The Washington herald., 1919-03-22

New York, March 21-With cock
tails now at a dollar a throw and
highballs the same figure. it costs the
hardened Broadwayite about five love-
ly bucks to whet up his appetite for
the evening dinner. Even on the
Bowery a shot Of "third-rail" whisky
costs 80 cents. Quite a change from
the old days at The Doctors, near
Chatham square. where a guy could
get drink and fop-all-night lodg-
ing-for 10 cents.
Champagne Is selling at SIS a bottle,
and is hard to get at that price. Beer
with high collars sells for 20 cents q
glass. A smooth working promoter
has been giving a series Of all-night
balls in various hotels, and so eager
are people to have their final fling
before the coming OF prohibition that
they pay s. for a ticket and IS for q
table reservation and so a plate for
the supper with the wine extra
The balls are the half-dressed kind
that used to make the town laugh at
Greenwich Village. Four orchestras
at one perpetuated motion from 10
o'clock at night until dawn the next
morning when breakfast was served,
and between the cereal and the wheat
cakes the haoyantly bunned guests
danced.
Ted Lewis. who knows how to ex-
tract wierd shrieks out of a clarinet,
used to be a $50 a week member of a
theatrical orchestra. Today he gets
$50 a night as King OF the jazz. Frisco
was a honky-tonk dancer out in Chi
cago. and Ziegfeld made him a feature
of the midnight matinee at his opera
house.
The jazz era Is here. II will last un-
III the end of the fzz-cal year, July l..
The only thing that hasn't caught on
is the shimmy shiver. In Chicago 1t
was a riot. but in New York II Is
spurned. That is the way New York
treats things from Chicago.
Little Bee Palmer is the Jazz babe
of the town. She is in n musical
show. She gets away with the shimmy
on the stage because she is a nifty
looking show girl She tried to intro
dlce New York to the blues" and
almost got hissed. The "blues' fol-
lowed the "shimmy" in CHICAGO. It
is singing counter harmony with the
melody. 1t is like singing the notes
that clarinet would play in a jazz
band accompanied by Hawaiian wig
giles and Salome effects.
There Is a veteran Fifth Avenue
clubman who has for years sat by
the bay window OF his club and con-
sumed Scotch after Scotch while
watching the passing show. His eyes
are heavily puffed and his nose a
bright vermilion. Before the evening
meal he always assaults q jaded ap-
petite with a flock OF Bronx cock
tails. Several weeks ago his joints
began to screech. He had to hobble
about on q cane.
You know" he told a cronie. II
have figured out what is the matter
with my joints. It's the damned or
ange juice in those cocktails. Too
much acid, my boy. too much acid.
I'm going to have Meadows mako
mine without the orange Juice in the
future"
Two recent murders in Manhattan
have been committed in the luxurious
lodgings OF two wealthy old bachelors.
All sorts of curios were about the
room. The men were garroted and
found the next day by servants. Both
entertained strange men in their
apartments. Owing to the details the
newspapers have not been able to
print all that the public would like
to know. In neither case at this
writing has an arrest been made. The
two murders seem to be of the type
Of those unfathomable cases that the
public forgets and the police simply
pass up as beyond their ability.