I, for example, am a victim of prohibition. If prohibition hadn't become such a great institution, I could never have been able to promote myself as the guest of the city. Now I have reached an independent stage. I never need worry about an automobile ride. The city of New York will give me one any time that I want it.
Night clubs are a natural development because the age is one of small apartment houses.
The average apartment party has to retire at midnight. The lease says so. And to find a place where one could make merry without being ejected is the beginning of the reason that gave rise to the cabaret. There, I learned to ride. Fate and circumstance are the unseen fortunetellers in everyone's life.