Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-11-30
NEW WORKS. MONEY SCARE
BRINGS ABOUT A. NEW GLASS

Trocadero are out of existence. Tho
streets still are cluttered with soliciting
women. but II appears that the authorities
have about given up that problem as a
nut too hard to crack.
Some of the vaudeville theaters give
concerts on Sunday nights. but they
are pretty dull affairs. these concerts.
and no ripplingness of lingerie and things
is permitted. The skids. 1t seems. have
even been put under these Sunday night
concerts. so that those who know claim
they will be entirely stopped before the
season is over. This in itself is a curious
manifestation Chicago, Detroit. St. Louis
these certainly are less cosmopolitan and
European" cities than New York. and
yet their main day, especially as to Chi
cago, for theater-going is Sunday.
The doubtful shows can't even get by
for exhibition purposes on the weekday
nights. For example. few days ago =
Smooth mug advertised a ladies bas-
ket-ball game at a hall up in Harlem. A
tipped-off gang dug up four bits apiece
young women in skin-tight pink flesh
lings. all of one piece. They were look
ers," these young persons. but they didn't
know the first move in basket ball. and
they didn't pretend to, either. A wagon
the girls were pinched and bundled into .
hurry wagon. the cops calamity wrapping
their overcoats around the shiverins,
chattering creatures in fieshlings.
cense this year for that physical cul-
ture" show at the garden that was
held for two or three years running.
The physical culture feature that drew
tacle afforded by. some dozens of rather
beefy women. draped in would-be win
some grins and about two ounces OF
skin-tight swaddlings, who were sup
posed to be competing" for beauty
prizes" Nothing like that will happen
this year.-the authorities are on the
job. and they won't have it,
Even the penny arcades are the chaste
affairs in New York, and the police see
that they remain so. There's no COM
on view at these plants In New York
and the pictures shown for the pennies
In Chicago and st. Louis, for example
and the pictures shown for nickels in
either in St. Louis or Chicago. The
authorities here won't stand for" those
anatomical shows so-called, at ALL and
yet those shows prosper exceedingly
in the western towns.
The town. really. Is decent to what IL
used to be. 1t is unmistakable that,
while the women are drinking too much
In New York. the men are not drinking
anything like as much as they used to.
The lobster palaces are not SO say and
garish as they used to be. The show
woman has decidedly lost her vogue
in New York. A curious. inexplicablo
sort OF SedateneSs seems to be settling
on the town. Nobody pretends to un-
derstand the meaning Of it, though
everybody notices 1t and comments
upon it. The glad, mad stuff' 10 left
to the Pfttsburg youths who dock here
for the shedding of their wealth and
their superf1uous exuberance.
The change surely is not due to any
religious impulse. New York remains
the most irreligious city in america.
The churches are startlingly empty on
Sundays. and the preachers are put to
it not to be compelled to talk at pews
quite devoid of auditors
Maybe it's because the rattling-aroupd
folk have just become sick of the Old
fool stuff It's a hygienic period for
one thing. Men are taking care Of
their bodies. All of the gymnasiums
are crowded at all hours. and there are
not enough of them. All hands ap-
pear to be going in for sane mind
in a healthy body.
But, whatever may be the underlying
cause. the fact cannot be too explicitly
set forth that New York has not been,
certainly for a good quarter of a CEN
fury. less wide open" than it is at the
present time.
CLARENCE L. CULLEN.