South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1922-08-06
AMERICANS THRONG
LONDON STREETS,
HOTEL MEN HAPPY
Staid Britishers Bow to New
Custom in Paying Honor
TO Guest From L. 5.
BY DAVID J.. BLUNIENFELD.
(U. +. stan Correspondent

BY DAVID T.. BLUNIENFELD
q. +. stan Correspondence
LONDON, Aug. 5.-London. Ltd.
& caterers to the United States.
That IS the latest role which stald
old London IS playing today. and
playing. according 10 visiting Amer
leans. very well az 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.
theater managers, owners or motor
hire Companies-all OF them will
tell you that the invasion from
America this season far outnumbers
ali previous ones
London at the moment IS packed
The Strand is a diminutive Broad
way Bond st. does duty every
morning from II o'clock until 1890
for fashionable Fifth av. Piccadnly
might well be Times Square. Every
where 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 20 top ALL where they can
get chicken a Ia king, club sand
witches, apple pie a la mode, soft
shell crabs and tartar sauce. any
thing. in fact. from a dill pickle TO
a nickles worth Of chewing gum.
s25O,OOO For Hotels Music.
Every liner from New York brings
thousands Of Americans into Eu-
rope At the present moment. IL is
estimated that IS percent Of the
Europe -bound passengers from New
York land either at Southampton.
London. or Liverpool.
The hotels are packed 20 bursting
point The Savoy has a waiting list
as long as that Of a highly exclusive
club. The Cecil has ordered in two
extra bands 20 play at the popular
dansants The Ritz has ceased to
advertise so great is the influx.
The dansant has caught on with
Americans here more than II does
with them over in New York In
the first place, the English hot
weather IS. in reality. cool. and in
the second. you don't pay extra for
the exercise If you are a hotel resi-
dent The Savoy, determined to top
the list OF tea dancing hotels, told
the United Press that It was spend
ing s250,OOO this year on music
alone
The FIVE bands. which now blare
almost necessarily from the shade OF
is many palm courts, are but a side
issue compared with the operate
stars and dancers who are paid
nightly 10 entertain visitors
In the department stores. highly
trained women are detailed as chap
erones to American women-shoppers.
In the mems departments there are
enough American-Cut clothes (made
Of the best cloths) 90 fit out a bat
TALON.
YES. James. Ice Water"
And then. just to please America,
the big hotels have made a study
OF water They have. after many
years. come TO the conclusion that
Americans have a certain fOndness
-cE lee1 water anu lLltf al q AAD% &c
ting their visitors forget IT,
Where. formerly YOU had TO beg,
and buster. and bully. and brow
beat for a glass of water with a
minute speck Of ice in it. today you
get real ice water with every meal.
Some Of the better class restaurants
have followed suit.
Steamship line officials declare
that already between twenty and
thirty thousand Americans have ar
rived in London this season. More
are on their way
And 10 show the extent OF the
invs sion. Londoners are already
learning 20 say, ice Cream. please
20 a waitress in a cafeteria. instead
OF the old formula; 'I say. Miss,
would you mind bringing me an
ice2"