South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-06-09
NEW YORK CAFES
AND RESTAURANTS
UNDER OBSERVANCE
Many Close Doors and All OBJ
serve LaWS-MrS. MOSkoW-
itz Is Head of Organization
Fighting Vice in Places
BY Gotham KnickcrbocI,er.

NEsW YORK;. June Zine SOFT
pedal is on our cabarets. tango par
lors. trotteries and "thes dansants."
Scandal has done what the law, the
clergy and all the righteous crusaders
failed TO do. il has put the lid on pub
lie and prOmiscuOus dancing.
IL was the Eugenia Kelly episode,
10 which 1 referred last week that
did H. Miss Kelly. heiress TO millions,
became TeconCiled with her mother
the incoTrigiDility charge was dropped
and the tango queen has shaken the
dust OF Main ST. from her pumps, at
least for a time, but the affair cast a
damper on the gay white way that
likely VIII have a permanent effect.
one big place. the Strand roof
garden. atop the huge moving picture
theater al FOrty-SeVenth 81. has
closed. Miss Elisabeth Mar0ury. its
owner and Miss Annie Morgan. its
sponsor. Indignantly deny that adverse
criticism caused the shutdown They
say that poor business caused them
20 discontinue the resort but Broad
wayites nod their heads sagely and
look wise. If criticism did not put the
Strand roof garden out of the running.
the near-panic caused by the Kelly
case made the tangOers leery and
made business so poor that the place
could not keep open.
Tango Boys Scarce.
The tango boys. the gilded youths
and the professional men about town
have been very scarce in the Longacre
square neighbOrhOod for the last 10
days. Likewise the trottery prOpri-
etors and dancing masters have been
hiding out When il looked like Miss
Kelly would stick it out and go TO the
mat with her mother. a shower of
subpenas descended on Broadway,
seeking witnesses pro and con. But
the desired witnesses demurred, so
much so that one al Davis and other
people Of his kind dropped out of
sight as though the new subway eXca-
walton had yawned and swallowed
them.
The lid now goes on the dance
places promptly at / o'clock in the
morning. There always has been an
ordinance closing such resorts at that
hour. but only in times of stress has
IL been enforced. When the gunner
killed Herman ROsenthal in front of
the Metropole in Forty-Third st. three
years ago, under the glazing arcs of
Broadway. there was great activity
among the police. Several notorious
restaurants and dance resorts were
forced 10 quit business, and all places
were made TO close promptly on the
hour
The excitement died down. though
and likewise the vigilance of Inspector
Dryers men and soon the lobster
palaces were running half and three
quarters Of an hour overtime. Then
came a row in Jacks famous ali-night
place. and its special license was re-
voked Again Broadway closed one
hour after midnight.
Cabarets Run Overtime.
That incident forgotten. the lid vas
tilted again and lately the cabarets
have been keeping open until
o'clock. some of them until 2.30
For the past week. numerous
strange faces have been seen nightly
IN the dance places. They have be-
lOngcd 10 solemn looking men. in i'm
maculate evening dress. who have
danced little, talked less, but who
have been keenly observant of all that
went on. They are the gentlemen
sleuths or Inspector Dryers Broad
way squad. They have been getting
evidence upon which the police de-
partment intends to take a hand In
the tango crusade The dance pro
meters have become so nervous q,
late that whenever a strange face is
seen. everything becomes as decorous