The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-02-12

cabaret show recently introduced as rant life along the Gay White Way, may thread the ragged edge of the unseemly but so long as it doesn't fall over and spill things, it is not un- lawful, according to a decision handed down the other day by one of the lo- cal courts. Only when the naughty bald heads begin to squirm uneasIly in their seats and. desire the lights lowered can the police interfere or der the French and Spanish dancers who cause the trouble, 10 go back home to mother.
 The cabaret show begins at mid night and lasts as a rule until three blades and silly little moths about town going. Nothing like it has ever been seen before outside of certain quarters in Paris, where the improv- ident of money and time go to get rid o6lJ of their ear fbs4 it roI iI can stand the strain.
 At the old Cafe del Opera on Broad way, near Times Square, where it was first introduced, whole floor in the upper part of the building has been set apart for it. Admission is only Spee5al foI e naEe nd ,no ,0 agreement to spend more than the ordinary amount for supper and wine. Judges. high city and state officials, bankers. railroad officials, merchants and "the boys" with the screeching pocketbooks, some with companions, and some without them, largely make up the audience, which fills the place nightly to capacity. For some time the police have been watching the show with a view to stopping it as contrary to law few weeks ago they arrested one of the men in charge, the technical ground that the restaurant was conducting a thea-- trical performance without a license On the trial of the case this week, the detectives sent to see the performance Spanish fandangoes, the ''Tongo" -rN-Ir- for 1ad md ha TE' tables that caused them to send out a. @HuFTgs-eaif-fo -fofs==ints1I iefsfs-to- conceal their blushes.
 The rninions of the law confessed it was fascinating and well calculat> ed to turn the head of any but the staunchest and iciest son of Adam present But the court would have none of that sort of evidence, insist ing that the only question before it was being violated Since there was no scenery or admission charged, the jddgeF sofenTni iy'-s- decfoet- there was. no infraction of the law. The news has been received with eclat along the rialto and has already g1V- en birth to host of new cabaret shows, to. tickle the fancy of the jad- ed and keep the giIdy ones out until the milkman begins his rounds.
 Though earning s4OO and upward a week al a show girl, Lillian Graham, who came into public notice some mouths ago through her shooting or w. E. D. Stokes the ulti-millionaire hotel owner of this city, claims that she cannot pay ,,I paItry @ ,dd $SO p9o6e- be- tween the time of the shooting and the trial, at which it will be recalled she was acquitted owing to- the hostll- ity of the jury to Stokes as "a bad man" The pictures were used to sup ply the newspaper demands for new and original poses of the show girl and stimulate sympathy for her in her plight, when it looked certain that the verdict would be against her.
 zT1 nod Nf women who get into trouble. When the pictures are suffciently varied and attractive to keep the newspaper 1n- terest in them siInmering it has rare " failed to be effective When Nan Patterson was on trial here some years ago for the murder of Caesar Young. pictures of her in a thousand different positions were printed, until all the old men and women about town were praying for her deiivera nee and declaring it impossible that such a sweet and lovely woman could have slain the man, for whose death she was called to answer.
 And so with the Graham girl If she and her companion in the stokes shooting episode-Ethel Conrad-had been tried within a week of their ar rest, their own counsel would not have given them even reasonable chance of aeauitta44JE But as soon as the fetching pictures began to appear a notable change in public sentiment toward the young woman was notlce- able. which grew steadily in volume trial. By that time there were count less thousands among the more emo tion who would have considered 1t public calamity if the jury had brought in a verdict ofssuilty.
 Now that the trial is over, the photogra pher, feeling that his artis- tic work had much to do with her good fortune, has asked for his pay, young woman up in supplementary proceedings to ascertain how he could collect the money due him.
 The show girl admitted that her salary was large but claimed she was in pawn tAfher manage1 for thous- ands of dollars and received only enough of her earnings to pay s1 week for rent of her room without board Then too her =nanager mad t9 provide her with automobile and such other accessories as are becorn- ing to a woman of the staee. So that the photographer arsr,Ip tniREs tpas sn1fbing 1f M even though the fair Lillian does make @4oo week. E <
 Increasing interest is being evinced Clarke Noble, the sculptor for S2,- OeO.OOO monument to American -Wom- anhood. The plan which has enlist ed the active support of not only the principal club and society women or the city, is commanding the wide at feDtion of women who have been ta- king no part heretofore in the so-cail- ed "wornen's mOven7 7ents."
 Although no location is set for the memorial which will probably assume the form of d triumuhaI arch set In a plaza 200 feet square. it is cOrs dered very likely that Washington will ul't- nateIy be chosen as it's most appro- prfate resting place.
 Back of every great achievement, either in war or peace. MT. Noble says, vou find the wornan!' and therein he differs from A. Maurice Low, who de- cares women have had absolutely no influence on the development of the I-rited States.
 e'The monument will be dedicated to every American woman, living or dead, that has ever done anvthine- NIr Noble said yesterday. There are tablets on the arch on which the names of every distinguished woman from the beginning of our his ory will be engraved. And the mistakes of Lheir personal lives won't weigh ~Gainst them. either. Their names