The Washington herald., 1916-09-14
Seen and Heard by George Miner.


York Casino which had been built for him by
the wealthy banker john D. Fish, and his
| associates a home for light opera. 1t was
Mr.. Aronson's idea to have on top of 1t place
OF entertainment closely resembling German
beer garden.
| The idea was carried into effect and the
Casino roof garden Immediately jumped into
popularity and worldwide fame. So successful
was it that within few years there were dozens
Of other roof gardens scattered all over the
country and no up-to-date hotel is COM
pete without one. l doubt, however, if there
has ever been prettier attractive one
than the original, the little gem that Arnson
perched atop the Casino.
Now, after lapse of thirty years. he is going
to build another This time he has gone to the
other edge Of the country and is going to locate
it in Los Angeles. l met him in the crowd
swirllng through the ground Roor corridors
of the Equitable Building. He had just come
from a bank where he had been arranging the
financial details. Barring the fact that his hair
and mustache are gray instead of black, he
looked exactly the same Rudolph Aronson that
gave the delightful "Erminie" and made light
opera popular in New York generation ago.
He told me all about the scheme and showed
enthusiastic comments on it in the Los Angeles
papers. This Pacific Coast casino Is to combine
all the present forms of popular amusement. Not
only is there to be a roof garden, but also a
theater for musical shows, a moving picture
house, an ice rink, Turkish bath in the base
ment and restaurants and tea rooms innumerable.
The eating feature is to be made very con-
spicuous one. 1t is purposed to have cuisine
that will be unexcelled anywhere in the country
and if possible wrest that proud distinction from
New Orleans. To this end, Mr.. Aronson is now
negotiating with Gustav, formerly the manager
of the Savoy in London and one of the best
known caterers in Europe, to take charge OF that
department.
Mr.. H. B. Huntington, of the wealthest
men the Pacific coast, is Of the largest
owners in the enterprise and its main financial
backer Mr.. Aronson is not starting this ven
ture on a shoestring. He argues that as South
ern California has to be almost exclusively
the loafng place of wealthy people and movie
actors, who practically in the class.
their expensive tastes should be catered to. He's
just the boy to do it too. No one knows better
how to make $40 bill look insignificant.
The most noticeable thing in New York City
today is the absolute apathy over the present
political campaign. Here it is less than two
months from election day and it might well
be two years for all the talk one hears about it.
Never before has there been so little interest dis
played in it here. Usually this city is seething
with partisan clamor for three or four months
before the fateful day. don't know if this con-
dition exists in any other Of the big cities of the
country, but it certainly indicates that the silent
vote here is the thing to reckon with
suspect New Workers are all too busy max
ing money to care much about politics anyway.
Business men tell me that trade here this sum
mer is unprecedented. Many manufacturing
firms have done twice the volume Of business
that they did in August before
There have been a great many comments
on the appearance Of the New York Sun since
Mr.. Frank A. Munsey bought it a few months
ago. The making Of the back page OF the paper
the editorial page has created most Of the crit-
cism 1t is plain page Of body type with no
big headlines and certainly is an oddity for a
back page. One Sun reader in expressing his
opinion about it sad
"Why, 1t looks positively indecent. 1t looks
naked just as though the paper had trousers
on"
Mr.. W. D. Cowley, manager of the Southern
and Caribbean Steamship Line, of New Orleans,
has come North for few weeks vacation He
knows why there were many sharks in the
North Atlantic this summer
Everybody knows" said he, that dead
mule or donkey will attract sharks as will nothing
else. Pitch one overheard and they will come for
miles to get It, A dead horse is nearly good
lure for these monsters of the deep The
United States has been shipping enormous guam
titles of horses and mules across the Atlantic
to the allies. Naturally many of them die on
the voyage and are thrown overheard. What
more likely than that these dead animals would
attract the sharks who would come North in
the current of the Gulf stream and consequently
be close to the Atlantic seaboard2 There is
nothing remarkable about it at all. When the
water gets too cold for them up here they will
go South again"
Mr.. Cowley is an expert on sharks. by the
way. He owns a very trim and speedy yacht
the Fidget, formerly the property of the late
John Jacob Astor, in which he goes out shark
fishing every Sunday. He generally goes out on
Lake Pontchartrain Lake Bourne and he docs
not go for sharks, but that is what he gets
In addition to hand fishing, he always takes
along seine which he draws a few times as
to be sure and bring home a good catch. The
result is always a bushel or so of fish, some Of
them very fine fish Like sea trout, red snapper.