The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-10-09
GOTHAM GOSSIP
(Ry Francis Phillips. Copyright 1910. by the National News Service. N. Y.)

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 New York, Oct s-Because New York would not stay up until the milkman came around, the Folies Der gere, which aimed to furnish us with something of the same order of amuse- ment supplied by the institution of the same name in Paris, closed it's doors Saturday night.
 : .AItho{igh the receipts in the first few weeks of its operation averaged $21 ,OOO a week, and gave promise of growing larger, the appeal of the Fol- les as novelty was short lived and for the last six or seven weeks has been losing at the rate of 5000 a week.
 The reason. for it's failure to keep up the fast pace it set out for itself in the beginning of it's spectacular ca reer, is said by. the management to be the refusal of the moneyed class of amusement seekers to patronize show that involved their burning the can dle at both ends. The Follies gave two entertainments every evening-one from S:30 to II, and the other from Il to 1 a. m. It was the Idea and ex- pectation of it's sponsors that enough of those who had been spending the early part of the evening at other places of amusement would flock there for the late show, to make it pay handsomely. Eating and drinking ad libitum were allowed and while it was the heyday of favor, the place prom ised to measure up if not exceed in gayety the famous Parisian resort, from which it got it's inspiration. AL though the bar was big money mak- CT from the start, but two persons, it is said, had to be elected from the house in the whole time it was open. One of these was a caIow youth, who disliking the green tights worn by one of the chorus. fired bun on the stage at her, and the other an elderly man who undertook to drink a toast to a fat lady sitting a few pews in front of him. In the hope of making the esta ablishment popular, more than $125,- GOO was expended in the last five months for productions, which pulled for a time and then lost popular in- terest. In announcing the deternina- ton to close the Follies, one of the thus:
 Gay New York is gay until mid- night, and then-good night!"
 Most of New York is in bed at 12 o'clock, all of. it, so to speak, at l." '.By this,' he explained, "I mean the general amusement-seeking class. New York, of course, has it's night life-its aM-night life if you care to go that far-but experience has taught me that the theatres, after their hour or two, are out of it The time will come, no doubt, when theatre that does not close it's doors until o'clock in the morning will find it worth while to keep them open. I haven't changed my mind on that point The only conclusion I have reached is that the Follies Bergere got here ahead of it's time. I've broken the ice, and some one will come along at a later day and benefit by it.''
 Evidencing the spiritual unrest of a certain feminine element in New York, which is seeking mental repose in first one cult and then another, it be- came known the other day that 5000 women of this city are under the spell of the mystic Hindoo religion of the Vedanta. This confession of the growing influence being won by the Vedantists over the members of the gentle sex who long for the nepenthe of eternal youth, member of one of the oldest families in the city, who has joined the mystics and is now one of the most enthusiastic disciples of the Swami Abhedenanda, the high priest of the cult in this country.
 Ut is a conservative estimate to say that 5000 women in this city have turned to Vedanta," the woman off cer declared. There are many men interested, too, though they do not openly admit that they are with us, for fear of being laughed at
 We have been obliged to move our quarters three times in the last ten years to secure more room. We have large ashrama (retreat) comprising 370 acres in the BerkshUoA near West