East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1922-07-11
Americans Throng
London; Keepers
of Hotels Happy
By DAVID l.. BLUMENFELD

By DAVID L. BLUMRNFELD
Uynited Press Staff CorrespondenD
z LONDON, July 11.-(U. P)--I4on-
don, Ltd, caterers to tie United
States,
That is the latest role which staid
old London is playing today, and
playing, according to visiting Amer
leans, very well at that.
There have been many record
seasons" of visiting Americans to
London, but this years season
beats all the others.
Hotel managers, big store owners
theatre managers, owners of motor
hire companies-all of them will tell
you that the invasion from America
this season far outnumbers all pre-
vious ones.
London at the moment is packed.
The Strand is a diminutive Broad
way. Bond street docs duty every
morning from eleven o'clock until
twelve thirty for fashionable Fifth
avenue. Piccadilly might well be
Times Square. Everywhere one goes
one is confronted with Americans.
European visiting Americans are
already looking on London as their
temporary home. Here, they know,
is a town where their own tongue is
spoken, where they can read the ads
on bus tops and subway station walls,
and to top all, where they can get
chicken a la king, club sandwiches,
apple pie la mode, soft shell crabs
and tartar sauce, anything, in fact,
from q dill pickle to nickels worth
of chewing gum.
Every liner from New York brings
thousands of Americans into Europe.
AT the present moment, it is estimat-
ed that rs per cent of the European
bound passengers from New York
land either in Southampton, London
or Liverpool
The hotels are packed to bursting
point. The Savoy has waiting list
as long as that of a highly exclusive
club. The Cecil has ordered in two
extra bands to play at the popular
The Ritz has ceased to |
advertise so great is the influx.
The dansant has caught on with |
here more than it does
with them over in New York. In
the first place, the English 1"hot"
weather is, in reality, cool, and in |
The second, you don't pay extra for
ihe exercise if you are a hotel resi-
lent. The Savoy, determined to top
he list of tea dancing hotels. told |
he United Press that it was spend
ng $250,00O this year on music alone. |
The five bands. which blare al
most necessarily from the shade of |
is many palm courts, are but side
ssue compared with the operatic
stars and dancers who are paid night
y to entertain visitors.
In the department stores, highly
rained women are detailed as chap
rones to American women-shoppers.
n the mems department there are
nough American-cut clothes (made
# the best cloths) to fit out a bat
alion.
And then, just to please Americans,
he big hotels have made a study OF
'ater. They have, after many
ears. come TO the conclusion that
americans have certain fondness
Or iced water, and they are not let
ing their visitors forget II. d:
Where, formerly, you had TO beg. Is
nd bluster, and bully. and browbeat
DR. a glass of water with a minute
peck of ice in it. today you get real
e water with every meal. Some Of
he better class restaurants have fol-
wed suit.
Cfaa r7el,fn line ofgcfaIg dact,ra ! :
at already between twenty and
Iirty thousand Americans have ar
we'd in London this season. Many
e on their way.
And to show the extent OF the in E
sion, Londoners are already learn E
z TO say. Ice Cream. please" to a
iitress in a cafeteria. instead OF the
2 formula. = say. Miss. would you E
md bringing me an Ice?"