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The New YORKER , published weekly by the F - R Pub . Corp . , 25 W . 45th St . , New York , N . Y . Subscription $ 5 . Vol . I , No . 19 , June 27 , 1925 . Entered as second class matter , February 16 , 1925 , at the post office at New York , N . Y . , under the act of March 3 , 1879 . Copyright , 1925 , by the F - R Pub . Corp . THE NEW YORKER

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Advisory Editors : Marc Connelly , Rea Irvin , George S . Kaufman , Alice Duer Miller , Dorothy Parker , Alexander Woollcott THE TALK OF THE TOWN Rewards The Week VER coffee in a lunch club , a group of bank - THE International Convention of Rotarians , in ers were amusing Mr . Barney M . Baruch 1 Cleveland , enjoys a snowball fight in the interest with the re - telling of a story in the Saturday of service in business and Mr . Roald Amundsen re Evening Post . turns from his North Pole flight . Mr . Robert M . The plot , they explained , concerned a young man , LaFollette is buried and Mr . Henry Ford warns Big of Jewish parentage , who devoted his life to playing Business to be good . Herr President Von Hindenburg the stock market . He hung over the ticker every day , invites Gott to line up with the Fatherland again and selling whenever what stocks he held showed him a the League of Nations decrees against the use of small profit , re - investing only after deliberation . His poison gases , or bacteria in the next war . The Com profits were small , cautious profits . mission on Race Relations finds that lynchings de One morning this young creased in 1924 and a mob , in man was caught unawares , in Utah , hangs a negro . the midst of complicated Yale , Harvard and Prince transactions , by the eve of the ton award many degrees in Jewish Day of Atonement . arts and letters and a young It was his mother ' s telephone lady , convicted of manslaugh call that reminded him , re ter , sells the story of her life proached him and begged him to a local journal . Woman ' s to observe it . The situation entire garb , it is announced , was worked up ; everything weighs less now than her hat material seemed to depend on did fifteen years ago and his ignoring the edict of his Father ' s Day passes almost religion ; all his spiritual wel MAYOR unnoticed . The Mayor of HYLAN ' S fare hung upon his obeying PEOPLE ' S Middleton , N . Y . deems July her . After a bitter struggle , CONCERT KEEP OFF 4 Defence plans silly and the young financier conquered THE General Pershing pleads for himself . He left a stop - loss MAYOR HYLAN ' S preparedness . order at his broker ' s office and PEOPLE ' S GRASS Mr . William Harrison retired into seclusion , sans Murumund BurnAF Dempsey asks $ 10 , 000 to give newspapers , sans telephone , muhimu a boxing exhibition in Vienna sans all . and a student who starved to The next day the market went wild . Unchecked death while working his way through college is by his conservative tendency to take small profits , he awarded a posthumous degree by the University of found his holdings had made him rich . Pennsylvania . The Moderation League reports that The bankers chuckled over the twist . drinking has increased greatly in the South and a “ Who , ” suddenly boomed Mr . Baruch , " wrote that Judge , hereabouts , observes that the sale of liquor is story ? ” not immoral . The Lutherans restore “ hell ” into re “ A man named Garet Garrett , ” someone answered . ligious usage and a boy flips a coin to decide whether Mr . Baruch was silent for a moment . He seemed or not he shall rob his employer . to be weighing the possibilities of the case . At length : The Mayor of a New Jersey town has not spoken “ Sounds improbable , eh ? ” in ten years to his wife , who lives with him , and the “ Utterly ridiculous ; preposterous idea . ” Duchess of Westminster is granted a divorce . In “ Well , it isn ' t , ” Baruch shot back , “ I told Garrett Colorado a Grand Dragon of the Klan is fined $ 1 , 500 that story myself . It ' s about me . That ' s the story and , in New Jersey , Klan candidates are triumphant of the first real money I ever made . ” in the primary elections . The naval officer who ap THE NEW YORKER proved the oil leases is passed over again for promotion draught beer , since he eschewed what was then known and Mexico is called to order about lack of respect for as hard liquor . A pair of steins still stood therein , American property . until its leasing , as a memento of the visit to the bar Mr . William H . Anderson sees a plot against of Prince Louis of Battenburg , over whom New York Protestantism in anti - Prohibition feeling and two bull - once went as wild as it did later over the Prince of dogs tear trousers ' seat from a dry agent following his Wales . Sir Thomas Lipton there drank his toast to appointed rounds . The Soviet removes an editor for the victor after one of his America ' s Cup defeats . living in too great style and Mr . William Randolph And , not the least of its glories , the Belleclaire bar Hearst and Mr . Arthur Brisbane negotiate $ 7 , 000 , 000 was credited by many with having been the birthplace worth of buildings in these parts . Mr . William Fox of the Tom Collins . admits that his personal insurance policies now amount to $ 6 , 500 , 000 and Lord Lee of Fareham denounces American movies as " trashy . ” Mayor Hylan picnics THE passing of charm , above or below street level , at Bear Mountain , on the Hudson , and citizens protest 1 is to be regretted . And one hears that Those that garbage scows pollute city ' s ocean beaches . Gorgeous Cellars , reached only after ordeal by kitchen Mr . Stewart Edward White is wounded stabbing a odors , have not been themselves since their con leopard and two men convicted of torturing a third flagration . are let off with a fine on the plea of their victim . The Once , of an afternoon , one saw top - hatted frag Salvation Army forms a corps to save bootleggers and ments of wedding parties lounging there , oblivious of Scotch retails locally ' at sixty - five a case . the suspicious glances of pink - and - white - shirted “ sales representatives ” from more up - and - coming ( and Passing drier ) cities wie . After the medley that was dinner , chic shop girls THE Belleclaire Bar at last has succumbed and is and inconspicuous debutantes ( of the still waters va to become a brokerage office , although for many riety ) ignored one another and the fact that their es years after the advent of Volstead , Mr . Walter Guz - corts were club - mates . Matrons came to look and stags zardi , proprietor of the Hotel Belleclaire , refused to to refresh themselves . turn the bar into a soft drink counter , maintaining The long , low room had that character so rare now it unused , with admirable sentiment , as a memorial of adays , that it needed no jazz band , nor any whirling times gone . celebrities , to amuse its patrons . Many notables have seen themselves in its shining The babble that cut its way through the smoke was mirrors , for in its day the Belleclaire was known as music enough ; there were sights more interesting than “ the best bar north of the Astor . ” It was there that silk - clad dervishes . The Bernaisians were sufficient Admiral Peary , surrounded by cronies from the Arctic unto themselves . Club , lifted the " godspeed " glass upon his departure Now , one is told , prices have gone up , undoubtedly for that exploration which led him to the North Pole . in an effort to pay for the less comfortable furnishings Woodrow Wilson , when a professor at Princeton , oc - of reconstruction , and the patronage of the Racquet casionally dropped in , his preference having been for has drifted elsewhere . One can ' t help but be sorry for the mint julep of his native South . Theodore Roose - the old captain who once piloted that precarious ship ,

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New Yorkers , Transient and Less Transient , THE NEW YORKER Search Eternal Hot and Cold COMES now the time of year when the offspring AMUNDSE AMUNDSEN is back ! Dethroned from the front of the Old Lady from Dubuque ce are taught do not , if a whereabouts page by grewmetropolitan too . . . . dailies . . when rumors of his they ' re willing to learn , that blonde curls do not a whereabouts grew too thin , he is returned to glory and Pickford make nor nasal tones a Cohan . banner heads . For Truth has again . proved better Hundreds of them are to be seen daily tramping up reading than Dame Rumor ' s fiction . Up and down and down the hot sands of Broadway . In and out the elevators of New York the good news was passed . of agents ' offices , up casting stairs and down casting “ Magnificent feat ; fighting his way out of the ice . ” stairs , ever smiling , ever hoping , up and down , day “ But why , " asked a certain young lady who is in after day . . . and , though as yet they know it not , town for the Summer , " did he go up there in the first year after year , year after year , year after year . place ? ” Their purses or their coat pockets bulge — and this “ These heat waves , ” she was told , “ are very ener is what is in them . A notice from the Wilkes - Barre vating . ” ( Pa . ) Times - Leader that says “ At Concordia Hall last " Oh , " the young lady nodded , " but then why did night Miss Euphrosine Kanakadowski earned great he come back so soon ! " applause in the leading rôle of ' She Stoops to Conquer . ' Miss Kanakadowski has a host of friends throughout Change the valley who predict great success for her when she MTOW that it has been settled , definitely , that upper departs for the nation ' s metropolis to go on the stage , TV T Sixth Avenue is to have a theatre all its own , which it is said Better , she plae is Kalamars planning toHow do . TheHigh rôleHis imit has wherein open Mr . Zeigfeld will glorify and Mr . Brisbane never been better played . ” . . . . he alternately aw an beam and frown , one wonders whether A notice from the Kalamazoo Bugle : “ Edward J . that stretch from Fifty - third Street to the Park will Googan , son of Mr . and Mrs . Howard Googan , of not become , in time , entirely a theatrical center . Until 348 River Road , was the hit of the High School the tearing down of the elevated spur , this was not a Minstrels at the Fireman ' s Hall last night . His imi - possibility , but now that the rumble of Mr . Hedley ' s tations of Sam Bernard and James T . Powers in their open air trains no longer is heard , anything is likely . latest Broadway offerings were said by those who have New and ornate apartment houses will arise , but seen the originals to be positively uncanny . We pre - the needs of the theatre ultimately may force them dict a great future for young Mr . Googan and con - out ; or , at least , force some sort of compromise , with gratulate his parents . ” theatres occupying lower floors and apartments , with And so they come , in hundreds , in thousands , to side street entrances , the upper . flood the theatrical agencies of a town that has open - As ever , the theatrical district continues to move ings for perhaps a dozen . uptown ; but the logical northern line is Fifty - ninth There are oases , of course , and a lucky few reach Street , for managers cannot convey their attractions them . But the great , great majority keeps circling too far away from the feeding transit lines from bravely around on the hot sands , with their Pickford Brooklyn . curls and their Cohan tones . It takes so long , some - Yet room for growth is needed , and the indications times , for the news of a change in the theatre to reach are plain that the spread will be east and west , rather Dubuque . than northward as hitherto ; which promises well for

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Disport Themselves at a Roof Garden . THE NEW YORKER our theory as to the part upper Sixth Avenue will play Item on Honesty in the city of the next decade . STATISTICS on the honesty of public servants are National Costume hard to get ; almost as hard as facts about the pub AMERICA is not quick to take suggestions but lic itself . It was only when a well known author lost 11 when , finally , it does see the light , it does things . an incomplete manuscript on a Fifth Avenue bus , a few days ago , that the Lost More than a quarter of a cen and Found Department vol tury ago Oscar Wilde pointed unteered him this gem . out the beauty and character , of the California miner ' s col Daily , the author was told ored flannel shirts and baggy conductors and motormen . To - day those same bring in strayed impedimenta , trousers but as for passengers . . . shirts have served the smart well , since the last ten cent haberdashers as a model for fare had proved his character the “ new ” lumberjack golf by returning anything just toggery . At the same time a eight months had passed . genius in sports clothes has ap Perhaps even more news is propriated the lines and mate the fact that the record was rials of the cowboy ' s fringed broken the next day when this chaps , the beaded vest of the same author ' s script was re bronchobuster , the Wild turned with compliments . Western bandana hung under Honesty is not entirely dead ; the chin and the dashing Stet nor have incomplete scripts son as a proper adornment for the smart woman who goes high market value . back to the soil for a season . As to Benefits Some may regret that the feminine element has been en THE great wits , oddly couraged to make these pre enough , are reticent rogatives of the sturdy American pioneer its own , about their mots . If one is fortunate , one is present thus robbing them of some of their virile connotation . when a shaft goes glimmering brightly into air ; if not , But this seems to us a better alternative than reviving one may wait months before hearing of it , and then it the Mother Hubbard of the sturdy American pioneer may have lost lustre . woman Thus , it was wholly accidentally that we heard . lately of the brave jest of Mr . David H . Wallace , one of the town ' s keenest minds , when , some time ago , Royal Efficiency he sat in a poker game with , among others , Mr . LD King Cole was efficient ; but he could only Michael Arlen . call for his pipe , his bowl and his three fiddlers . Mr . Arlen , being of that race whose very name Mr . Samuel Goldwyn , ruling a vaster kingdom , of makes Scotsmen tremble , did well by himself . Know motion picture enterprise , is the great master when it ing little , if anything , of poker , he managed neverthe comes to working up Service . less , by such unorthodox procedure as filling inside For Mr . Goldwyn ' s time has demands made upon straights and repairing bobtail flushes , to spend a very it . And yet , even as King Cole , he must live . He profitable evening . must eat ; food is brought to him at his desk and be - In one pot , healthy - sized , Mr . Arlen had , before tween bites he is discovered dictating orders , letters , lacethe . draw bas against, a pair , thifter of deuces the dragainstas against e three aces held telegrams , memoranda , congratulations and criticisms by Mr . Wallace . After the draw Mr . Arlen had four to a battery of stenographers . deuces as against , this time , a full house for Mr . Wal He must , too , have himself barbered and mani lace . Betting was heavy and , at last , someone called . cured daily and these rites , also , are performed in his Mr . Arlen raked in the chips , fattening an already sanctum interfering only with his dictation when a obese pile . “ How , " inquired Mr . Wallace , looking upon the barber becomes careless with his shaving brush . gay Armenian , “ how about starting a kitty for the But lately a new problem arose . The Goldwynian Turks ? ” feet ached ; corns sprouted upon the august toes of the master . Great questions waited solution , and yet there was this intermittent and distracting throb of pain . In Our Midst — And Out What to do ? What to do ? Not for long did the W ITH the tourist rearguard , to the Old World : Wise Samuel hesitate . He called to his office his fav Frank Andrew Munsey , LL . D . , Great Amal orite chiropodist and bade him perform his ministra gamator . Mr . Samuel Untermyer , crusader . Lady tions . Darwin , daughter - in - law of Evolution . Miss Fanny Then , barefoot , Mr . Goldwyn turned to his battery Ward , perennial , and husband , Mr . Jack Dean . Mr . of stenographers . Paul M . Warburg , banks , and Mrs . Warburg . Mr . " Take another letter , " he commanded , as always , Lee De Forest , radio , and Mrs . De Forest . Miss the complete master of the situation . Anne Rittenhouse , journeywoman writer . Mr . Perry THE NEW YORKER Belmont , warrior , and Mrs . Belmont . Mrs . Bernard hausted returning tourists : Mr . John H . Cownie , M . Baruch , wife of noted altruist . Mr . Mischa El . Iowan Iowan glove glove manighmanufacturer diva . , Mme Signor . Geraldine Rosa Raisa Farrar and , manman ,, restingrestorane from Gallo accompanists opera and , anddirectionne Mrs . NicholsElman . temperamental Desiter Allen high musical diva . Sigñor Giovanni Mar Sigñor Fortune Gallo ,, opera and director of banks . , tinelli M . , Metropolitan , tenor . Mme . Rosa Raisa and Mr . Moe Levy , sartorial expert . Miss Anne Nichols , M . Desiré Defrère , operatic liltists of points West . con founder of critics , boarding downstream . Mr . Mr . Lester Allen , musical comedy comedian . Mr . and Mrs . Arthur Hornblow , he editor and dramatic James A . Stillman , banker , listed aboard ship as Mr . commentator . Mrs . Heywood Broun , grandmother B . E . Smith . At quarantine , Mr . Secretary Mellon of Heywood 3rd . Judge Lindley Miller Garrison , of the financial melons to meet Miss Alisa Mellon . one who left Wilson cabinet . Mrs . Victor Herbert , With Mrs . Adolph S . Ochs , Mr . Ochs , of Times widow of composer . Mayor Frank Hague , of town Square and nice , orderly newssheet . Mr . Booth Tark across Hudson . Miss Gertrude Ederle , to bathe in ington , portrayer of adolescence . Mr . Charles Hanson Channel . Mme . Marguerite Namara , diva , expecting Towne , man about Towne . Mr . William Harris , the to tea abroad with husband , Mr . Guy Bolton . Mme . atrical producer . . . . On first visit , Señor Jose M . Vidal Freida Hempel , Metropolitan . Mr . Randolph Friml , Quadras , Spanish portrait painter . Gothamizing , His songster . Mrs . Vincent Youmans , to join husband . Most Rumanian Minister Extraordinary , Prince An Mr . John McEntee Bowman , boniface . M . Henri toine Bibesco , complaining that his post keeps him in Bendel , to survey Parisian fashions and knees . Mr . Washington . Mr . Louis Hurd of Dubuque . Mr . Julius Rosenwald , noted Sears - Roebuck catalogue pub - Peter B . Kyne , laureate to lumber industry . . . . In lisher . Miss Margot Kelly , pioneer in Americanizing Adirondack foothills , Mr . Irving Berlin . Wedekind . Dr . George Vincent , president of Rocke feller Institute . Mr . Ossip Gabrilowitch , conductor in Flivverton . . . . In Paris , disappointed in the Moth Winning Colors erland ' s reception of latest chef d ' oeuvre , Mr . Scott T HE observation train pulled jerkily back into the Fitzgerald . Instructing intellectuals , Mrs . Madeline 1 New London station . Blue feathers were cocked Boyd , wife of Ernest . Also Miss Fania Marinoff , airily , red flags dragged and extras with ink still wet bearding celebrities . Mr . Avery Hopwood , illustrious proclaimed : “ YALE BEATS HARVARD . ” sextuple playwright . All foregoing , from Mrs . Beat - A grimy man with an armful of gaudy pennants rice Kaufman , lately returned . Fresh from Alp scal - swung past . ing , Miss Colleen Moore , now shooting scenes in “ Buy yer winnin ' colors ! Buy yer winnin ' colors ! ” Merry England for Zangwill opus . . . . Impending “ My good man , " I asked him politely , “ have you visitor , for Columbia Summer School , Professor Gia - ever found a man who actually waited to buy the como Guidi , archæologist . . . . Also , Mr . Rafael Saba - winning colors . ” tini , romanticist , to witness novel filming . . . . Inspect - He eyed me with severe contempt and replied : ing Bermuda potato plantations , Mr . Eugene O ' Neill , “ What if I ain ' t ? Youse is one of dem guys dat Mr . Kenneth MacGowan and Mr . Robert Edmond ain ' t got no respect fer tradition ! ” Jones , the tragic muses . . . . Leading vanguard of ex - The New Yorkers 31 “ I

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As It Might Have Been In the Beginning — Primitive Fundamentalists on a Slumming Trip THE NEW YORKER THE CITY OF MADNESS TEW YORK — the center of celerity . New Then I went away . York — the city of accelerated pandemonium . To a delicatessen store . New York — the place of consuming speed and My wife had told me what to buy . demoniacal rush . So they view it in the sticks . But It was a loaf of bread . - exempli gratia : The man ahead had a slip of paper . He said : He hung his cane on one arm . He twisted his mus “ Two . Rye . With lettuce and tomato and may taches . onnaise . ” “ You got mebbe hoondered cigairettes in bawx ? ” I said : I said : “ Gimme a package of Lord Dunderfields . ” “ Ss - srt ! Loaf of bread . ” “ Zay mebbe keep zat way bettaire ? ” The man in the apron cut the rye , picked up the let I said : " Slip us some Lord Dunderfields . I ' m in tuce , peeled the lettuce , picked up the tomato , cut the a hurry . ” tomato , laid the tomato on the bread , put mayonnaise “ Zeese cigairettes — eet ees loose , no ? ” on the bread . He put all together . He cut it in welcha I had and my tomatickly fifteen ordered cents . ciga The clerk had only to two . reach and toss and exchange . I could have gone “ Two , on white , combination , ham and cheese . " away . . . quickly . The man in the apron cut the bread , put the ham “ I take zeese hoondered cigairettes — 50 . What you in the slicing machine , adjusted the machine , cut the say — wrap ' em up ? ” ham , took the ham from the slicing machine , put in “ Lord Dunderfields , ” I said . the cheese , adjusted the machine , cut the cheese , took “ You got hoondered cigairettes in small package the cheese from the slicing machine . He laid out the each package ? ” bread , he laid out the ham , he laid out the cheese . He I clicked the fifteen cents . put all together . He cut it in two . “ Yes — mebbe zay keep zat way bettaire - non ? ” “ Butter on the bread . ” “ Ss - srt ! Lord Dunderfields . " The man in the apron took it all to pieces . He " I do not take zee loose ones ; I change my mind ; put on butter . I take , pairhaps , zee ones in package - cach package . I said : “ Ss - srt ! All I want ' s loaf bread . ” Mebbe zay keep bettaire zat way ? ” “ Two chicken salad on whole wheat . " Tick - tick - tick . “ Lord Dunderfields , ” I said . . The man in the apron cut the whole wheat . He He began to go away . He did not conclude . He took the cover from the salad dish , he found the returned . paddle , he took up a paddle of salad , it slid off , he “ Mebbe I take zee hoondered cigairettes loosely . took another , he spread the chicken salad , he laid out Mebbe zay keep bettaire zat way . ” the lettuce , he put all together , he cut it in two . I said : “ Well , who in hell wants to keep cigarettes , “ Butter on the bread . ” anyway ? You dumb - bell . ” I said : “ Dammit - to - hell . ” He did not strike me . I wish he had . He looked NeventI said : away " I will . ®¢lf go fromand tell the my bed wifepoife , goodgood - - byebye and at me . . . pained . I would have been glad to joust then strangle myself from the bed post . ” him . I would have been glad to lead for two minutes I went away . a terrible life with him . And rest my foot on his New York — the center of celerity . See paragraph breast as he lay . . . horizontal . One . Ya - ah ! - - Harold Standish Corbin

OF ALL THINGS TT is reported that the ex -Kaiser will reap permanent profit from this would vote for smelly , sticky stuff on wants a horse . Let ' s forget the dead publicity . The Great Realtor is com - the hair and demand that mirrors be past and send him that electrical nag ing to sell the Garden of Eden , not held behind their heads . from the White House stables . There Dayton building lots . is an excellent animal for a man who They put tubs of ice in the Presi isn ' t going any place . No wonder we have ve suchsuch aa hardhard densdential train when Coolidge takes a time seeing those European govern - Summer trip . We have here the mak ments about that debt matter — they Secretary Kellogg seems to be trying lerney ings of an American version of " carry to revive that fine old tradition that ng are always in conference . ing coals to Newcastle . " we cannot be happy unless we are en - In the United Restaurant Owners ' joying bad terms with Mexico . Association referendum vote , corned Coolidge says that the stars and beef and cabbage romped home to an stripes “ alone of all flags expresses the Before long evolution will take the easy victory as the favorite dish . This sovereignty of the people . ” A word preferred position on the front page re - proves that it is virtually compulsory economist might better have omitted cently occupied by the thermometer to kid a restaurant keeper . Barbers the phrase , “ alone of all flags . " It and Dorothy Perkins . We doubt , how would fare much the same with a takes in too much territory . ever , whether the Tennessee village questionnaire . Hilarious customers - Howard Brubaker THE NEW YORKER

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PROFILES un ! ! The Black Hat THATEVER was the “ pour something - or - the Victoria into all the crannies of publicity . He other ” that Iris March ' s green hat stood for , could never have had a better tutelage than under the Morris Gest ' s famous black velour fedora quixotic , sharp - tongued , picturesque Hammerstein . stands for all of that and two bushels more . When He has exchanged Oscar ' s high hat and cheroot for you see that lustrous , fuliginous chapeau come coursing the fedora and a cigarette — but the essential adven up Broadway , tasselled with a large , equally black and turer in the arts lives on in him . shiny Latin Quarter necktie , you know that the world Even after he formed his firm with Comstock and of drama is getting ready to play comet again across Elliott , he was still a lone voyageur . He has never some strange and daring sky . An cared about making money and other “ Miracle ” is in the making . money alone out of his ventures . He Another society miss or princess royal left the easier and obvious successes is about to be thrust up through col to his partners . It was their business , umns of newsprint into the foot always , to dawdle in little musical lights . Another sacred company from comedies and leave him to his giant the Steppes is going to be towed from and chimeric plans . port to port of America ' s years of For , soon after he was launched as plenty . And the secret of it all is a producer , he began to show symp under Mawruss ' s black hat . toms of a species of artistic ele There was a time when Otto H . phantiasis . Huge stages became as Kahn used to tell the world that Gest mere motes in his eye , and he looked is the greatest Showman hereabout . on a chorus of two hundred as a In spite of the imperial sums which mere handful of spangles on the were expended on the bringing of fabric of his handiwork . Vast spec Reinhardt ' s production of " The tacles , groggy in size , in color and Miracle ” to New York , there has movement , in queer personalities , been no official announcement that have had a fearful fascination for Mr . Kahn has changed his opinion of him . “ Chu - Chin - Chow , " " The Mr . Gest . The project of building a Wanderer , ” “ Mecca , " " Aphrodite , " great art theatre which was to have “ The Miracle ” — they have all been employed the one man ' s money and huge , consuming , sublimated circuses , the other ' s services has , it is true , involving the glitter and groaning of thinned away into mutual wistful whole armies and assemblages , scen ness . But fondness persists between ery by the storehouseful , costumes them , and the air still quivers with enough to clothe the collected tribes compliments and enthusiasms of their of Central Africa twice over , and exchange . singers , dancers , acrobats and volup Morris Gest was born for the tuists enough to furnish the per American public , if not among it . sonnel of a decade of grand opera . When he was still a young Russian Somehow , one ' s thoughts keep re jabberer , hawking newspapers on a turning to opera in connection with Boston street corner , he was already Morris Gest Gest . Or perhaps to Gest in connec keenly , luminously aware of the Ho tion with opera . He has always had ratio Alger complex which lies so heavy on the Ameri - a secret - - well , more or less secret - ambition to be an can subconscious . He was already honoring his father operatic impresario . He used to be in and out of the and mother loudly and long . He was already turn - MetropolitanMetrip around night thosfeast upon his night big , , hun sauntering an a bit impa ing the seven profitable arts to the glory of a self - made tiently around those stodgy old corridors , slipping into career which should be crowned — in the regulation the auditorium to feast his big , hungry eyes on the im Alger manner — by his winning of his boss ' daughter mensity of its golden proscenium and stage sets . He and a partnership in a big rival firm . knew he could mount things with ever so much more Before the arrival he Boorsqually of those splendiferous the liferous reward rewards , dash and vividness ; but it would be hard to beat the however , Gest ' s life was equally the life of “ Ragged Metropolitan ' s size and bulk . For a while there was Dick ” or “ Tom the Bootblack , ” transferred into the rumor of his succeeding Gatti - Casazza as that institu hot , exciting regions of theatre and opera . He was a tion ' s head , too . It has not died entirely out , and there ticket speculator , now and then ; he was the perfect is no reason why it should . Figaro for old Oscar Hammerstein , feeding his vaude - Under his braying , contemptuous ways , his exag ville with exotic and improbable head - liners and man - gerations of talk and gesture , his extravagance of con aging , in magnificently megaphonic ways , to spread ceptions , there runs this odd , aching , oblique streak of THE NEW YORKER a sense of the beautiful . It is something which to talk Russian to — but when there is a particularly secretly engrosses hiin , troubles him , drives him into daring or incredible yarn to spin , he kicks up his heels vast defensive measures . He brings Duse to America and coughs up his heart himself . When the Chauve for her last tour . He is absolutely in awe of her ; he Souris was first due in America , for example , he did trembles when he speaks of her , and his voice takes on not hesitate to run from friend to friend among the the hushed , tremulous note of a devoted slave . It is critics with the tale that this was going to be his sole clever tommyrot , some of this slavishness of his — but dyke against the flood tides of bankruptcy . Which it is genuine , just the same . He would never have may or may not have been true , then . At any rate brought Duse here had he not the Chauve Souris was treated felt that way about her . He to more heralding and whoop would never have imported the ing than any vaudeville show in Chauve Souris or the Moscow the universe ever won before . Art Theatre had he not be He knows the fascination lieved in their superlativeness . and the value of great names , The pride and delight he took in the audience room as well as in Chaliapin proved that an on the stage . He manages to artist need not be in his employ turn even the first showing of a to win his hurrahs . moving picture which he has Restless , reckless , sentimen undertaken to introduce to New tal , he has needed adversity to York in the Gest manner , into teach him a respect for money . a social event . You have to It is with vehement contempt possess more than a shirt - front that he has realized that the suc to pay your way into the open cess or failure of this or that k . . . h ing night of a Chauve Souris theatrical venture will have to or Duse engagement . If his be measured finally in the black and red ink of a ledger . tongue could ever keep quiet enough to stay stuck in There is a legend which purports to describe his meet - his cheek , you might guess what fun he was having at ing with Stanislavsky , the head of the Moscow Art the expense of the willing rich and the ecstatic great . players , to do with the finishing up of business arrange - When he filled the train windows of the big scene ments . in his production of “ The Whip ” with supers out of “ Do you know why I brought the Moscow Art the social register , he learned the magic of pouring Theatre to America ? ” they say he demanded of the blue - bloods over the footlights . Wherefore , noth venerable player , throwing wide his arms and toss - ing delighted him more than the Herr Professor ing his big , suffused eyes on high . “ Do you think Reinhardt ' s suggestion that the Nun in " The Miracle ” it was for money , or fame , or anything like that ? be played by the young daughter of a prominent New No , it was because my dear old father and mother , York family , hitherto strange to the stage . He suc back there in Russia , would see in the newspaper that ceeded in bettering this innovation by having the their son , their Morris in far - away America , had the Madonna of the American production played alter power to bring the most famous actors in the world nately by an Italian princess and a daughter of an on a journey of five thousand miles . . . . " English duchess . To - day he happens to be involved in The suave , slightly impatient Stanislavsky is said a lawsuit brought by one of these fair noblewomen be to have interrupted him : “ My dear Mr . Gest , I am cause , she asserts , he pressagented her as jealous of the exceedingly sorry trativeld , but seem I fear , feet that and we mannot cannot do do busi - other one . It does not trouble him much . ness on the basis of your father and mother . ” Nothing like that does trouble him much . He has There are , it would seem , few families in the world been smashed pretty nearly to bits in an automobile ac more demonstratively faithful and intact than the cident . He has had a whole storehouse of his scenery Gests . Long before the Bolshevik times in Russia our and costumes go up in overnight flames . He moans Morris was already armed with pocket photographs of loudly , dramatically , jams his velour hat an inch or his parents , a dignified and almost Biblical pair , whom two further back on his huge , bumpy forehead , and he was looking forward to bringing over here . When begins all over again . He lives forever as if the eye the political uproar broke loose , of course , he raced to of the world were on him — and as if the whole world this task with doubled fervor — and quadrupled pub - were deaf . His dress is careless and sombre . Above licity . Morris Gest ' s parents became synonymous in his flowing tie his face is hewn with the massy spite of copy readers ' eyes with Winsted , Conn . , and the a gargoyle . His eyes are deep - set in it , passionate and Prince of Wales ' fiancee — an item in which whole proclamatory eyes , hot with a humorless excitement . nations would share officially and semi - weekly . His hands are what he is proudest of in all the world . Publicity is his fever . He can sweat columns of They are fine , exquisitely modelled , smooth , with long news about himself , his artists , his projects , his hard and slightly spatulate fingers , radiant nails , and tireless luck , his good luck , his past , present and future , out possibility for volubleness . They come out of his of any New York newspaper . He is on slouching loose , flapping cuffs like the hands of an Apollo at terms with Hearst , he can harangue feature articles tached to the arms of a Caliban . out of Munsey , he can talk at ease and to advantage The black hat crowns the length and breadth of the with Adolph Ochs . He has the most learned press paradox of Mawruss . . . that black hat which stands agent in New York City — Oliver Sayler , whom he for the " pour something - or - other ” of life on trans says he hired only because he was lonely for some one Siberian Broadway . — Gilbert W . Gabriel THE NEW YORKER 9 THE WIFE BEATING WAVE \ HE social crisis which the nation is facing downright poker fiends , that the cross word puzzle was called rather dramatically to my attention represented a climax of entertainment ingenuity which last Friday evening by Dr . Rupert Pentecost almost restored the excitement of the late war . It at whose charming home I was spending the week - end . is curious to think back upon , but none of us sus While seated at the dinner table waiting the arrival pected that the cross word would wane and go the way of the apple pie which had been promised us for des - of all fads . In fact , this false security managed to sert , Dr . Pentecost suddenly arose , and for no reason overcome not only my , and presumably everybody which he then or later could explain , brutally assaulted else ' s , social set but to deceive also the tireless coterie his wife , blacking one of her eyes and knocking out of workers ( whoever they are ) whose business it is two of her teeth before he was interrupted by the to invent and introduce new fads into the life of the timely entrance of the Pentecost servant and our des - nation . sert . For with the collapse of the cross word puzzle a Nothing was said about the matter and we made remarkable vacuum has made itself felt . My social every effort to go on with our dinner as if nothing set and , I presume the entire country , finds itself vir had happened . But inasmuch as this was the fourth tually betrayed into a doldrum which is fast breeding such scene I , as a somewhat bewildered bystander , had the unrest and violence I have chronicled above . witnessed in the homes of Speaking more broadly my friends and all this for the nation , in fact — card over a period of less than a playing and entertainment month — I came away from fads are the social salvation the Pentecost table with the of the American . His moral disturbing idea that the do bias makes almost any form mestic fabric of the nation of conversation ( in mixed was snapping or ripping or company ) impossible . For something . The social set instance , the refinement and in which I move is distin righteousness of my own set guished by its general lack make controversy on any of violence and bloodshed . ethical subject not only im Most of its members are moral but sacrilegious . . normal men and women Unable to discuss the who admire each other be moral laws and purity cause thev are all equals and dogmas to which our social year in and year out think , set submits as one man for wear , eat , read and say the fear of being mistaken for correct things . coarse or radical fellows The startling outburst of ( and suffering a loss of busi violence which I have al ness credit no less than din ready noted coupled with Ross Saule ner invitations ) my friends such statistics , Journal as reported in sixtying find outlet for their normal a recent recent isissue cal of the , Ameri I been a the conversational impulses in can Medical Journal , for in the exchange of dirty stories . stance — that there had been a sixty per cent , increase In fact , although I have not kept accurate tab , a good in the sale of physic medicines during the months of 75 per cent of the conversation exchanged among the May and June - - convinced me that we , as a nation , male members of my set consists of the retailing of were going through a period of psychological depres - humorous sexual anecdotes or Rabelaisian bons mots . sion . And I am further convinced that this period is In mixed company , however , we are naturally reduced directly due to the temporary ( let us hope ) absence of to silence on these subjects . Card playing , or more a national fad . recently , cross words , have hitherto saved us . Approximately every year or two a new game seizes Card games , that is new and popular ones , offer a my social set by its ears . I can remember when all preoccupation not only for our minds and a relaxa my married friends were playing ping pong and when tion for our overworked business intellects , but they the word tiddledywinks was not a humorous vocable provide also a common language in which the most but an outright and lusty call to battle in the parlor . confused moralist and taboo sufferer can make him Lotto , croquet , whist , bridge , poker , dominoes , and self easily intelligible . There is likewise the fact that countless other diversions have all had their day among four neighbors gathered in a room are perforce re us . The arrival in 1923 of mah jong was perhaps the duced to silence since nine times out of ten ( again I biggest thing that any of us had experienced since the may be inaccurate ) the four are equally lacking in Armistice . that originality or social courage which enables them With the appearance of the cross word puzzle , how - to pass a lively evening by discussing the existence of ever , we all felt that the social millennium had arrived . God or the superiority of trial marriages . Subscribing It was generally agreed , even by some of us who had as they do to the same set of approved and ready made hitherto been regarded as confirmed bridge addicts or ideas they have naturally nothing to say to each other 10 THE NEW YORKER beyond the word “ Yes . ” An animating word . running amuck and probably exterminating itself out The success of mah jong was obviously due to the of ennui , I have thrashed about in my mind trying to fact that it introduced a new set of socially proper and figure out a new fad . Chess is the only diversion I intelligible words into the lives of its players . East have been able to think of . Chess is , of course , Wind , Red Dragon , Bamboo , Pung , Chow , Green theoretically the most perfect American game in that Dragon ( what giddy times we had ) were expressions it makes conversation not only unnecessary but almost which delighted the players and gave them a sense of criminal . Unfortunately , its popular appeal appears conversational adventure . The mah jong fan crying to be handicapped by the fact that it requires at least out " Chow ” and adding , proudly , “ that gives me three a nine - year - old intelligence to play successfully . White Dragons ” felt as keen a mental thrill ( com - There seems to be nothing to do in the matter but paratively , of course ) as an Oscar Wilde exploding wait and hope . And to those who are beginning to an epigram under his hostess ' nose . despair I can only point out that the months of April , To our own social set sitting around in the parlor May , June and July of 1923 witnessed a similar crisis with a do - not - touch vocabulary , the advent of a new with the general collapse of bridge . And that when set of terms has always been a veritable godsend . How things looked darkest mah jong arrived . A short much so we , as a group ( and a representative group I period of wife beating and other domestic stridencies feel sure ) are only beginning to realize now that an such as we are having now will very likely introduce orgie of wife beating and frenzied drunkenness new life into the home , help the terribly cluttered sub has overtaken us . Many of my friends who regard consciouses of complex - ridden husbands and wives and me as an ingenious fellow have appealed to me , going clear the decks for something ( God knows what ) so far as to ask me to bring my harmonica along on bigger and more wonderful than the cross word the week - end . Facing the prospect of my entire set puzzle . — Ben Hecht

BUSONALLY CONDUCTED N O W , on ya right , laze an ' gemmun , ya see Most these Chinese would stick a knife inta yuh if Grant ' s Tomb . Thass the Tomb Grant , the they got the chancet , but you don ' t need to be scared big gennul in the Civil War , ' s got . It ' s a very in - because they ' s plenty cops here . Every now an ' then trusting relic an ' lots of people go to see it . Grant ' s they get a Tong war an ' kill each other . Always dead . Thass his Tomb . . . killin ' each other , they are . Thass the Soljers ' and Sailors ' Monnament there , This here ' s thuh famous Chinese joss house . Iss erected in honor of our brave Soljers and Sailors that their church . A brief stop will be made here so you got shot in the wars . ' S most intrusting . . . That can go in , after which , we will inspeck a genuwine big apartment house on the left , thass where Hearst opyum den . Thass a place where they smoke lives . He ' s got the top three stories . Got a theater opyum . . . all of his own on the roof . Hearst the editor . It ' s Thass the end of this most instructive an ' intrustin ' most intrusting . . . . trip , laze an ' gemmun , an ' now for the small sum of Hudson River on ya right . They ' s genrully a lotta fifty cents we will take you back where you came warships there , but there ain ' t now . Genrully are , from , but by Broadway route , takin ' in all the gay though . They ' re away somewheres now . . . white way , as thuh sayin ' goes , an ' thuh palaces of joy This here ' s Columbus Circle . Iss name ' after an ' cabrays . Iss most intrusting sight , an ' it ' ll be Columbus , feller discover Umurrica . Thass Centrul somepin to tell thuh folks back home , ' about . Fifty Park , lotsa grass and lakes an ' things . It ' s most in - cents . — Tip Bliss trusting . . . Now ya on Fi ' th Avenoo , where the vurry rich people live , the Rockfelluhs an ' Mawguns an ' all , an ' Suggested election slogan for Hylan : " Be sure your all the swell shops . Better put a padlock on ya pocket Sinnots will find you out . ” if ya go into um . Ha , ha ! . . . We now approachin ' Wash ' ton Square . Thass the Hylan threatens to leave Tammany for the inde Arch . This here ' s Greenwidge Village . Full of artists . Most intrusting . . . pendent party . Going from bad to Hearst ? Ya now in thuh downtown districk . Can ' t drive through Wall Street , because iss too narrow , but is Hylan ' s record : Sub - wayed in the balance and over that way . Vurry narrow street . . . We now found ranting . approachin ' Chinatown an ' the Bowry . Thass the Bowry that all the songs ' re about . Al Smith , he Chinese soldier ' s farewell : “ Goodbye ! Don ' t forget lived there . He ' s govnuh now . He was nearly to riot . ” president , but he ain ' t quite , he ' s guvnuh . Guvnah New York . He ' s vurry poplar , too , an ' was nearly Science which gave mankind telescopes , stethoscopes president . . . and fleuroscopes now presents us with Professor Now ya in Chinatown , most intrusting locality . Scopes . THE NEW YORKER

“ My Man , There ' s a Fly in the Room ” THE NEW YORKER

Drawn by Hanley .

“ Pa , what ' s all this talk about Evolution ? ” " Son , I ' ll have to consult my attorney before I can answer that question . I might be sent to jail for it . ”

( The Daily Press Reports One of Hamlet ' s Speeches ) Mr . Hamlet , whose recent assertion that he had seen and talked to the ghost of his father is being in ARE YOU A COWARD ? ' TIS ONLY vestigated by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and other CONSCIENCE , HAMLET ASSERTS scientists , including Harry Houdini , said that in spite of these things there was much to be said in favor of Despondent Nordic Explains to Fencing the eternal sleep . He declared that man ' s lot on this mundane sphere is to bear the whips and scorns of Club Why Everyone Doesn ' t Die by time , the pangs of unrequited affection , the delay of Suicide Route . the law with its endless masses of red tape , and the insolence of office holders . Who , he asked , would ( From a Scandinavian Staff Correspondent ) TLSINORE , Denmark . - To be or not to be is the have the nerve to bear these burns when he might put U principal question now agitating the people of this a “ quietus ” on himself with so humble an instrument country , according to statements made to - night by J . as a bare knitting needle ? K . Hamlet , Prince of Denmark , in an address before The thing that prevents more suicides , in the the members of the Elsinore Young Men ' s Fencing opinion of Mr . Hamlet , is the dread of encountering Club , of which he is president . something after death that is unknown and unknowa Mr . Hamlet , who has become widely known as the ble . As he put it : Despondent Nordic because of the gloominess of his “ The undiscovered country from whose bourn no prognostications , said that it was up to the people them traveler returns puzzles the will and makes us rather selves to decide whether it is nobler to suffer extreme bear those ills we have than fly to others that we know mental tortures through the slings and arrows of for not of . ” tune , which he characterized as outrageous , than to Calls Thought Sickly take up arms against the sea of troubles with which Thus , Mr . Hamlet pointed out , conscience makes they are confronted . cowards of us all , and causes the “ native hue of reso Intimating that he did not share the popular belief lution ” to be “ sicklied over with the pale cast of that all troubles might be ended by opposing them , the thought . ” speaker pointed out that by going to sleep , even the “ Because of conscience , ” he continued , “ enterprises sleep that knows no awakening , we do not put a stop of great pith and moment turn their currents awry and to the heart aches and the thousand natural shocks that lose the name of action . ” flesh is heir to . He admitted that of course this would Many in Mr . Hamlet ' s audience thought that this be a consummation devoutly to be wished , but em meant he was not in favor of the modern slogan , phasized the fact that " if we sleep , perchance we “ Let your conscience be your guide , ” but he refused dream . ” to confirm this impression . Discloses Rub Mr . Hamlet is the nephew of King Claudius of “ Ay , ” said Mr . Hamlet , “ there ' s the rub . For in Denmark , who married his brother ' s widow , Queen that sleep of death what dreams may come when we Gertrude , shortly after the death of the late King . have , as the saying goes , shuffled off this mortal coil ? Mr . Hamlet is twenty - eight years old and unmarried . These things must give us pause . ” - Herbert Asbury THE NEW YORKER 13 Telephone Booths seven seven seven seven . . . I have the wrong num ber . . . that is . . . I mean . . . — S“ aw , dear , can ' t you come out to - night ? Please , dear , try to come out . Dear , can ' t you really “ — guess who this is . Aw gawan , guess who . come out , to - night ? Really , dear , I ' d love to see I betcha can ' t tell who this is . Aw gawan , guess who . you . Please dear . Can ' t you please try to come out Ya say ya can ' t guess ? Aw go wahead an try . Gawan , to - night . I really wish you would . I ' d love to see try an ' guess who this is . I know I haven ' t called ja you , dear . Really , I would . Please , dear , try to up in a long time , but go wahead an guess who it is . come out to - night . I ' d love to see you , dear . I wish Harry ? Say , ya must be thinkin ' about him . I got you would ask your mother if you could come out somethin ' on you now . I guess I know what ' s what to - night . I ' d love to see you , please dear , I really in your life . Oh , you Harry . Awright , I ' ll quit my would . Please try to come out to - night , dear , I ' d kiddin ' . But guess again . . . - " - Nettles love " “ _ please dear , I ' m in a hurry . Dear , please , From " The Book of Etiquette " I ' m in a hurry . No dear , I can ' t get home to - night . meeting friend the street proper Now please dear , I ' m in a hurry . Please , be reasona When a on is it to ble , dear . I ' m in a hurry . Please , dear , I ' m in a stop and chat ? hurry — ” No , never stop in the middle of the street to speak . Signalsign your friend with your hand , raise it in saluta “ I understand perfectly . Yes , I understand tion in the style of the old Romans , then proceed to perfectly . Yes , I understand perfectly . Yes , I write your message on a piece of paper and hold it up understand , perfectly . Yes , I understand perfectly . to be read . The size of letters to use depends on the Yes " eyesight of your acquaintance , but you are safe in using either bold - face , bull - face , full - face , bulldog “S hoperator , hoperator , hoperator , hoperator . face , or just a plain club . If your friend is of the Say , listen , hoperator , foist ya don ' t ring de pahty , slow type it may be advisable to lasso him and hold then ya ring de wrung pahty , then ya give me de him while you make your meaning clear , but under Hatlantic hand Pecific Kosher Butchaires . - " no condition should you make a sound by word of " _ that you Helen ? I mean , is Mrs . Wimble оп there ? Oh , I beg your pardon , I must have the wrong number . . . You say you ' re Mr . Wimble . . . Oh , I ' m just an old friend . . . that is , I must have the The Optimist wrong number . . . what number did you say this Pop : A man who thinks he can make it in par . was ? . . . I mean . . . that is , is this Gramercy Johnny : What is an optimist , Pop ?

He : I can hardly recognize myself in that picture of us leaving the church . She : No wonder ! The stupid newspaper has used a picture of my former wedding . THE NEW YORKER

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EVERY THORN HAS ITS ROSE W E may be reduced to the necessity of accepting every time our legislatures convene ; the trees may all W our liquor from the soiled hands of a Coast be dying in Central Park , and many of us may be Guardsman ; we may be pinched for entertaining such paying alimony — BUT — new - fangled , heretical ideas as the Theory of Evolu We can still watch Rose Rolanda dance in the brim tion ; we may have our income tax published to the of a sombrero every night in the “ Garrick Gaieties , " wide world ; we may be bawled out in the streets for and that is something for which to postpone a sailing the crime of wearing white spats ; we may be at the to Europe . mercy of a million Leagues for the Betterment of Miss Rolanda and the younger members of the This and That ; we may have our wastebaskets Theatre Guild deliver a highly amusing entertainment crammed with begging letters and direct - by - mail - ad - which is now installed at the Garrick Theatre , ap vertising ; we may live in an agony of apprehension parently for the Summer . - R . B . THE NEW YORKER

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The Theatre slip you the hot news that the final musical number of VAKING foul advantage of the absence of the evening is , according to the scholarly program , Alexander Woollcott in Europe , a group of sung by " omnes . ” unscrupulous actors , calling themselves “ The In " Kosher Kitty Kelly , ” you may be surprised to Stagers , ” have produced Gilbert ' s “ Engaged ” at the learn , an Irish girl and a Jewish boy are in love as Fifty - second Street Theatre . The result , nevertheless , the curtain rises , but their parents disapprove of the is an evening of about as boisterous merriment as the proposed match . Well , they have an act or two and New York Theatre is likely to supply this Summer . - hold on to your seats , you ' re going to get the sur The piece was written as a straight burlesque by prise of your lives — the Irish girl marries an Irish boy Gilbert , with no musical assistance from Sullivan , but who is also in the cast and the Jewish boy marries a " The Stagers ” have wisely gathered together about Jewish girl who , too , is a member of the Actors ' fifteen songs of the period , with lyrics that have been Equity Association . This is just fine with us and no “ found ” — that ' s what the program says — by Brian different than it should be . . . . All right , you ' re so Hooker . This seems to have been a most wise pro liberal . Would you want your sister to marry an cedure - merry as the Gilbert text is , it is all in one Irishman ? You see , it ' s different when it affects you mood and would almost certainly have become tire personally , isn ' t it ? some long before the evening is over without the scrap However , the show is not as good as our absurdly ing of fiddles and the vigorous essays in voice and fair outline of its plot might indicate . Operating on dance of such people as Rosamond Whiteside , Jay the doubtful assumption that the subscribers to The Fassett , J . M . Kerrigan and Antoinette Perry . New YORKER have not seen " Abie ' s Irish Rose " and Where Mr . Hooker found his lyrics is not revealed , that wild horses could not drag them there , we will but he certainly knows some lovely cachés . There are not dwell upon “ Kosher Kitty Kelly ' s ” relationship three or four lyrics of his finding that are as excellent to the greatest mother of them all . We will , how as the work in the same field of the author whom he ever , be allowed to remark , we hope , that the author is assisting , and there is nowhere anything he found of the new pledge must at some time or other have that is not of an intelligent high class . met some one who had seen " Abie ' s Irish Rose " and The so - minded member of the audience is given told him about it . countless opportunities to perish of laughter during the course of the play ' s revelation . The reader , of course , THERE is , of course , a bit of Gilbert Seldes in may differ with this department — in , one hopes , a 1 all of us , and so without further apology the dignified and self - conscious way — but we get a lot of subject of W . C . Fields is brought up , with a recom fun out of hearing Mr . Fassett sing a song , in the mendation that those who have not been there as well costume and manner of those dear 1870s , to be re - as those who have hurry at once to the New Amster warded by Miss Perry with the observation that she dam to see the current Ziegfeld Follies , just as fast now realizes what a consolation those troubadours in as ever their little legs will carry them . the troublesome days of anarchy must have been . For Fields , you must know , became a talking comedian those who want a choice , we submit the further re comparatively late in life , or after twenty - six years mark of J . M . Kerrigan , recommending himself high - as a straight and comic juggler . And now , in less ly to a young woman upon whom he has designs , with than two years , he has become ever so many people ' s or without the benefit of clergy , that he is just full favorite comedian . of anecdotes , some of them in very good taste . Fields is one of the small group of intrinsically If you saw the recent - surely within a year is amusing comedians , no matter what his particular as recent - productions of “ Fashion ” and “ Patience , " we signment may be . There is something in the way may be able to make our point . It is , to wit , that we the man walks , in the quality of his voice , in the licked enjoyed “ Engaged ” on the same level , only further . defiance of his manner , that would make him scream ingly funny in a sketch by George V . Hobart , even , VOU don ' t have , if you ' ll only read to the end of or Roy K . Moulton . I this paragraph , really to go to the Times Square Fortunately , he is subjected to no such bitter test in Theatre and see “ Kosher Kitty Kelly ” to get all the the current Follies . His material - most of it of his meat out of its proceedings . Let us be the first to own composition — is as funny stuff as New York has 16 THE NEW YORKER ever seen . A picnic scene , for particular example , wanted to do “ La Boheme . ” They got it for her . that goes on at about ten - thirty every night , should not She wanted King Vidor to direct it . They shifted be missed — it has already become this department ' s him over from another production . She wanted John crushing retort to the old dogs who keep on talking Gilbert as leading man . Although he was about to about but you should have seen the old Weberfields be launched as a star , they shifted him over , too . So Music Hall . — H . J . M . Miss Gish smiles her wan , angelic smile . - F . J . S . Moving Pictures Art THE foreign invasion of Hollywood keeps on . THE Ainslie Galleries have departed from the 1 Svend Gade , who reached the Hollywood studios Winter policy of a new picture each week , à la from Copenhagen via the movie house , and have bridged Broadway speaking theatres , the dull season with one show has just turned out a remarka a month . This month it is bly good picture at Universal the landscapes and portraits of City . This distinctly excel Charles Sindelar , a well man lent film is “ Siege , " based nered painter of the Mill upon Samuel Hopkins Adams ' s brook environs . And if you novel . are not up on your geography , " Siege " presents the clash let us tell you that Millbrook of two centuries . Augusta is where the red fox reminds Ruyland has ruled her factory our leisure class that after all and her town with an iron ( and the American Revolu hand . The old woman looks tion ) we did come from upon her nephew as the suc NER MAN Merrie England . cessor to her power and her So Mr . Sindelar is not your ideas . When he marries a beggar but your painter on modern society girl in New horseback . And the legend York the siege of ideas begins , 25 describing the show of land for the young husband brings scapes and portraits is accu his bride home . rate because the artist lays in “ Siege ” is intelligently de Nazimova ova considerable green acres as a veloped overpointers by Mr . Gade . He background of Mr . So and So overpoints some but , im things . The and on his favorite hunter in a slurs others but , on the whole , he has produced a con - pink coat . This sort of thing is usually very static , sistently good film . The acting of Mary Alden as or English , if you will , but perhaps it is the thing to Aunt Augusta is unusually able . Excellent , too , is the do . And after all , that is life for some of us . Then , playing of Marc McDermott as a mute Ruyland and there are some mild portraits off the horse and some Virginia Valli as the bride with new century theories landscapes without portraits . Two or three of these of life . latter have a quiet , soft charm and could give no offense to any one . W E caught an advance glimpse of D . W . W Griffith ' s “ Sally of the Sawdust , ” which was THE Weyhe Galleries have a sort of grand finale once " Poppy , " a musical comedy . “ Sally ” is going to their season ' s offerings ; a few of the things to put W . C . Fields across as a big screen comedian . that have made up the exhibits of the Winter Wait and see ! No wonder Flo Ziegfeld has decided Matisse , Ronnebeck and Canade , the bitter poet to go over to the screen and there glorify the American of Brooklyn . One thing about the Weyhe Gal girl . He is losing all his players . The films already leries , they are never dull . Even their stock wares have Fields , Leon Errol and Ann Pennington . are changed and rearranged often enough to give the Just how Flo is going to glorify the American girl sense of new exhibits . And to get to the Galleries without incurring the ire of Will Hays remains to be you have to pass through the book shop - one of the seen . best art stores in the world . A leading stage director once told us that he had visited every art book shop in THESE Summer days in celluloidia are not over every large city of Europe and nowhere had he found I productive of interest . Joseph Hergesheimer is as good a collection of costume and period books as going to Hollywood , we hear , to supervise the making in this shop . Their catalogue just out is a valuable of his picture , “ Flower of the Night , ” with Pola addendum to your art library . Negri starred . This is a story of the silver mines of Mexico . We shall watch Hergesheimer ' s Hollywood THE Summer show at the Babcock Galleries has invasion with high anticipation . 1 as wide a range as a department store , the 67 · Over at Metro - Goldwyn , Lillian Gish has the varieties of canvases ranging from Ralph Blakelock situation well in hand . The ethereal Miss Gish is one to Paul Dougherty . In the foreword of the cata of the best business women extant . The studio is logue the Gallery states that it is their privilege to being turned inside out to please the lady termed the include among the " well known ” several of the Duse of the screen by George Jean Nathan . At least younger men . called so until recently by Mr . Nathan . Miss Gish “ There is a risk in sponsoring the younger artists , THE NEW YORKER 17 but but we believe confpecially the opportunity far outweighs the an orchestra pit , and the absence of acoustics present risk , ” they they confess . We in aage wish they had been a bit a few little problems which can ' t be solved as easily more daring , especially in a Summer show . The old as the Mirror ' s cross word puzzles . And not only is timers pull down the average and give a grey over - it necessary to keep the music inside the park , but it ' s tone to the rooms . Some of the things are pleasant , equally important to shut out the symphonies from the and as the foreword says , “ suitable for home decora - elevated and from flat - wheeled surface cars . Further tion . ” If it were our home we would pick the " Spring more , ball parks are inaccessible for opera - goers . That Landscape ” of John E . Costigan , “ The Weir Mend - is , they ' re inaccessible for opera - goers who go to ers ” of George Pierce Ennis , “ The Sargent House ” opera ; they ' re easily reached by opera - goers who want by F . Waldo Howell or maybe , “ Here Lies Love ” by to see Babe Ruth , Frank Frisch or Zach Wheat . Gerald Leake . No , you are mistaken , it is not a With these optimistic notions , we ' ll try to find the bathroom picture . inaccessible Yankee Stadium . And we promise to John Nobel also has one of his serious studies , “ A become a professional sunbeam sprinkler if the au Brittany Cross , ” that we liked . Art that has not dience is as large as a week - day crowd when the tail flown to Woodstock or Provincetown or Chester , is in * enders are playing the Yanks . the shops for those who plan on doing their houses over this Fall . The Babcock shelves will offer you THE receipts were only $ 12 , 000 , ” mourned one a pleasant hour between your Avenue shopping and 1 of our sports writers , deploring the small at your luncheon at the Ritz . — M . P . tendance at a not highly distinguished box - fight . Most musical managers think that they ' re doing well Music when they can draw a sixth of that amount into TO -MORROW evening — with due reservations Carnegie Hall . — R . A . S . 1 for weather , labor trouble and other familiar factors in such enterprises — we shall have the begin Books nings of a busy season of Summer opera in and about D H . LAWRENCE ' S new novel again suggests Mayor Hylan ' s city . It is announced — again we hint U . that his pinned imagination has beaten the that you ' d better read the morning gazette before leav - hotter colors off its wings . Or " St . Mawr ” may be ing home - - that “ Aida ” is to be produced at the his kind of potboiler . The American passages look Yankee Stadium with Sigñor De Muro , Mme . Rap - so . At any rate , of the side of his well known agony pold , a county seat of choristers , and horses , elephants over sex that has driven him to abstruse expression , and camels . Let ' s hope that the energetic Salmaggi little appears . The more presentable side does , but won ' t encounter the difficulties that toppled over Mas - not through action , and the upshot is a dismal resigna cagni when he launched a similar “ Aida . ” tion . If you miss " Aida " there ' ll be other opportunities . St . Mawr , a stallion , superb and dangerous , sunders Tom Burke , recently in light opera , is to let us have a discordant couple , of whom the wife , Lou , Lady “ Pinafore ” at the Polo Grounds , with others to fol - Carrington , has bought him for a mount for her low . Over in Ebbets Field , Mr . Zuro will conduct fuffily artistic husband . Her strongest reason was municipal opera with municipal singers . Just now the fascination of St . Mawr ' s terrific " maleness , ” be we ' re awaiting reports from Boyle ' s Thirty Acres , the side which human “ malenesses ” she has come across Velodrome and Henderson ' s Bowl . are epicene , and which stirs her especially because he Summer opera in the open air isn ' t a novelty in refuses at stud . He has a kindred soul in his groom this province , but successful Summer opera in the Lewis , who won ' t have his beard shorn or look at a 0 . a . would be . Probably the best uncovered audi - woman who wouldn ' t “ respect his body , " and whom torium in town , the Lewisohn Stadium up at City a woman would try , according to him , to master and College , is already reserved for less frivolous enter - humiliate . Lewis fascinates Lou ' s mother , a notable tainment . The New York University campus , an - Lawrence character . She can understand Lou ' s dis other promising possibility , shelters Goldman ' s Band satisfaction with men they know , and her determina Mayor Hylan ' s Mall is good acoustically , but hardly tion to save St . Mawr from being shot or gelded , but equipped for seeing as well as listening . Ergo : Sum - not her growing general aversion to that which to mer opera is driven into ball parks . herself has been the zest of life . Ball parks have their uses — this department ' s offer Brought to America , St . Mawr ( the ingrate ! ) takes to swap 100 tickets for début recitals , assorted , for an abject interest in a mare , and Lou sees that hence one season pass to the Polo Grounds will stand — but forth , in a world with ideal “ maleness ” rotted out of they weren ' t designed for opera . ( We ' re curious it , hers is to be the spirit of a Vestal . These things about Sigñor Salmaggi ' s setting for the final scene of and their significances will be old stuff to those who “ Aida , ” which requires a double - decked stage . Possi - know their Lawrence . — Touchstone bly it ' ll be played in the grandstand . ) A portable The New Yorker ' s List of Books Worth While will be found platform , an impromptu lighting system , the lack of on on page 23 . 16 THE NEW YORKER ever seen . A picnic scene , for particular example , wanted to do “ La Boheme . ” They got it for her . that goes on at about ten - thirty every night , should not She wanted King Vidor to direct it . They shifted be missed — it has already become this department ' s him over from another production . She wanted John crushing retort to the old dogs who keep on talking Gilbert as leading man . Although he was about to about but you should have seen the old Weberfields be launched as a star , they shifted him over , too . So Music Hall . — H . J . M . Miss Gish smiles her wan , angelic smile . - F . J . S .

Moving Pictures Art THE foreign invasion of Hollywood keeps on . THE Ainslie Galleries have departed from the 1 Svend Gade , who reached the Hollywood studios 1 Winter policy of a new picture each week , à la from Copenhagen via the movie house , and have bridged Broadway speaking theatres , the dull season with one show has just turned out a remarka a month . This month it is bly good picture at Universal the landscapes and portraits of City . This distinctly excel Charles Sindelar , a well man lent film is “ Siege , " based nered painter of the Mill upon Samuel Hopkins Adams ' s brook environs . And if you novel . are not up on your geography , “ Siege ” presents the clash let us tell you that Millbrook of two centuries . Augusta is where the red fox reminds Ruyland has ruled her factory our leisure class that after all and her town with an iron ( and the American Revolu hand . The old woman looks tion ) we did come from upon her nephew as the suc NERMAN Merrie England . cessor to her power and her So Mr . Sindelar is not your ideas . When he marries a beggar but your painter on modern society girl in New horseback . And the legend York the siege of ideas begins , describing the show of land for the young husband brings scapes and portraits is accu his bride home . rate because the artist lays in " Siege ” is intelligently de Nazimova considerable green acres as a veloped by Mr . Gade . He background of Mr . So and So overpoints some things and on his favorite hunter in a slurs others but , on the whole , he has produced a con - pink coat . This sort of thing is usually very static , sistently good film . The acting of Mary Alden as or English , if you will , but perhaps it is the thing to Aunt Augusta is unusually able . Excellent , too , is the do . And after all , that is life for some of us . Then , playing of Marc McDermott as a mute Ruyland and there are some mild portraits off the horse and some Virginia Valli as the bride with new century theories landscapes without portraits . Two or three of these of life . latter have a quiet , soft charm and could give no offense to any one . W E caught an advance glimpse of D . W . W Griffith ' s “ Sally of the Sawdust , ” which was THE Weyhe Galleries have a sort of grand finale once " Poppy , " a musical comedy . “ Sally ” is going 1 to their season ' s offerings ; a few of the things to put W . C . Fields across as a big screen comedian . that have made up the exhibits of the Winter Wait and see ! No wonder Flo Ziegfeld has decided Matisse , Ronnebeck and Canade , the bitter poet to go over to the screen and there glorify the American of Brooklyn . One thing about the Weyhe Gal girl . He is losing all his players . The films already leries , they are never dull . Even their stock wares have Fields , Leon Errol and Ann Pennington . are changed and rearranged often enough to give the Just how Flo is going to glorify the American girl sense of new exhibits . And to get to the Galleries without incurring the ire of Will Hays remains to be you have to pass through the book shop — one of the seen . best art stores in the world . A leading stage director once told us that he had visited every art book shop in THESE Summer days in celluloidia are not over every large city of Europe and nowhere had he found productive of interest . Joseph Hergesheimer is as good a collection of costume and period books as going to Hollywood , we hear , to supervise the making in this shop . Their catalogue just out is a valuable of his picture , “ Flower of the Night , ” with Pola addendum to your art library . Negri starred . This is a story of the silver mines of Mexico . We shall watch Hergesheimer ' s Hollywood THE Summer show at the Babcock Galleries has invasion with high anticipation . l as wide a range as a department store , the 67 Over at Metro - Goldwyn , Lillian Gish has the varieties of canvases ranging from Ralph Blakelock situation well in hand . The ethereal Miss Gish is one to Paul Dougherty . In the foreword of the cata of the best business women extant . The studio is logue the Gallery states that it is their privilege to being turned inside out to please the lady termed the include among the “ well known ” several of the Duse of the screen by George Jean Nathan . At least younger men . called so until recently by Mr . Nathan . Miss Gish “ There is a risk in sponsoring the younger artists , THE NEW YORKER but we believe the opportunity far outweighs the an orchestra pit , and the absence of acoustics present risk , ” they confess . We wish they had been a bit a few little problems which can ' t be solved as easily more daring , especially in a Summer show . The old as the Mirror ' s cross word puzzles . And not only is timers pull down the average and give a grey over - it necessary to keep the music inside the park , but it ' s tone to the rooms . Some of the things are pleasant , equally important to shut out the symphonies from the and as the foreword says , “ suitable for home decora - elevated and from fiat - wheeled surface cars . Further tion . ” If it were our home we would pick the " Spring more , ball parks are inaccessible for opera - goers . That Landscape ” of John E . Costigan , “ The Weir Mend - is , they ' re inaccessible for opera - goers who go to ers ” of George Pierce Ennis , “ The Sargent House ” opera ; they ' re easily reached by opera - goers who want by F . Waldo Howell or maybe , “ Here Lies Love ” by to see Babe Ruth , Frank Frisch or Zach Wheat . Gerald Leake . No , you are mistaken , it is not a With these optimistic notions , we ' ll try to find the bathroom picture . inaccessible Yankee Stadium . And we promise to John Nobel also has one of his serious studies , “ A become a professional sunbeam sprinkler if the au Brittany Cross , ” that we liked . Art that has not dience is as large as a week - day crowd when the tail flown to Woodstock or Provincetown or Chester , is in enders are playing the Yanks . the shops for those who plan on doing their houses over this Fall . The Babcock shelves will offer you THE receipts were only $ 12 , 000 , ” mourned one a pleasant hour between your Avenue shopping and 1 of our sports writers , deploring the small at your luncheon at the Ritz . — M . P . tendance at a not highly distinguished box - fight . Most musical managers think that they ' re doing well Music when they can draw a sixth of that amount into TO - MORROW evening — with due reservations Carnegie Hall . — R . A . S . for weather , labor trouble and other familiar factors in such enterprises — we shall have the begin Books nings of a busy season of Summer opera in and about H . LAWRENCE ' S new novel again suggests Mayor Hylan ' s city . It is announced — again we hint V . that his pinned imagination has beaten the that you ' d better read the morning gazette before leav - hotter colors off its wings . Or “ St . Mawr ” may be ing home — that " Aida " is to be produced at the his kind of potboiler . The American passages look Yankee Stadium with Sigñor De Muro , Mme . Rap - So . At any rate , of the side of his well known agony pold , a county seat of choristers , and horses , elephants over sex that has driven him to abstruse expression , and camels . Let ' s hope that the energetic Salmaggi little appears . The more presentable side does , but won ' t encounter the difficulties that toppled over Mas - not through action , and the upshot is a dismal resigna cagni when he launched a similar “ Aida . ” tion . If you miss “ Aida ” there ' ll be other opportunities . St . Mawr , a stallion , superb and dangerous , sunders Tom Burke , recently in light opera , is to let us have a discordant couple , of whom the wife , Lou , Lady “ Pinafore ” at the Polo Grounds , with others to fol - Carrington , has bought him for a mount for her low . Over in Ebbets Field , Mr . Zuro will conduct fluffily artistic husband . Her strongest reason was municipal opera with municipal singers . Just now the fascination of St . Mawr ' s terrific “ maleness , ” be we ' re awaiting reports from Boyle ' s Thirty Acres , the side which human “ malenesses ” she has come across Velodrome and Henderson ' s Bowl . are epicene , and which stirs her especially because he Summer opera in the open air isn ' t a novelty in refuses at stud . He has a kindred soul in his groom this province , but successful Summer opera in the Lewis , who won ' t have his beard shorn or look at a 0 . a . would be . Probably the best uncovered audi - woman who wouldn ' t " respect his body , " and whom torium in town , the Lewisohn Stadium up at City a woman would try , according to him , to master and College , is already reserved for less frivolous enter - humiliate . Lewis fascinates Lou ' s mother , a notable tainment . The New York University campus , an - Lawrence character . She can understand Lou ' s dis other promising possibility , shelters Goldman ' s Band . satisfaction with men they know , and her determina Mayor Hylan ' s Mall is good acoustically , but hardly tion to save St . Mawr from being shot or gelded , but equipped for seeing as well as listening . Ergo : Sum - not her growing general aversion to that which to mer opera is driven into ball parks . herself has been the zest of life . Ball parks have their uses — this department ' s offer Brought to America , St . Mawr ( the ingrate ! ) takes to swap 100 tickets for début recitals , assorted , for an abject interest in a mare , and Lou sees that hence one season pass to the Polo Grounds will stand — but forth , in a world with ideal “ maleness ” rotted out of they weren ' t designed for opera . ( We ' re curious it , hers is to be the spirit of a Vestal . These things about Sigñor Salmaggi ' s setting for the final scene of and their significances will be old stuff to those who “ Aida , ” which requires a double - decked stage . Possi - know their Lawrence . - Touchstone bly it ' ll be played in the grandstand . ) A portable THE New YORKER ' s List of Books Worth While will be found platform , an impromptu lighting system , the lack of on on page 23 . THE NEW YORKER SPORTS

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that third mile , the mile that tears the hearts and souls of the men in the boats , the searing stretch which makes and breaks winning and losing crews , Yale began to show her worth . Power magnificently ap plied , beautiful oarsmanship , and a form faultless under pressure were putting and keeping the Blue ahead . Not much , mind bridge , came back , took up their positions , you . Half a length , three quarters per removed their shirts and leaned over their haps at the most . It was a race , a won oars . There was a tenseness in the air ' , derful race , Harvard was still in the fight ,

11K the same feeling that comes just before but even from the shore the remorseless the whistle blows for the kickoff under ness of the Yale crew could be felt . And November skes . Beside me the Yale so jigsawed together they went into the cheer leader had to be tied to the rail " last mile . to keep him from falling over . Then And then . Well , with whistles and all at once they were off , Harvard hitting 8 sirens going full blast , and everyone on the water first and shooting away . In the train yelling their heads off , the two those first few seconds it seemed as though boats went into the lane between the the Bulldog had suddenly become the yachts , and we saw them no more . It Bullfrog . was unbelievable , but it was so . Several For nearly twenty years , afloat and hundred yards of water separated us from JOHAN BULL ashore I have been interested in this yearly them , but that space was filled with every struggle : rarely can I recollect a crew that craft afloat except the Leviathan . As far C o far as I am aware , the Harvard - got away faster than this Harvard crew as we were concerned , the race was over . Yale regatta is the oldest sporting did . Even at our angle it was plain that We might as well have been in Dubuque , event in this country . It dates back the Crimson , rowing a high stroke , was screaming the sirens the almost without interruption to 1852 , nearly a length in the lead as the train lowa . The of , rivaling Henley , the great English row - took the curve and rolled along the bank tooting of whistles , the yelling and the ing classic . Of the two , I prefer the beside the two boats . The Yale man be cheering came to us across the river . But scene at New London ; it is far more col - side me was on the verge of delirium who was winning , who was pulling down orful , more spectacular , more sumptu - tremens . For Harvard , rowing a well those last few hundred yards ahead was a ously and luxuriantly staged . There were spaced , even stroke , was ahead ; Yale ap mystery . We looked at each other in many more yachts this year than ever be - parently was content to let them act as fore , and they made a magnificent sight , pacemaker . At the mile flag Harvard was stretching all the way up the river from still holding her gain , Yale rowing her the railroad bridge to the finish line , with effortless stroke still hanging on . It was flags , banners and bunting covering them a real race , the first in three years . from stem to stern . Just about here the Blue stroke raised The race was late starting . It always the beat slightly and his boat came on . is . Hanging out on the bridge over the Slowly , quietly , hardly noticeably , until red and blue stake boats with the sun at the mile and a half mark that lead streaming down on the lane of yachts , on had been cut down . The Navy Yard is the haughty white power boat marked approximately the half way mark , and the “ Regatta Committee , " and on the mo - crews were hidden a minute or so behind tionless surface of the blue water , we sheds and buildings . We looked far were amused in car 13 of the Observa - ahead to the front cars of the train . As tion Train by the antics of the young they came into the open blue flags , bal man who led the Yale cheering . He was loons , scarves and banners were flung out impartial . When a sub chaser appeared in the breeze . Yale had grabbed the lead . directly under us he hurled down a long Not much of a lead , but the lead just the Yale cheer with nine “ Rum Rows " on same . When they came in our view I the end . clocked Yale rowing 36 to the minute , At last the Blue crew appeared up the Harvard 35 , and the Blue enthusiast be river . Then Harvard came out from be - side me yelling at about 2687 / 2 . hind a power boat and paddled down to The theory that Harvard could get the the line . Both crews drifted under the lead and hold it was being disproved . In . THE NEW YORKER a dazed , bewildered way . Amid the din are all that will be remembered — and this and noise and confusion from the finish only a short time , will be one tiny line . line it was impossible to tell who had It will read like this : won . And ten minutes later as the train 1925 . Winner , Yale . Time , 20 : 26 . pulled back along the track to New Lon - J . R . T . don there was the remarkable sight of peo ple who had been milked five dollars to go Says a headline : “ City of Twenty - five on a so - called Observation Train calling Million Souls in Sixty Years Predicted . ” down to humble citizens who had seen the There is nothing to worry about . Mr . race from the river bank : Hylan ' s subway plans will provide for “ Hey , who won the race ? ” them amply - unless they bring their In fact , it was not until we reached the bodies . New London station and obtained the prints of the faithful Mr . Hearst that we knew who was victorious . The well - informed Mark Sullivan says the Democrats are planning to center their attack in next year ' s campaign upon the Friday , June 10 was not much of a red anti - administration G . O . P . Senators with letter day for the Harvard crews ; but it " a half humorous , halt pious air of ap must have been all of that for the in - proving the Republican President . ” Per habitants of Rum Row . The dry navy haps that large detachment of guards at the Swampscott house is to keep Mr . L ERE ' S the truth of it . Covarrubias wasdred represented per cent strong at New . And London fully , one ninety hun - Coolidge from being kidnapped by the I says it ' s a portrait of Nickolas Muray . Muray says it looks like the nine and a half per cent was blocking DerDemocratic Party . Dickens . the view at the finish from the observation Dickens never portrayed a character trains , especially the three or four large more effectively with his pen than “ Kosher Kitty Kelly ” has received the Nickolas Muray can with his camera . destroyers anchored there and crowded .unanimous denouncement of the dramatic with guests of Uncle Sam . They certainly critics . In fact , it looks like a big decade saw more of the race than the guests ts ofof for Kitty . The MURAY STUDIOS the New Haven Railroad . 38 East 50 " Street . New York City The folders ( giving information about the race ) so kindly distributed by this com - We cannot get away from the thought Plaza 4907 pany remarked naïvely that : “ Obser - that those people who fill our commence - | | Photographers to the Discriminating vation Train will leave New London at ment exercises with highflown language 4 : 30 p . m . and follow the East Bank of ought to go in for sky - writing . the Thames , affording passengers an unob structed view of the contest from start to finish . ” This astounding statement was Gertrude Ederle broke the swimming made over the signature of one F . C . record from the Battery to Sandy Hook Coley , Passenger Traffic Manager . Mr . and sailed for Europe the next day . The Coley is a lucky man . He should be able use of a boat in the latter connection was to see the next Yale - Harvard football Thou sheershee girlish extravagance . game in the Bowl from a front row seat in the Polo Grounds . He could also prob The Original Lucy Stoner ably see New Haven stock at 102 / 2 and BILOXI , Miss . Having her hair bobbed for selling on an eight per cent basis from the the ceremony , Miss Mary Sanders , 74 , and A . J . | | balcony of the Exchange . Fuller , 96 , both inmates of the Confederate Soldiers ' Home here , were publicly married in the presence of several hundred persons . The The Observed in the main street of New bridegroomSan was the eighth husband of Miss London before the varsity race : Theodore – Dispatch to the St . Paul Rural Weekly . Douglas Robinson , Assistant Secretary of Goshen Inn the Navy , wearing the losing colors . Pos - Many Called ; Two Chosen GOSHEN , NEW YORK sibly he saw the finish from one of those In the daily line of 700 to 1 , 000 handshakers Under management The Kellogg Service , Inc . destroyers . Also Oliver D . Filley , cap - were Evangelist Billy Sunday and his wife . James M . Nolan , Resident Mgr . tain of a victorious Crimson crew in 1908 " Stay to lunch , ” said the President . They did . VIVIDLY reminiscent of the fascinating and later on a colonel in the Royal Air ( See Religion . ) V hostelries of old England . — Time Located in Orange County hills . In spot of Force , talking to Harold S . Vanderbilt great scenic beauty . Surrounding country af ashore for a few minutes from his yacht , Just a Simple Little Home fords all advantages of outdoor sports , includ . the Vagrant which was anchored up the Wilhelm spoke about ninety minutes to a home ing golf and tennis . Trotting races every river . As well as Commodore Robert circle audience , including his wife , the Princess Saturday . Dine on the terrace and enjoy Law of the Indian Harbor Yacht Hermione , her two children , his Court Marshal , watching them . : vont Moltke , and others of his former imperial Every convenience of best metropolitan ho Club of Greenwich , Al Lindley stroke of entourage , as well as two high officers from Ger tels . Beautifully furnished bedrooms — each last year ' s great Yale crew , George Von L . many and one German ex - ambassador . connected with bath . Excellent cuisine . - A . P . dispatch On four state roads . Only 50 miles from Meyer , Jr . , and other old Harvard and New York . Yale oarsmen . Is That All ? Larry Siry ' s Club de Vingt Orchestra ( for merly of Lido Venice ) every Wednesday and “ Harvard ' s fight for the lead at the . . . according to Harold G . Aron , chairman Saturday night . c of the publicity committee of the Advisory Com Reasonable Rates . Write or phone your three mile mark will long be remem - mittee of 130 of the Republican County Com reservations to Room 327 , Dept . N . bered , ” said a morning paper after the mittee . race . Possible ; but unlikely . The chances — From a news storystory | | 17 EAST 42D Street Tel . VANDERBILT 2953 THE NEW YORKER ☆ WHEN NIGHTS ARE BOLD SE INNER at Voisin is very quiet and few places these tropic evenings , and since mony . Another newcomer in the enter tranquil compared with most places . the big business in hand is keeping cool we tainment is a masqued singer in top hat The tables are decently spaced , so you feel it behooves us to note all possibili - and evening cape . aren ' t annoyed by the proximity of your ties in that direction . The bit we enjoyed most was a dagger neighbors . Even though you may not be Of course we should not play favorites , dance done by Czara Romanyi . She was confiding the gist of your love - life to your but during the Summer the urban enter - a guest , but was persuaded to perform with vis - a - vis you don ' t care about having tainments boil down to a very limited a couple of carving knives from the strangers , or more especially friends , group that are distinguished . Montmartre kitchen . The Russian effect was suffi listening - in on your table talk . We , per - continues to charm the same type of peo - ciently authentic to be heartily applauded sonally , fancy uncluttered restaurants and ple , and we consider them very pleasant by Prince Dimitri and William Leeds , that , besides very good food , is what you to be with . Dropping in there we saw husband of Princess Xenia , who sat near get at Voisin . Incidentally , you know the Mr . and Mrs . Harry Cushing 3rd , Mr . us with Charles Hanson Towne and people about you , or if you don ' t , you Schuyler Parsons . ought to . Frank Crowninshield surges in , sweeping a bevy of bowing waiters and Owen Johnson with him . That , gentle It is advertised as the World ' s Largest readers , should tell you that it is smart Ballroom ; and we are not the one to dis for dinner . pute such a claim . We have never been a participant in one of these endurance dancing contests , nor have we ever in In our freshman days Bustanoby ' s was dulged in mileage dancing for the re the intercollegiate rendezvous of vacation duction of avoirdupois or retardation of time , and we confess to not knowing the senility . In fact , as we now recall it , our present equivalent in college circles . If dancing has been for pleasure , except for you wanted to locate a particular college rare cases of duty , and we have complete boy from no particular college , you could ly disregarded distance . Nevertheless , we do it efficiently by going direct to Busty ' s . were impressed by the acreage of the floor They began gathering there at lunch time at Clover Gardens . It may easily be the and stayed on until a late hour next morn largest for the purpose in the world . ing when it closed . Of course Maxim ' s From the foyer you cannot see the around the corner had a similar vogue at opposite side of the room , not only be the same time , but Busty ' s had to be cause of its remoteness , but on account of visited at some hour by all right - minded DAGGER DANCE the dim illumination and the intervening students . The Army and Navy always rows of gilded Byzantine columns . It is furnished a good quota , even if the Astor BASKERVIL only fair to mention for the benefit of or Biltmore was announced as headquart those who doubt their evening eyesight ers for West Point and Annapolis . With that these colonnades are not straight , but Mae Dorsey , Helen and Trixie Smith laid out on the pattern of a snake track . marblethey danced floor by and way broke of “ seeing bottles life on . ” the and Mrs . Elliot Holt with her twin sister ( or rather , that is how they appeared to us . ) Careful steering is necessary to nego Under the stimulating influence of and Sidney Smith , Louise Wise Lewis , Peg & tiate these colonnades under certain bar ladies liquor fights were frequent , often Power , Olivia Sterner , Jack Bouvier , of ometric conditions . ending in a wholesale exodus through the course Dr . O ' Connor , Connie Luft and The walls are decorated with conven kitchen and back door , as the police , blow - Dave Moss , Margaret Belmont , Leland tionalized dancing figures of different ing whistles for reinforcements , moved in Hayward , Mrs . Potter Brown , nationalities and the ceiling is well treated at the front . liam Thomas of Navy aeronautics . Mary Those beautiful , raucous , old days have Floyd - Jones was on hand as of yore . The with friezes . Several large murals by passed ; and the name has been changed night of the reopening she was the most Crisp depicting Utopian festivities in successively to Pre Catelan , the Metamora noticeably absent habituée . Inquiry re splendid color are the main features of Club and now La Pensée . We went there vealed she was in Hot Springs , and with interest . There is a soda fountain of to dinner recently to look for sparks of her return the normal status of Mont great length in one corner and three sides of room are bordered by refreshment the old life , but the search was fruitless . martre is re - established . tables and lounges . The long red lounge The marble floor with the post , which was in the entrance salon is one of the an so difficult to dance around , is unchanged ; “ Texas ” Guinan handed us some more nounced features of the place . Here in and the cabaret girls still peep over the laughs Monday night . She still holds all a demure , but cheerful line , sit the thirty balcony railing , waiting their turn to go records on pep . and several on snappy young women who may be on , but the spirit is gone . With a sigh comebacks . Also she has perhaps the ing partners or instructresses . Of their for the evening Jack McFish pushed largest kissing acquaintance so far ob - charms and terpsichorean talents we can Broadway ' s blondest blonde from Jack ’ s to ser served . not tell — as we always fare forth of an Bustanoby ' s in a wheelbarrow , we left its You don ' t always see the same show at evening with our own prancing partner . ectability for newer , brighter the “ Texas ” Guinan Club , because new The Clover Gardens offer unexcelled playgrounds . talent is constantly being rung in . And opportunities for dancing without crowd if the crowding gets any worse the guests ing , but we felt somewhat chilly away Lash down your false hair before you will have to be wrung out . The Wil - from the accustomed congestion of the go stepping at Montmartre , or the evening liams twins , whom “ Texas ” introduced as night clubs . The floor and orangeades are breezes there will carry away your camou - " the daughters of the Dolly Sisters , ” are good , and the clientele , if not chic , is flage . Fresh air circulates vivaciously in clever dancers and sing insinuating har - seemingly respectable . — Top Hat THE NEW YORKER 21 Theatre Guild Productions : GOINGS ON : Bernard Shaw ' s Famous Comedy . % 0 Caesar Ê Cleopatra °° 0 0 0 Th . , W . 53 St . Evs . 8 : 15 . ild Mats . Thurs . & Sat . , 2 : 15 THE NEW YORKER ' S Conscientious calendar of events worth while Tel . Columbus 8229 . DON Q - Globe Garrick Gaieties THE THEATRE Sparkling Musical Revue WHAT PRICE GLORY - Plymouth Doug ' s newest acrobatic romance is good en Garrick 65 W . 35 St . Evs . 8 : 40 If there is a Pulitzer Prize for the play of tertainment for a Summer night . - Mts . Thurs . & Sat . , 2 : 40 the century , this piece may well be entitled to it . ART The Pulitzer Prize Play THEY KNEW WHAT THEY WANTED - Klaw CHARLES SINDELAR - Ainslie Gallery . They Knew What Life and love in the vineyards of California , Fox hunters and their wives , and horses They Wanted far , far from Hollywood , but with many of around Millbrook way . Well mannered art . with Leo and Pauline its practises . Pauline Lord in the season ' s ANDERS ZORN – Grand Central Art Gallery . Carrillo Lord finest display of acting . Klaw Th . , W . 45 St . Evs . 8 : 40 CAESAR AND CLEOPATRA - Guild A comprehensive exhibit of this virile and Mats . Wed . & Sat . , 2 : 40 Lionel Atwell and Helen Hayes , in the Thea prolific painter . Worth a visit , even in hot tre Guild ' s production of Shaw ' s reminder that weather . both the noblest Roman and the least circum - WATER COLORS - Montross . NEW AMSTERDAM THE spect Egyptian of them all were scarcely aware A fine exhibit of the work of twenty Ameri - Erlanger , Dillingham & Ziegfeld ,West M & 420. Diro St .. at the time that they were eternally historical . can painters working in the less popular 458 Seats at $ 1 . Pop . Price Mats . Wed . and Sat . IS ZAT SO ? — Chanin ' s Forty - sixth Street medium . LATESTI GREATESTI FUNNIESTI A robust and unusually entertaining play , SUMMER SHOW - New Gallery . written in the vernacular , or anyway in what Interesting things by the younger moderns . ZIEGFELD FOLLIES of 1925 - Glorifying the American Girl the stage regards as the vernacular . WILL ROGERS - W . C . FIELDS THE FALL GUY - Eltinge This play , too , like “ Is Zat So ? ” , is in the MUSIC ZIEGFELD COSMOPOLITAN theatre ' s American language , but it is more “ AIDA " - Yankee Stadium . solidly built and more given to the explana Saturday evening , June 27 , with De Muro , THEATRE , Col . Circle , 59th St . & B ' way tion of its complications and is consequently Rappold , scads of singers , horses , camels and POP . MATS . THURS . & SAT . less amusing . elephants . The beginning of the Summer LADY , BE GOOD - Liberty opera season . Leon Errol " Louie 14 * A highly diverting musical comedy , made so by George Gershwin ' s music , the dancing and Ist Balc . Seats $ 1 & $ 2 . If bought in Advance true playful spirit of Fred and Adele Astaire , SPORTS and some nifties by Walter Catlett . TENNIS – Nassau Country Club , Glen Cove , L . I . Eugene ROSE - MARIE - Imperial Monday , June 29 and following days , an O ' Neill ' s nual invitation tournament , the smartest thing Greatest Play UNDER the ELMS The season ' s most successful musical play , and in tennis on the north shore of Long Island . maybe the managers will take the hint that The entry is restricted and the play is conse With WALTER HUSTON the public will reward good singing and ele Now at THEATRE , gant scenic investitures when , as and if sup quently high in quality . GEO . M . B ' way & 43d St . plied . POLO — Rockaway Hunt Club , Cedarhurst , L . I . Eves . 8 : 30 . Mats . Wed . & Sat . ZIEGFELD FOLLIES — New Amsterdam Monday , June 29 , and following days . Polo The funniest “ Follies ” Mr . Ziegfeld has ever daily between closely matched teams with provided with about the funniest comedian some of the best of the younger players in ANNE NICHOLS presents W . C . Fields — Mr . Ziegfeld has ever em the East competing . ployed . WHITE COLLARS LOUIE THE 14TH - Cosmopolitan BOXING — At the Polo Grounds A COMEDY OF AMERICAN LIFE The most beautiful production that has yet Thursday evening , July 2 . Harry Greb vs . come from the lavish generosity of Mr . Zieg Mickey Walker , 15 rounds , world ' s middle Now HARRIS a W . 42 St . Mats . feld . And quite comic , too , if Leon Errol ' s weight championship . Harry Wills vs . Charlie at SAM H . Wed . & Sat . comedy falls will do you for an entire eve Weinert , 15 rounds , and other bouts . ning . BASEBALL – Polo Grounds THE GORILLA - Selwyn Brooklyn vs . New York , Friday , June 26 . A lot of fun is to be had at this burlesque of Boston vs . New York , Saturday , Sunday , Mon the mystery plays , but don ' t bring one of dayday ,, TuesdayTuesday ,. June Tune 27 , 28 , 29 , 30 . GOINGS ON those " but it stands to reason that ” pests with A conscientious calendar of you . Yankee Stadium events worth while TELL ME MORE - Gaiety Philadelphia vs . New York , Thursday , Friday , WHEN NIGHTS A good Gershwin score and some merry fool July 2 , 3 . ARE BOLD ing by Lou Holtz and Andrew Toombes . Where to pass the time after GARRICK GAIETIES – Garrick OTHER EVENTS 4 A . M . There is the welcome exuberance of youthful FAIR AND TEA - Manhasset , L . I . spirits in this revuelet offered by the younger Friday , June 26 . Annual fair and tea for PROFILES players of the Theatre Guild . the Babies ' Milk Fund of the Family Welfare Interesting personalities , THE STUDENT PRINCE - Jolson ' s Association of Nassau County , at the country brilliantly dissected . other highly meritorious member of the home of Mr . and Mrs . Payne Whitney . group of adult musical plays - good singing , IN OUR MIDST good acting , decent settings — that has suddenly TREASURE HUNTS - Greenwich , Conn . AND OUT started to come to town last season . Saturday afternoon , June 27 . 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