The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-07-18
Profits on Soft and ''Near"
Drinks Fail to Support
the Revues
DRAW MANY CURTAINS
Palais Royal, Rector's and
Wallick Shows Just
Dry Up.
BROOKLYN QUITS EARLY
Managers All Over City Say
Days of Expensive Enter
tainment Are Past.

war time prohibition, which has
been keeping Broadway lobster pal
aces on a diet of light wines and 2.75
beer. is slowly undermining both the
extravagant revues and the slapbang
cabarets that have served to enter
tain at the smaller restaurants. July
2. q day after prohibition got going.
the Pekin. at Forty-seventh street,
Broadway and Seventh avenue
closed its doors, to the bewilderment
of many Broadwayites. Within the
last two weeks several more estab-
lishments which had been expecting
10 run expensive revues on the gross
receipts from foodstuff, wines and
Lemonade at 80 cents a glass discov-
cred that 1t couldn't be done, and
bounced the whole show.
Louis Candone, manager of the
Palais Royal, told a representative OF
THE SUN last night that he was COM
PEELED to do away with his cabaret
revue because war time prohibition
made It impossible to entertain diners
who bought little wine and drank per-
haps two lemonades during the eve-
ming.
my cabaret cost me $4,000 every
week." said Manager Candone. with
the profits from hard liquor cut away
from us It would be foolishness to con-
tinue the revue. Some of the res
taurant men think they can continue
but from my viewpoint don't know
how they are going to do it. The
cabaret is going to leave Broadway.
The process may be slow right now,
but within a month some awful prun.
ing will occur"
Few Seen Visiting BaF.
The management of the Cafe de Paris
formerly Rector's, has discontinued its
show and closed the ballroom. The bar
there was peopled yesterday during the
rush of business on Broadway by two or
three men who were drinking ginger ale
Reisenweber's, at Columbus Circle
joined with the others in closing out II,
elaborate show, but still is operating the
Paradise Room, where Sophie Tucker
entertains each evening. The manage.
ment at the Hotel wallick said it ha,
shut out the cabaret for the summer
months only. and had prospects OF open.
ing again early in the fall. Wallick's
like the other places. has substituted &
more liberal orchestral programme ant
some dancing.
Shanley's on Broadway has beer
compelled to prune down its cabare
and acknowledges that decline iE gros
receipts is the only reason for a smalle
show. Tom Healy. speaking at hi
Sixty-sixth street place, said he fount
business booming. and that he would no
diminish his show. Capt. Jim Churchill, a
his Broadway lobster palace. announced
he had put the cabaret out Of his estab
lishment. Murray's, in West Forty sec
ond street, reported that 1t had forgotten
the cabaret form of entertainment
months ago, but caught an after theatr,
crowd fond OF dancing.
All of the restaurant men who ar,
members of the Society OF Restaurateur-
agreed that the closing out of the revue.
had been done by each owner individ
ually. Some managers stated the shov
business in connection with food serving
was pObltiNcly On tho "aHc'
Restaurants Hard HIT.
The abolition or caparets and tn
pruning process Is hitting Brooklyn
Benjamin Salvin, manager OF the Ritz
which has been closed, spoke the doom
of other cabaret restaurants In tina
borough. THE enforcement OF prohi
bition curtails the profits from har,
drinks, upon which revenue restaurant
are able to operate their shows" sal
Mr. Salvin. Benjamin Walker OF tn
Rockwell Terrace, said:
81 intend to go out OF business with
loss of several hundred thousand dol
lars against me-" The same sentimen
was echoed by the management of tn
Hotel Shelburne.
Harry Richards of the firm OF Roehr
& Richards, who book cabaret acts 10
this city, Jersey and Long Island. sal
at his office In the Strand Theatr
Building:
"Our clients have been hard hit by tn
eity restaurant men who discontinue
their shows. We feel that the worst /
yet to come. Fortunately have bee
able to book all the men and wome
who were made Jobless at places In Al
bury Park, Atlantic City and other re
sorts. The restaurant men cannot Al
ford to pay out nifty, seventy and
hundred dollars a week to the pei
formers under present conditions. I ez
pect to see every cabaret in this tow
and Brooklyn shut down within a shol
time. Even II war time prohibition
relaxed In September. as 10 rumoret
the cabaret can only expect to exist fo
O few months thereafter. because JAM
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