The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-10-06
DAILY NEWS LETTER
General News and Gossip
 From Staff Members at
N>''11ISA 1.iSIAE BARMAIDS ARE FEENE ED AT ANIER1CANS
 WITH THEIR CO0KTSrrS
T+y By DAVID NJ. CHURCH
 ittional News Service Sta fl
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 London Oct. 6-EngIish bar,, mericans ts A"p4u- ant1- Tn The he seductive cocktail is at sau,t, Alng Hal" quafted his n11t~hroDI Diuit 1 'liu @ [ aIStaH had his '.bitters', frn,,s iieI' 'eI mug, the baTmaid was a n En, capable nf "t5pn ,I,n; She was perfectly ana ana serving it over the bar or .,Ta 1ap ihGasuflng out a "wee nip'' oP sscot'h have aiilSs nb nave changed, and thirsta brought the cocktail hahit to T1V~ 1l1V~ .t1s'SLluch as they are not nerrot+t.S 10 exercise this habit in their natSrA thn t%t" Much as the English disiiIse and customs, they have talxen +o SVu r,jlI , faIate has conquered over inlna. i,l4ti The cocktail is an estabjished 'nSI!lnt1on in England
 The hotels and clubs wb.-o .L sprung gentry fore gather aftsr {ae ,,oa ntne eocktall has not displaced after pensed 5enn 'eSmin4thing @i1 fi,a can), have dis maids and and 'i9 i9ese services 5,a of their bar ilGLi, 1i Iresh from dry America. LLe american barmen are garner ing healthy salaries in the best drinL Ing pushed into the backgrounS end the small public houses whera tbs cocktail is still unknown
 Sir James Barrie has his "Mo.o,. GnIe cnIe and Mrs. Mary Keane has her
 While Mrs. Keane fries fish for her laporer husband down in ur1ftiasa waste of smoky yellow hrickn idt,ess d,,etas paVements and tiny drabt bonsass East London. her .'alt1r ego" is b,,e. ny Worklng on operatic librettos.
 mere is little of the n,1rnia o1a nour Of romance in East London. bnt Mrs. keane's alter epo'' is . hj = m ount to the highest peaks of TO- nance. Witness:
 "Oh, I would be a Queen of 1ova
 Ana rule a golden fleet UT whlte-Winged ships; Id send them Ihe mighty oceans heaving breast;
 And I'd bid them bring to me The sacred love that holds them
 blost,
 That is what Mrs. Keane's "alter ego' writes while the turbot sizzles nerr1ly in the pan, and the grirny- laced urchlns shriek in the streets. sea1nen rom the ports of the world go staggering, rambling past her door doWn to the East India docks. scum mo"n of iP tbe Eaet [aer, London. where the ships to drink in maudlin Eaietv at the the open bar, this little woman, the m maetc of ibrettoes ndoey tbat tf turning out TO- been written in the midst of the TO- mantle peace of Elysian fields
 Catherine Calvert is the latest American actress to announce ner- nanent residence in London Wal known in American films and +hA widow of Paul Armstrong, Miss Cal Lert is now playing the lead af A West End theatre and states that she loDes to remain in London nernoan- ently. She is one of a score or nore of American stage people who Ire now regarded as London fixtures These include the Dolly Sisters the Crix Sisters, Teddie Gerard Frank ouprez Ed La Vine, Dorothy Dick on, Carl Hyson, Peggy O'NeiI and many others. They are all sue esses in London.
 Down at Maidenhead, a popular Thames resort for London's sporting raternity, Frank Moran. the big blonde American boxer, is hard at york training for a coming fight with oe Beckett, and he hopes for a later ght with Carpenter. Although he B a veteran of the ring and his boxing areer has been one of ups and downs he Pittsburgh boxer is confident that ie can give Beckett 8 sound thrash ng. He can't get any dispute on that core. Beckett has seen his hast avs and so has Frank. The oues- 5 whether the boxing fans will pay ood money to see these two men mix he big blonde Am erican always rarms the cookies of the British porting heart.'