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*» w s» * s» *•?**»* r. * »». r, r. •»: v*5,NEW YORK DAY BY DAY* !1- ' « « : '!•■ : * By O. O. Mi In:y tv. * : f*“ te it !■ n iit lt;£ 4444^444 ^4444/44i•eNow York, Jam 30 -Th * 11:34 for,. Great Neck ~dubi»cd (butro by King ■l Gardner is a train filled with »grotes ;u.* falt; lt;Great Neck is a! ar ■j, theatrical and literary suburb on ;Long Island. The homes there are |mostly owned or rented by actors and . ‘j writers.Every player tries to enroll the 11 :3l ‘ at night and is usually forced to dash i . from his dressing room without rev j 1 n moving hv mak^rrp- One sees dash-j lt ing juveniles with car mined cheeks, s t ; blackened eyebrows and powdered d - foreheadsf j There are butlers with side-burus i unromoved, young nuen with old gray j lM'-es. ingenue- bright with paint, ere ,J lt;? \ They all knew eaeh other and j there are few passengers outside of j their profession Jt is an unwritt u / law on the 11.34 that no one may discuss the stage.Too many, it seems, delighted in telling how good they wer * and in the egotistic glow passed their station So they play bridge or mah-jong Great Neel; apparently has all the virtues of * j a peaceful m-ss road town and none of the vices of Hollywood-There has never 1kh*ii a eomplaint there for midnedit carrying-on. Th town n*d s* long ago dismissed sev oral of its p»]k •« nem. They had noth ing to do— noinrdv to arrest'.j It has Is;I• a vernal freshness and as W^illb* lt;vl !lier said is out in the clearing far ,f I from the “A! Woods.”in one block there resides Gene Buck, John Golden, Scott Fitzgerald, Willie ('oilier. Grant Mitchell and v 1 l/owell Sherman. To the average lay*nit tan the actor lives in another world Yet here is a community where men build chicken coops, paint fences and go to the po*t offii*e after the mail.The women, talk over the back fence, horauv cups of sugar and do their | ] darning at the front w indow Perhaps J the only difference between Great i Neck and the average small town is j ^ that the inhabitants sleep until noon ji rnere is nlt; stir in the early morningWtill St reef st-h k salesmen have a
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Atchison Globe Daily
Atchison, Kansas, US
Wed, Jan 30, 1924
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