The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-03-02

Right, every word" said Mr.. Salvtn y
cordially. ..
How are you going to manage try
How do know? What's the good
crossing bridges till you get there?t
We don't know now. How would wer :
I don't think he interjected. that
therell be prohibition anyway. Labor
won't stand for It." <
But supposing there isl"
Jimmy Thompson raped his caller
imprcssively on the arm. :"
IF there is, keep your eye on us, =
and tell the public to do the same. No"
soda counter. No oyster bar. No pink :
tea room. None Of that stun. We're
restaurant men, and we're in the res
taurant business. Why, look at what -
we just did. We opened the Mont
martre and the Bal with the dry thing
five months Off. They all said we're :.
crazy. Were we? Those two places
did land office business right away.
Fifty thousand dollars in a month q
Crazy I don't think. And I'm going
to make a success right along IL I have =
to open thirty little bits of coffee
houses to do it,
Just like that. :
Everybody began by saying that he :
didn't know. Everybody hoped pro-
hibition wouldn't come after all.
though several bodies didn't see how t.
could help. Finally everybody gave as
surance that we aren't worried--let the "
other fellows worry IL they want to.
Elias Meirowitz. associated with Graf
on the Strand Roof, where they have a t"
revue among other things. said the
Strand Roof would continue. come
what might Absolutely nothing was
worrying him. Still. It was a problem.
Good restaurant service with a cover
charge, and more elaborate show and
the dancing ought to fill the bill, in his
opinion.
Reisenweber's, the particular caba-
radiant white light OF Columbus Circle.
enhanced by Sophie Tucker and her,
own Jazzymphony Orchestra, began its
| career more than ten years ago as Q
regular food restaurant and then BIOS
| somed out as the cabaret epidemic and
the dance craze made opportunity.
Under the drought apparently it will
/ try to revert to type.
| At least that seems to be the infer
ence from piece which Louis Fischer,
| President OF Reisenwebers, Inc. wrote
out after due thought to be put in The
SUM Here 1t is:
| we are prepared TO operate our es-
tablishment in the face of any ciroum-
! stances. The readjustment caused by
prohibition, should II succeed in be-
coming a part of our statute books, will
spontaneously be cared for by the
public.
! Whatever the popular vogue may
be. in whatever trend public opinion
may assert itself, we stand ready to
cater to them. Doubtlessly some form
OF diversion will Immediately fill the
gap resulting from the new legislation.
"I do not care to prognosticate theE
nature OF such innovations. One thing,
| Is certain, However. and that is that
human beings will still be in need Of
food and that they will prefer to dina
midst refined surroundings, good music
! and plenty of entertainment"
| Mr. Klein OF the Pekin, whose win
4, dows give duo southwark on Long
Acre, recited an adaptation OF Bernard
Shaw's "Ypu Never Can Tell"
You know. at the end OF Mayor
Mitchel's time. when the o'clock clos
ing rule went in force. everybody was
running around saying business would
be ruined.
Instead OF that, within three
months some OF us were doing the
biggest business OF our careers. You
know why? A mans stomach will only
hold Just 80 much. We found that by
o'clock he'd eaten and drunk all he
could. The people that had stayet
later were Just stayers. We didn't do
any business, just kept open.
| Of hat 70 n
that y9S never know how change il
going y work. l, ,sr; safe to predi~'
what's going to happen next July. II
may not hurt us at all. May do ui
good. Now we aren't worrying"
Up spoke a man from out of towI
across the table He had mentioned
that he was in the liquor business HIM
self.
'hows 1t going to help but hurt7 tn
an outrage. That's what l call It. III
travesty. It's the end OF persona
liberty. Don't you gentlemen see .
that way, too? What's going to harper
to business? Look at me, now. Mel
like me come TO New York and expeo
to be shown a good time. Am goini
to have good time out on quiet litth
party, WITH IL Il'e EIIl anu toHSenu
company and all that, II l can't have
few harmless little drinks? Am I go
ing to sit and talk here nice and hap4
all the evening? VIII l want q lot a
soft slop TO drink VIII think thu
show is funny? VIII l dance? VII
/"
AS 7 was saying" resumed MI
Klein. its too early now to know
There are n lot of angles on this busA
ness. Things that have been going u
hurt MS have only helped us. Thu
pekin will keep on, We're better stu
ated than some competitors and We exc
2 meet to find ourselves all right"
Some of the Jazz Joy fraternity no
only don't care TO be quoted, but dom
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