El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1919-12-06

Restaurants Cater to Bigger Crowds Than Ever Before
in History; Night Revelry Growing With Leaps and
Bounds and Public Pays Without Murmur;
Clubs TANNED With Men and Women

{ 7 OHDON. Eng Dec. s.-London t.
l. day Is the capital city Of the world
and the premier IN the art Of spend
Z ing money. Everybody, apparently,
has money 70 burn. The theaters are
packed The cinema palaces are filled
/ trimming over night after night. The
dance halls have not a spare ticket
. The restaurants. first class and third.
big ard little. cater nightly for more
people than ever they have seated be-
fore. And the people pay without .
murmur.
Il Is Gladys birthday. Right. Tea
At Rumpelmayer's. dinner at the Ritz,
stalls al the Gaiety, supper At Scotts
or Habchetts or the '-Trocp - any
where so long as there is light and
fun and music, the pop Of champagne
corks and the crash OF JAZZ nanas-
Bits brother comes home The same
program - with slight variations
Somebody has backed a winner same
again But these are merely small
Isolated instances. Thousands Of peO-
after night. Irrespective Of whether
Gladys ceie brates her coming into the
world OF BIZ has got BACK nome
London has fun and life 70 provide
~ SUR " AZ EAA@las Al-lA ---4 - "A
Paints and Powders.
Take a stroll Up West End IN the
early hours Of the evening. LONDON
Is painting herself and poWdering her
nose for the nightly splurge Watch
outside the big restaurants between J
and 8 o'clock. A STEADY stream OF
glittering landaulet motor cars draw
I'D 10 the gay entrance, deposit Lneu
cargo OF 5eWelled women and opera
Ha.aH eel HHlHH pa
wonder carrlages- The cost Of the
very cushions inside would keep q
Serbian family for month OF more.
Move q little further Here is
theater queue hundred yalus long.
The people forming Il have Tor the
most part done a hard days work
tapping rypeWriters, straining over
ledgers- phoning. writing. running
messages. counting money IN banks,
selling gloves and hats and knives
for their living. You would think
they world scurrN home 10 feed and
rest. Not they. London calls them.
London with Its Joys, its lights and
Of pleasure They pay, too
Step inside this restaurant - oTei
here TO this table.
Money Is LnTished.
A young fellow IS dining with two
girls. On the table. with its cut glass
champagne. Alongside IL a dish Of
grapes fit for 4 king-the remains OF
a dinner ordered by the head waitef
himself-and soon 10 be paid for
What has Il cost A mere ten pound
perhaps That IS one table Nov
multiply this one dinner by two hum
dred for this one restaurant add 70
i some thirty other similar estan-
Lshments, multiply the number Of Ia
bles BY five hundred and you viii be
well short Of the price paid for first
rate dinners any hour on any Londou
night this month, as ever was 1913.
So much for the restaurants
Take the night clubs. Here men
and women gather in sWarms. They
dance. In between dances they drink
green and red and yellow colored
liquids each Of which costs three
sh.liugs a glass In between drinks
they dance again-aud. Of course al
the end OF the night they pay. That
is the great point They pay. II YOU
could hear the voice OF London to-
day. that voice would be one large,
long, loud tink'e, the rattle OF MONEY
on salVers. on desks. across counters
on trays. into outstretched hands.
NOT only IS The West Eud given
over 90 an orgy Of paying and nlaying
East north. south it is just the same
In proportion the money spent here is
every bit as Great as no west in Pic
cadillv. Dance tickets FOR the hum
dred and umpty-fifth victory ball" in
the garden suburb may be but four
shiuings, the clarct cup which does