Harlequin and Columbine 

Booth Tarkington 

I 

For a lucky glimpse of the great Talbot Potter, the girls who
caught it may thank that conjunction of Olympian events which
brings within the boundaries of one November week the Horse
Show and the roaring climax of the football months and the more
dulcet, yet vast, beginning of the opera season.  Some throbbing
of attendant multitudes coming to the ears of Talbot Potter, he
obeyed an inward call to walk to rehearsal by way of Fifth
Avenue, and turning out of Forty-fourth Street to become part
of the people-sea of the southward current, felt the eyes of
the northward beating upon his face like the pulsing
successions of an exhilarating surf.  His Fifth Avenue knew its
Talbot Potter.