The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1921-05-22

doing in the hotel line, even though
many. like the Knickerbocker. the
Manhattan, the Holland and smaller
houses have gone out OF business"
The hotel mans remark about the
disappearance of night life in New
York Is amazingly true. Cabarets close
at one O'Clock, an hour at which most |
Of the business-for they are primarily |
after-the-theatre resortS-used to come
In. The New Yorker likes to have
bite after an evening at the theatre
and the cabarets supplied IT, with jazz |
and drinks TO make the lights bright
er. The early closing hour and the
discontinuance OF the sale OF rum has |
made the cabaret n losing proposition. |
Many have gone out OF business. and |
undoubtedly all will have to do so soon.
er or later. ! was talking with one
OF the managers OF the Beaux Arts n |
few days ago on this subject He said: |
I'VE might az well close at nine in the
evening us stay open till one, for all |
the business We get. and | wouldn't |
be surprised IL We were to do so. We
have developed n strong luncheon trade |
and can get along on that alone II |
necessary. As for the old days and the !
old ways. they are gone. and believe
everybody Is as well pleased. People
used TO bring in flasks OF liquor and |
serve themselves In advance OF or dur.
Ing a meal. Now. that practice has
been pretty well given up and there
Is no complaint The old-tlmers wall
about present conditions. but there has
been a general change OF opinion on
the subject favorable to the new sltua-
uon. What we have lost in one dlrec-
ton We are making In another and
have no kick coming"
When one speaks of the night life
In New York, one naturally thinks Of
the debonair gentlemen who used to
sleep until p. M. and start out about
$50 for night OF IL. treating the
theatres as an early-in.thc-evening cf-
fort. and regarding midnight us the
shank of the evening. These with
the gold dIggers" have amended their
ways, and the places that knew them
once, now know them no more. In all
probability. they have learned to live
AZ normal people do. In most cases
H'Nhif u loo anu ko 10 WoTks Inc nnls
night life there II In New York ls In
the movies" which continue to show
New York, not as what II is, but as
what IL used to be. II IL considered
that the motion picture people must
have a nightlife here. just ar they
must have cowboys and frontier ro-
nance. though all of that scenery pass
cd away long ago.
George NJ. Cohnn Is now appearing
IN the principal part In "Thc Tavern"
the part which was created by Arnold
DAILY. lie is trying II out in Brooklyn
before bringing the play back To New
York. To those who know both mon
and their different lines. II IL incuncciv-
able that Cnhan should play part
assumed by Arnold DAILY. | wns speak.
ing TO the author Of "'rhc Tavern" ON
the subject Her comment was that
Cohan was quite as original as Daly.
and the part would be as we'll worth
seeing in his hands aa In those of the
man who made Shaw's plays famous
In this country People who like
Cohan like him in anything he under
takes" she said. n can't SAY The part
will be Cohaniz,d. IL will just be- the
more interesting because Of his per-
sonality and his attempt to realize his
ambition to bp considered ~ an nr-
tor Of serious paris. surely he has ns