The Washington herald., 1919-05-29

New York. May 2s.-Louis Sherry
has for years operated perhaps the
smartest restaurant in New YORK
at Fifth avenue and Forty~fourth
street. Now he is going out Of busi-
q bright press agent blurb IL Is be-
cause he cannot stand for the Boil
shevik walters now flooding the
metropolis.
But the real truth is that Sherry
saw in prohibition a death blow to
the ornate .eatery that he ruled. Up
stairs over the eatery were q few
select bachelors quarters for the rich
only. Frank A. Munsey lived there
and a few others who could pay FOR
! the best the land afforded.
Louis Sherry Is going to the Wal
dorf to act as a caterer and the
, waldorf is to make a bid for the gilt
edge members Of the real Smart
I Set. Not many years ago the Wall
dorf had the smartest gatherings
but the tide swept northward and
Louis Sherry got the bulk OF the
smartest dinners and balls.
He had three ball rooms and every
social function of prominence con-
nected with the Four Hundred has
been staged there in the last ten
years, 1t is said that the Rite
might get some of the smart affairs
but the ball room there Is compare
lively small and just now society
does not know what place they VIII
select for the classy gatherings.
Sherry has also decided to operate
a candy shop further up the avenue.
He believes that sweets will be In
demand when liquor is cut of. He
operated a candy shop next door 10
his restaurant for years and 1t was
one of the best patronized in town.
Yet il was a dingy looking place
with no window decorations or even
sign to designate the type OF
store it was.
She is corpulent poetess who
writes the new kind of wild free
yerse-such as ITO An Immoral
Violet"-and she has wealth ana
Education. In fact a member OF her
family is one OF the country's best
known educators. She smokes, thin.
black Hayanas. She has a charm
ing smile and she has many friends.
What more could a poetess ask?
4 new song goes: -K-k-katy
says to Jimmy Thtop Your Thtut-
tering Jimmy" And would you be
Ilieye it is a hit? Well. II Is. Thus
do the young Substituted over
lords Of Tin Pan Alley bring q
speech impediment and q lisp into
the art of song writing. All the
soldiers are singing the song and 1t
goes big in the vaudeville houses.
, I went to little dinner given to
Monk Eastman. the former gang
ster. the other night at a queer
Hungarian cafe on the East Side.
/ You perhaps know Monks story.
Before the war the name of Monk
his first name is Edward-was q
1 synonym for disorder, violence and
deeds of bloody vengeance and hit
ting in the dark. He went across
as private and emerged a fine
citizen. Gov. Smith restored him to
citizenship recently. At the dinner
he sat stolid and uncommunicative.
He smiled at few OF the toasts to
him. But no amount of coaxing
could make him speak. His heart
was too full for. words. He had in
the argot of gangland turned
clean" He works in a garage now.
1t is hard work and exacting. But
he is happy. Now and then he goes
to the movies and the rest of the
time he reads and tries to improve
his mind. The war made powerful
appeal to something wholesome that
law stifled under the accumulation
OF lawlessness and disgrace in the
heart of the gang leader There
was a CHEEKY warmth in the grip OF
his hand. And he looked every man
straight in the eye. But he could
not talk.