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(^yrom A.M. to P.M.
in New York
Morning (But still the night before )
5:15 Breakfast at Childs'.
5 :45 5,568 persons decide that this life doesn't get you anywhere.
6:30 Flapper explains to mother that the car broke down
and she tried to telephone, etc. 6:15 Janitor decides it is too early to turn on the heat. 6:30 Mayor Hylan leaves for work at City Hall. 6:31 Chorus girl leaves for work at Long Island studio. 6:45 First taxi driver of day yells "Can't you look where
you're going?" 7 :01 First broken leg of day in subway. 7:15 First phonograph is heard in Bronx apartment house
cou~t.
00 Movie stars leave for Fort Fee in evening clothes. 30 5,789,402 griddle cakes ordered.
00 Movie star reads criticism in morning paper and tries to jump out of window.
9 :01 Lady asks man in box-office if he hasn't two good
seats in third row centre that night for "Rain." 9:30 Man from Xenia, Ohio, tells waiter that $2.00 is too much for any breakfast ever cooked.
10:00 Six steamds sail for Europe loaded with actresses seeking Paris divorces.
10:27 Chorus girl breaks early morning appointment -'with dressmaker.
10:30 First actor sighted on Broadway.
10 :46 Dumb waiter in Bronx falls, crushing iceman.
10 :58 Newspapers appear with full account of accident in larger type than President's speech.
11 :00 567 breach-of -promise suits filed.
11:25 Chorus girl purchases Park Avenue apartment.
11:30 Movie actress, on arriving from Europe, tells reporters that she is not going to marry the Prince of Wales.
11:45 Mayor Hylan calls somebody a crook.
Noon
12 :00 Luncheon time for office boys.
12:15 Traffic delayed in Times Square when man loses a nickel in subway grating.
12:30 6,789,245 malted milks consumed in neighborhood of Wall Street.
12 :45 Somebody drops an idea in lobby of Hotel Algonquin. 12 :47 Somebody else sells the idea to scenario editor.
1 :00 4,789,673 busy men announce that they won't be back until half-past three.
1 :15 Head waiter at Ritz collapses from strain.
1:17 1,678 stenographers get free lunch at Cafe Savarin.
1 :30 Movie magnates at Biltmore decide that exhibitors are making too much money.
1 :32 7,689 girls say "Sorry I kept you waiting."
1 :45 Reformation of American drama at Hotel Algonquin.
1 :47 Exhibitors at Hotel Astor decide movie magnates are making too much money.
1 :50 8,907 men tell sympathetic girls that their wives don't understand '.hem.
2:15 1,890,567 men say "Lemme pay the check," all the time keeping their hands in their pockets.
2 :30 First new film company of day formed to "give public better pictures and a square deal to exhibitors."
Afte
3:00 215 chorus girls telephone 215 girl friends to ask them how they feel after last night.
3:15 Scenario editor tells Broadway playwright that he won't pay a cent over $100,000.
3 :31 Dresses that were worth $75 in morning now reduced to $17.50.
3 :45 Mayor Hylan says he is the friend of the common people.
4:00 Star in Long Island studio asks director who he thinks he is talking to, anyway?
noon
4 :30 789 actors remember when you could get a good glass
of beer for a nickel. 5 :00 Cocktail time in every refined home. 5:15 A woman discovers her husband at tea at Sherry's
with a strange vamp. 5:17 The scandal is all over town.
5 :30 It is unanimously agreed that something ought to be done about the subways.
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