| Show IN INN NEW E W Y YORK 0 R K iP By PAUL HARRIS hARRISON ON NEW YORK Au Aug 31 The 31 The gypsy tribes tribe that make their winder winer in New York have remained through the summer In greater num num- bels bel's than ever before This Is ls partly because the fortune telling business ss has remained good There is an old Romany axiom to the effect that the less money a superstitious man has the more anxious he Is to get rich Another reason Is that the epidemic has made gypsies less wel come han nan ever in th the hinterland where they're looked looker upon by many as child snatchers catchers Since horse trading has gone tone ou out of style the Romany men when they do anything at all all swap automobiles One habit the gypsies lle haven't aban is staying close to earth They always rent b basement or ground floor loor store rooms partition these off with gay dra draperies rieS' rieS and hang out weather beaten signs suggesting that you yoi Learn Thy Future The men stay out of sight somewhere anc and the women sit in the doorways attracting at at- patrons Some of the women e and wearing caring a n half halt a do dozen en or more flowing skirts are quite beautiful But sidewalk Lotharios have learned that is isn't nt heal healthy thy to tell them so Although such establishments arc are scattered pretty much all over town most of the gypsies live in the Bal kan lean quarter quartet on the lower cast east side around Avenue A Grand and Broome streets Some of ot the biggest automo biles hiles in m town are to be seen in that tha squalid district many of them belonging be be- longing to the gypsies themselves others to wealthy women who go there for fortune readings oil V 0 e a BIGWIG GYPSIES Not long ago the word W was S no noised d around the Romany Ghetto that a acre 2000 estate up in the Catskills had been set aside as a sanctuary for gypsies It was a place called the Gypsy Trail club ran the rumor with streams and for forests ts and hil hills with places for camping and trIbal triba J council fires Worth an tion anyway so half a dozen farnI V pIled into their ca cars s together children dogs guitars tents shawLs and skillets Sure enough Carmel N. N Y they found a up near series Gypsy Trail o of signs with arrows At twilight t they enCouraging drove into a wooded place that would delight any wild and migrant heart soon twinkled through the trees and Balkan melodies caressed the hilts hills around Architect Wiley Corbett Corbet heard and so did Philip L Le Boutillier and arid R. R Andrew ReInhart the archi arch ted and Louis Cates Gates the copper ma nate and Frank Hawkes and i S Brnt mag Balchen and a lot of other men you c read about Some of them went dowS down from the clubhouse to explain th the sIt lt to the unbidden guests a while it was almost nip and tuck whether the gypsies or the Gypsy Trail members would vaC vacate the e cs- cs tate tale The Trail V Gypsy club It might bo ho w wigs explained Is a private camp for fate big s o 0 ODD EXEMPTION CODE Meanderings The factory ac ry that prints print those N R H A stickers you See Ce ee everywhere Isn't working under the N R It A code Mr Sidney Hollaender president of the label company signed the agreement then had to ask asic exemption from it because orders V started coming in for lots of several million each each and and he lie couldn't hire enough skilled opera operators rs Con Conrad of Tin Tm Pan alley and Hollywood Holly Holly- wood discovered Jackie Cooper Years ago youngsters youngster's mother was Conrads Conrad's secretary and he begged her to try to get Jackie into the lea ics ics Needy artists hove e hit on the idea of renting their pictures at 5 per cent of the sale price a month to people who want to impress their gUI guests ts L Tulle Losch the e dancer who has the loveliest hands in the world is fond of recalling that she first danced to a hurdy hurdy-gurdy In the streets of Vienna Shy John Jacob Astor III Ill had a 3 party pla planned ned for his twenty first birthday but fled led to the White mountains with an aunt when publicity and pictures threatened to mark his inheritance of ot part of the old Astor fortune At a table of literary at the Algonquin the other day H. H L. L Rex Beach and J J. P. P McEvoy made scurrilous scurrilous rilous remarks about mystery story writers in general Irvin Cobb sat there quietly and took it il He has just done his first mystery noveL |
