The Washington herald., 1919-08-03
GOTHAM GOSSIP
PEPPERLY TOLD
Trying to Keep the Big
Town Dry Resembles
Merry-go-Round.

Father Knickerbocker' little strip of
land has become a swiftly moving
meTy-go-round. So many varying
decisions during the past week have
left the hotel managers, saloon keep
ers and cabaret caIiphs hopeful but
dazed- The Federal decision in Proyi-
dence that the government would have
70 charge that 275 per cent beer was
intoxicating made the vets perk up
and give faint suspicion of a smile
But the happiest decision Of all for
the vets was the SO fine imposed by
Judge IN the criminal branch of the
FEDERAL District court on a New York
bartender who admitted selling whiS-
key. Too, they took hope from the
decision in San Francisco. A Federal
Judge out there declared the sale of
AS beer legal.
On the other hand in Connecticut
tnere was a decision against the beer
boosters and so it goes. 1t is much
IKE watching a baseball game One
inning the score is 3 to ? and the
next inning 1t is to ;. Nearly every
place IN New York is selling 2.75 per
cent beer but the hotels are refusing
TO sell the 50 called hard drinks.
One celebrated restaurant in the
neighborhood of Lincoln Square at
SiXty-sixth street is reported to be
selling all kinds of drink openly.
"htskey straight, highbaIIs. gin, COCK
tails and the like are dispensed in the
same openhanded manner as Before
the war. There are quite a number
OF these places, it is said. and
Greater degree of laxity is noticed
each day.
1t has been impossible to tell in
New York what the people think OF
prohibition for the simple reason that
there is no prohibition. Just now IL
amounts to certain restrictions. These
restrictions seem to irk the average
New Yorker. What his attitude will
De when the law IS rigidly enforced
IS another matter
On my desk are six invitations to
studio teas''-not stewed-io-for the
same day next week. There are many
horrible ways of spending an after
noon. Two. that | think Of at the
moment. are attending a lecture on
geology and attending a studio tea
Vet they are being given more than
ever. I wonder if there is something
significant about these teas since pro-
hi0itiOn?
Once you have attended studio tea
YOU never look upon things the same
You go about with a look in your eyes
as II you had REALLY LIVED. You
have plumbed the depths A stuGIo
tea is always held in a dark room
You must bark your shins several
times and inhaIc copious clouds of in
cense- BY that time you do not care
what happens and you are ready for
Gotham's newest journalistic ven
ture-IIlUstrated Daily News-is gain
rnS steady circulation although il
r$ admitted il has not acquired the
quick popular favor of the London
Daily Mirror. after which il was
modelled. 1t Is half the size of the
average newspaper and is hIIed with
pictures Of news happenings, current
events Among the features are Nc
CItcheOn's cartoons and Bert Lesion
TaylOr's column of humoUr
New York has most amusing
mayor. Just now he is anti-Hula and
he seems to want the world to know
II. When New TOrk's mayor approves
or dlsa pproves Of anything he never
does care who knows it. Apt as not
he will write a letter to some person
50 that it will not escape public
notice.
In Hawaii the Hula-Hula is a ma
tIOnaI institution roast beef in
England. cheese in Switzerland, spa
ghetti in Italy and bad manners in
Germany. The dance is not objected
TO on either moral or artistic grounds
at home But the mayor disapproves
rgF. E-rt- p-sF -, T-F~
copies Of which by some miraculous
coincidence reached the press.
On the heels of the race riots in
chicago and Washington comes word
Of strife at COney Island on Sunday
\ recent sunday there were more fist
dghts than ever before on that PEN
InsUla of amusement. The police re-
port a renewal of gang fights all
around New York Everybody seems
to have a crouch. Is man sick of
var sick of peace, sick of high prices
and big taxes. or is it just the
weather? Something IS the matter
with man.
Two new fat type magazines are
to make their appearance this month
Both are to be issued by Street and
Smith. One is Picure Play MAGAZINE.
devoted to cinema interests, and the
other Is the hrst offering of this old
publishing house in tine illustrated
popular maEaz zine field The old Peo-
pies Ma agazine is to become a large
fat type ma agaZine and among its
contributors are the highest saIaried
writer's in America. The magazine
will deal with personalities. fiction.
the human interest articles and
poetry. all illustrated by artistic stars
The editor Of the new Peoples Maga-
zine is Lee Brown. former war cor
respondent for the New York Times.
The editorial director of the Street
and Smith magazines is Charles Az
new MaCLean. who has bought more
fiction and discovered more writers
than any editor in New York.
Bad manners of stage folk came
W for discussion among a group or
writer's dining on 4 roof garden the
other day. \ magazine writer Just
home from Europe. told of a picture
Of a famous stage beauty of America
being tackled up in a dugOut near
the French front. He commented
upon the fact that she was an Amer
lean and French general paid her
a high compliment and told how her
face had cheered lonely soldiers. The
magazine writer suggested that the
French general write a little note to
the actress. whom he knew. The gem
eral was glad to do so and it was
done. When the writer returned to
America he spoke to the actresses
uncle Of the incident. He admitted