New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-12-21
At Hotel and Restaurants
Gil Boag Will Give Special
Party at Bal Tabarin for
His Many Newspaper
Friends; Cafes Plan for y
Great Week

returning to the Office last Friday
after long absence, we opened our
mail with avidity. The first letter said.
"Gaillard 7. Boag has arranged a get
together party for newspaper folks, to
be given at the Bal Tabarin on Friday
evening, December 10, at IL o'clock. You
are cordially invited to be present" As
the night air" is one of the things
winch have been prohibited for while,
OF course we snant be hble to go. But
why couldn't Gil Boag nave put off his
party until the first of the wear? We
love the Bal Tabarin
And the second letter we opened was
An invitation to attend the opening Of
the new Restaurant Crillon, lone of the
inner three at Is East Forty-eighth
Street, on Monday night. December %
We shall make an effort to be among
those present, for we know the Voisin
and the Elysee we'll, and they are the
other two
We are back again living at the
1renoble' and it is wonderful how the
place has changed in six months 1t is
still the most like home of all hotels
we know of, but it is now all hustle
and hustle. Mr.. Peyton assured us
that he turned away a hundred people
every day and we believe it, for we
have seen a lot of them 90 away. dis
consulate. Any one who owns room
of his own these days feels so superior,
One of the attractions of the hotel is
Dorothy Clay, the brilliant blonde of
The Greenwich Village Follies." She is
DC 70 81,
between and 8, after which she gets
IN taxi and whirls down to the Nora
bayes. And part of the restaurant is
made into a tea and tiftin and sweet
meat shop.
The man who owns the Palais Royal
is no kind of a mathematician He be-
heves In addition, but not in subtrac-
ton so he just keeps on adding new
features to the Royal Revue of 1919"
and keeps the old ones, too. To cele-
brate holiday week the willie Brothers
have been engaged for the revue and
Sam Moore Will produce melody sweet
err than the human voice from an ord-
nary hack saw. Now, you understand.
we never heard Sam do this, but we
have the word Of Ed Barry, and Edward
is an honorable man.
~ Murray Roman Garden a
Chlstmas dinner is going to be served
at 81 cover and the piece de re-
@'stance will he the English plum
budding with brandy sauce. That and
the revolving floor are calculated 10
cause lair amount of dizziness. but
4 one is not satisfied with that one
may bring and mix his own Christmas
cheer Carroll Clark will sing some
new songs end Albert Martin, has
arranged special musical program
Christmas week means the twelfth
week for "Cheer Up New York" at
performance de looks" will b. given
on Christmas Night May Judels and
the Golden Gladcs quintet have
arranged { Yuletide fantasy; Elise and
fauls:n Will do a special dance on
ice. A musical skit will introduce
Helen Hardick. Yvonne Darle, Swan
Wood Ralph Kennedy. Robert Regner
and others. Mr.. Healy is also plan
MIG series Of entertainments on
al three floors for New Years Eve.
Noxt Wednesday night New York. or
that portion OF it which can get into
ReiscnveOer's. viii have chance to
witness complete musical comedy
presented in a restaurant. This is
Jean Bedini's new musical review
"rwinklc Toes There are fifty peo-
pie in the cast count en-. fifty. and
twenty Of 'cm are "ensemble ladies"
so lovely that Nh. Reisenweber Is
afraid that Flo Zieefeld and Lee Shuhert
viii sneak in and steal EN- when he
isn't looking. Waite James will act
as toas tmastor. Other stars in "Twinkle
Toes" are Frances Arms. Elmer Floyd
recently OF the Paiais ROYAL: Alice
Maison. Gladys Eastman and Dan Healy
1t is only four weeks since we stopped
eating. but now that We have returned
we find that everything costs about
twice as much as it used to. And may
we not say that chis reminds US of the
story of The man who said to the
waiter. Bring me s. worth of food"
and the waiter replied: "You said a
mouthful.' Being attracted by the ad-
vertisements yes. we read them alb in
which Childs offers to tell you the food
value of apples, etc, we stepped in
their Circle shop for some hot cakes
And on the bill-of- fare is printed
after each article the number of cal
cries. 1t always amused US, and one
night when we were in there with Sid
Chaplin he thought it was as funny as
we did, and said he was going.to have
Charlie use it in his next comedy. His
idea was to carry an adding machine
with you, so you would know when you
had reached 1000
The hotel men are making the most
elaborate preparations for the holidays
in years. and personally we. who see a