El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1919-07-19
LONDONFORGETS
THE WAR JAZZ!
London's Night Life Is
One Jazz After
Another.

! London. Eng, July 19.-London is
forgetting the war these hot summer
nights with excursions into Jazz
land. Nothing has hit staid old Eng
! land quite so hard as the 'jazz" bands
and orchestra and the Jazz dances
In commenting on BOndon's present
night life the Dispatch says:
LondOns night Inc has never been
at a more feyerish pitch than It has
now reached
One Of the latest phases is the roof
garden jazz" In the Euston road at
midnight, if it were not for the noise
Of the traffic, astonished pedestrians
would be able TO near jazz music
coming apparently from the skies.
The more reputable of the night
clubs have settled down 10 a prodigi-
Gus prosperity on Jazz and jazz alone
But there is a sort Of backwash
from these top-rung- of-the- ladder
places; a set Of people who, though
they have just as much cash TO spend,
are not wearers Of evening dress
most nights of the week. and also
seem to have an unconscionable dis
like to being turned out at midnight
the hour at which the old-estab-
lished dancing clubs now close as a
rule.
For the non-evening dress class a
number of new small clubs are
springing up; and in some Of them
the drink restrictions are more hon.
ored in the breach than in the OBJ
servance. In others nothing is said
Of member" land you can become
member" for the sum Of guinea
at the door, brings a flask with him
In one the extraordinary system
prevails that certain members bring
a large stock Of drink at night in
cab. and keep the cab standing till
all hours at the door. By means of
a.
can issue forth from the club at any
moment and refresh themselves in
this strange bar-on-wheels-
Latterlys for SINE reason. the
mushroom clubs have sprung up
mostly north Of Oxford street, in the
Tottenham court road area and a lit
tie farther west At nearly all these
places the charge for entrance
amounts 10 not less than a guinea for
the man and fifteen shillings for the
woman The former might be dis
concerted 10 learn that If his lady"
had arrived at the club separately
from him she would not have been
asked TO pay at all: II is only when a
man brings" her that she is supposed
to have ticket
A minor development Of the Jazz
craze is that OF the studio, or hall,
or even the mansion, hired by some
small syndicate and run "privately-"
in the Euston road. You cannot get
in unless you have an introduction
The Jazz and the hesitation waltz
are taught here during the day. at
night there are dances-the pupils
and their friends forming the main
body Of the patrons. This is probably
the only place of the kind in London
which enjoys the luxury Of a root
garden to which the jazzers can re-
tire between dances.
The proprietors Of halls suitable
for dancing are making small for
tunes, and by a curious irony not a
few of these halls are attached TO
places Of worship. At Noting Hill
gate and at Earrs court two cases Of
this kind were found-chapel halls
where the most energetic jazzing
goes on for six nights OF the week,
while on the seventh day the room is
occupied by innocent Sunday schools
Money. too, is being made in aston
ishing sums by expert musicians who
can play ragtime- The drum. an in
strument rarely cultivated before the
war. is now a gold mine.