The Washington herald., 1919-02-21

New York, Feb. 2o.-Cabaret girls are
being used as press agents In a unique
scheme devised by the manager OF a
jazzy night cafe in the heart Of the
Tenderloin. The place Is the type
bottle of wine to the check when they
sec the party has reached an ire
sponsible don't-care stage.
The manager secures the names of
young bloods who go In for the cafe
life and he also finds out their home
telephone number. Shortly thereafter
the victims receive mysterious mes
sages to meet Mamie at the cafe.
where she is a cabaret attraction
Usually the young man falls for the
game, takes two or three with him TO
see that no rough stuff is pulled, and
asks the waiter to see Mamie. She
comes to the table and gives the ex-
cuse that d mistake has been made,
that somebody has been using the VIC
TINS name while making love to her.
Wine is openel. the evening grows
larger and some of Mamie's friends
join the party and check about the
size OF the Russian national debt re-
sults-enriching the manager with q
lot Of soft money and the victim and
his friends with large-sized headaches
the next day.
Sometimes the ruse fails to ensnare
the victim. but no harm is done and
the expense Is a 5-cent telephone call,
so the strategem is growing In pop
ularity
The coming of prohibition incidental
ly will throw 1000 cabaret girls in the
greater city out of employment. A
few of them can go to the cheaper
vaudeville houses and small per-
centage in the chorus-but the major
ity must seek entirely new fields.
There are many notable exceptions
but most of the cabaret girls are
petty grafters. begging small presents,
money and food and drink off OF
those with whom they come in con-
tact at the cafe tables. Junie Nc
Cree, former actor ana playwright
who passed on recently, did more for
stray cabaret and chorus girls and
broken down chorus men.
He spent all of his money trying
to help them, and to inspire them to
better things. The work was thorough
ly discouraging, but Junie McCree
never lost hope. There has been no
guardian angel since he departed this
life.
Madame Catherine Breshkovsky.
who grandmothered the revolution in
Russia, started a revolution her first
day in New York among the greatest
lot of ice water hustlers on Manhat-
tan Island. Nine. Breshkowsky stop
ped at an uptown hotel and when a
palm itching belIhop galloped down
the hall with a pitcher of ice water
she crossed his palm-not with coin
OF the realul-with an old-fashioned
homt-cooked cookie. The boy looked
at il. took it down stairs to get ii
changed into American money, think
ing it might be a Russian rubie. When
he learned the truth, he swoonpd be-
"s"ee reporters were following Nine.
'r.a Gkovsky's every move, and the
.~ Hop fears there may be a run on
.. 0okie among hotel patrons.
re Is a publication with enor-
.. weekly circulation that has
..a.Eht forth many of the star short
writer's and uovelists Of the
E.sE. Once accepted there. It means
...'ost instant recognition among
81 publications buviag fiction. The
EtI day I Ee7rd an inter, sting dis
saiou among a group of writers who
ave arrived. Four out of five de-
a-cd they would not sell their Of
hsss to the publication. The rea-
.o- lg that their prices were very
MUs.o usher than the penny a word
magazines. For a beginner the ad-
vertising value is priceless, but af-
'erward the writer does not care to
buy advertising space every time he
sells story. A gentlemanly boy
colt seems to be brewing.