The Washington herald., 1917-12-07

Special Correspondent o, The Washington Herald
New York. Dec. 6-Select little dance
clubs have jolted a lot OF patronage
away from the Broadway dansants.
Dancers are becoming more and more
exclusive. They do not want to dance
with the couch chamelions. sofa scor-
pions and lounge lizards. Too many
scandals have occurred in the gilded
, palaces.
In the Fifties a garage has been
converted into an after midnight
dance club and over on Park avenue
an old stable is one of the de luxiest
places in town. a Broadway boulevar-
der declares that Broadway has been
hurt by the glare of publicity attend
ing scandals
Broadway. he says. is now the Bow
cry. This is how he figures il out.
The Bowery moved TO Broadway.
broadway moved TO Fifth Avenue and
Fifth Avenue has moved to Park ave-
nue.. 1t is true that Park avenue is
now the home of the majority OF the
social elect.
The newly rich occupy most of the
Fifth Avenue homes except the lower
section. Down there the first families
refuse to bulge. They still drive out
every afternoon in arTiaEes-spurn-
ing automobiles-and only visit Broad
way when they go Summing.
broadway is not the same street It
was ten years ago. 1t may be because
it is continually torn up-a series of
trenches-for subway building, but the
most plausible reason is that the New
Workers like a change and they have
become blase about what was for
merly The Gay White Way, but which
is now dark at the hour of eleven.
Three famous dancing places that
a Few years ago were the most popu-
lar in town for the rich after the
theater. now resemble the old days of
the Haymarket, Tivoli and other beer
drinking places. The music is of the
jazz variety, and the steps smack of
the Barbary Coast.
At the main entrance in the monkey
house in the Prospect Park menage-
ries is the following sign conspicu-
ously displayed:
The Brooklyn Geological Society.
Strengthen Your Zoo.
Every Member Bring a Member.
The attendance at the monkey house
is said to have fallen Off since that
sign was posted.
One OF the new Kentucky million
aires has come TO New York to bust
into society. He STOPPED at an ornate
hotel where hunkies in brass buttons
a IN l.,
shrewd press agent. who has lots of
pep. to get his name into the society
columns.
He began n series of lavish enter
tainments and his invitations were
accepted by those. on the fringe of
society-but he could not get into the |
inner circles. His wife grew desper-
ate and sent for the daughter at a |
boarding school in the East.
She came and studied the situation. |
Instead of spending the money for |
press agenting and entertainments
he devised a system of charity-giv-
ng that would be certain to be talked |
lbout. And it was talked about.
the millionaire's charities he \
s gradually being taken up. Thus
loes charity camouflage another sin.
Seen around the town: A comedian
wearing a lump of sugar as a watch
harm. A prominent railroad presi-
lent taking lessons on a slide trom-
zone. an instrument to which he is
levoted. A famous hotel chef eating
n a white tiled cafeteria. A police
nan spurning a bill offered by a COL
ege boy driving an automobile. A
nan wearing smoked glasses in the
ubway reading a raised print paper
or the blind. Two men knitting in
he lobby of the Martha Washington
Iotel. A little bus boy in cafe re-
aivad N e. tin |