New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-12-16
LAVENDER CUT-Up
RESORT IS GONE
Louie the First" Victim of
Washington Square
Wrath.
BOHEMIAN REVELS
ANGER REAL ARTISTS
Raid by Police Compels Pretty
Doris to Seek New Place for
Kicking Display.

Louie the First" and Fritz" and
Louie the Second are in Jail (unless
they have been released on baiD, Doris
the Dancer is looking for another
place TO do stunts and scores Of long
haired men and ort-haired women
are looking for a new rendezvous. And
all because the police insisted on raid
ing the basement of 90 Washington
Square, where it is asserted Louie the
First" sold cognac, whiskey, beer,
liquors. and other drinks that the
derizeus Of the place chiefly lived on,
without license.
For six weeks Louie the First" who
is a King OF Bohemia so called by the
subjects who gathered round him
nightly and bought his BOOZE, Lad been
having an easy time making money IN
his peculiar fashion. His place might
have been running yet but for COM
plants from some of the artists who
live in Washington Square, paying
high rents and who--like all artists
outside of story books-work hard and
have neither the time nor inclination
TO 90 to such places. This. of course,
will shatter an illusion. but il is true.
Louie the First" whose real name
is Louis HOLIDAY, and his occupation,
so he told the police. that of cook,
qualified as King Of Bohemia because
he wore a very soft collar, bow tie
and mop Of hair. And also because
he scorned conventions 20 the extent
that the motto Of his place was: The
roofs the limit"
Doris the Big Attraction.
Doris knew it and used to try TO
kick a hole in it every morning be-
ginning at one o'clock. In fact, Doris
was the one big attraction of the place
outside Of the drinks. And while
Louie the First's" subjects just
shrieked and howlcd and roared, Doris
would continue until the sparrows in
Washington Square began TO chatter.
The walls of the big front room in
'Louie's" place are lavender tinted.
The tables are painted lavender and the
chairs a cubist blue, and lemon-col-
ored curtains are on the windows. The
only light comes from two sputterng
candles on the mantel over a big fire.
place.
Enter Doris, tall, thin and pretty, be
il said, her short-cropped hair, of
fetching blond hue, framing pnked |
and powdered cheeks and lips always |
rouged and smiling. Then she cries
in a high treble:
Boys and girls, I'm going TO COM
nit suicide Clear a table! | want 70 |
die where wine has been spilled"
Boys and girls none quite past
-. H.. Ill, I'll trh 1n-
stop talking about how publishers, the
atrical managers and the whole world
are in a conspiracy against them and
clear one OF the tables for Doris to
haired illustrator who once was in
Italy, and since his return has been
making guitars out Of cigar boxes and
painting on them pictures of mad
nymphs and wheedling madden music
out of them. looks 40 at Doris and
starts singing and playing something
that sounds like ia Paloma," and
Doris kicks at the ceiling and stamps
or the table with her heels.
The dance ended, Doris would shou.
& at she was born happy. that He'll was
her middle name. and she simply
couldn't help acting the way she did
Then she would dance some more. and
when everybody wasn't shouting or
drinking they were busy making love
without caring who saw.
Just a "Cut-Up."
One light last week one of the
boys left his girl while he went into
the rear room TO dance with somebody
else. He was a man old enough Z
know better. We will call him Smith
While Smith was out a big German.
called the Baron, picked up Smiths
girl and started to carry her out . o
taxicab. The girl managed to get GU,
OF his arms when the Baron was try
ing TO open the door and ran back 20
her sweetheart. All applauded this as
very fine Bohemian stunt
Louie the Second" was another cut
up. ANY time any one ordered a pud
ding he would serve sponge that had
been dipned in red ink. His name W.