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...sedate is New York's Century Association that its officers once prohibited bridge games in its austere clubhouse (43rd Street just west of Fifth Avenue) lest the muffled excitement of such play disturb the tranquillity of other members. Organized by William Cullen Bryant in 1847 to promote "the advancement of art and literature," the Century selects members on the basis of cultural superiority. Its atmosphere of wealthy exclusiveness is matched only by its reputation for eminent respectability. Famed among its members are Herbert Clark Hoover, John Pierpont Morgan, George Woodward Wickersham, William Howard Taft, John William Davis, Henry Lewis Stimson...
Stepping out of a meeting of the Associated Press at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, Manhattan, a multitude of publishers stepped into a meeting of the American Newspaper Publishers Association at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, Manhattan. Two chief things they found to grow excited about in their 43rd annual meeting...
...while a band played "Laugh, Clown, Laugh." Then back to Manhattan he came, checked in at the Biltmore, began the theoretically obscure existence of a private citizen. The theory, however, proved unsound. Newspaper men, camera men, came to the Biltmore. They came to the Prudence Building, Madison Avenue and 43rd Street, where Mr. Smith had opened an office.* They wanted to know what Mr. Smith was going to do now. Annoyed, Mr. Smith said that he had no announcement to make, that he did not desire daily visits from the press, that he hoped he would not be asked...
...Madison Avenue and 84th St. 1.40 1 Pane glass (billed) 2.15 1 Broken heart (cooed) .63 Smelling salts for hostess 1.00 Refreshments 5.00 (Entry illegible) 33.00 Refreshments 5.00 Taxi, 2 blocks, protested by driver .15 Received from driver for vacating cab 2.00 Milk, wagon to 5th Ave. and 43rd St. 10.00 2 bottles Grade A. .40 1 Riding habit, borowed from milkman 12.00 1 Horse, gallop in Vanderbilt Ave. 5.00 Fine and Costs 13.00 Bench in Grand Central Experience Train to Northfield, Vt., by mistake 14.40 Refreshments at Northfield, Vt. (also by mistake) 5.00 Aspirin .15 Return train to Bratteboro...
...Manhattan "hit show" is so popular that tickets within the first five rows centre cannot be purchased a day or less in advance at the smeary-windowed little scalpers' offices along Broadway between 43rd and 45th streets. Scalpers' prices: for a hit drama 88.80 or 59.90 ; for a hit revue $11.00 to §33.00; for a sure fire first night...