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writers a four-course dinner and an excellent bottle of wine for thirty-five cents. Today a spic' and span self-service cafeteria stands facing Sheridan Squareg but the thirty-five cent dinner and the bottle of wine have vanished. n Does not Howells tell us that on his first visit to New York he supped at the table under the pavement in that famous old beer tavern, Pfajvs, and it was here that he met Walt Whitman? A This tavern saw such visitors as Bayard Taylor and Edmund Clarence Stedman . . . the younger generation of scribes whose greatest joy was to have a story accepted by Harper's or Scribnefs also came to the tavern seeking Bohe- vnia. To mention a few, there were Artemus Ward, Fitzhugh Ludlow, Thomas Bailey Aldrich and William Winter. Many of the little twisting streets and alleys found their way into the works of famous men. Henry James wrote a novel called Wash- ington Square. Innumerable writers have peopled the pages of their books with both animate and inanimate life of the Village. Brander Matthews in The Last Meeting calls one of his characters The Duchess of Washington Square. Julian Ralph in his People We Pass has Miss Grandish live in one of the brick houses with white trimmings on Waverly Place. Edward Townsend described the social contrast between the north and the south side of the Square in just Across the Square. F. Hopkinson Smith has the hero of his novel Caleb West entertain his guests in the house which faced the Square where they saw night life of the park, miniature figures strolling about under the trees, flash- ing in brilliant light or swallowed up in dense shadow as they passed in the glare of the many larnps scattered through the budding foliage. Near the southeast corner of the Square was the Benedic, a red brick bachelor apartment building, now the Student Building, which Robert W. Chambers glorified as the Monastery in Outsiders. If one really wants to feel the spirit of our Village of a generation ago, he may find it in Bunner's book The Midge. If, after reading Theodore Winthrop,s Cecil Dreenie, one is tempted to come to the Square seeking Chrysalis College, he will be disappointed for the locale of that story was the old University of New York build- ing which those Sing Sing convidts had erecited and which was pulled down a few years before the beginning of this century. From a little known book of Stephen French Whitman, called Predestined, we quote a description of our Village: It had been drizzling: the pavernents, beaded with rain, showed, under nzistily irradiating street larnps, hu- . rnid footprints. Frovn the juncture of Macdougal Street and Waverly Place, spread out a vnass of grey black shad- ows underlaid with the horizontal, pearly lustre of wet asphalt paths. v -if-'QM 9 E251 qfffc 'Q 'f fl
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In our own day Qsome thirty years agoj, the very wealthy Mrs. Whitney first opened her studio in Macalougal Alley. This recognition of the Village as an art center brought still more aspirants to Fame via the brush and canvas down into the neighborhood of Washington Square. Today the Whitney Museum on Eighth Street, just off Fifth Avenue, presents some of the most brilliant exhibits in America. With Art as its banner, the Village welcomed experimenters in all the forms of artistic expression. So it was that an old blacksmith shop saw itself emptied of forge and of horseshoes, and given instead footlights and backdrops. The Province- town Players invaded Macclougal Street with their experimental stage. It was to this that the noted English critic, William Archer, referred when he said: In the region of Greenwich Village we must look for the real hirthplace of the New American Drama. Tony Sarg's marionettes saw the first light of day in our Village. Eugene O'Neil little dreamed in those early days that the play which has recently estab- lished a record for length of run would ever go beyond the confines of the Village. Yes, The Emperor jones had its world premiere not very far from the shadow of the Arch, and his In the Zone, with our own college's Washington Square Players. And to prove how versatile Art may be when it dons the matronly garments of Green- wich Village and plays hostess to young neophytes of the Drama, it shall here be re- corded that the ardent lover in many' a Eve-reel flicker movie thriller, one John Barrymore to wit, has also sought Greenwich Village as a home and a retreat from the madding mob. There they are on parade, artists, adtors, playwrights, writers, critics, and even newspapermen. In 1921 the Greenwich Villager made its appearance as an eight-page weekly newspaper, and here, for the first time, a departure was made from the form followed by all of the existing newspapers of the City. Literary in charaster, the Greenwich Villager set about describing the doings and activities of the Villagers in a delightfully humorous and whimsical fashion, thus reflecting the spirit of friendship which existed amongst its neighbors. ' s HERE ARE thousands of bright-eyed men and women, young and old, who came to the Village looking for two things essential to their profession, atmosphere and human interest. These were the writers of novels. Thousands made their little bid, many succeeded. Recently it was confirmed by a representative group of book- sellers that of the forty living authors whose name deserved mention on a Roll of Honor, seven were genuine Villagers, and some twenty or so more were occasional visitors to our old Sappokanikan Village. O. Henry half ironically described a res- taurant in the Village as a resort for interesting Bohemians . . . only writers, painters, attors and musicians go there. To the writers of the nineteenth century the Village was the American Latin Quarter. The Village was destined to acquire the label Bohemia. It accepted its new mantle without comment, much as it had accepted other labels in earlier days. As early as 1878 William H. Rideing wrote an article in Scrihneris on The French Quarter of New York. Those were the days when the two hostelries, the Grand Vatel and the Tauerne Alsacienne, offered to struggling young vt 44 241 40 vN '4-,, 5 a I gp' .. -2 4 5 - il lil Q C-':cxi ' HI X
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When Richard Harding Davis, in The Exiles, has Meakin become lonesome for New York, Meakin asks only to be able to come back once more to the friendly wel- comeness of lower Fourteenth Street. When Arthur Train wrote The Man Hunt he remembered and described the Pie Houses of Greenwich Village. just where Barrow and Commerce Street join there is a little cluster of houses of very unusual con- strustion. He wrote: . Strangely enough, when the street turned, the house turned, too, so that half its front faced East and half North. The natural inference was that the inside of the house was shaped like a piece of pie, with its partially bitten end abutting on the corner. . May it be whispered here that a poet laureate of an Empire which rules the waves and is determined that its subjests never, never, shall be slaves was once a bartender in Luke Connor's saloon over on the West Side? We feel that John Masefield may well be proud of having lived in our Village. 9 RECENT perusal of the Faculty Diredtoryi of New York University's Wash- ington Square College has brought to light the astonishing fact that even such a learned group of human beings as Professors of many of the branches of Higher Education are not immune to the fascination which the Village has 'to offer to those creatures seeking self-expression. Counting only those who are either full-fledged or Assistant Professors, there are twenty-eight men who live in Greenwich Village! What, then, may be said of the hundreds of younger men and women Instrucitors of whom a count was not even atternpted?- Of these twenty-eight, nine teach subjedts re- lated to English and Literature, twelve teach History and Political Science, two are Philosophers and Psychologists and five are Scientists. To name only a few, there are such people as Harry Woodburn Chase, Chancellorg Alexander Baltzly, Assistant Dean and Professor of History, Willard Earl Atkins, Professor of Economics, Andre Alden Beaumont, to whom this volume has been dedicatedg W. H. Harnley, well- known Geneticistg Caspar J. Kraemer, head of the Classics Department, B. Niederl, of the Chemistry Department, and Philip Evans Wheelwright, Professor of Philosophy. It must be true that the Village does offer some kind of security and peace of mind to the dwellers of Manhattan, for, just at the dayl of this writing we have learned that Dorothy McSparran Arnold, Dean of Women and Professor of English, is com- ing to make her permanent home on the West Side of Washington Square! 10 REENWICH VILLAGE cannot be considered geographically as just a place. Greenwich Village is an attitudeg it is a form of human expression. It is inevi- table that man's mind, still carrying its heritage of prehistoric environments, should K lun 261 V Age. 11.99 'Z -C CM' .4 -r ll .-. . : 'Sift ZIM farmers: Nocccxffx
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