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Show SEVEN DAYS IN U'L OL NEW YORK By JESSIE HENDERSON I 1 By JE88IE 1H N lt K.soN spr ial O'rrr.-dx uidr-nt of ilio siaiidatxl- Bzmnlnei t I'opyrlght, 1 922. by the Standard-Examiner NEW YORK, March 18. Running back and forth between the flower show and the Independent artists' show-has show-has kept the town pretty well occupied occu-pied this week, what moments It wasn't figuring out Its Income tax ami wondering where on earth Mary put that stark cif sodawater luxury tax tags which were positively to be Included In-cluded among the exemptions. Of course the tax fronzy took precedence pre-cedence oyer meie flowers and art. M.uu- peoplo who were lamented all last year because of the hard times rose up and shouted with Joy this week because those Ha mo hard times made I Oielr tax so much the smaller "Thank heaven, I've hnd a dreadful y'oar!" was tho song of thanksgiving o i every tongue Business cyuldn't have, been so fierce. On the final day ofi the first federal tax payment, some $22,394,86-1 was received at tho custom cus-tom house. Mall trucks dashed up by' the dozen, filled with checks and mon-, c orders while 100.000 more or less enthusiastic taxpayers stood In line to I hand over their bit In person Those of the citizenry who had any monev- left after this orgy proceeded to the flower show at Grand Central Pal-! a e Put oOO.OOO posies in one place and you have a considerable bOUQUCt Blossoms came from as far away as British Guinea, which contributed tho exquisite white orchid knojirn a "Frln- cess Mary." The orchids formed h glorious corner of the show, freakish lovely blossoms ranging from pure white to deep oranice But It was the Shakespeare garden which attracted most attention, an enchanted spot filled fill-ed with flowers the baru had loved and immortalized, from the wild thyme of Avon banks to the iolots In tho fields outside L-ondon town To the I debutante, however, the flower Show was Just one thing after another, and OH! how her feet did ache. You see. the society buds put on a fashion show in the scented citadel of the flower show and unless ou're a society hud trying to be a fashion mnnlkln j ou'vo I no idea how hard the thing Is on the feet. I But If the flowei show was gorgeous the sixth animal show of the Independent Independ-ent artists was distinctly something J else again. Tho Waldorf suddenly J burst out Into wild, bright stuff called' by various names, the variation de-J pending on whether you were the artist art-ist or the spectator. A little thought I In green and purple, which one instinctively instinc-tively labelled adenoids, turned out to be mother and child. A sw irl of ver- million and black proved to be dawn ijulle evidently Of the morning after. , i While such was Ihe vigor ot line and color In the Battery, that one Just 'knew the artist intended to prefix the j I title with the w ords Assault and. . Among the bit.s of sculpture wa6 some-J some-J thing that appeared to represent the Isolation of the flugerm It wasn't. It was only a zephyr. i But if art of the independent sort is bright to the point of glaring the-latrlcal the-latrlcal art has few such vivid spots ji'iloom shrouds many of the now plays in a purple iui). . The plot must have! Jits agonies, the characters hug theli i sorrows, though Ihey are very far from isufi eniiK In sllenoi Marriage has come In for some nasr knooks. "Tke Mrst Man" way down at tho neighborhood i playhouse on Grand struct. Ls well calculated cal-culated to make the bride snatch Qffl I her wedding rln and hurry bad. to mother. As the girl in front of usj isaid when the hero wai cursing his in-i fant son because he feared the son would monopolise the heroines affec-I affec-I tlons "Aln'i love awful:" It's the perfect! com merit If husband and wife In The First j Man'' have a hard time, what do you know abou husband and wife In The First Fifty Years." which has in Its least only two people Clare Eanie and Tom Powers It's a flfti yeai 'battle between himself and herself, with now one knocked through the 'ropes and thn tho other. On their golden wedding anniversary the are about as peppery as ever, and as in l-thw case of "The First Man" the j Whole bitter battle lg worth seeing because be-cause the acting Is superb Tickets tOI ;"The First Fifty i'ears" are an Ideal igift to your son if you. are desirous of breaking off his engagement Yet it ls useless to deny that spring I is in the air. A dreamy oyod youth plumped down on his knees in the aub-Way aub-Way rush hour and proposed marriage to .i Klrl he'd never soen before Which Is rather sudden even though 'she was a blonde. The circus is com-i com-i Ing. elephants and all. A man has Sued for $1 000 and his father has sued jfor an additional $500 for medical attention, because the young man lost !a fingernail In the door of subway train A woman I political unit gave a speechless dinner which should prove a boon to civilization And all tho women in town arc pouUng because be-cause Mac Monnles in his statue of civic virtue Intended for city hall park has sculptured a youth with his foot on tho prostrate neck of Temptation Temp-tation "What do vou think Temptation is mv dear'"' A woman! |