Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-07-25
LONDON TRYING
TO Be BOHEMIAN
Moral Reputation of City Los
ina Money, So She's Bidding
Again for Tourists.

,oN-DON July 25.-Aside from last
or when the coronation, like a circus
10 attracted visitors from all direc
70 ondon has reason to complain that
w. rurnber of tourists visiting the city
w year is dwndling and those who are
,s,orssted in the influx of foreigners anx-
me- ~ get rid of their money have begun
~ look for the reason why London APP
rs less attractive to tourists than
Continental cities like Paris and Berlin.
.,tar MANY deliberations these people
os4 unwilIingly have come to the result
mot London is too dull, that 1t holds out
Cow, promises of amusement to visitors,
n,ho do not like to be forced to go to bed
nrben the hour Of midnight rings the cur
low bell and when gaiety begins in ear
most in Continental cities.
II Il had not meant an actual loss OF
u,onav London would have liked to con-
.inre IN pose as the most virtuous and
r,oral CITY in the world, where even
raughty foreign visitors were forced to
10 GOOD hut as the tourists evidently pre-
ferred to avoid mprisoning themselves
avon temporarily in an incubator of NOR
ais it could probably not be considered
deadly sin to give these people, who
sa NOT want to be good. a chance to de-
bancb themselves in London, and so ex-
or,s were sent to Paris and Berlin to
and out what kind of sinful amusements
seemed to attract the people most.
Cabaret the Proper Thing.
The exports returned some weeks ago
with the report that in both places GER
tain quaint and rather uncomfortable
cafes generally hidden in cellars or sheds,
and in which people talked to each other
uitbout being introduced and on the
whole acted very strangely, according to
rnolisb ideas. seemed to attract tourists
mare than ANYTHING else after the hour
If cnrfew These places had all kinds of
absurd and ridiculous names rs the dead
raj or 1.-The gay rabbit" but on the
whole were known as cabarets
II was then decided that London must
have cabaret. a very Bohemian one,
who're manners and everything were to be
treo and easy and where everyone pos
sessing true Bohemian spirit, and nobody
elsa would be welcome. And as every
thing in I.ondon must be a club, the Cab
aret club was formed and place called
"rba Golden Calf was opened, into
which Won can not enter unles you pay
five guineas for being a member. thus
nroving yourself a true Bohemian.
So London from now on is with Paris
and Berlin--it has its cabaret. A Lon
doner went down there the other night
with the most optimistic expectations.
People Very Uncomfortable.
II was not easy to find the cave which
Is hidden in Heddon street, off Regent
street, of whose existence he had hith-
erto been bissfully ignorant, but he noted
an omen door and a rickety wooden stair
leading into unknown depths. 1t was the
place. and strangely un- Londonlike did
1t look. The iron Orders of the low cell
ing had been painted green and yellow
and an army of futurists had been turned
loose on the walls.
The floor was well filed with little
round tables and at one end level with
the floor was a stage with a blue curtain.
As a tourist resort the place is so far
evidently a failure. There were quite
few people in the audience but single
glance told one could see they were Eng
lish. The men all looked as If they were
cooling very hot potato in their mouths
and the women never once dared raise
their eyes from the floor. Then, of course
they were all in evening dress, for 1t was
not indeed after six in the evening.
Everything, however, was Bohemian
except the audience, and little Bohemians
on the stage toiled desperately for three
hours to soften the starch of the conVen-
tional Brtishers all in vain.