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The first dramatist replied, "I write what the pub- lic wants. Go and look at the line out in front of MODES my box office if you don't believe it. What do I Places are fixed by what one wears. care for art?” Taileurs can only mean Pierre's The second dramatist replied, "I am an artist. I For lunch. An afternoon dress very write to please myself. To hell with the public." Often will lead to tea from Sherry, The third dramatist replied, "I give the chuckle- headed, fat-witted public what I think it ought to Although, if rather tight it fits, have. Not what it wants, not what I want, not what Its wearer may prefer the Ritz. you want it to have but what I think it needs. In- Escorts of simple gowns will tote cidentally, you balmy owls give me a great idea for a Flasks to a side street table d'hote, farce. Go chase yourselves around the Acropolis!" While something more elaborate The name of the third dramatist was Aristophanes, May well denote a Crillon date. but the names of the other two dramatists, of the One's supper club attire depends proedros and of the jury of citizens were never spoken On whether one would avoid one's friends, again from the days on which they died and no one But nothing matters in the wilds knows who they were. Of postscript ham and eggs at Childs'. -James Kevin McGuinness Jottings About Town By BUSYBODY HE other day a Vox Populi woman was seen smoking a cigarette in a well known Greenwich Village restaurant. It is said that many women even powder O Na stuffy afternoon shortly after the close of the, their noses in the public street nowadays. zens, already bored with the monotony of peace, formed themselves into a jury to investigate the drama, Many are wondering who the next Mayor will be "I need not," to blame the subway crowd- said the aged proed- ing on. ros, addressing the assembly, "dwell upon the lewdness The light system for traf- and filth and pro- fic appears to be very con- fanity which at fusing to taxicab drivers. present pervades our Several seem to be puzzled drama. You all hear about just when to stop the gossip of the when the lights change. Agora. I stand here before you to-day to ask for volunteers. The attention I have a list of the of the city authori- most offensive plays ties should be now being produced called to the curb- at the theatres of stone at 34 1st street and Athens. Who Onderdonk Avenue. It among you will risk needs fixing. his good standing in the community by attending these re- A player named Ruth volting exhibitions will be given a trial by the and bringing back a New York American League detailed report?” baseball team next spring. "I will," sadly Ruth is said to be a good replied 399 public Why waste Terpsichore when there are always hitter. spirited Athenian cocktails to be shaken? citizens. "You will do nothing of the sort," said the proedros, Prohibition scoflaws have given New York the a little peevishly, and he thrust the scroll containing the reputation of being a hic town. list of plays, together with the complimentary tickets, into a fold of his chiton. "Instead, we will summon the chief offenders before us for a hearing." Anne Hathawig, the cabaret danseuse, retires at 5 Within an hour, three well-known comic drama- a, m, and rises at 1 p. m. She says there is nothing tists had been hailed to the Pnyx. To each was put a like a good day's sleep as a tonic for the nighe's single question: "Why do you write what you write?” duties. Recent