The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1922-02-27


door John OF Harry Thaw's era
with his ridiculous opera cape fall
ilr from callow shoulders and ~
still more absurd bundle OF Ameri
cah beauties held In a clnti Of 81
dent tension. has gone the way ol
all flesh. But the purlleus Of the
Cay White Way literally teen by
night with his legitimate successor
the rIghtful heirs OF Broadwsys
etoinal hoorah. an eyer-changing
tribe OF all-wise but incurably stu
pid and gullible male moths. Broad.
way sometimes wonders where they
all come from, but hardly ever give
n thought TO what becomes of them
when they disappear.
There was time when n bunch
Of American beauties. with the
stems wrapped In twentydollar
,ellowback, followed by the prover.
bal cold bottle and a hot bird"
formed Broadway's contention OF a
wonderful party. But times do
change. A party for two costing
$50 was a party to be described in
rcd ink In show girls diary. But
without exaggeratlon. II Is safe to
say that an evenings entertainment
for two in the most exclusive New
York resorts of 1922 may easily cost
$3.50. emitting flowers which seem
to be omitted by tacit consent. At
any rate you seldom see them any
more.
Not only broadway In the Forties
and Fiftes but the parallel and
cross-streets extending north as far
as Columbia University, nowadays
are lined with FLATS" to which the
initiate is welcomed with exuber-
encc proportlonate with his bank
roll and his reputation for Tipping
the layers from the same. These
flats are conducted by nice, refined
ladies' Of matronly mien and manner,
sometimes backed by sinister male
characters whose connections, how
ever, must be kept in the dark. II
nice matronly widow of apparent
ly Independent means chooses to
lease large apartment and furnish
ii with every known luxury who is
to critise her. And II she has a
large social acquaintance and is
pleased to entertain the ladies and
gentlemen Of her set every night in
the week, surely no one has the
right to critieise. Certainly not.
hnd. really, the liquor problem has
become such humorous matter In
New York that il the neighbors
have any feeling at all over the
ladys continuous supply of whiskey
wine and gin, it is probably a feel
ing of envy rather than of out
ragged regard for the Constitution.
The prices one pays for liquor in
these reports are beyond all imagi-
nation and have absolutely no rela-
tion whatever to the original legiti-
mate quotations Of the destiller or
vintner. The usual understanding
between guests is that right names
shall neither be given nor expected
and that acquaintances struck up in
the necessarily informal association
Of an evenings drinking, dancing
and dinin gshall be forgotten upon
the morrow
Then there are also the somewha
more open might clubs" Of Broad
way and the Forties, all Of which,
except perhaps two are open to the
public The most exclusive of these
is now becoming fairly well known
and, strange to say, the propretors
blush to find it famous, for they
wish to allot their few tables to per-
sons recognized in the Social Reg
ister with scattering of the more
bizarre feminine characters of
Broadway to convince the society
flappers Of both sexes and all ages
that they are seeing the real night
life of New York. An old gray
haired doctor, the personification Of
irrespectability, was recently OBJ
served in this tiny room throwing
a party for three fascinatingly bold
and handsome young women whom
he certainly had not bet in his wife's
social set The women were ac-
companied by two male parasites of
elegant manner and shifty eye, whom
an old and skeptical police reporter,
sitting in the shadows, recognized
as pair of International blackmail-
ers and "tub-workers," meaning card
sharps who frequent the ocean lin
ers or transatlantic tubs. When
the bill came for the evenings en-
tertainment-about 4:30 A. M.-the