. Chase , Cutler , Hopkinson , Pepper and $ 5 , $ 7.50 up to $ 12 THE CAVE OF THE FALLEN ANGELS , 301 Perkins show what they can do . W. 46 — Exotic cellar decoration and Rus ALLIED ARTISTS - FINE ARTS BUILDING , 215 W. 57. Large and mediocre showing of sian entertainment . this group , some small worthy sketches in THE PERFECT GIFT MUSIC center room . RECITALS — ELSHUCO TRIO . AEOLIAN Hall , JAMES CHAPIN — New Gallery , Inc. , 600 for a golfer friend Mad . Ave. Latest work by this painter Fri. eve . , Dec. 11 . A Schubert Trio and of distinction and well worth going to see . One Dozen Schubert songs by Thom Denijs . SPORTS PADEREWSKI . CARNEGIE HALL , Sat. aft . , Dec. Spalding Golf Balls 12. Try to get in this time . HOCKEY — Madison SQUARE GARDEN , 50 & 8 RICHARD HALE . AEOLIAN HALL , Sat. aft . , Ave. Tues. , Dec. 15 , 8:30 p . m . The Your choice of the Kro - Flite , Dec. 12 . A singer of intelligence . Canadian world's champions skate against Spalding Mesh or Dimple . GITTA GRADOVA . AEOLIAN Hall , Sun. aft . , Mr. Rickard's New York team in the official Dec. 13. A pianist with personality as well opening of the Garden ; which will make as Put up in de luxe as ten skilled fingers . colorful an international sporting and social Holiday gift boxes ELENA GERHARDT . AEOLIAN HALL , Sun. eve . , affair as one would care to see . Dec. 13. Last chance for two years to OTHER EVENTS The Package $ 10 hear the most typical liedersinger . James Wolfe . AEOLIAN HALL , Mon. eve . , CHRISTMAS BAZAAR — GRAND CENTRAL Dec. 14. A basso who isn't singing “ Im PALACE . Sat. , Dec. 12 , and Mon. , Dec. 14 , Tiefen Keller " . through Sat. , Dec. 19 , daily , 2 p . m . to mid SIGRID ONEGIN . 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Notes and Comment W E visited friends from placid California and found them in THEN Murphy of Tammany bed in the Waldorf . They had been Hall died , everybody con in the city three days . “ New York , ” fact gratulated his shade on the they said , “ is a mad house . It has fact , that Itrians his estate was comparatively done us in . ” We commiserated and small . It seemed , that to refute the idea rushed uptown feeling comfortably that politicians ever grafted . It is FEELING insane . We had exactly fifty minutes COMFORTABLY now discovered that a mistake was INSANE to get to Ninety - third Street change made , and the estate is four times as our clothes , and get to Washington big as was supposed . Mediums report Square for dinner . that the Murphy shade is slightly paler . creaky old thing . Thirty days hath December , April , May , and so on . The Week COME weeks ago we said as defi - Ter be SEVEN nations , at Locarno , sign nitely as we knew how , that the pledge to keep peace and United Elevated ought to be done away with . THE lovely masterpiece of Stan - States sends three more destroyers to Now they have a wreck . Our sym - 1 ford White which stands on China . Former minister arrested in pathy for the victims is mixed with Madison Avenue at Fifty - first Street Perth Amboy on charge of drunken regret that while it was killing people has long been our ideal of where to ness and women of Swiss village sell the entire structure didn ' t quietly fall live . We had said that we only wine to reform their menfolk . Lon down . awaited the arrival of our ship before don Don Juan , seducer of 5 , 000 moving in . Tuesday , however , we TEXT to the Forty - second Street saw one Rolls Royce and one Hispano women , is sent to jail for ten years TV shuttle , the calendar is obviously Suiza standing in the courtyard , and Mrs . Tinney says she may re the most inconvenient thing existing . chauffeurs idly chatting , which arouses marry Frank . Rome hears Pope may Yet we do not endorse the movement the suspicion that we may need two visit Assisi , ending traditional im of business men to introduce thirteen ships . prisonment in Vatican , and Chinese months each of twenty - eight days . It laundryman in Belleville , N . J . , may be that we feel the business men THE Pennsylvania Railroad , while starts writing laundry tickets in Eng have enough things their way already . I doubtless in some ways admira - lish . Fourteen inches of rain fall in But we think it ' s because we love the ble , offers those who wish to meet ar - twelve hours in Miami and James 1 . riving friends , little or no help . The bulletin board is in the icy cold , the DELIGHTFUL ATMOSPHERE BARE NECESSITIES AT PENN STATION clerks are ill - mannered , and the exit gates are arranged so as to be practipractices OF LIFE cally invisible . But meeting trains is easy compared to buying tickets . Why officials of a big railroad won ' t supply enough ticket agents , is something this feeble mind cannot grasp . We can ' t believe that they dislike their cus tomers . 10 THE NEW YORKER Davis urges check on over - production . space for lovely advance publicity than spicuous by being published right Athenian police place ban on short the less pampered and less nourishing smack on the front page of Mr . skirts and theatrical managers see hope music departments . Hearst ' s American . At the time Mr . for Sunday shows . Prohibition forces The “ Lysistrata ” is , of course , a Gest denied with tears in his unsur decide to do something about import far bawdier entertainment than prised eyes that this attack had been directed of candies containing rum and New American ackled college Get students ; and have just been directed by Mr . Hearst as a personal York Central warns of hard Winter . permitted to discover ; and just whenwhen favor to him . Count Salm arrives in the hope of see - the unshackled Gest was meditating ing his in - laws and Captain Fawcett , happily on the circumstance that here Explanation , explorer , says ukulele playing charms for once in a way , America would W HO says a psychoanalyst can ' t be savage tribes . have access to an unexpurgated text , it dawned on him that after all the per - the V man subtle who ? lunched We got with the story Dr . fromBrill Judgment formance would be in Russian . And last week . It has to do with the ex THOSE incidents become amusing among the things with which the plosion of an ardent feminist who met 1 after success , which were sore prowling Mr . Sumner is unfamiliar , the eminent Doctor as he was leaving points in more meagre times . Accord the Russian language is one . his office . ingly , Mr . Edward Justus Mayer , It may be that so austere a liberal “ What do you think of Ma Fergu author of " The Firebrand ” , takes de as Morris Gest shrank from the un son ? ” asked the feminist . light now in recounting the story of worthy rôle of bootlegger of impro “ I like her , ” said Dr . Brill , look his first meeting with Mrs . Elinor prieties to the American sinner . Then , ing through his glasses . “ She sounds Glyn , whose one - time startling " Three whereas what John Sumner does not like a fine woman . ” Weeks ” is by way of being Victorian know won ' t do him any harm , neither “ But surely she has mismanaged in comparison with modern novels . will it do Morris Gest any good . At things as Governor . ” It was when Mr . Mayer was only all events , the translation on sale in “ That ' s what I meant , ” said Brill , too glad to interview certain celebrities the lobby will be a less cautious one getting into his taxi . “ I ' m a biolo for a moving picture magazine and than the trots hitherto available for the gist . ” fifty dollars . La Glyn was indicated sheltered undergraduate . For several minutes , the feminist by the editor as one whose say would The courtesies compel us all to as stood fingering her stiff collar , and be interesting to his readers . sume that any censorship of this text then exploded . The Lady Elinor received Mr . would give Brother Gest a pain in his Mayer ' s first question with a sigh , aesthetic nature . But , after all , he This and That gazed at the orange draperies of the has other aspects . And one part of hotel room ' s windows , and whispered : him must recall with mingled W ITH no apologies and without emotions the great rush to the box VV humor , the Casual Observer “ Orange , orange ; that is the color of Love ! " office of the Century when his produc - says he has been to the “ Greatest Col tion of " Aphrodite ” there was so lection of American Art ” at the Mr . Mayer tried another question , helpfully denounced by the vocifer - Grand Central Station , and to a collec but Lady Elinor was as in a trance . " Orange , orange , ” she breathed ; " that ously shocked Alan Dale , whose dis - tion of sculpture in soap by students is the color of Love . " approbation was made even more con - at the Art Center in Fifty - sixth Street . He made further overtures toward conversation , but each time he was stunned by the irrelevancy , “ Orange ; that is the color of Love ! ” Finally , Mr . Mayer picked his hat off the table . “ Mrs . Glyn , ” he con cluded the interview , “ I think you are a damn fool ! ” Chanson de Gest W HEN the great Nemirovitch Y Dantchenko , partner of the far fung Stanislavsky in the founding of the Moscow Art Theatre , arrived in our town the other day to supervise the 22 impending season of their Musical Studio at Jolson ' s , he learned that Morris Gest had set his heart on start ing that season with the least operatic piece in the repertoire — the “ Lysis trata ” of Aristophanes . This may have surprised the Muscovite entre preneur , who could not be expected to “ Waitress , is that a Russian dish ? ” know that the dramatic sections of the “ Yes , eet iss . " Sunday newspapers have so much more “ Well — I ' ll take it . " THE NEW YORKER 11

Both appear to be equally interesting . Harvard would not so much as score . The soap exhibition , he dilates , has no Consternation in New Haven . But Childe Hassam , Chase , or Inness , but when all the watches , fur coats and has nothing in it so wholly bad as some furniture had been duly pawned , it of the art - longings in oils of Ameri was found that the sum realized can illustrators . would just about hedge the original No names mentioned ; but we are bet . Accordingly it was sent to Har assured they are present on the sixth vard ( by other hands ) and wagered floor of the Grand Central . that Yale would not score . It appears that the soap exhibit The game even as this year was a should be visited for its smell , if for 0-0 tie , and , thus , the Elis became mil no other reason . Color and sound lionaires . have been sucking together at the breast of Art for some time , but not Real Estate form and odor . From now on they will . A lovely smell of that which HE purchase of the Belmont cleans pervades the corridors of the THE parterre box , Number Four , at Art Center ; invites , charms , and the Metropolitan , by Mr. Paul Helms arouses the Casual Observer . In the has called forth the observation that meanwhile the cunning little figurines only some ten such boxes have been and animals are standing around , in sold outright in the last thirty years . cases , very proud of themselves . He Not the whole world knows that says they look for all the world like buying a parterre is very different ivory - most of them are Ivory , with from buying $ 200,000 worth of an occasional touch of Lifebuoy . The orchestra seats , but it is . As it hap sculpture is no laughing matter . Not pens , the price of a parterre box is not half so ridiculous as the paintings in tokiusm based entirely upon its musical or Forty - second Street , where the sub social value , whether real or fictitious , lime and the unutterably tiresome are but to some extent upon its financial scrambled together . Anything that's value . The parterre boxes , way back

American , says the Casual Observer , thing pleasant could be said in the in 1883 , were given - thirty - five of . them — to the original stockholders in is not a good formula newspapers about the stage of Aeolian the Metropolitan Opera & Real Estate But he still thinks that having exhi Hall . bitions in a railroad station is a very Company which leases the Thirty good idea . Also he thinks that now eighth Street corner to the Metropoli that half the world cleans itself with Due Credit tan Opera Company . Recently this Cleansing Cream , Armour is probably leasing company was offered seven going in for Art himself . LTHOUGH we fully appreciate millions for its property ; seven mil the feelings of all Harvard men lions divided by thirty - five boxes makes over the moral victory won by the $ 200,000 , which is somewhere near Background Harvard team in holding Yale to a the price Mr. Helms is said to have TITH one recital in the open sea 0-0 tie , we cannot allow what was paid . WITH son for songbirds so very like originally a 100 % Yale story to be Not that the investment is good for another , it was only natural that one pilfered by these sons of Harvard and widows and orphans — the distinction read in the papers with surprise that passed as original . And the tale has that accrues to box holders is supposed " someone with a happy instinct for the been many times told about town ever to do for large dividends until such decorative had placed an enormous since the fatal game . time as the Opera makes more money screen of shimmering peacock blue be The authentic story originated early than it can spend . But the money in hind the piano ... ” which played for in the century . It appears that in vested is not necessarily lost or taken Miss Florence Kimball at Aeolian one year , strangely enough , Har- out in music ; the property value is in Hall last week . vard supposedly had a very good team , herent . The someone with the “ happy in- and Yale a very bad one . But the Elis , So Mr. Helms steps in as one of the stinct for the decorative ” , investigation accustomed even then to giving odds , fixtures in our Opera House , with proves , was Chamberlin Dodds , who were willing to make a scare bet . Ac- privileges and responsibilities nicely sent Miss Kimball the screen with a cordingly , a subscription was raised at balanced . Many opera glasses will be note to the following effect : “ Here , New Haven , and an emissary sent to leveled at the former Belmont box this Harvard with instructions to make a season . my dear , is my concert present to your hair - raising bet . Now the man to Just stick it up somewhere around the whom this fund was entrusted had one piano . This is a much easier way out failing . Once , and only once , a year Crusade profession Conclusions for a man in my than dash- he got ( sic ) tight . are UR almost weekly advice from ing over to a florist's and selecting the obvious . He had been sober a long OUR the source of all fickering drama , customary poison ivy . " time . But none dreamed that in the concerns , for the present issue only , Thus did it come about that for boldness of his cups he would go so far the stern endeavors of one producer probably the first time in history some as to bet all his friends ' money that for the uplift of Hollywood . Ladling 12 THE NEW YORKER

out one of his numerous edicts on this tinue through the present month . So subject , the gentleman thwacked his far , some twelve hundred persons have desk as he thundered to Mr. Jack Holt , visited it per day , so that better than silent hero : 7777 fifty thousand will see it before the “ We must all understand this , Mr. first of the year . Walt Whitman was Holt . My Corporation will never pro a personal poet , which means that peo duce anything but good ( thwack ) , ple love him . clean ( thwack ) , licentious ( thwack , In the cases are portraits of the poet , thwack ) pictures . ” photographs , letters and autographs , translations of his works , books from Blues his library , biographies and critiques , contributions to periodicals , famous EORGE GERSHWIN has come editions , and manuscripts of poems . GE forward again with another piece It is the usual spectacle of genius at of ambitious jazz , a concerto with the work - erasing , crossing out , interlin beat of the Charleston stirring it . This ing , hesitating , changing . The photo time he abandons Paul Whiteman who graph of his room , all in disorder , introduced the “ Rhapsody in Blue ” , Sher hat lying on a pile of Müad with his big and places himself under the wing of books , is more than worth seeing . And Walter Damrosch , the one whose the pictures of his father and mother , wing covered Deems Taylor's “ Jur- worth watching . Personally , I enjoyed looking , incidentally , much like every gen ” not so long since — and who is being calm enough to look on unemo- body else's . Particularly that of his on record as looking for " new blood ” tionally . I didn't care who won , I mother ( except that she has cross in music . could appreciate clever plays on both eyes ) , which is in the next case to Gershwin is new blood , beyond sides . manuscript in which he announces that question , whether illuminated with Mr. “ Red " Grange I thought he will send his " barbaric yawp over genius , or merely of a novel color , is recognizable as a great player ; and the the roofs of the world . ” Mrs. Whit not yet , and may never be , decided ; he crowd did , too , for an electric wave man looks as though she would be very is young and ambitious and serious swept the crowd every time he carried suspicious of a son who would talk anyway . And he knows that the eyes the ball . But there was nothing as such nonsense as that . She probably of millions of jazz - lovers are fixed thrilling in Grange's performance as was ; which should encourage twelve on him hopefully . in the galloping interference of both hundred people a day , anyway . It is most encouraging that he has teams . It mowed down defensive play Not least interesting is the plaster managed to complete his education . ers . Who ran behind it was usually sketch of the memorial to the poet by In the early days he studied in the hope of little moment . Jo Davidson , proposed for Battery of making his mark among pianists , The managers did their best to Park . The first lines of “ The Open but he was forced to fall back on Tin- stimulate collegiate reactions . They Road ” are to be inscribed underneath Pan Alley for a living . He took draped the stands , even the goal posts , the figure , as a sort of exhortation to some harmony and counterpoint and with rival colors ; they had a band loafers thereabouts , perhaps . It shows orchestration under Rubin Goldmark , ( there should have been two ) and Whitman striding along with the and some composition for the piano their vendors sold dyed feathers which wind in his beard . And it should do under Ernest Hutcheson . He was not a few thousand wore in their hats . the dingy old park a lot of good to too thorough , however . His earlier The crowd was all with them ; it have him there . pieces such as the old hit , " I Was So wanted desperately to have some of Young and You Were So Beautiful ” , the fun it had watched in the partisan and even the " Rhapsody in Blue ” , he stands of college towns . It fairly did not feel competent to orchestrate , ached for cheer leaders and cheers . TORIES from Summer resorts and had to turn over to professionals But perhaps the most realistic bit STORI still roll in from time to time , It to put in shape . Ferdie Grofé , who was on the field , in the closing mo seems Mr. Edwin Arlington Robinson , does nearly all such work for Mr. ments of the game . The Giants , now the poet , was in Petersborough , New Whiteman , did the “ Rhapsody ” . hopelessly beaten in their Big Game , Hampshire , at the MacDowell Colony , In the concerto , however , Mr. were making a last desperate stand just as that educated society was try Gershwin goes the whole road by him- when from the benches came a suc- ing out a motherly new headwaitress self , which should give him a new cession of blue and crimson substi- in the dining room . confidence and a new freedom . tutes . Bob Folwell , the Giant's coach , Mr. Robinson , understand , is a most was putting on the last touch . He retiring person . But the headwaitress was sending in the bench - warmers to did not know it . She was full of Verdict get their letters . Check enclosed , one health ; her face was smiling ; she AST Sunday's baptism to profes- might even say . could have taken the world to her LAST sional football gave me answers bosom . to two questions which I have heard “ That woman , ” said Mr. Robinson , The Bearded One debated all Fall . As supposed , the quietly , after he had suffered more of game decidedly is not played with col " HE Whitman exhibition in the her solicitation than he could bear , " is legiate desperation , but as a spectacular T Public Library opened so damned motherly that she makes me contest of skill , it is a good game , fifteenth of November , and will con feel illegitimate . " THE NEW YORKER 13 Successor Princeton Cafeteria will be installed and play bridge , whereas in New York in a modern building on this site . " there is but one - to wit the Cavandish . IN the late afternoon , not even the Scramble two with a side of toast has The Knickerbocker Whist Club , I kindly shadows of the Sixth Avenue taken the place of truffles and terrapin . which offers mixed bridge every Elevated structure can hide the new Under the latter - day legend , one Thursday is not counted ; the Knicker shabbiness of the building ' s exteriorexterior . may observeobserve inin dustydustu giltoil , “" Mouquin Modwin . »” bocker is a masculine affair , and much The scars of the remodeller ' s assault too bad mannered in the card room to are upon its face ; and dusty planks Measure suit ladies . At least that ' s what the groan as the laborer trundles his wheelbarrow into the dimness . Transi - IT is inevitable that Mr . Edouard more sensitive aver . Steichen , who does that artistic The Cavandish Club opened last tion is upon the place in all its untidy month with the Godspeed of Major agony , and dirt . photography which embellishes so and Mrs . Granville Fortescue , Mr . There George Luks used to bring manymany pagespages ofof Metropolitan 1 publica Frank Crowninshield , and Mr . White the aura of glamorous characters , tions , should have calls for private which surrounded him in a more stal practice . One such came lately from head and other experts formerly at the wart and lustier heyday . They will a young lady whose father , during the Knickerbocker . There is to be bridge at two and a half cents , with a table nod and smile and wag a time - fat - war ; nad taken government contracts until it hurt . for one - centers and perhaps five as tened finger at you , and tell you of well ; and there is to be as much social the argument with the Irish waiter and “ I should be charmed , ” murmured Mr Steichen professionally courteous side as the traffic will bear , including a subsequent ejection to the reiterated . , , club luncheon on Tuesdays . The George Luks Or wait in reply to the telephonic inquiry . “ I , sir , am . ” , a " And how much do you charge , problem is difficult ; for it is generally minute , perhaps we were not thrown Mo Steichen ? " admitted that society demands a cer out after all . The wine bins were deep quired . tain amount of good manners , and and dusty then , and memory is an un - " One thousand dollars . " that good bridge is usually a pretty reliable thing at best . A gaspa distinct gaspand then : rude affair . However , the Cavan There were a dozen other colorful " One thousand dollars ! Why , how dishers promise they will be pleasant to one another . groups welded into one clique of those large a picture do you take ? ” The authorities , backed up by the who considered the amenities of din Mayfair House at Sixty - fifth and ing a part of the graceful art of living . New York Bridge Park , are confident of success . They The pageant has passed , and only the RRIDGE players are asked by the say that a place where husbands and Elevated remains to echo a hollow knell D Cavandish Club to note that there wives can play bridge without playing over the shrine . On its outside wall are some five hundred and fifty clubs with each other is sure to be a big suc is a new sign : “ Another high class in London where the sexes may meet cess . — THE NEW YORKERS

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The STREET SWEEPER ' S CHRISTMAS A LOVELY ENGRAVING BY JOHN HELD JR THE NEW YORKER

Heroes of the Week

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ALFRED STEPHEN BRYAN - Who , as Beaunash in the theatre programs , has done so much to lift the name of Bryan from the estate into which it has fallen . His weekly article on “ What the Man Will Wear ” is directly responsible for the natty appearance of George Jean Nathan , and for the suicide of seven actors in the past five years who have discovered , too late , that their waistcoats were not cor rect .

CARL VAN VECHTEN THEODORE TITZE - - Whose next book , for Who has been for many which the vast army of years the most perfect of Van Vechtenistas has been maîtres - d ' hôtel in New waiting for some months York , who has made the with ill - concealed impati restaurant of The Madison ence , will , when it is pub one of the smartest places lished at an indefinite in town in which to lunch future date , be called , it is or dine and who , last here announced for the first week , assumed the man time for the benefit of those agement of the entire who would like to have a hotel . head start in either direc tion , " Nigger Heaven ” .

PHILIP GOODMAN - Who quit Broad - FERENC MOLNAR — Whose witticisms way winner a year or two ago after two are collected every morning in a Buda successes and a flop , and who is fingering Pest newspaper under the heading “ What a batch of new plays , with the temptation Molnar Said Last Night ” and who is still to produce them strong upon him . They writing all the plays produced in New always , as Rube Goldberg says , come back York that are not imported from Eng for more . land . THE NEW YORKER 15

THE DECLINING FUNCTION

A Post - DEBUTANTE REJOICES

PARTY should be a group of congenial people who enjoy A one anothers ' society , and have gathered to dine or dance or listen to music together . A party of sufficient dignity can become a function , and ever . But the game has lost its savor ; the function , unfortunately , can be there is no longer the same breathless come so self - important that it is a interest in which young lady will be Alice bore . In New York , the function fortunate enough to secure for herself Harveys attained such pompous proportions that the particular matrimonial prize that it is , fortunately for all concerned , is at large . Perhaps the Lucy Stone Unfortunately , most of the lions are rapidly becoming a party again in self- League has affected the modern girl . not very good ones . It is hard to coax defense . Certain balls became self- Of course if she thinks about the Lucy a really great artist to play Tommy conscious about their exclusiveness , in- Stone League at all , it is with vague Tucker at a party . ... vitations to those balls were a passport amusement at the fierce determination to social distinction , and even people of so many women to retain the vir- that makes the hunting enthusiast , who did not need to prove to them- ginal prefix , “ Miss ” , in spite of a hus- otherwise charming , an intolerable selves , or to anyone else that they were band and five children . But there is dinner companion , do not rush madly distinguished , felt happier in the something there . Modern girls are to Long Island for the week - end be knowledge that they were marked with conscious of the importance of their cause they feel they should attend the the correct rubber stamp . The debu- own identity , and they marry whom Piping Rock Horse Show . Nor does tante's family saw to it that she at- they choose , satisfied to satisfy them- the debutante , whose idea of a really tended all the proper functions , in- selves . They are not so keenly aware , good time is seeing a football match cluding the Tuxedo Ball and the open- as were their parents , of the vast dif- with her best young man , forego at ing night of the Opera , and the debu- ference between a brilliant match and tending the Yale - Army game because tante went willingly , a little wearied a mésalliance . she feels that , unless she appears at the by excessive formality , but comforted This same independence of spirit is Tuxedo Ball , her Season will not have by the thought that she was passing a almost wholly responsible for the pass- begun under the proper auspices . A sort of social test , and determined to ing of the function . Civilized people sense of duty is undoubtedly an excel pass with honor . are learning to take their pleasures less lent quality , although it makes people To the era of the function belonged solemnly . They realize that an im- do and say such unnecessarily dis the belle of the Season . She was portant party can be a festive occasion , agreeable things to their neighbors . queen of the carnival and she married , and need not be a penance . But , above But to make of the pleasure of social of course , the most eligible young all , they are learning social independ- intercourse an onerous duty , to be self man . Now , there are several girls ence . They have found out that their righteous about one's amusement , is who are more beautiful and charming own individual charm is of more im- to be not admirable , but absurd . than their sister debutantes , but there portance than the badge of social re However , the rising generation's in is no longer one girl who focuses so spectability that must be won through dependence of spirit ( some may prefer much attention on herself that the sea- the torment of boredom . to name it cock - sureness ) could not son is spoken of forever after as her People who are tone deaf no longer alone have dealt a death blow to the Winter . The belle has disappeared , feel they must endure the meaningless function . But the function itself has and , to some extent , the eligible young agony of listening to music because lost the elegance of other days . The man has vanished with her . Young on a certain Monday in November gatherings of society , when our Elders men are still eligible ; still watched by they ought to be at the opening of the were young , had distinction . Hostesses greedy parental eyes ; undoubtedly Opera . People who think of the horse were exclusive as no hostess would they are as determinedly elusive as merely as a subject of conversation dare be today . The balls were some 16 THE NEW YORKER times the poorer because a too rigid a while , with being sheep ; they are neath the hospitality of these Cedar adherence to snobbish standards ex- weary of filling their hours of ease Rapids denizens , the poor anchovies are tiresome duties ; they have thrown completely off their guard . Each cluded many delightful people whose with tiresome duties ; wit and charm would have added to learned to go where they want to go , morning , they go through their exercises Suddenly , one bright the party conscientiously . . But at least the old- not where they want -ELLIN to be seen MACKAY . day , the young anchovies are in their fashioned hostess whose point of view spiral shapes at the command of “ Bending was expressed by the question : " Who at the waist - BEND !! ” The hypocriti was her mother before she was cal Cedar Rapidians then hasten to let all THE MAKING OF THE married ? ” gathered together a group of the oil out of the tanks and the poor ANCHOVY of agreeable , congenial people . And anchovies are immediately rusted into the hostess who could not trust the ex- Excerpts From Our Own Encyclopedia their helical shapes for all times . Unable clusiveness of her own good taste was for Busy New Yorkers to move their joints without oil , they are safe in choosing her guests according HE inoilus ANCHOVY ) is a native of ( genus Cedar sardinius Rapids , fromheartlessly their gathered families , , and and cruelly placed separated in glass to the accepted standard TH Michigan , and has made that town what bottles indiscriminately tion . as to color , race , religion , or sex . Recently a new and just as deadly it is today , if anything . In the Spring , A most remarkable thing about these snobbishness has appeared ; and mani- the female anchovies , charming in their fests itself in an attempt to be cos- soft - eyed maternity , come to the rapids to anchovies is that they are so numerous mopolitan . A morbid fear of being spawn . Scientists attribute this phenome- year after year . Professor Dufle of Har non to the remarkable furniture polish vard conducted a very interesting experi considered snobbish has frightened content of the waters , which reminds the ment in 1924. He attempted to place many hostesses into a democracy more homesick anchovy of its native cans and all the anchovies known end to end to see how far they would reach . After complete than that of our better hotel paternal olive oil . The female anchovy , exhaustive tests he found that this could keepers , and strangely varied are their a very impressionable creature , is so not be accomplished successfully as the guests . Her democracy has left the affected by this that she gives birth to normal anchovy has no end . hostess with a conglomeration of peo- great numbers of young which are -Robert Jay Misch ple on her hands who have not enough gathered in quantities by the citizens of in common to amuse themselves , who Cedar Rapids , and convening Elks . must be entertained . And most of the These young are immediately placed in OUR CAPTIOUS READERS guests will be made quite happy by large vats of pure oil and given a mother's being at a party where they can see loving care for several weeks . They are Dear Editors : and perhaps meet a celebrity of whom fed three times a day , supplied with On Friday of last week , at the news warm clothes and feather beds , and are stand on this side of the Jersey Central , they all have heard . In her anxiety given calisthenics to phonograph music I'm a train - hopper , myself a man pur to interest her guests , and possibly to every morning at seven . They are taught chased without shame The Saturday Eve gratify her own taste for playing deep knee bending , hearty breathing , and ning Post , a bar of Hershey's chocolate , a Madame Récamier , the hostess is spinal exercises , by which they are package of raisins and The New Yorker . vigorously lion - hunting . If not the gradually trained into the familiar spiral All of these commodities I admire . function , she says , at least let's have anchovy shape . Yours , lions . Unfortunately , most of the Unaware that malice is lurking under L. B. lions are not very good ones . It is hard to coax a really great artist to play Tommy Tucker at a party , and it is easy to persuade a minor exponent OH DO HK of a decidedly minor art to come and PLEASE be glorified . The trouble with stuffed HIS HELD lions is that they can't roar , they can only give a little toy squeak . But the HELP HIS hostesses play at Gilbert Seldes sport , RELIE discovering HELP talent with much pleasure SZBLB and enthusiasm . It makes them feel FUND KVANA KELTE agreeably cosmopolitan . Yet , although the invitation lists are as long and as all - entrancing as the telephone directory , the legend of CHEESE exclusiveness still persists . Honest FUND minded people are forced to admit that HINDI it is only a legend , and that an invita RELLE tion to a function is no longer a NELLI NELY recognition of any kind of distinction . Functions of a kind , there will , of course , always be , for there will always be the type of mind that is un HELP 1.KLEIN THAT comfortable without formality . But the importance of the function is gone . People are bored , at least for THE HUNTING SEASON THE NEW YORKER 17

T PROFILES

Rickard Rounds Up the Rubes

ORTH and south of the customers . Goldfield organized a equator , east and west of a Chamber of Commerce to devise ways N given meridian , a Rube is a and means to advertise at a minimum Rube the world over , to put it more expense . or less in the vernacular of Mr. Wil In Goldfield at the time , a fugitive liam C. Fields . This includes New from embarrassing complications , else York City , which fact is demonstrated where , was a certain ex - newspaper by Mr. George L. Rickard , the man , tipster and bucket shop man , a esteemed Tex , proprietor of the new genius who would have been many Madison Square Garden , and purveyor times a millionaire had he not pre of amusement to the Five Million , ferred the crooked way . The putting and the visiting firemen and fire of Goldfield on the map was his idea . women . At that time there was talk of Mr. Rickard earned his sobriquet matching Battling Nelson and Joe of Tex by apprenticing himself to a Gans for the lightweight champion herd of steers that once roamed the ship , but these pampered gladiators plains where now roam the Ku Klux were so rapacious that their combined Klan and Ma and Pa Ferguson and demands amounted to something like all the little Fergusons . He decided $ 25,000 , an outrageous sum in those that there was no future in associating pre - Dempsey days of the great cauli with the he - cows and headed north flower industry . The Goldfield in Truch and west to Alaska . tellectual proposed that the Chamber Tex Rickard It was in this land of the hard of Commerce offer $ 40,000 for this money that the far - visioned Mr. Rick Mr. Rickard sold his rum at a high bout . “ If you get it , ” he said , “ you ard saw the opportunity for the easy profit . The rake - off from the gamb- will have the Goldfield date line in money . At first he toiled over the ling was heavy , yet all of the cus- every newspaper of the world for at Chilkoot Pass , carrying pack after the tomers of Mr. Rickard seemed to feel least three months . That will be fashion of the burros of Texas . But that he was conferring a favor upon forty million dollars worth of adver he did not remain a burro for any them to keep The Northern running . tising for an ante of forty thousand . considerable period . He became the camp good fellow . It will bring suckers here who will On the beach at Nome , opportunity Sourdoughs coming in from far places buy mining stock . You may get all knocked , not at the door of Mr. Rick- would toss their pokes on the bar and of the money back . Even if you ard , for doors he had not . It smote shout , “ Hey Tex , mind this for me . don't get the bout , it will be a good him rather upon the forehead . Some I'm going to whoop it up . ” He be- free advertisement just to make the kegs of liquor had been entrusted into came the trusted banker of the camp , offer . ” his care by an owner who had left to for the “ Dangerous Dan McGrew , It sounded good . The business men evade the Alaska Winter . Nome was the lady that's known as Lou ” and all of Goldfield subscribed the forty pining for entertainment . With two the rest of them . In the Alaska thousand then and there at the bar of partners , Ole Elliot and Kid Highly , camps , as in the California gold days , The Northern . It was put up in dust gamblers and adventurers , Tex Rick- the gambler was a solid citizen with and in twenty - dollar gold pieces , and ard started to provide the entertain- a high social standing , . turned over to the care of Tex Rick ment . The roar of the camp at Nome died ard . They opened the Great Northern , down . There came the whisper of “ But we must have a promoter , ' a saloon and gambling house at Nome , a new camp in the Nevada Desert . said the author of the idea . “ For busi and they prospered . It was more They called it Goldfield . Rickard ness reasons I am not eligible . ” lucrative than scratching in the tundra , and his partners arrived there with “ Oh , let Tex be the promoter , ” and certainly easier going . Mr. Rick- the first rush , and The Northern , suggested three or four , in the same ard learned something about entertain- saloon and gambling house , became voice . So a wire came to San Fran ing the Rube from the Sourdough the social center of Goldfield , Nevada , cisco announcing that Mr. Tex Rick branch of the great species . a name which was shortly to be heard ard of Goldfield Nevada had offered With the tables crowded , with the around the world through the agency forty thousand dollars for the Gans customers three deep at the bar pour- of Tex Rickard . Nelson fight . There was considerable ing their dust into his scales , Mr. Now Goldfield as a mining camp skepticism . Rickard said to himself , “ This was was no Nome . There was one mine Bill Nolan , the manager of Battling going on all the time and I did not there and plenty of sage brush and Nelson , was inquisitive enough to go know it until now . ” rock that might be sold to credulous to Goldfield to investigate . They 18 THE NEW YORKER showed him the forty thousand dollars and he was incredulous about people Wild Bull of the Pampas . He is in a neat pyramid of twenty - dollar paying money to see them . When the selling them back their own Six Day gold pieces , and Nolan sprained his books were balanced and the profit was Bicycle Race on a rising market . In wrist in his haste to sign on the dotted shown in black and white , Mr. Rick- New York's new social center , he will line . ard said simply , " How long has this sell them professional hockey . If Two days later Rube Goldberg and been going on ? ” they are not careful , he will sell them I arrived at Goldfield to investigate Rickard sold his interest in The their own Brooklyn Bridge . for a San Francisco newspaper , and Northern shortly afterward . It was There was much opposition to Tex we saw the pyramid of gold on the not long before he offered James J. from the “ home town boys ” who bar of The Northern . Mr. Rickard Jeffries one hundred thousand dollars would promote . They complained affected surprise that newspapermen to come out of his retirement and that it was not right to let in a for should be sent to Goldfield over such “ bring back the championship to the eigner to get all of the gravy , but here a trivial matter . Mr. Rickard always white race " by defeating the Sene- iz Tex Rickard entrenched in the place seems naïve . He is not . That draw- gambian Jack Johnson . New York once held by the late P. T. Barnum . ling speech and that appearence of fight promoters declared that Rickard Why , he even promoted a National naïvete is part of his makeup . should be placed in a padded cell . Democratic Convention in the old Mr. Goldberg and I dined with Jeffries did not bring back the cham- Madison Square Garden . Mr. Rickard in the cottage on the pionship to the white race , but Tex His fetich now is respectability and ridge above the Mohawk Mine . He Rickard did bring back several hun- elegance . Long ago he started to had a lawn twenty feet square for his dred thousands in profits to New York shudder at the very notion of holding little daughter's playground . This where the Rubes were thicker . a conference in a saloon to sign his was in the Nevada desert , and it cost I do not know how much Rickard prizefighter . He will promote any him twenty dollars a day to have water learned from the cows in Texas , if thing that will gather a sufficient num hauled up to keep the grass green . He anything , but his experience with the ber of Rubes for profit or for prestige . had chicken imported at great ex- sourdoughs and the desert rats taught One of these days this cowboy - sour pense , lettuce from the Carson Sink , him that they will pay for their amuse dough - desert - rat - saloon - keeper - gam and champagne for dinner cooled in ment , no matter how high the price . bler may decide to promote a Christian thirty dollar's worth of ice . There The influx of the urban Rubes to Endeavor Convention at his new was plenty to write home about in Goldfield convinced him that the Madison Square Garden . And he will camp that : Rubes of the cities are just as soft , if get away with it . The staging of that fight was not softer than the Rubes of the great Behind his guileless exterior , there recorded officially in the Police open spaces . is deep guile that is half benevolent Gazette almost twenty years ago . Mr. Rickard leased the old Madi- and half Satanic . But it can not be Plenty of customers for mining stock son Square Garden which was more said of him that he does not give his arrived and they bought mining stock . commodious than The Northern at suckers an even break . He must have But strangest of all the fight itself Nome or Goldfield and built the arena given them at least a sixty - forty break , paid some profit . This was the part at Boyle's Thirty Acres for the over or he could not have survived Nome that interested Tex Rickard . He flow of Rubes . He sold them Georges and Goldfield . never had seen a prizefight before , Carpentier , Jack Dempsey and the -W . O. McGEEHAN

OF ALL THINGS

ment ; the Senate they upheld the right thin and the political birds did not something like trying to keep house of the minority to obstruct legislation South until the middle of November . in a revolving door . through the filibuster . When General Governor Ferguson's Dawes was saving the Constitution in the friends are rap If George Washington University sci- fall of 1924 , his great heart bled for the idly fading away , but she is still first in entists prove their theory , that sleep is a minority ; now he rediscovers the beauty the hearts of the newspaper headline writ ers . Ma is the only genuine two - letter form of intoxication , it will be a great of majority rule . The same inconsistency character in public life since the immor boost for the circulation of the Congres- with reverse English . Periods of pro- tal T.R. sional Record . found reflection . . . . Political life is a Senator Borah now intimates that he struggle between the us's and the them's . The responsibility for the continuation will support the Court if it is divorced of the coal strike has been neatly shifted Pinchot's plan did not put from the League . In that case there to the bosses . “ My post of duty is here , ” says Sec needn't be any alimony . the men in the mines but it put the op retary Wilbur . Nevertheless a lot of us erators in the hole . still feel that the ideal post for Wilbur Washington jaywalkers are now liable would be a post mortem . The impression persists in the cultured to a term in jail . The jaytalkers are al classes that Grange did something dishon ready serving terms in Congress . orable when he became a professional . It This department does not agree with may be slightly nobler to play football THE IRREPRESSIBLE * Conflict other nature students who predict a hard for hollers than for dollars , but a pro The La Follette group fought for the cold Winter . The Autumn novels and game is not necessarily a con game . right of the majority to control govern- plays are decidedly light , stockings are -Howard BRUBAKER

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An Unsolved Mystery find their uptown house under repair , There on the dresser they lay , had engaged a suite at the Plaza . thrown lightly among the trays , OMEWHERE along the throng- Since their arrival , he had been watch- glistening rose color in the pale light . ing streets , or yet perhaps in ing , awaiting impatiently the one little But there were , astonishingly enough , Si some sequestered backwater of break that would be his cue . four strings of pearls instead of two . the human torrent , there is a man with He was lounging in the lobby on He knew , being the sort of gentle a stirring adventure behind him who the afternoon of the thirtieth ; dressed man that he was , that two of the is given to turning sharply whenever in the mode , apparently expecting a strings were real and two of them he hears the lift of an unfamiliar friend . But when Mrs. Donahue crafty imitations . And , wary of a de voice , or bending his face and hurry- came downstairs for tea , he saw her ception which would make him despise ing away at the sight of an unfamiliar instantly . And when he saw that she himself , he carried all four softly to figure approaching him . Until a week was wearing the pearls , limpid and the window . There , even in the late or two ago , this man was running be- glowing and incalculably rich , he light , the difference was apparent . He fore a chase : covering his trail - run- knew that his break had come . Un- dropped the two real ropes into his ning - lying up in this safe place or ostentatiously , he kept her in sight . pocket , glanced at the figure of their that , while thirty or forty other men And finally she re - entered the elevator owner asleep on the bed , and mechani prowled in the dark corners of the to return to her rooms . He watched cally picked up a pocketbook , a brooch city waiting for his first false step . the clock . Twenty minutes — then or two whose genuineness even then he The hunt has died now . The voices thirty : and he too entered the elevator . suspected , and went out as he had en of the pack are crying off in another It was breathlessly still in the cor tered . direction in fitful search for another ridor of the sixth floor . A maid or Ten minutes later he was merely quarry . They have forgotten him . two brushed along , towels over her one man in the midst of a million Yet he is still cautious , for some more arm . And occasionally light laughter hurrying through the streets . persistent hound , with voice held tight came through a closed door . But the I hesitate to grow romantic over the except for a whimper as he noses along tea dance was in swing downstairs , next step which he took , which , as you the trail , is doubtless close behind him . and most of the guests were there . He know , was to arrange the meeting be Three weeks ago , we were reading idled along the corridor , picking up tween himself and the agent of the in our papers about this mysterious per . the door numbers and searching for insurance company that was liable son . We were reading that he had the one he knew so well . At last he for the loss of the jewels . I do not stolen $ 685,000 worth of pearls from was before it . know just how such things are man Mrs. Jessie Woolworth Donahue He sauntered past it twice , as if aged . He was wary , of course , when that he had proposed a most audacious hunting for an elusive number , be the papers next morning had nothing bargain whereby the pearls should be fore he became aware of the miracu to say about his adventure . He was sold back to their owner for one - tenth lous bit of luck that had befallen him . suspicious of secret investigations . But their value — and that he had been The key to the Donahue door was in when the afternoon journals of Octo cunning enough to bring off the deal , its lock . ber 1 howled their news of the latest take to his heels again , and vanish . He waited a moment , lighting a sensation , he felt better . For some Also , that the police were tardily cigarette . A faint and drowsy voice reason , doubtless , the Donahues had angry at his bold adventure , and had came from inside , then the muffled seen fit to conceal their loss for blown down the hunt upon him . closing of a door . HeHe waitedwaited oneone twenty - four hours . Nowadays , news and crime and the minute longer , then softly turned the By whatever machinery is used in police being what they are , we do not key . There was a small entrance hall , such a case — and there is plenty of read about him any more . And yet empty . He stepped across its soft precedent in similar robberies of pre he was a bold rogue — perhaps worth carpet . There was a reception room , cious jewels — he met the insurance an idle speculation or two : empty too , but with the bantering man , Mr. Noel C. Scaffa , at the Prince It was on the night of September voice of a maid coming faintly into George Hotel . Already , he had read 30 that he struck out for the peak of it through a closed door . Another in the papers that Mr. Scaffa had his adventure . Days before , he had door stood open , and through it he promised the District Attorney to pro learned that Mr. and Mrs. James saw someone asleep on the bed . Cau- duce the stolen property within five Donahue , returning from Europe to tiously , he went into that room . days . He met him , then , took $ 65,000 THE NEW YORKER in bills , stowed it in his pocket , sur - the new tide . But this one has a cer - ber the Donahue pearls and the slick rendered his loot , and walked out tain advantage : The noise is over . In turnover with the insurance guys ? ” again into the street . In his retreat , the pocket of our villain there is Meantime , the world will have for which he sought then without delay $ 65 , 000 in yellow bills . And they gotten . And , doubtless , enough dimes for the long wait , he read the papers : are beginning to itch . Also , even the will have poured into red - front stores , read how Scaffa walked into the Dis - shrewdest and quietest of men are bur - in exchange for tin pots , and sleazy trict Attorney ' s office , dumped his dened with an imp which goads them ribbons , and Christmas - tree balls , to brown paper parcel of rich stuff on a to boast of deeds of prowess and subtle pay for another rope of pearls , more table , and swore he did not know the cunning . shimmeringly lovely than the last , identity of the man who had given So ten years will pass , bringing one which in their due turn , perhaps , will them to him : read how the three of two mildly interesting situations : In provide the urge for another startling Donahue servants were questioned : an uptown precinct station , a hoary but lightly forgotten crime . how Scaffa was indicted for com - Sergeant , back into his uniform now , - MORRIS MARKEY pounding a felony : how forty detec - will yarn on a dull day , telling how , tives were sent out to find him : and when he was young , he turned up that During the rainy spell of last week , how jurists and citizens and editors Donahue pearl robber . " Yes , sir ” Dudley Field Malone , evolutionist , deplored a state of society which per - ( ptui ) , " he ' s doin ' his turn up the and the best dressed lawyer who ever mitted such a bargain as that between river right now . ” Or — a tired and took his coat off in a Tennessee court himself and Mr . Scaffa . restless fellow , lean and nervous and room , appeared in the uptown district . He read ( picture his restrained slightly out at heel , will grow expan - Artists and other sensitive pedestrians amusement ! ) of Pockmarked Jack sive under the drink he has neatly in the vicinity of Forty - fourth Street Dillon , shuffling into the District At - cadged from a younger man . “ Say , " have rested easier ever since . It has torney ' s office to tell a weird tale of a he ' ll murmur confidentially , " you been proved no idle rumor , that Mr . meeting with English Jimmy Berkley , don ' t know me , do you ? Well , ” ( a Malone would rather buy a new ward somewhere in Central Park . English quick look about him ) “ I ' m the bird robe , than wear rubbers , or carry an Jimmy , said Pockmarked Jack , had that pulled that Plaza job . Remem - umbrella . given him the low down on a job he was to pull off , a rich job - pointing toward the sixth floor of the Plaza . But Jack ( so he said ) having re formed , scowled at the proposition and hurried beyond temptation . And Jack gradually dropped out of the affair . He read of Sam Layton . And he prodded about in his memory to see if he , himself , once had been called Sam . Layton . And then , because he surely knows as much as I of thieves ' ways , he remembered who Sam Layton really is — and grimaced at the plan of formal justice which discreetly pre serves Sam Layton ' s real identity . Then the papers found a murder or two to play with , a new opinion on the miracle of bobbed hair to exploit , a holdup , which in detail was just like the last , but must be described in its finest points . And the Donahue jewel robbery slipped out of print . The police found that their daily flow of new crime had not subsided out of respect for their duty toward our jewel thief . Ten detectives were called off the hunt . Then ten more . Then all but one . And the District Attorney , at first indignant , then re lentlessly determined , and finally ( when the furor in the press had sub sided ) somewhat resigned to the diffi culty of his job , says , “ We are doing our best . ” After all , explain police and District Attorney , this is only one crime in a thousand , and the victims Marianne have gotten their stuff back . All but one , then , hurry on to meet News THE NEW YORKER 21

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“ Dairy - Man Dies , Loss of Fortune Blamed . ” — Daily Newspaper .

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EVER should a Christian venture Though the faithful chickens labor , Silas , after many Summers ' N forth to wander and to prowl , they don't mean to foster vice . tending to the cows and hens , purchasing some wild adventure And the City's dance macabre Silas Jason joined the mummers by the efforts of his fowl . will exact its fearful price . in the Devil's pleasure dens .

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There the trombone's muted cooing Yea , unholy hussies hover , Now he's dead , poor Silas Jason , throws the stranger off his guard . like so many birds of prey , no Kiwanis came to weep Scarlet ladies heed his wooing o'er the victim they discover at his bier , no Elk , no Mason ; for a prearranged reward . with a coveting " hey - hey . " As ye sow so shall ye reap . -Hans STENGEL

PASSING TIME AT CHRIST don't you — when do you — lie down EPISODE awake MASTIDE close your eyes and try to stay She may be one of those who are glori AT THE FIREPLACE waiting for Santa UNDER THE MISTLETOE kissing a girl fied nightly . He helped her out of the Claus — consider the stockings — does it —what brand of rouge does she use cab , and you , too , would have stared . occur to you that good things come in what favor is it — do you like it — what Skirt naughtily , provokingly short over small packages — does it check up with other brands or flavors do you like better a ravishing pair of legs — exquisitely your past experience -- do you believe it- -could it be possible that she does not sheathed and expensively shod . Graceful examine the chimney - conceive Santa use any rouge consider her eyes — are as a young birch in a whisper of wind . Claus's entrance — how does he do it , they open or closed - does she seem to be Too much make - up ? Perhaps . Drinks ? what makes you think so — can it be that in heaven - how about yourself — pinch Probably . And smokes ? Of course . you suspect there is no Santa Claus — why her arm — does she notice it — would she Raw weather . He sneezed . -try to recite the poem beginning with notice it if you were kissing her properly “ God bless you , dear . " " ' Twas the night before Christmas and have you ever heard the lines " and this Magdalen incarnate , more sure of love's sweetest language is ” —what do you Heaven than 1 -- and there are some who all through the house , not a creature was think of them now — can you look at your dismiss her with ... " hardboiled " . stirring , not even a mouse ” —do you know watch without releasing your hold -Philip BERMAN the next line — do you know any of the would the girl mind it — would you mind other lines — is your house like the one of it if you were a girl — try it — don't you The fleet is in the river , and the poem - listen intently — can you hear think it is about time to let her go A thing I cannot understand any mice — are there any mice in your — JOSE SCHORRIs where the sailors get the Janes home - can you be sure — jot down what Who ride with them on subway trains . presents you would like to receivedo This is the time of the year when most Perhaps I'd learn if I'd explore

you always get what you want — when people think only of the present . The nearest Army - Navy store . -

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the heroic work of The Theatre resulting from the fact that the book play that even had fallen into the hands of the gen- Recht and Howard was not enough to MINOR triumph of adapta- darmes . To this triumph of drama- prevent the wonder of intelligent first tion is to be witnessed at the turgy , if we are to take the Nathan nighters here as to exactly what was A Comedy Theatre these days . ballyhoo too seriously , has Nathan meant by the figure of the Assessor , The Comedy Theatre , to wit , is har- been striving for a decade to bring the who is just a duty - struck German boring the production the Actors ' American theatre . police official . As it was , such audi Theatre has made of Ludwig Thoma's It was a shabby , stencilled , and flat- ence enthusiasm as the production here heavy - handed " Moral ” , in a concen beer play , then , that the Actors ' Thea- has provoked has come almost exclu trated , pulmotorized version , called tre saw fit to present as its second offer- sively from the acting , with the fancy “ Morals ” , by Charles Recht and Sid- ing of the season ,such a play as used lady well in the lead — and in the Ger ney Howard . to be seen here thirty times a year , but man original , the lady appears in only " Moral ” , this past decade , has been as now happily makes many less annual one act , the Second . enjoying a reputation , by default , out visitations . There were , of course , The piece at the Comedy is well of all proportion to its merits . For amusing moments to the evening's cast . As the lady of the ancient the most part , the situation can be offering , but there were many more profession , Marian Warring - Manley traced to an incessant beating of the to such a surely unimportant play gives a sparkling performance , in no drum on its behalf by George Jean as the recent “ Weak Sisters ” ; and way impaired by the pleasing circum Nathan , who used it regularly as the “ Cradle Snatchers ” , at the Music Box , stance that she resembles the Elsie Fer example of the fine Continental play carries with it more dumb merriment guson of “ Such a Little Queen ” in American managers were neglecting to the minute than “ Morals ” to the appearance and voice . Edwin Nican while they were producing the master- hour . Is one , then , to expect that Mr. der , the hypocritical vice crusader of pieces of the Mons . Owen Davis , the A. B. Walkley will ring the London Thoma's brilliant invention , plays as grand opera of La Akins . El Nathan , Times welkin for the next ten years he has always played such a farce part for ten years now , has been a Wiener- for “ Weak Sisters ” , and that Herr as has ever been his ... and the sudden wurst if “ Moral ” is not infinitely su- Alfred Kerr will disturb Max Rein- information that he is now in a perior to a great majority of the child- hardt's nightly sleep by shouting a masterpiece must make him feel much ish playthings the Americans call their decade long , through his open win- as did the startled graybeard who theatre . dows , that he really must produce learned that he had really been speak The M. Nathan , for one thing , be- “ Cradle Snatchers ” , or else confessing prose all his life . cause he has contributed more than himself openly a producer of sugar One feels for Mr. Nathan , and one any other writer to the improvement wafers for the Yokels of the Hinter- understands how it could have hap of the New York theatre in the last land ? pened . Others , too , have been in fifteen years , has his substantial audi So much for the “ Morals ” that the Munich in Indian Summer , when the ence , however , and a fair part of it Actors ' Theatre has produced . But , Kapellen played sweetly in the Eng was at the Comedy Theatre on the ah , mesdames et messieurs , the lish Gardens , and the Backfische pa night of November thirtieth to see ex- " Moral ” that Herr Ludwig Thoma raded coyly along the Maximillian actly what it was that its prophet had has written and that , but for the grace Strasse , and there was a purple twi so long been so loudly proclaiming . of adaptors Recht and Howard , it light over the Isar , and a Maas at the And it saw a slow - moving , ponderous , might have brought to life on these Hofbraeu Haus was a Maas , and all and obvious farce comedy , made out American shores ! ... the world was young ... and one saw of the brilliant idea that the President Thoma's play , as Nathan saw it ten “ The Fool " at the Residenz Theatre of a provincial Society for the Sup- years ago in Munich , is full of sledge and thought it was a masterpiece , nor pression of Vice should at the same hammer satire on peculiarly local Ger- paused to remember that after all it time be one of the hamlet's most in- man conditions . There is much essen- was only Munich . dustrious , if surreptitious sinners . For tial discussion of German politics and the exposition of this bitter bit of good Teutonic irony about the attempe The Stagerheatres are presenting irony , moreover , Herr Thoma had of the working - men to achieve the chosen as his fable the one about the sacred level of the middle - class . “ The Devil to Pay " , by Herman Hei fancy lady who kept the names of There is criticism dulled but , never- jermans . The chief reason for the her clients in her own little red book , theless criticism , of German bureau- present production seems to be that the with all the interesting events on stage cracy , and this is so much a part of the play is a Dutch masterpiece . Where 24 THE NEW YORKER

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“ THE ROAD TO YESTERDAY " Cecil B. De Mille offers a fine dish of Hollywood tripe at the Rivoli . — B . R. fore , it should sternly be called to the theatre's favorite member of the time at the theatre any evening , just Stagers ' attention that the law requir- enceinte régime — has other chances by watching either of the Nash sisters . ing American production of Dutch for salvation than in marriage to the In this instance , they are both on view . masterpieces in the name of art , where father of her child . Such a mar- Florence is a small - town wife , full they are manifestly dull and verbose , riage , even , might be the bigger of of the New Thought , who thinks she was repealed long , long ago . two evils , it seems . is perfectly willing to have Mary , an This particular Dutch masterpiece In the main , Heijermans's play con opera singer right out of the Mirror's was probably a moderately interesting cerns the fortunes of a simple , frugal , Daily True Story , steal her dull , plod play at home , where the attention of and decent Dutch man and wife , who ding husband from her . ( The hus the audience was allowed to remain have fallen under the control of an band , if you haven't already guessed , fixed upon what the characters were elderly , tyrannical , embittered lodger , is Robert Warwick . ) But after Flor doing and saying . Here , unfortunate- who contrives to keep from them mostence spends the first scene of the ly , the Stagers ' attempts to create a of the cherished material things of Third Act in the apartment of a New Dutch atmosphere and the picture of life . The play ends , however , on York Monty , to whom she wrongly Dutch small - town life serve merely to what must be a high note she can thought she could give herself , she accentuate the audience's feeling that not deprive them of their faith in wants her Warwick back and Mary it is in the presence of something high- love , she can not cripple their souls . gives him to her . ly artificial that wouldn't interest it Margaret Wycherly , ever a capable All this , of course , is very silly and much even if it were real . Any reality actress , is capital as the venomous hag cliché , and the real reason our eyes the play may possess , any roots that it whose distorted sense of justice for glowed so brightly during most of the may have in actual existence , are large- herself upsets the lives of those about love scenes , and all of the time Flor ly rendered frustrate by the elaborate , her . Whitford Kane and Ethel ence was on stage , was because of a ponderous , and unrelenting artificiality Strickland are effective as genre pic- light someone in the seat ahead was of its staging and its language . On tures , perhaps , but are otherwise not flashing constantly . In addition , Isabel the other hand , there is too much too convincing — in Mr. Kane's case Irving pleased us greatly , as she always prosaic solidity , too little actual charm clearly because of a wordy role . does , even though what Miss Crothers and natural quaintness , to provide the has thought up for her is something Bijou observer with a substitute illusion of Abe T the obliged , future to use historiansfor recording will theseabout modern mother goings not approving - on . - H . J. of M. all poetry and beauty . There was a time , not so long ago , here , they are now playing " A Lady's when one of the main ideas of Heijer- Virtue " , by Rachel Crothers . It pro- Music mans's play would have been con- vides a pleasant enough evening for sidered startling : The idea of the those who can take their Broadway DON'T bet ganybody kid you out the of it , who is about to have a baby — the This department can have a nice win's piano concerto is about the

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most important new work that has this simple motif , Gershwin has de- pulses , and there are a few parallels been aired in this hamlet of ours in veloped a movement which would in the two works . However , the con many somethings , and when we say remind one of a simpler , rather certo has in it something that might “ important ” , we're not using a American Rachmaninoff , were it not be called nobility , and that is what we nicenellie for " dull ” . By the time that only Gershwin could have com- shall call it . that this meets your careless eyes , posed this section . A fragment of a

there will have been much shouting , song considered too difficult for the If you will pardon us for waxing , , we in Carnegie Hall , if not , as the in- basis of an utterly charming second scatter a few gobs of apple sauce about telligentsia are saying , in the streets . movement , in which a derby - hung Guy Maier and Lee Pattison , whose The burthen of it will be that George trumpet sings plaintively a refined two - piano recital was one of the most has done it . blues phrase . The concluding canto diverting , and most soundly musical It isn't necessary to attend a session is , as the composer confesses , “ a riot events of the past month . ( In re of the League of Composers or some of rhythm , " and consequently a trifle sponse to several queries heard in other body dedicated to the production inconclusive . That , however , proba- Aeolian Hall that evening , we inform of modern stuff , to discover how bly can be repaired by the time that you that the one who doesn't wear thoroughly good the Gershwin achieve- the concerto again appears on Mr. glasses is Pattison . ) The startling ment is . But after hearing the vague Damrosch's programs . ensemble of these young gentlemen is annoyances of the Messrs . Tansman , The effectiveness of the piano part , already taken for granted , but to each Prokofieff , Honegger and Copland played with singularly beautiful tone must be awarded some token for his under the sympathetic auspices of Mr. by the composer , is not surprising , but skill in arranging music for the two Koussevitsky , the new concerto strikes the sureness of the scoring is amazing instruments . Mr. Maier's transcrip our eardrums as monumental . And in view of the fact that this is the tion of Brahms's “ Liebeslieder ” if it seems so , only in contrast to the first effort of Gershwin in writing for waltzes is a valuable addition to the outpourings of the boys who are being orchestra . Some of it is rather opaque , repertory , and Mr. Pattison's gor taken seriously by ladies who go to and there are unnecessarily difficult geous doctoring of the “ Arkansas concerts without socks ( yes ; there was passages for the bull fiddles , but most Traveler " is another . Put Maier and one of them at the League musicale ) , of it is strikingly to the point , and Pattison on your must - list and don't it still remains a splendid job , and so sharply effective . Gershwin , it ap- mislay the list.—R. A. S. far as this unregenerate department is pears , devoted some of his royalties on concerned , five minutes of Gershwin “ Why Do I Love You ? ” to engaging Art are worth several years of the esoteric an orchestra , led by the gifted Bill E can find no quarrel with the belly - aches which pass for the music Daly , for a preliminary hearing of his WE of the future . score , and did his overhauling by ear Centennial Exhibition of the Gershwin , who , by the way , is the rather than by eye . There are no jazz National Academy of Design now on only composer privileged to bring a instruments employed , the only uncon- view at the Grand Central Art Gal pipe to the rehearsals of the Symphony ventional touch being the use of the leries . It is what it sets out to be : a Society , has not broken with the kind derby , and this is planned not for commemorative show of the work of of music that made him famous , but comedy , but to obtain a timbre which the members of the Academy during he has succeeded in using its rhythms , cannot be brought out by the usual the century . It is a brave showing of and some of its instrumental decora- mutes . The derby , at the dress re- their wares , their less inspired tions to build a piano concerto of hearsal at least , was that of Mr. Dam- moments , as well as their high spots , which no composer need be ashamed . rosch , who explained that he was glad and it is a good deal of everything . The Charleston foot print of two to be so intimately connected with the That it may not be an accurate his beats separated by an eighth - rest is premiere of the concerto . The con- tory of art in this country , is not to the theme of his first movement , but certo in F is an advance on the “ Rhap- the point . That it fails to recognize the vulgarity of it has been trans- sody in Blue ” , although it obviously at all the developments that have formed into brooding vitality . From springs from the same musical im- crept in during the last decade of

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French influence , is also not relevant . protection for these cold days and open literary lights , and the moment they It is their show , and you can take it minds . Anyway Parrish is having his show up , one if by land and two if or leave it . Whatever camp you be- first exhibition at Scott & Fowles . And by William McFee , to go galloping long to , a few hours spent at the you may be a user of Edison Service over the countryside , shouting under Grand Central will be of interest . or any of the many things Maxfield windows of Mills hotels , and supper The Centennial gives in a compact Parrish has glorified in American ad- clubs , and roadhouses , that something orientation what you will not get in vertising these many years . It is a to read is coming . In particular , when visits to various museums . It shows show to be seen certainly by all adver- , a new novelist who is really good the earliest form of art in the young tising men , and perhaps by most of shines forth , we are supposed to be country , the point where young blood the students . As we walked around first to review or , as you might say , was beginning to flow back from the the galleries marveling at the techni- revere him . Well , Cline is such a new Whistler - haunted studios of Paris , cal skill by which he simulates light , novelist , but for weeks we kept shufi and one might even fix the date where we tried to banish from our memory , ing his book , unread , to the bottom of the nude became permissible in studio legends of how this man works . the pile because we disliked its jacket , American Art . We hope to see some Photographs , we believe , had much to which suggested one more of those of the men who make graphs and do with these legends — certain legiti- determinedly queer and " expression charts busy with their measuring sticks mate enough uses of the camera to istic ” fantasies that have grown as in this show . There is ample ma catch the human figure when needed common , and welcome , as hard colds . terial in the eighteen galleries and the in a composition . If we had gone At last , we found ourself flat on 533 canvases and pieces of sculpture . there with a clean slate , and had been our back , and stuck for something to Certainly the bulk of esthetic appre- told that this stuff was the brush work read for our own pleasure . Having ciation in this country finds itself at of a meticulous artist , our slate would gone through a dozen books , some of home in such a show , and even its have been filled with words of admi- them later to be sneezed at , we rampant offshoots will have some ration and awe . A stuffed legend is a discovered it in " God Head ” , which , thrill of recognition in this phase of dirty club to use on any artist , so we while modern and somewhat fantastic art . ask you to forget it . Certainly noth- and decidedly symbolical , is not , in We found a certain fun in ex- ing has been done as marvelously as the sense referred to , queer at all . ploiting our ignorance . We wan these drawings since the Lord's Prayer Disregarding the poetry of it , the nar dered around and came to a full stop was carved on the head of a pin . rator , successively disheartened as a now and then before something that -M . P. surgeon , a sculptor , and a labor agita touched our peculiar eyes . We had tor , falls among some Finns on the never known that there was an H. Books wooded shore of Lake Superior , and pam as Bolton well Jones , or that he “ could in . IN Leonard Cline , this department's rescuer's wife , becomes a prankish his

Nor had ever conscience pricks supermen the Berkshires " . we it . Here we are , superman . Like other , he heard of W. Granville - Smith and his stationed to watch night and day for is , a case for an alienist , also , what beautiful " Old Mill ” . Perhaps you Mencken would chastely call a cad , will feel as we did , that a small panic and finally a murderer . But he is ensued when the Gallery found that quite a cuss , and his account of his the Centennial included “ The Red triumphant jamboree makes swinging Bridge " by Charles Rosen . There reading ; his crazy mirth is infectious ; must have been some chatter and ex and so is his passion . As for the citement ; perhaps a committee meet poetry , Cline gives his characters both ing and voting to determine whether symbolic significance , and something or no the Rosen work was “ Modern ” . of the epic quality and stature . He At all events it was decided to give it weaves in Finnish legends here and a placea nice spot high up near the there with much effect ; and there are ceiling in the hinterland gallery . two pages , in which his superman As usual the admission is one dollar imagines the future “ as far as thought and the catalogue one dollar . We can reach , ” that seem to us to eclipse have never liked this feature of the the whole of that act of “ Back to Galleries . In this case the catalogue Methusaleh " . charge seems warranted . But it has The only review we have read of been explained to us , that the main “ God Head ” ( Viking Press ) made us purpose of the Gallery is to make art tired , guardedly complaining of its pay . More power to them . That's crudeness and the author's inexperi more than we have been able to do . ence — as elderly reviewers often do when a book shocks their moral sensi OMEONE else will have to explain bilities . The fact is , Cline writes , SOMEO to you the position Maxfield Par and conducts his very original and rish holds in American art . The fools vital novel , uncommonly well . rush - in shoes we slip on so comforta bly for such occasions have been mis Goings On , The New YORKER's selective list of the current week's events , will be found placed , and we have nothing left to on page 6 , the list of new books worth while on wear but frankness , Little enough whaky page 44 .

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F THE NEW YORKER 31 WHAT WOULD YOU DO ? THOSE familiar with the “ Referring to the first story in the September number wherein you ask what we would do to workings of Big Business solve the problem , we wish to advise that we must have realized that in a would make the divorced wife and the inno few years some system would be de cent girl one and the same person , and thus eliminate the problem entirely . She could dye vised for making us produce during her hair , tint her skin , limp slightly in the left the period usually spent in recreation . leg , and then apply for the job as secretary be It remained for the big true story cause she found she couldn ' t live without him on magazine owners to point the way . the alimony . ” But let us tell our story as a warning Six months later we would pick up to others : the March number and scan the vari We have had , let us say , a hard day ous headings . Directly under one of at the office . After dinnerdinner ,, wewe makemake The Wife Who Loved them ,, “ “ When W Two and One Make ourself comfortable in our easy chair Two ” , we read the following in 12 and pick up our favorite magazine . Life and Gayety point heavy italics : Directly under the title of the first “ She had been divorced from her millionaire story we read the following in 12 husband . The court declined to increase her point heavy alimony and she found she couldn ' t live without italics : him . So she dyed her hair , tinted her skin , “ A young and innocent girl of seventeen limped slightly in the left leg , and came back comes to New York and obtains a job as private and secured a job as his secretary . He fell secretary to a millionaire , young and handsome , madly in love with her and wanted to marry her , but divorced . He falls madly in love with her not realizing who she was . Never before was and asks her to marry him . Then begins a terri a young and innocent girl confronted with such ble mental conflict . If she refuses , it might a problem . If she married him , she ' d have to sacrifice that love and happiness which all of us , live with him again . If she didn ' t , she ' d have even the humblest , crave . If , on the other hand , to use last year ' s furs and only be able to go she accepts and spends his money , it will cut off to the opera every other night . Suppose YOU the hard - earned alimony of the divorced wife . were confronted with such a problem ? What Suppose YOU were confronted with such a would YOU do ? ” problem ? What would YOU do ? ” Husband Who Triumphantly we took the maga In attempting to solve such prob The zine over to our best friend who had lems we would try to put ourself in sat up for two nights vainly trying for the place of the various characters . a logical solution . After enjoying his First , we would imagine that we were chagrin and envy to the full , we an innocent girl . This was excep started on the next story . The title tionally difficult , but not nearly so was intriguing : " Her Husband Knew hard as trying to imagine ourself a It All So She Told Him Everything ” . millionaire or a divorced wife receiv But on to the problem ! ing a fat alimony check each month . “ She had had a lurid past . She had been a Looking at it from the girl ' s stand dance hall girl in Alaska , a ' badger come - on ' on point , it was the Barbary Coast in the wild days of San Fran lucky to be asked actually cisco , a shanghaiers ' crimp on the Baltimore tolionaire marry a young and handsome mil Advantads Absence water front . Yet she was pure and innocent at lionaire , , whatwhat girls with entirely so many . iced hundreds by one ; The De heart . So when she met the man of her choice , she was faced with the age - old problem . Should of innocent girls entirely content to she tell him all , or just what she knew he sus . be ruined , or even just noticed by one . pected ? Other women only confessed what was But then , think of the other woman ! The best friend Whoo already known , and got away with it . But there According to statistics , if we did Jook Advantage of was always the dread possibility of his knowing more than she thought he did . Suppose YOU marry , we ourself would be receiving the Husbands Absence had been in her place . What would YOU have alimony in seven months and eight done ? ” days . How would we like to have Amazing how practice makes per another girl step in and cut it off , fect ! We had scarcely spent five possibly just at the time we were about hours on the problem before the solu to purchase a new fur coat ! The tion came to us like a flash . The night millionaire , we thought , had the mail carried it to the editor : easiest problem of the three . What “ In re the second story in the March number , difference could it make to him which have the girl tell all . If the husband takes it wife spent his money ? That elimi quietly , it signifies that he knew it before and all will be well . If he takes it noisily , she nated him . Concentrating on the should tell him she is just repeating the life other two , we finally solved the prob story of her friend Mabel in order to see what lem . At 1 . 30 in the morning , men reaction it would get from a husband , and that tally jaded , but with that satisfaction she ' ll tell Mabel she ' d better not risk it . ” which follows work well done , we Each month we eagerly paged the dispatched the following letter to the if Someoné Tried to magazine . We cannot describe the editor : Steal Your Wife ? mingled feelings of triumph and 32 THE NEW YORKER ecstasy when the August number came We consider our best work , how- juvenated and ready to tackle more out , and we realized that we had ever , the solution of the Salvation problems . Suddenly there flashed upon scored again . And the lead story , Army lassie's problem . Never was the screen : WOULD YOU DO IF SOMEONE too ! We quote verbatim : anyone so torn ' twixt love and duty . WHAT “ A young girl who had had a lurid past , but She loved a drunkard because of his TRIED TO STEAL YOUR WIFE who was pure at heart , decides to tell her hus . fatal weakness . If she reformed A smothering sensation oppressed band everything . He goes into a rage , calls her him , the weakness would gone and We arose and fled . How the a heartless Airt , and threatens divorce . be us . thereupon tells him that she was merely repeat she couldn't love him any more . If following two or three hours were friend Mabel in order she didn't , she would be recreant to spent we do not know . When we toing see the what life storyreaction of herit would get from a hus band . The husband forgives her for the sins the great trust placed in her by her again became conscious of our sur of her friend , but telle Mabel's husband , a life superior officers . Realizing the disas- roundings we were on a train en route long pal of his , what he has learned . Mabel , trous results of permitting an irresisti- to California . In front of us sat this great crisis of her life ? What would YOU ble love to meet an immovable duty , two men we recognized as true story do if YOU were in her place ? ” . we spent over forty hours on this prob- magazine magnates . And it was their lem . Our work , however , was well conversation which awakened us to the Greatly encouraged by these two triumphs , we started in solving prob- repaid , as we found the way out . We fact that for many years we had been triumphs , we started in solving prob- had him appointed a prohibition en- Barnum's favorite fish . One of them lems in earnest . we spent practically all our spare time forcement officer , which made it one was telling the other how he had re unravelling intricate domestic knots of his chief duties to drink evidence . ceived 2,172 usable ideas in answer to His duty to the Government was , of story problems . As a result , he had for our favorite true story magazine . It is not possible to list them all here , course , superior to hers to the Salva- discharged the entire editorial staffs of It is not possible to list them all here , tion Army , and this relieved her of his fourteen magazines and had but there are some of which we are any responsibility for his reformation . placed a forty - dollar - a - week clerk in especially proud : For this solution received There was the case of the beautiful we a per- charge of them . It was not necessary sonal letter from the magazine com to pay more , he contended , as the natedand cultured by her chauffeur girl so strangely. Home , honor fasci , plimenting us on our good work . This clerk's work was purely mechanical . we had framed and hung in our study . He simply set the submitted ideas in friends — all were as nothing when About this time our health began ruled forms and filled in the spaces she looked into his eyes . Willingly to fail , due , the doctor said , to exces- with words of one syllable . would she have given herself to him , sive mental concentration . One Satur But even after we learned how but he would not have it so . With day afternoon , after solving a particu- shamefully we had been exploited , it him it was marriage or nothing . Our larly hard problem , spots appeared be- was difficult for us to break ourself of was the only logical one . solution fore our eyes . We could no longer the habit of solving these problems . Love could not be denied ; so we had her marry him , only to learn that he ignore the warning ; so we closed the So low had we sunk that we had magazine and went to the movies for actually begun to love our chains . was a wealthy clubman who had wor relaxation and rest . Immediately the For months afterwards , weak and shipped her from afar , but had been show began the tension left us and we shaken , we hovered between indepen unable to obtain an introduction , so decided to get the job as her chauffeur . experienced a wonderful relief . First , dence and slavery . We locked all there was a picture of a beautiful girl magazines in a closet and gave the key They dwelt in perfect peace and har with the caption : to a servant with instructions not to mony until the June number , when he fell in love with another chauf THE WIFE WHO LOVED LIFE AND give it to us under any circumstances , GAYETY only to go down on our knees to him a feur's stenographer . few hours later and beg that he per Then there was the girl who didn't Followed by that of a handsome man mit us to solve just one more problem . believe marriage meant settling down , with greying temples , explained as : By diverting our mind to business but wanted the foolish pleasures of THE HUSBAND WHO WAS IMMERSED ( hitherto completely neglected ) , exer wild parties . Followed the trip to the IN HIS BUSINESS cising regularly , eating nourishing roadhouse . Then the humiliation of And a dashing young Lothario : food and inducing sleep with a mild those horrible yellow extras announc sedative , we finally won out . And ing in letters five inches high that THE BEST FRIEND WHO TOOK ADVAN oh , the happiness of that day when we Helen Upshaw , wife of the well TAGE OF THE HUSBAND'S ABSENCE got out the entire pile of magazines , known janitor , had been caught in the With a feeling of satisfaction we read the problems carefully and then , raiders ' net . We spent many hours on this problem , but finally arranged for sank back in our chair , knowing that without the slightest desire to solve we would return home fresh and re- them , went on casually reading the caught in the Helen's husband to be stories ; the first stories , by the way , same raid , and for her to tell him that that we had found time to read since she had suspected him and followed we had started working on the prob him there . A reconciliation took lems . - JOSEPH FULLING FISHMAN place . When the big Christmas issue came out , a baby was born with the A valet is a little guy birth mark of a padlock on its brow , Who swipes your cuff - links on the sly , and we had to decide whether she Annoys the cook , annoys the maid , should admit the baby was her hus And when his salary is paid band's , or let him go on suspecting that Lights out for places of his choosing it belonged to someone else . God knows what valets find amusing . “ AN OBSTINATE INDIGESTION had opened the scene ; nervous depression “ Scratches festered , pin pricks turned to boils - I was a rival for followed ; a skin eruption appeared on top of all . General troubles require Job ' s laurels . ' I developed a morbid , craven terror of pain . A general remedies : good yeast has a bracing and purifying effect on the neighbor suggested yeast and , though cynical about it , I took 4 whole body ; therefore I began taking , scrupulously before each meal , cakes of Fleischmann ' s Yeast daily for one month . The incredible one of the dainty cubes put up by the Fleischmann Company . The symp happened . A boil just starting dried away painlessly , minor blem toms of disease disappeared , one by one , inversely as they had come : first ishes on my back , which I had had in series for years , totally dis the eruption , then the depression , lastly the digestive troubles . In a appeared ; I grew steadily stronger and life reassumed normal per fortnight , I was enjoying life again ; still to enjoy it better , even now I spective . Finally I , who had dragged to my housework , half stick to my three cubes a day . " CHRISTIAN MAURONER , New York City . fainting from the least exertion , had surplus energy and wiped dishes dancing to phonograph records . Mrs . R . G . Booth , Port Washington , N . Y

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With constipation banished , skin cially , dissolve one cake in hot wa and stomach disorders conquered , ter ( not scalding ) before breakfast vitality regained , thousands have and at bedtime . found a new zest in living through Buy several cakes at a time one simple fresh food they will keep fresh in a cool dry N OT a “ cure - all , ” not a medi place for two or three days . All V cine in any sense - Fleisch grocers have Fleischmann ' s Yeast . mann ' s Yeast is simply a remark Start eating it today ! able fresh food . And let us send you a free copy The millions of tiny active yeast of our latest booklet on Yeast for plants in every cake invigorate the Health . Health Research Dept . whole system . Y - 8 . The Fleischmann Company , They aid digestion - clear the 701 Washington Street , New York . skin – banish the poisons of con stipation . Where cathartics give only tem porary relief , yeast strengthens " I SOLD MY GROCERY STORE and entered the insur the intestinal muscles and makes ance business with the hope that the change would them healthy and active . And cure my stomach cramps and constipation . But it did not help me . I grasped someone ' s suggestion to day by day it releases new stores try Fleischmann ' s Yeast . After taking three cakes daily for about two months I began to feel better . of energy . That was three years ago . I have taken no medicine · Eat two or three cakes regularly for three years - just yeast . My insurance business This FAMOUS FOOD tones up the entire system is prosperous , so I am not sorry that I sold my banishes constipation , skin troubles , stomach dis every day before meals : on crack grocery store ; but I am sorry that I suffered for orders . You will find many delicious ways of eating ers - in fruit juices or milk - or thirty - five years before I discovered that the cure , Yeast - on crackers - in fruit juices or milk - with Fleischmann ' s Yeast , was back there on the shelves . ” a little salt or just plain . Eat 2 or 3 cakes every just plain . For constipation espe Philip Holm , Clinton , Iowa . day regularly before meals . STOTLOTIMIpomMMUM

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HIS is the time of year when phasis is on bags of Persian tapestry , wildering quantities , white or neutral or Petit Point , and on moire purses colored linen handkerchiefs with T name , pause philosophically , with cut - steel ornaments , rather than plaided borders in color , which are take a deep breath , and prepare them- on the fads of the moment . For the very good . Charvet , at 653 Fifth selves fully for the shock of what futurist affairs , department stores , Avenue , has a particularly fine selec their request for a nice handbag from especially Bonwit Teller's ( for eve- tion of these . For women , the frothy Santa Claus is going to bring them . ning ) , Saks - Fifth Avenue , and Alt- little handkerchiefs of linen and lace And this Season , of all Seasons , is the man's , offer a comprehensive selection . for evening are to be found at Grande one time when they should be pleas- Above all , in a fashion so eccentric , Maison de Blanc , at Hollander's , and antly surprised . For bags have never shun the copying - in - cheaper - materials at Mosse . It is well to avoid giving been as fascinating as they are now . shops of Broadway ! R. Mingot , at silk handkerchiefs , unless they are so In Paris , both Chanel and Vionnet 561 Fifth Avenue has also a large very delightful in color that they may are featuring the enormous pouch bag assortment of very new imported bags , serve as a decorative note on a sports of leather , with a monogram on a flap and specializes in making them to costume . Even then , the little linen extending from the mounting . These order to match the costume . At Irene affairs with bright colored , plaided , or are the smartest possible type for wear Penn , at 526 Madison Avenue , there blocked designs in color are better , I with tailored clothes . Best & Com- are a number of very attractive things . think . For these , Franklin Simon , pany was the first to import these , but She also makes up bags to suit old Bonwit Teller , Coulson's at _429 at present numerous other department frames and mountings . Fifth Avenue , Walpole's , 373 Fifth stores and specialty shops have them , Cartier's is carrying , as usual , gold , Avenue , and , of course , McCutcheon's and they are appearing , in every possi- silver , or platinum bill grips , like en- offer a large assortment . ble bright color , to supplement the larged paper clips , for men who shun OME of the very bright hand daytime clothes of most of smart New wallets , and have the habit of carrying SOM painted things that Russian refu Another new note besides these These have little tabs for the initials gees are making over here to sell , and pouch bags , which are causing our of the happy recipient , and have been thereby'avert starvation , are on sale at mothers to harken back plaintively to noted in the pockets of extremely the Samarkand , at 9 East Fifty - fourth the days of the carryall , are the under- practical men . " They might also be Street . There are negligees , triangu arm envelope purses , still as smart as used for one's collection of bootleg- lar fringed scarfs , shawls , and hand they were last Season , with the new ging and dancing “ club ” cards . kerchiefs on display . The Flambeau , note supplied by the futuristic designs at 7 East Thirty - ninth Street , also on the outside of them . These come IT T being the merry Yuletide , has a great quantity of this type of in plain or reptile leathers with de whether you choose to acknowledge thing . Princess Ouchtomsky , at 420 signs in leather to harmonize or con its existence or not , the mind of your Madison Avenue , has already been re trast , for the daytime ; in black suedes friends right now is lightly turning ferred to , notably for her very deco or moires with designs printed , em to the question of handkerchiefs . And rative hand - painted pajamas and for broidered , pressed into the leather , or several little birds around our smart her scarfs . applied , for semi - formal wear ; and haberdasheries have been whispering in gold or silver kid for evening . The faintly that the very best kind with mop this tired DURING the week beginning De tapestry bags are still very good , but which a gentleman may cember 12 , the Studebaker Com imitations are unforgiveable , and the brow in the evening is very fine linen pany will hold an automobile salon at little rhinestone evening bags are much handkerchiefs with a wide taped the Hotel Plaza which should be ex seen . But the futuristic designs are , border , a narrow , rolled handsewn ceedingly interesting to connoisseurs . by all odds , the newest . hem , and a cut out black and white -L . L. At Jewelers like Cartier , or Black , initial . In fact , the cut out initials are ( The New YORKER's list of Christmas Gift Starr & Frost , this novelty element is best for every type of tailored hand Suggestions will be found on page 36 of th.s not very much stressed , and the em- kerchief . You will also find , in be issue . ) THE NEW YORKER

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The Only Shop of Its Kind in New York ! OR over 25 years , many of the most distinguished women in society and in the various professions have been enjoying the rather remarkable ex perience of cutting their annual dress budgets in half without in the least cụtting their wardrobes , by ensembling their Cos tumes at Maxon ' s . . . Some of the most gorgeous Gowns & Wraps that “ Lipstick " sees and adores when she lip sticks at the Opera or at some smart night club , when the nights are at their boldest , have been eclected right here . Yet , Madame et Mademoiselle pay for them very little — just about half of pre vailing prices . . . This Shop spe . cializes in the presentation of Ex hibition Models ( Samples ) exclusively . That ' s why they are half - priced ! If you can wear Sample Sizes , Max on ' s is the place for you - -

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CHRISTMAS SHOPPING SUGGESTIONS

N compiling the imposing list of IN Christmas suggestions that follows , we have made no pretense of being complete . Even the vast organization of The New YORKER does not contain the three hun dred investigators , each with exactly the same amount and kind of taste , that a really comprehensive list would require . We have laid our main emphasis upon Te specialty shops recommended by discrim inating friends or chanced upon in our rambles along Fifth Avenue and environs , because , while every New Yorker knows that any one of our first - class depart ment stores can supply excellent articles in any line , the true character of all , save a very few , of the smaller shops is slightly ambiguous . This is our gentle and tactful way of saying that this list has not been compiled for the benefit of the Old Lady from Dubuque , but as supplementary information for the person Illustration showing an old Indian Shawl draped above French Peasant who already knows a great deal about Chest , on which rests a very fine example of Commercial Empire New York and is always willing to learn Sebastian Ship Model , flanked by a pair of old French Peasant Chairs just a little bit more.—L. L.

You are cordially invited to view FOR WOMEN a rarely beautiful collection of interesting and decorative Art Objects Lingerie Newest and smartest shade in French PERIOD .FURNITURE , PEWTER , TAPESTRY , POTTERY and OLD FABRICS recently acquired by Mr. Herter during his travels handmade silk lingerie is the peach in Southern Europe apricot shade . Emma Maloof , 442 Madison Ave. Direct importations of Tapestry Handbags Robes , lingerie , and lovely hand made French garments . J. R. HERTER STUDIO Princess Catherine Gagarine , 123 East II7 EAST 5 7TH STREET 57th St. - Tea gowns , slips , negligées etc. Javotte , Inc. , 530 Madison Ave. - Fa wowowowowowowowowowowowowowowowowowowowowowowowy mous for sheer stockings and vanity accessories . Calvaire , 389 Fifth Ave. — Beautiful boudoir accessories . Christmas Dinner - Reservations Imperative Mme . Bertha Robert , 11 East 56th St. Entertainment Dancing Music Nightly -Exquisite French importations , and French sheer hose . MID - TOWN Kargère de Paris , 636 Fifth Ave. Specializes in sets of step - ins and chemise . HOFBRAU Dolly Trimlyn , 44 West 57th St. Broadway 52nd - 53rd Streets Stockings only . Imported French sheer and lisle , also English sports hose . Jay - Thorpe , Inc. , 24 West 57th St. Make Your New Year Reservations Early Elizabeth Arden , 681 Fifth Ave. Big Entertainment – to closing The Colony Lingerie Shop , 664 Madi son Ave. - Lace and pleated petticoats Telephone Circle 8141 , also French lisle hose . Among the department stores , Bonwit THE NEW YORKER 37

Teller , Franklin Simon , and Saks Fifth Avenue .

Perfumes If you know the kind she likes , give her that by all means . The following , however , is a suggested list of perfumes that are sure to please any woman of taste :

Morny's Chaminade — Bonwit Teller . Lanvin's J'en Raffolle Franklin Simon . Caron's Nuit de Noel - Arnold Con stable . Toujours Moi - Jay Thorpe . L. Legrande's Eventail — Lord and Tay lor . Babani's Ming - Elizabeth Arden . Also , sets composed of three different Babani perfumes with atomizer , or with a measuring cup and extra bottle for women who like to mix their own perfumes . Fioret's Jouir - Fioret . Chanel's Gardenia — Tailored Woman . Roger & Gallet's Jade - Macy Coty's Emeraude — Stern Brothers .

Bath Fragrances Caron's Bain de Champagne - Frank lin Simon . Omi Bath Ointment — Elsie De Wolfe . Marie Earle Jasmine Bath soap - Marie Earle . Compressed bath tablets for travellers in Pine , Nirvana , or Rose Elizabeth Arden . Morny's Bath Salts — Macy .

Beauty Boxes 810 Elizabeth Arden , 681 Fifth Ave. Leather cases , overnight size , fitted with every possible beauty requisite whether you need it or not . Fifth Avenue Dorothy Gray , 753 Fifth Ave .-- Week end beauty boxes , and elaborate fitted cases . Fioret , 674 Fifth Ave. - Beauty boxes Where the most discriminating containing lipstick , powder , etc. Jouir favored perfume . choose to live Macy , Herald Square - Morny beauty boxes of all types . The best residential life of New York is now located around Fifth Avenue above 59th Street . The most discerning prefer to live here while in town . Jewelry — Imitation and Semiprecious Stones On the sunny corner of 62nd Street , the very center of this section , 810 Fifth Avenue is being erected . Every apart Little Shop , 561 Fifth Ave. - Real ment will have southern exposure and a lovely view of semiprecious stones in exquisite small Central Park . pieces . Changes in the typical plan of 13 rooms and 5 baths on Hodges , 22 East 50th St. - Novelty gold and silver jewelry ; semiprecious each floor can be made to suit your needs . occupancy summer . stones . 810 Fifth Avenue will be ready for next Louis XIV Antique Co. , 9 East 55th 100 % Cooperative St. - Unique earrings ; also , antique Spanish 17th Century earrings . J. E. R. Carpenter , Architect Yamanaka , 680 Fifth Ave. -Jade , am BROWN ber , crystal , cornelian , lapis lazuli , 20 East Vanderbilt WHEELOCK : malachite , and rose quartz jewelry . 48th Street HARRIS 0031 Guitel Montague , 510 Madison Ave. VOUGHT Cornelian necklaces ; reproductions of & CO . , Inc. genuine pearls . 38 THE NEW YORKER

Gaza , 527 Madison Ave. — Chinese and antique jewelry . Técla , 398 Fifth Ave .-- Técla pearls . MOSSE INCORPORATED Frederic , 559 Fifth Ave. -Manu facturers of every type of pearl orna 730 FIFTH AVE NEW YORK , NY ment . Evening studs for men . Varga , 565 Fifth Ave. — Earrings made to order . Lord and Taylor , Fifth and 38th St. Antique silver and paste suggesting rhinestones , making duplicates of early Victorian chokers , earrings , etc. Saks - Fifth Avenue — Every kind of novelty jewelry , especially pearls . Bonwit Teller - Odd gold and silver pieces . Jewelry - Precious Stones Cartier , 653 Fifth Ave. — Specializes in original designs . Dreicer , Fifth and 46th St.Pearls . Black , Starr , and Frost , Fifth and 48th A truly unique and individual Christmas gift , that is useful and decorative that carries with it St. old - time charm and hospitality . Marcus , 554 Fifth Ave. “ RAVENNA " Tiffany , Fifth and 37th St. - Conser The refectory table damask that supersedes vative designs . the doily set . Fitting background for the Christmas feast . Cloth and napkins of All of these jewellers carry excellent silver and duo - tone ecru linen . watches , leather goods , studs ( especially For six persons , $ 51 For ten persons , 380 For eight persons , 68 For twelve persons . 98 onyx and mother - of - pearl , set in plati num , plain or engraved ) , vanity cases , cigarette cases , writing accessories , semi precious stones , etc. Linens Mosse , 730 Fifth Ave. - Exquisite table linens . Grande Maison de Blanc , 538 Fifth Ave. Walpole , 373 Fifth Ave. “ How's the new secretary , Jim ? ” Coulson , 429 Fifth Ave. Specializes in laces . “ Great ! She does twice as much McCutcheon , Fifth Ave. and 49th. work . Doesn't spend half a day phoning every corner of the earth for Every type of linens . my theatre tickets . She knows a thing Altman and Bonwit Teller are de or two . Bascom's , just above 44th , partment stores where excellent linens you know . ... " of all kinds can be secured .

Handkerchiefs See “ On and Off the Avenue , ” page 34 .

FOR MEN OR WOMEN Boxes Value ! The Box Mart — 25 East 54th St. THEATRE SERVICE The Chintz & Box Shop , 526 Madison تملعو

TESTE BASCOM 10069– Ave. It means that we put a little more VANDERBILT Wrappings , Coin Cards , and Gold into our clothes than we have to Piece Boxes so that you can get a little more 1511 Broadway One of the Hotel Astor Dennison , Cor . 26th St. and Fifth out of them than you would ex strat front stops Ave. pect to — and then some . Interesting Shops Miscellaneous Yamanaka , 680 Fifth Ave. - Japanese And branches at the Bilt and Chinese objects of art . AINSLEIGH more , Ambassador , Astor , Beatrice Meyer , Ltd. , 402 Madison Plaza , Park Lane , Bel . IN CORPORATED Ave. - Colored glassware . mont , Ansonia , Commodore , 920 B'WAY , NEW YORK Murray Hill and Imperial . Orientalia , 32 West 58th St. - Orien AT 2IST ST . 11th Floor tal books ; Japanese batiks ; Eastern ani SUITS TUXEDOS ACCESSORIES objects . 0000 Braus Galleries , 34th St. and Fifth Ave. THE NEW YORKER

Delightful gifts of all kinds ; etchings , bronzes , brass etc . Milnor , 41 East 45th St . - Oriental brass tables in ebony stands ; Japanese embroidered pajamas ; Houri house coats , etc . Brown - Robertson Galleries , 8 East Convenience 49th St . — Etchings , and color wood cuts .

Di Salvo Bros . , 443 Madison Ave . in Banking AR Antique furniture , tapestries . Albert Grosfield , 689 Lexington Ave . , and also of Paris . Chairs , small antique M ANY thousands of men and tables , etc . women make this Office their Vardi of London , 448 Madison Ave . banking connection because it makes Old English silver and china . Todhunter Galleries , 414 Madison all the services of a complete bank Ave . — Wrought iron fireplace equip so conveniently accessible at the ment . center of City transit facilities . Arnoldo Du Chene , 415 East 51st St . - Original designs in pottery for gar Our depositors find it of distinct dens . advantage to have available under Macy Corner Shop . Wanamaker Au Quatrième . one roof , in a central location , facil Ovington , “ The gift shop of the ities for meeting their every bank Avenue ” . ing , trust , investment , foreign ex Small antiques , end tables and other attractive pieces , laces , china , silver etc . , change and safe deposit need . may be found in quantities at the fol lowing shops : J . Zado Norran , 15 East 54th St . Also small Persian drop rugs . Arthur S . Vernay , 12 East 45th St . Unusual decorations , C . V . Howard , 141 East 57th St . Pewter plates jugs bowls , etc . Enskos , 680 Lexington Ave . Silver . Rena Rosenthal Studio , 520 Madison Ave . — Lamps , shades , etc . Smoker ' s Accessories Dunhill , 43rd St . and Fifth Ave . Gasoline cigarette lighters that work . The smartest of these are in colored leather . Also pipes , tobaccos , and some very attractive wooden animal match box holders . Women ' s pipes , slightly smaller replicas of men ' s type . MM Smoke Shop , 6 East 45th St . Smart English shop . James B . Russell , 23 West 57th St . Smokers ' accessories for men and women . Benson & Hedges , 435 Fifth Ave . The Ritz - Carlton Humidor , Ritz - Carl ton Hotel , 46th St . & Madison Ave . Saks - Fifth Avenue — Suède tobacco pouches , oilskin lined , with club or college seal . ( Long oilskin tobacco Fifth Avenue Office pouches and moire pouches striped in club colors can be secured at any re Guaranty Trust Company liable men ' s haberdashery . ) of New York Well known brand of Cigars advisable for Christmas gifts . Fifth Avenue & 44th Street La Corona , Manuel Garcia , Ramon Allones — The heavier smokes for after dinner etc . The prices range from $ 48 to $ 60 per 100 . 40 THE NEW YORKER

Carltonia , Flora de Cuba — The smaller lighter smokes . The prices range from *** BAUMGARTEN $ 14.00 to $ 19.00 per 100 . VIENNE / E W BONBONNIERE 15 EAST 48 / T . NEWYORK NY Handbags See “ On and off the Avenue ” , page 34 . Luggage Dobbs , 620 Fifth Ave. - Sole import ers of the famous Hermès luggage . Arthur Gilmore , Inc. , 22 East 55th St. - Louis Vuitton luggage imported . Martin & Martin , 45 West 57th St. Crouch & Fitzgerald , 586 Fifth Ave. Mark Cross , 404 Fifth Ave. — All types of leather goods . VIEN Abercrombie & Fitch , Madison Ave. and 45th St. - Sports luggage , golf N. bags , etc. The luggage departments of Saks - Fifth Avenue and Altman are very good . For men , Brooks Brothers , Tripler , and Finchley . Leather Goods These can be bought almost anywhere , Merry and buyers are thrown everywhere upon Christmas ! their own good taste . Avoid , in general , CANDY — THE TRADITIONAL CHRISTMAS GIFT , pink and blue leather things for women ATTAINS NEW DISTINCTION WHEN IT IS BAUMGAR and any imitations of Italian tooled TEN'S . MADE IN THE EUROPEAN MANNER , FRESH leather . Good selections in bill folders , FROM THE KITCHENS IN NEW YORK . GOLD SEAL , TINS , $ 2 . THE POUND ; BLUE SEAL , BOXES , $ 1.50 desk sets , memorandum pads , bridge sets , THE POUND . and so on , can be found at any reputable jeweller , such as Cartier , Marcus , Black Starr and Frost , Dreicer , and Tiffany ; at reliable book stores , such as Scribner , Dutton , etc .; at good department stores ; in men's haberdasheries ; in luggage shops mentioned previously ; at Mark Cross , who makes a specialty of leathers ; and at Ovington .

FOR MEN THEY Neckties , Sweaters , Scarfs , Dressing Gowns , Personal Apparel For neckties , avoid loud patterns , vio lent stripes , and noisy colors . NEWY Also , ladies , avoid the $ 1.75 counters and , when in doubt , buy plain , soft colors . Spitalfield silk ties in tiny pat terns are the newest type . For scarfs , the best is the square of silk , the newest version being Scotch NEGRO plaids . For evening , black , with white or grey . EDITED BY ALAIN LOCKE For sweaters , avoid anything costing less THE FIRST COMPLETE BOOK ON AND BY THE NEGRO than $ 22.50 , and sets of sweater and hose to match , unless in quiet colors . ( With 17 full page color plates and many black and white drawings Turtle - necked sweaters in plain colors are and decorations , bound in boards , buckram back , $ 5.00 ) very smart , but the safe type is the V necked sweater with or without sleeves . Cruger's , 8 East 45th St. - Neckties . NO MORE PARADES Rogers Peet Co. , 485 Fifth Ave. - By FORD MADOX FORD Persian Goat chamois lined washable hand - sewn English gloves . The New York Times , Evening Post , Sun , and The New Yorker all agree with The Herald Tribune that this is " Far and Away the finest Budd , 572 Fifth Ave. , or 149 Broad book of the year . " $ 2.50 way — Ties . Charvet , 653 Fifth Ave. -Silk loung ing robes , scarfs , handkerchiefs , silk ALBERT & CHARLES BONI Publishers Heller i pajamas . THE NEW YORKER Kaskel & Kaskel , 657 Fifth Ave . - Silk dressing coats , golf sweaters . A . Sulka , Fifth Ave . at 43rd St . - Vio lent striped or checked flannel dressing gowns . Tripler , Madison Ave . at 46th St . Silk pyjamas in soft colors , heavy gloves 1030 with zipper lock ; excellent men ' s clothes for every occasion . FIFTH AVENUE Brooks Bros . , 346 Madison Ave . — Ex NORTH CORNER OF 84TH STREET cellent for all accessories for men . A . G . Spalding , 518 Fifth Ave . Sports wear . Abercrombie & Fitch , Madison Ave . and 45th St . - Sports wear . Peck & Peck , 587 Fifth Ave . Sweaters . DePinna , Fifth and goth St . - Gloves . Nettleton Shoe Co . , Madison Ave , and

45th St . - Leather mules . LITTER Walking Sticks Plain Malacca , hooked sticks best . Kaskel & Kaskel , 657 Fifth Ave . Tripler , Madison Ave , and 46th St . Abercrombie & Fitch , Madison Ave . , and 45th St . Brooks Bros . , 346 Madison Ave . Dunhill , 512 Fifth Ave . Drinking Accessories You can ' t avoid them anywhere in town . FOR CHILDREN Funny Animals Herbert Novelty Company , 47 W . 57th St . - Importers of delightful English woolly animals . Kiddie Corner , 28 E . 56th . — Furry animals that leap and move like the beasts they represent . Reflecting your The Dugout , 18 East 58th St . - Limp ing animals and funny dolls . own individuality United Arts & Crafts , 26 East 55th The floor plan of these apartments provides just St . - Odd wooden animals . the arrangement of gracefully proportioned rooms that you need for a highly individual decorative Dolls and Dolls ' Accessories theme . An apartment home here can be made to Happy Heart Shop , 23 E . 65th St . express the most delicate shades of taste and Specialty is making up dolls ' wardrobes personality . complete to gloves and handkerchiefs . Although only seven apartments are now un Alice Hill , 15 W . sist . — Handmade sold , the choice is well varied . There are duplex furniture , cradles , etc . for dolls . apartments of 11 and 12 rooms and simplex of 12 and 15 rooms . All have the most complete Mechanical Toys appointments , southern exposure and an inter Ave . - Motor esting outlook over Central Park . Boucher , 415 Madison It is impossible to find apartment homes boat engines ; airplanes ; electric trains , ready to move into , having equal advantages and derricks , etc . ; parts , plans and imple the same reasonable prices and low maintenance . ments for creation of model ships ; me particular . chanical games . An inspection will satisfy you in every 100 % Cooperative Children ' s Furniture Architect : Builders : Chez Les Enfants , 856 Lexington Ave . J . E . R . Carpenter Dwight P . Robinson & Co . , Incorporated - Genuine antiques , and modern equipment for the nursery . Selling and Managing Agent BROWN Infants ' Clothes 20 East 48th St . WHEELOCK : Vanderbilt 0031 Chez Les Enfants , 856 Lexington Ave . HARRIS L . Brogan , 27 E . 54th St . VOUGHT Fairyland , 10 w . 50th St . & Co . , lac . THE NEW YORKER L . P . Hollander , 550 Fifth Ave . F . RAY COMSTOCK and MORRIS GEST Mosse , Inc . , 730 Fifth Ave . HAVE THE GREAT HONOR TO ANNOUNCE Children ' s Clothes FOR THE FIRST TIME IN AMERICA Children ' s Shop of Richmond , Va . , 20 E . 46th St . - Handmade clothes for The Moscow Art Theatre boys under six and girls under sixteen ; brother and sister suits . Musical Kiddie Corner , 28 E . 56th St . - Very Studio Frenchy and grown - up clothes for chil ( The Synthetic Theatre ) dren under six years of age . of Vladimir Nemirovitch - Dantchenko A La Jeunesse Elégante , 72 E . 55th First Appearance Outside Russia of the Famous Lyric Branch St . - Continental clothes for gilded of the World ' s Foremost Stage youth . Engagement Limited to Seven Weeks in New York , Beginning with a L . Brogan , 27 E . 54th St . — Simple , GALA PREMIERE handmade frocks ; brother and sister MONDAY EVENING , DECEMBER 14 suits . JOLSON ' S 59th ST . THEATRE Stocking Toys at Happy Heart Shop , 23 E . 65th St . [ By courtesy of MESSRS . SHUBERT who have graciously consented Every imaginable trifle for stockings , to move “ The Student Prince ” to another theatre . ] or for their Happy Heart surprise bags . Matinees Friday ( By request of American Artists of the Alice Hill , 15 W . 51st St . stage and Music ) and Saturday . Mayfair Shop , 741 Fifth Ave . The repertory for the first five weeks will be : Gala premiere and entire week of December 14 , matinees Friday and Jewelry Saturday ~ Aristophanes ' “ Lysistrata . ” Cartier , 653 Fifth Ave . — Bracelets , Entire week of Dec . 21 , matinees Friday and Saturday - Offenbach ' s lockets , porringers , silver sets . “ LA PERICHOLE . ” Black , Starr & Frost , 48th St . and Entire week of Dec . 28 , matinees Friday and Saturday - Lecocq ' s “ The Fifth Ave . DAUGHTER OF MADAME Angot . ” Week of January 4 , Monday and Tuesday evenings , January 4 and 5 , Roller Skates , Ice Skates , Bicycles , Etc . Friday matinee January 8 and Saturday evening January 9th , “ CAR Abercrombie & Fitch , 45th St . and MENCITA AND THE SOLDIER , ” a wholly new version of the Bizet -Merimee Madison Ave . “ Carmen . ” Wednesday , Thursday and Friday evenings , January 6 , 7 , and All of these shops carry an assortment 8 , and Saturday matinee January 9 - Offenbach ' s " La Perichole . ” of games both instructive and destruc Entire week of January 11 , matinees Friday and Saturday - Pushkin ' s tive , toys , books , and so on . For a large " LOVE AND Death , ” featuring Rachmaninoff ' s “ Aleko . ” selection , F . A . O . Schwartz , 303 Fifth engagement will Avenue , has , as usual , every conceivable The productions for the remaining two weeks of this type of toy . Also to be recommended be announced later . are the toy departments of Macy ' s and Write to Morris Gest , Princess Theatre , New York , for prospectus Wanamaker ' s , and , for clothes , Best ' s COMMITTEE OF PATRONS Lilliputian Bazaar . OTTO H . KAHN , Honorary Chairman MRS . VINCENT ASTOR MRS . MARSHALL FIELD CLARENCE H . MACKAY PROF . GEORGE PIERCE BAKER GIULIO GATTI - CASAZZA MRS . CHARLES F . MITCHELL MRS . AUGUST BELMONT MRS . CHARLES DANA GIBSON DR . EUGENE NOBLE Within a week of each other , two taxicabs DR . NICHOLAS MURRAY THOMAS HASTINGS PROF . WILLIAM LYON PHELPS have fallen through the pavement on Broadway BUTLER PRES . JOHN GRIER HIBBEN THE HON , FRANK L . POLK ARTHUR CURTISS JAMES EDWARD ROBINSON near Times Square into the subway excava PAUL D . CRAVATH FREDERIC A . JULLIARD LEOPOLD STOKOWSKI tions with fatal results to their drivers . WALTER DAMROSCH OTTO H . KAHN AUGUSTUS THOMAS THE HON . JOHN W . Davis THOMAS W . LAMONT MRS . H . P . WHITNEY Local Newspaper . MRS . NEWBOLD EDGAR MRS . HENRY ROGERS We point to the credo of Mr . Benja MRS . LEONARD ELMHIRST WINTHROP min Franklin , slightly modernized SEATS NOW ON SALE AT THE BOX OFFICE “ Nothing is certain but death in taxis . ”

Last night I went to the Garrick where I Inside the Moscow Plays of the saw Moscow Art Theatre A play called “ Arms and the Man " , by Art Theatre Musical Studio George Bernard Shaw By OLIVER M . SAYLER 7 plays from the Russian Whose works , in the manner referred to Translated by George S . Ego Gilbert Seldes by sophisticated people as " Shavian ” , Mr . Sayler gives us here first hand infor mation about the famous Moscow Art Thea A collection of complete English transla Are copyrighted in all languages including tre at home in Russia . It is an intimate pic tions of the entire repertory of the lyric the Scandinavian . ture of the world ' s foremost acting company branch of the Moscow Art Theatre founded at work and the first record of its new lyric by Vladimir Nemirovitch - Dantchenko . The branch , the Moscow Art Theatre Musical introductions to these interesting transla Studio . tions are by Oliver M . Sayler . ( $ 3 . 00 ) Beautifully illustrated with eighty full page Both of these important books can be color plates and ninety black and white illus secured at all leading bookstores or direct from · THE NEW YORK GIRL the publisher . trations . ( $ 4 . 00 ) She ' s fond of art ; her atelier Attracts the dilettantes , Publishers , BRENTANO ' S - New York Who paint and sculp and prattle - yea , And sing self - praising chanteys . THE NEW YORKER 43

WHY I LIKE NEW YORK

Because : In a pet shop on Sixth Avenue Only lights a small Marmoset rests on newspaper clip- UPSIDE DOWN pings which are full of election promises ; Right side up and the Marmoset drools comfortably , or on its sido sluggish and smug like the bigger mon- the light is OUT keys . — ARTHUR VERNICK

Because : Hurrying through Washington Square one morning I met a leisurely old gentleman with a grizzled beard quietly engaged in picking up papers on the end of a pointed stick , and thrusting them into a sack ; because , when the old gentleman looked at me and said , “ Bon jour , made 1 moiselle , " I had time only for a startled , “ Bon jour , monsieur , ça va bien ? ” and for his tranquil reply , " Oui , mademoi selle , " before dashing on to my appoint ment ; and because he was never there be fore and has never been there since to answer all the things I'd like to ask him . -CONSTANCE M. HallOCK

Because : On Saturday I saw Harold Vanderbilt , America's wealthiest and most patrician bachelor , stop before a chestnut vendor's stand at the corner of Forty - fifth TIPLITE Street and Vanderbilt Avenue ( appro priately enough ) and ask in a cool and canny manner “ How many of these do I an ideal He - Gift get for ten cents ? ” Because : I have a pack of playing cards New , Different , Distinctive given me when I eat at the Park Lane and can help myself to toothpicks when ERE it is , pictured above — the most I eat at the Exchange Buffet.— Jacy Bee HER interesting and convenient Cigar Lighter yet invented — and a beautiful Because : On upper Fifth Avenue there paper weight in the bargain . He'll be just is a certain filet - lace - curtained three - win tickled to death to get such an original gift ! dow , ten - room house , belonging to , and in the evenings elegantly occupied by , a cer Ideal for desk , card table or library . The tain colored woman who day times does Plug has simply to be connected with any general housework in my four - room flat electric light socket — then , anytime you on West Eighty - ninth Street . — M . G. want to light up , you just touch cigar or cigarette with the underside of Tiplite Because : Though I can no longer get and there you are ! coffee at a nickel , a glass of cream for eight cents a bottle ; though I can't get a No unsightly match - ends lying about room and two meals for eight dollars a no smell Tiplite is clean , good - looking , week or expect my landlady to give me handy , economical — made of genuine Bake strawberries in January , at least I don't lite most any color you fancy . Price $ 5.00 need a silk petticoat stiff enough to rustle , seven yards of material to make a dress , complete with cord and plug . and I don't have to spend my last dollar It's a new , an ideal He - gift . Comes in for duster , goggles , bonnet and enough green , mahogany and library red . Use the veiling to escape even Scotland Yard , in coupon today — and don't forget to enclose order to go on an automobile tour . the $ 5.00 ! -HENRIETTA A. KOHLER

The Aldrege Company Because : Walking down the Avenue 81 John Street , New York the other day I saw a gentleman ahead of me in a coonskin coat drop a brand new Enclosed is $ ...... Please send me ...... TIPLITE . Color ..... fifty - cent piece . He must have heard it which I will return if not satisfactory and you will refund my money . fall , because he turned , regarded the shiny Name .. coin — then , smiling superciliously , spurned it . ( Idiot ! Of course , I picked it up and Street . had a good meal at the Automat . ) City .. State . -Delano McKELVEY 44 THE NEW YORKER

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( or whatever the Printing BONI & LIVERIGHT , N.Y. Greek is ) in a thoroughly modern sequence of amusing conversations . The Intelligent gift book GENERAL for " Dr. Froyd THREE ROUSING CHEERS FOR THE ROLLO Boys , seemed to think Christmas that I was quite by Corey Ford ( Doran ) . Good , and often irresistible , foolery a la mode , including some a famous case . " good burlesques of reigning authors . AARON BURR , by Samuel H. Wandell and Meade Minnegerode ( Putnam ) . Two volumes . A THE TRAVEL biography costing as much as five novels , and worth about 500 of the run - of - the - mill variety . DIARY THE LIFE AND LETTERS OF WALTER H. PAGE , Vol . III , by Burton J. Hendrick ( Doubleday , of a Philosopher Page ) . The shirtsleeves patriots accused Page of toadying to England . Should you meet such a patriot , brain him with this volume “ Buddhism , Hinduism , Confucian which gives Page's letters to Wilson . ism , Japanese self - mastery , Ameri can belief in progress , European striving for culture — in each and all “ For truth is precious and divine he finds something helpful , some “ Too rich a pearl for carnal swine . stimulus for heightening his own -Butler ” personality . " -- The Atlantic Monthly . -Quoted on editorial page of Evening Graphic 2 Vols . $ 10.00 . Indicating , apparently , that even the HARCOURT , shrewdest editors have momentary lapses BRACE & CO . " in which the subconscious speaks . THE NEW YORKER THE PSYCHOANALIST ANALYSES SANTA CLAUS A VERY interesting case , indeed . The O subject is an adult (male ) of Dutch Germanic extraction , well along in years , suffering from an advanced form of in feriority complex . This causes subject to go out only at night , and to enter houses by means of chimneys and other means of ingress by which he will not be readily seen . Case is complicated by juvenile ( GMP ) complex , as subject prefers to associate with juveniles and to gain their favor by expedient of gifts . Subject is an intro vert , as shown by his lack of ability to adjust himself to the needs of a physical world , which causes subject to use rein deer and old fashioned equipment , when modern progress demands that he use an airplane , or at least an automobile of superior type . Subject plainly had un fortunate family life in formative years ; Gramercy Park evidence indicates that he was not in ac - in that green and secluded little oasis of histori . cord with his father , as when , on his cal old New York - which forgot to move uptown . North periodical visits to a family he is prone to neglect the father in the family . Subject is now too old to effect permanent cure . 2 GRAMERCY PARK NORTH has jumped into a present As subject means well , would suggest that day prominence equaled only by the position this famous he be left to continue as at present where number held in the past as the home address of many of New York ' s his inhibitions and repressions find ex most noted people . It is a prominence due to a wide and discriminating pression only in harmless midnight pranks . appreciation of the manner in which this new residential hotel is carry . - HOMER CROY ing out its genuine new idea in gracious living . In the quiet and verdant setting of old Gramercy Park - keeping all its traditions , all the memories — “ 52 North " recreates the charm of that THE FUTURE OF HOTELS HO old and delightful neighborhood life , adding to it the most modern DERHAPS , in no other field of in material comforts and personal service features . Every detail - artistic I dustry is American genius so exempli decorations and furnishings , as well as its full hotel and restaurant fied as in the construction , equipment , and service — reflects culture and refinement . Operated by its owners , the administration of hotels . Changes have maintenance of superior excellence thruout is guaranteed . While the been so rapid , that a hotel built ten years character and prominence of its permanent residents and transient ago is old and out of date today . Veteran guests , now doubly assured , only continues the fame of its name . hotel men , however , say that progress has Rooms singly or en suite , furnished or unfurnished . Personal inspection only begun , and predict that , within the invited . next ten years , changes will come which WILLARD H . BARSE , Manager even the most confirmed hotel habitué would not dream possible . Speaking be fore the National Hotel Men ' s Conven GRESHAM REALTY CO . , Inc . tion a few days ago , Mr . Tatler , of the 587 Fifth Avenue , New York City famous Tatler chain , created a sensation by making the predictions which follow : 1927 : Room Clerk acknowledges re ceiving guest ' s telegram making reserva tion . Page pronounces name so that man called understands it . Guest given room in which large hall light is not directly in front of transom . 1928 : Waiter serving guest in room re members to bring salt and pepper . Hotel advertisement in which " Cuisine unex celled ” is not used . Man paged more frequently than anyone else found to be person of prominence . 1929 : Guest desiring to sleep late not awakened by hall porter noisily cleaning outside door knob . Guest desiring to sleep late not awakened by vacuum cleaner in front of room .

1930 : Guest desiring to sleep late not awakened by maid rattling key in lock . al Umbrella rented at desk found to be 46 THE NEW YORKER

water proof . Arriving guest administers severe beating to bell boy for taking suit case from him so forcibly that handle breaks . Permanent Wave 1931 : Headwaiter admits that several window seats are not reserved . Traveling salesman expresses himself as entirely satis fied with food and service . Hat check girl says , “ Thank you . " 1932 : Guest is entirely through bath and out of tub before clerk rings phone to ask if his initial is T. or F. Diner with newspaper spread on table doesn't have it pushed aside by waiter to make room for knife and fork . Guest waits Technique only fifteen minutes for dish marked The marvelous symmetry of a Simmons wave gives " Ready ” . to every woman that per 1933 : Diner who ordered coffee served fectly groomed appear with meal gets it . Phone girl asked to bas ance so much to be de sired . call 415 at 7.30 doesn't call 730 at 4.15 . Mr. Simmons personally Guest sits in lobby for half hour without ministers to cich client and guarantees that raising feet for porter to sweep under neither kink nor dis them . coloration will result 1934 : Girl at newsstand not too busy from his splendid method . with theatre tickets to sell newspaper to guest . Prices in basement cafeteria , ad vertised as cheaper than main dining room , actually are . Door man calls IMM cheapest taxi instead of most expensive one . Il West 56th Street 1935 : Guest gets room and bath at New York minimum rate advertised . Arriving guest only waits four hours for room after be ing told there would be vacancy in thirty minutes . Bath mat plainly marked so that guest fails to dry himself with it before discovering that it is not Turkish towel . 1936 : Headwaiter appears as guest enters dining room , and shows him to seat . Valet returns clothes at time speci fied so that guest does not miss important engagement . Mr. Tatler , addressing Hotel Men's Convention , admits he was Color Harmony too sanguine concerning some of the changes he predicted ten years ago . -Joseph Fulling FISHMAN OW much or how little do we actually H Ꮋ know concerning this vitally necessary study . EASTSIDE - WESTSIDE Every home - large or small - may be intelli Downtown Street is dim and narrow , gently lightened and brightened to send forth Downtown Street is mean and small . full vibrations which gladden its visitors A child may fall there , or a sparrow ,

* and harmonize its occupants . None will notice it at all . Trucks and wagons jolt and rumble , In a series of short talks Miss Deane covers Children scuttle in retreat . this subject with amazing clarity and bestows Life is just a fearful jumble invaluable information on Interior Decora For the kids in Downtown Street . tions and kindred subjects . Downtown Street is lined with casements , f Women sprawl across the sills ; Crowded garrets , swarming basements , Crammed with quarrels , heaped with Edith DOUGLAS DEANE ills . Consulting Decorator Dull in grief , too drab for dreaming , 507 Madison Avenue , New York Shorn of peace , too cross for play , Toils the race , more dense , more teem ing How do they beget that way ? --HOWARD CUSHMAN no Chambers catherine THE NEW YORKER 47

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daily becoming more articulate : We are opening these intimate First , the average hostess cannot be soirées with the flattering acclama

critical enough of her guests to tion of the distinguished patrons make the private function exclu of our Thé Dansant . There will be

sive ; Second , the younger set has absolutely no couvert charge for chosen instead , the cabaret , where dinner and supper . Mediocrity ,

one may have one's own party in we feel , is too often masked by

spite of the fact that other patrons excessive charges , and true dis may be of a different social strata . tinction is synonymous with good taste in this respect . We realized the existence of this

condition . We also realized that Our Thé Dansant already occu the combination of modern restau pies an enviable place in the after rant facilities and a tactful insist noon social life in town . An invi

ence upon persons and not purse tation to the Villa Venice for din would create the perfect evening ner or supper will be as reassuring entertainment . In opening the to elders critical of the cabaret as it Villa Venice at Number 10 East will be delightful to the younger Sixtieth Street for dinner and sup set . And that invitation is hereby per we wish to announce the estab given . The dinner jacket is requi lishment of this ideal . site , of course . The Villa Venice The interesting decorations are was opened for dinner and supper

the work of distinguished artists . on Wednesday , December the ninth . WONG

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O CHASES DOMINO Mints THE CURRENT CINEMA 1 E caught a pre - showing of Herr W Lubitsch ' s " Lady Windermere ' s Fan ” , an evening or so ago at a night club , appropriately enough . Which is Peppermint about the first intelligent use one of Buy Clove Violet the Charleston and mineral water em Cinnamon Wintergreen poriums has been put to , since La Belle Always Fresh Christmas Always Murray appeared in one in half a Delicious Lusciousness in compact Absolutely towel for a Spanish dress , and gave the form for the motorista 100 % pure customers a topic besides love to talk box of Dominoes . They ' re 5 - 10 and 25 refreshing , these domino cent sizes about . And although the handsomely Seals shaped mints and fla vored with piquant mel caparisoned waiter at this pre - view lowness . Buy Dominoes showed a tendency to hurry away the wherever good candy is Stamp Out Tuberculosis sold . Send 10 cents in ko sundry schnitzel and skittles an in stamps for sample box . stant after serving them , and al I w . P . CHASE CANDY CORP . . Bklyn , N . Y . 4 though one of the Six Flying Warner Brothers , Hollywood Bears that they are , kept rising to recite the Gettysburg " . . . books which enjoy a lively circulation address , or to speak on the couvert in New York without having to appear charge , and although at one point , 1925 on the official list of best sellers . " Madame La Valentino strode in like Merry Christmas - The New Yorker Flaming Night and almost wrecked and Good Health the place with her well - calculated and The National , State and Local devasting sweep of train — we should Tuberculosis Associations of the KEPT like to report that Oscar Wilde will United States have no cause to turn over in his grave By ALEC WAUGH when the picture is released in Jan uary . Der Herr Lubitsch has done ELSA NOBL Coward calls it “ A splendid example of post - war love in England . " magnificently , if somewhat German ically , by the Gifted Magpie of the FINDLAY 1 AT ALL BOOKSTORES , $ 2 . 00 perfumed sayings . DALCROZE ALBERT & CHARLES BONI , N . Y . He has attempted and succeeded in EURYTHMICS transfilming a Wilde without use of a PLASTIQUE single tinseled Wildean epigram from the play , rather trusting to his own PANTOMIME great sense of cinematic wit and the DANCE dramatic . The result is a Wilde of COMPOSITION The RESTAURANTS wondrous characterization and situa For A clors , Dancers , OF NEW YORK Musicians , Teachers . tion , well interspersed with pictorial Teacher at The Labora 264 Fifth Avenue lory Theatre , Inter Thea by George S . Chappelle wit , acted by the usual splendid hand tre Arts , Inc . , Deni held lubitschean actors . Perhaps the Madison Sq . 1019 shawn , Etc . A guide for the gourmet vigilant German may seem to have a joy for the jaded - an stressed the surface tragedy of the fine epic for the epicure ! $ 1 . 50 play to the apparent sacrifice of the Greenberg , Inc . , Publisher brilliant and eternal fragrant epigrams , 112 E . 19 St . , N . Y . but this can hardly be considered a grievous fault and may be mended by a judicious insertion of a line from the play at this point , and that in the sub GOLF painted - New Golf , Grade Balls ; A Wooden Rewashed & & Steel Re - | | titles . For Wilde is there - in picture Shafted Clubs , Hose , Golf Bags , Sweat terms it is true — but still essentially the Manuscripts Faultlessly Typed ers , Wind - Breaker Jackets etc . — all at Novels , Plays , Short Stories , Articles special prices . New York delivery . Wilde of the gorgeously unreal puppets , T . FRED GOLDSMITH , of the amorous bon vivant Lord Dar GENEVIEVE GOODYEAR EARLB 52 Broadway . Hanover 0436 . lington , of the super - sentimental harlot 9 GAY STREET , NEW YORK motherly Mrs . Erlynne , of the fourth | Spring : 2883 THE NEW YORKER dimensionally virtuous and slightly thick Lady Windermere ( virtuous to the nth point of virtue as are all the Wilde heroines ) , of the gossipy , over lusting clubman type ( constituting the Wildean villain ) , of the chilly , screech ingly clever British drawing rooms , of the scandal , of the backbiting , of the painfully correct serving men , of the high odor of British clowning man ners , of paradoxical this and of senti mental that , and of cheek tonguing thus and thus . And so we repeat , a line or two from the play , especially OSSONO GOWNS at the start , at the race track interlude and in the drawing room where Mrs . Erlynne comes to be undone but re That Crace the mains to undo , would help consider Formal Occasion ably . Incidentally , Mynheer Watts of the Orloane Inc . Tribune [ a contemporary ( Republi can ) sheet ] expressed a tender disap pointment in the picture , finding it too soupily mother - love - sacrificial - etc . 573 MADISON AVENUE 56th and 57th Sts . The retort is , “ What of it ? ” If Wilde 2137 BROADWAY was a fat sentimentalist and a weepy one at that — we shouldn ' t be surprised if he didn ' t weep drenchingly over the “ sad ” situations he put into his plays — why should that reflect on Lubitsch ? Wilde , of course ( as if you didn ' t know ) , immediately on inserting a tear - wringing scene into a play would cover it with layer on layer of swank speech , redolent to high heaven with perfumery , but in spirit at bottom stuck hard and fast in sticky mushiness Louis W . NOEL CLIFFORD LANGLEY of feeling . It would seem , M . Watts , Member N . T . Stock Exchange PEMBERTON BERMAN WILLIAM F . PORTER that Lubitsch acquitted himself nobly Special Partner under the strain imposed thusly on him by the late official ballad - maker of Reading Gaol . The acting is excellent , with Irene Rich taking honors . She , unhappy wife of the screen who has been down NOEL , BERMAN & LANGLEY a long corridor of endless unhappy wives pictures , has done wonders with MEMBERS the rôle of Mrs . Erlynne , the para New York Stock Exchange doxical déclassée ; Ronald Colman is cast right for the first time : he is an 60 BROADWAY , New YORK ineffectual Wildean villain and at last TELEPHONE , HANOVER 0428 not a hero for the Woolworthian mind ; while Bert Lytell as Lord Windermere acts for the first time in his life — but doesn ' t know it ; and the First Lady Gossip , whoever she was , was supremely good . — T . S . OUR CAPTIOUS READERS Dear Editor : We will be glad to suggest securities for available What I want to know is , has Mr . Red funds or advise as to existing investments . 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TABLES A Supreme Achievement ! FOR Howard Chandler Christy , Irving Berlin , Edgar Selwyn , Marilyn Miller , Irene Bordoni and a host of celebrities of Society , TWO the Stage , and the Screen enthusiastically KATINKA applauded the premier of 109 West 49th Street MARJORIE Moss and Gypsy Music - Russian Singers GEORGES FONTANA

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Tel . Circle 7080 and fascinatingly gripping presentation of ns . “ El Tango Tragico ” A night in Spain ! AT THE Supported by a cast of 18 Club and augmented orchestra Alabam IT was with a feeling closely akin Never before has a production of this kind to horror that I realized , some few been presented in America - on the stage 44th Street or off ! To see it is to be overcome with 1 days ago , that , by not having gone enthusiasm ! Nightly for a limited period Theatre Bldg . only at Just West of tc Harlem so far this Season , I was Broadway failing my dear public . And after all my denunciation of the decline of ClubMirador Phone negro entertainment downtown , it Lack . seems only fair that I should dig out 7845 something to take its place . 200 West 5180 St . , at Seventh Ave . The first thing that I noticed , is Phone Circle 5106 - 4983 that most of the negro girls entertain ing along Lenox Avenue would do well , either to take Charleston lessons You can rest , read , chat or from one of the five thousand flowers partake of VIENNESE DELICACIES of American womanhood adorning amidst a truly continental atmosphere our choruses , or to invent a new dance . ac The second thing that I noticed , is that the time - honored short white cot “ THE KUGLHUPF " ton bloomers have given way to very Coffee House intriguing pink silk step - ins trimmed COUNTY 72 WASHINGTON SQUARE SOUTH with lace , which were just a little AIRI nerve wracking to the gentlemen in 34 EAST gik WHERE TO WELCOME YOU our party . And the third , is that the An Artistically Amusing WILL BE THE DELIGHT OF only way to see negro entertainment at Dinner and Supper Club Bettina its best , is to go to places where the black portion of the audience outnum FOR RESERVATIONS PHONE Afternoons Evenings bers the white at least three to one . STUYVESANT 9290 The first stop , made as an aperitif to the main festivities of the evening , was at the good old Nest Club ; two DINNER AND DANCING Club Montmartre years ago the main attraction for smart society anxious to go slumming , and 50th Street and Broadway decorated with them in mind , and now

a somewhat deserted shadow of its SEEKEN former self . There are still the curi ous amber lights that make everybody Barneyse MURRAY SMITH ORCHESTRA look the same color ; still the non chalant negro who plays a tuba , and keeps a long black stogie going at the Dinner at Barney ' s is an unusual event . same time ; still the excellent dance From six to cen we have a cable d ' hote in Management music , which was inspiring a Broad addition to the a la carte service available way couple to the most amazing gyra throughout the evening . “ Charlie ” Journal tions of the evening . At the door , a new sign — “ Members should be pre 85 W . 3d Street Spring 8191 THE NEW YORKER pared to be searched for liquor at any time ” . From the Nest , the evening being yet young and increasingly lively , we MONICO went on to the Club Cabaret , Johnny Cobb ' s new club at Lenox Avenue and 219 WEST 53RD STREET THE C . O . F . A . 130th Street . And this was , without doubt , the high spot of the evening . CLUB , INC . The usual cellar with green walls , RUSSIAN SINGERS round ( The Cave of The Fallen Angels ) tables , bright red and green DINING DANCING The rendezvous of artists and in lights , and an enthusiastic orchestra . tellectuals , superb Russian cuisine . The entertainer there , a girl whose name turned out to be Retta , and Continuous Dancing , Gypsy Chorus 7 . 30 p . m . . 2 2 . m . whose casual remarks about a well known annulment suit were more After Theatre Supper 301 WEST 46TH STREET caustic than delicate , turned out to be one of the most vigorous animals that Where Fashionable I have ever seen turned loose in public . Dine to the accompaniment of If only she doesn ' t drop dead in her BALALAIKAS at New York Learns tracks from the sheer exhaustion of the Latest Steps ~ maintaining a one - woman all - night THE The smartest steps originate show , she could easily be the success RUSSIAN in the studio of the Vanderbilt ' s of the Season . Never could I have be instructor . Arthur Murray was INN selected to teach the U . S . Naval lieved that coon shouting could be as Academy dancing masters and noisy , or that the very expressive ges 33 W . 37TH STREET the National Institute . Mr . Murray has just returned from tures that accompanied each song as There is a jolly Paris with the New French Tango . abandoned , or that dancing could so good luncheon To inaugurate his new studio the completely engross the anatomy as hers The Russian Inn at noon . tuition fees have been greatly reduced . did . The lady has no inhibitions , and the theatre ARTHUR MURRAY And after 7 East 43rd Street N . Y . C . Vanderbilt 1773 is proud of it . She is simply swell , DANCE AND HEAR THB GYPSIES SING and like the tatooed lady , worth going Yours on Request miles to see . The third place visited was the The Australian Place With the 28 page booklec . Miniature reproduc tions . Glimpses of scenic beauty selected Hoofer ' s Club , formerly the Vaude Clubby Atmosphere from ville Comedy Club , which has impres sive signs pasted all over the walls , THE PICTURESQUE proclaiming that members only are AMERICÀ welcome . I understand that late at KANGAROO night , which , in Harlem , means from Its Parks and Playgrounds five in the morning on , it is one of 47 West 50th St . Edited by J . F .KANE ( 190 collaborators ) the most amusing places that you can New York City “ A wonderful Christmas gift for the find . Unfortunately , we arrived ridic Tel . Circle 3390 traveler . " — ( National Parks Association . ) ulously early — about three - thirty , and Luncheon · Tea - Dinner Ask your bookseller or write direct to not very much was going on except the English Food . Indian Curries Resorts & Playgrounds of America loudest and jazziest dance orchestra of Fresh Vegetables 51 East 42nd Street New York the evening , and a few rather lacka Reservations taken for Christmas and daisical entertainers . New Year ' s Dinner In all the excitement of rushing around in taxis in search of a young negro who was to guide us , and ap THE NEW YORKER parently found something more highly Have you been to Bob Murphy ' s Cellar The New Yorker is published colored to do , we missed Small ' s — the every Tuesday in New York City by most popular of the uptown places , at soth and 7th Ave . the F - R Publishing Corp . , 25 West and , unlike the ones I have mentioned , If Not , You Have Missed 45th Street . H . W . Ross , president ; packed to the doors with blacks from Something Different In R . H . FLEISCHMANN , vice - president ; midnight until morning . So this New York Night Life R . W . COLLINS , secretary and treas means another trip . 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time . At the Hoofer's Club and at ſi The Actors ' Theatre Presents THEATRE GUILD PRODUCTIONS the Nest , Friday night , “ Professional “ MORALS , ” a comedy by Ludwig BERNARD SHAW'S COMEDY Night ” is the great attraction , especial- Thoma , translated and adapted by Androcles and Lion ly at the Hoofer's which should be KLAW THEATRE visited then . Charles Recht , acting version Sidney by 45th St. , W. of B'way . Howard , staged by Dudley Digges . At Eves . 8:30 , Mats . Thurs. & Sat. HE night after this conscientious excursion , reaction took the form Comedy Theatre , W. 41st St. , Penn . TH Garrick Theatre of dining at Sherry's , which I adore , 3558. Mats . Wednesday and Saturday . 65 W. 35th St. Eves . 8:30 . Matinees Thursday & Saturday , and , with somewhat gingerly memo Bernard Shaw's Comedy ries of the hot dogs consumed the night BROADWAY'S FUNNIEST COMEDY ARMS AND MAN before ordering most exquisite BUTTER LOS dinner , that I could the think of . There À with Alfred Lunt , Lynn Fontanne . is simply nothing new that I can say with GREGORY KELLY . & . Evgs . 8:30 . about Sherry's , except that both the LONGACRE West Sted . So Exe 2.30 : 30 . CASINO Mats . Wed. Sat 2:30 room and the people are charming , ALL BALCONY SEATS AT BOX OFFICE in Russell Janney's the food excellent and well - served , Dennis King Musical Sensation . THEATRE т and that the music is especially good HENRY MILLER'S 124 W. 43 St. this year . Eves . 8.40 . Mats . Thurs. & Sat. 2.30 . ** , Vagabond King Founded on McCarthy's " If I were King . " THE SENSATION OF NEW YORK Music by RUDOLF FRIML 4TER in the evening , such is the force of habit , I journeyed to that The VORTEX dote ard's The . , 45th St. , W. of B’y . Evs . LT Imperial 3:25 . Mats . Wed & Sat , 2:30 . not - at - all leaning tower of respecta- With Mr. COWARD . & LILLIAN BRAITH . WAITE in the leading roles . 2ND YEAR bility , the Waldorf , for a little danc ARTHUR HAMMERSTEIN PRESENTS THE BIGGEST MUSICAL HIT EVER PRODUCED IN AMERICA dancing here is primarily designed for DEAREST ENEMY the cohorts and cohorts of debutantes The Exquisite Musical Success with ROSE - MARIE who want to feel safe after midnight , HELEN FORD and CHARLES PURCELL THEA . , 62nd St. and Cent . Century Park West . Evenings 8:25 . and fulfills its purpose well . The KNICKERBOCKER TH . , B'y & 39th St. ( Dir . Matinees Wednesday & Saturday , 2:30 . audience was composed principally of A. L. Erlanger . ) Evs . 8:30 . Mats . Wed. & Sat. THE " PERFECT " OPERETTA older people at supper , and very few dancers — which seems a great waste , 4th Year - ANNE NICHOLS ' — 4th Year Princess Flavia MUSICAL in view of the fact that the music here ABIE'S IRISH ROSE VERSION OF The Prisoner of Zenda is unusually good for dancing as well as listening . REPUBLIC Arthur Hopkins Presents 420 St. , W. of B'way . Eves . 8:30 . ORD comes that the Mayfair Mats . Wed. & Sat. Laurette Taylor WORD House is now open for dinner in Philip Barry's New Comedy dancing ; that the Tally - Ho has opened HENRY W. SAVAGE and A. H. WOODS “ IN A GARDEN ” offer new quarters at 18 East Fifty - sixth Plymouth , W. 45 St. Mats . Thurs. and Sat. “ STOLEN FRUIT Street for lunch and dinner ; that ” Arthur Kober Presents A ROBUST A Drama by Daño Niccodemi THRILLER OF Harry Richman has taken over Ciro's ; with Ann Harding , Rollo Peters , Harry THE WIDE OPEN and that Felix Young , formerly man Beresford , Felix Krembs SPACES Thea . 236 W. 42d . St. Eves . 8.40 ager of Ciro's , has taken Frances Wil . Eltinge Mato . Wed. & Sat. 2:40 . " ME PRINCESS , W. 39th St. liams , this department's favorite enter Mats . , Thurs. & Sat. By Henry Myers ( author of " The First so years " ) tainer , with him to Club Borgo and THEA . , W. 45 St. Eves . 8.30 . , Romanowsky , just a buddy of the late THE DRAMATIC SENSATION Mats . Wed. & Sat. , 2:30 MERRIEST MUSICAL SHOW IN TOWN Czar of Russia , thinks that it might CRAIG'S WIFE be an elegant idea to open a Russian MERRY MERRY restaurant . The result is the Kazbec By GEORGE KELLY . with MARIE SAXON and ( the name being very near the Kavkaz , With CHRYSTAL HERNE . HARRY ARCHER'S ORCHESTRA andKatinka the ) . location This will very be honored near to with the LYCEUM Thetais.With Stop Eves . 8:30 MAXINE ELLIOTT'S THEATRE Seats Now Tues. & Fri. , 2:30 . HENRIK IBSEN'S a review as soon as I get my strength . - LIPSTICK IRENE BORDONI The Master Builder in “ NAUGHTY CINDERELLA ” with Eva Le Gallienne AVERY HOPWOOD'S NEW SONG FARCE " A transcendent performance , pulsating with THE WINDOW MODEL emotion . Most exhilarating . ” — Times . FULTON Thea ., West 46 St. Eves . 8:30 “ A Bully Play ” —Times Some can adore Matinees Wed. & Sat. at 2:30 a brain of wood , James Forbes ' Best Comedy ! CHARLES DILLINGHAM Presents And unresponsive lips are said “ THE LAST To indicate technique , and yet Ina Claire OF MRS . ‘ Young Blood Not even in the strictest set CHEYNEY ” with NORMAN TREVOR - HELEN HAYES Do men find wooden bosoms good FLORENCE ELDRIDGE - ERIC DRESSLER by Fred'k Lonsdale . Staged by Winchell Smith , RITZ 48th , West of MATS Sat.Wed. & For pillowing the tired head . with Roland Young & A. E. Matthews Broadway . THE NEW YORKER

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