Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1922-06-10

| munity life, and scores of them in New
York are putting in cushioned seats around
the soda fountain, or stocking up with
| tables and chairs where there Is room,
and keeping open until long after mid.
| night. The closing of the saloon and
the shifting Of movement away from
| pastry shops have given the chemists
| a new lease Of life. At first it looked
as If the delicatesseners would fall heir
| to the homer, and for a time in Gotham
they did get strong play, but the
| odors Of the cooked meats. the openly
displayed prepared salads proved too
much for the olfactory organs of the
| public.
| Many discovered eating after midnight
was harmful to the digestive organs. In
| the last six months there has been a
gradual settling Of custom to accept the
/, drug store as the legitimate and only
proper successor of the saloon. Through
| the ght-light belt the drug stores are
crowded far Into the morning hours,
and the time-Worn question where shall
meet your" now has for its universal
| response. "at the drug store"
What liquors are legally sold under
a physicians prescription are handed
over the counters of some drug stores.
The drug addicts find soiace for their
cravings in haunting the proximity OF
the rows and rows Of drug Jars, and
even IL they cannot procure the SNOW
to snuff up the nostrils or the shot
for the hypo needle, they like to come
| In and hang around the place 1t is
| possible for them In certain places will
| Ing to take the risk TO obtain their
| pleasure poison. Today one can buy
! most anything in drug store. the drugs
| themselves forming the smallest item in
| TIE days sales. Just take notice from
| now on and watch the steady growth
| in Importance a center for congrega,
| ton Of the drug store
| There Is cabaret place in Broadway
called The Tent. which reveals Ger
! tain cleyerness In catering TO public
/ taste. Jack Lenigan. the Celtic pro-
/ prietor, for years was q crack cutter in
Fifth avenue tailoring shop. He passed
I his evenings around the Broadway dis
! trict, ard upon different lines. His
psychology was that wealthy people pos
sessing old masters upon their walls and
( fine firaplaces. would flock to resort
4 that represented the antithesis of what
/ they were accustomed TO In their homes
Lenigan conceived a resort with saw
dust on the floor, Turkey red table COW
ers and roughly dressed persons hang
ing about with a ramshackle elevator
doing the lifting honors. Then he hired
a woman who had figured 6enSationally
In the newspapers and her husband to
come and perform nightly the Apache
lance-Peggy March. who sued the great
Fields family or Chicago and her hus-
band, Buster Johnson, member Of the
late Tom Johnson Of Cleveland-and
threw open his doors.
| Another case where 4 mind guessed
4 right-the rich fast set are flocking 10
Lenigan, and an ordinary mortal cannot
get into The Tent with a shoehorn.
While the local dailies have been de-
nouneiny he gubernatorial candidacy Of
William Randolph Hearst on their edi-
torial pages, they have been publishing
In the news columns and picture page
his portrait surrounded by his becom-
+ ing and approving family. That old trio
Of political wiseacres. Charley Steckler,
Billy Clark and Ernest Harvier, in the
amen corner OF the Waldorf again re-
terated there Is nothing in the Hearst
candidacy but personal advertising and
never was.
( 1t was said If Hearst was really out
! for the office he would never appear TO
seek the support of Tammany. THAT IS
! right said Harvier In 1915 John
Kelley was the undisputed leader Of
Tammany and he sent General OMailey.
( his confidential Representatives, to see
Governor Tilden. who was candidate
/ for the Democratic nomination for
President Mr.. Tilden was found in his
Gramercy Park home. GenerN Malley
I told him the conditions und& which
Tammay would suppcrs him for the
7 va, iaS
NJ T'as' ra ~ al spsse IL T. q
Louis convention ~ only way you can
he Of service saldt he Governor. offer
ing the gensal cigar"
How would you like TO put In thirty
seven years atteH ding first nights nj the
theaters. and on top Of that every Sat-
urday Mt re-seeing some show you liked
Mt the opening: That has been the fate
Of George Mayer. the corset manufacturer,
who lives with his mother in seventy
Eighth street.
Mr. Mayer has taken more punish ment,
always seated in the first row of the
center aisle. through all sorts Of wea Their.
In season and out of season than any
living New Yorker. When one stops TO
contemplate what he must have suffered
T
ayers owe him gold medal Seated at
his side through It all has been a little
French doll sort Of person, gray haired
and soft voiced. Not his wife. fer Mr.
Mayer has never married. You have
guessed this mother.
Mr.. Mayer began as first niGhter'
when he was nineteen years old and the
only openings he has missed have been
those falling upon the nights when two
or more shows duplicated. As he invar-
iably sticks until the final curtain, Mr.
Mayer never has tried the plan Of taking
in parts of different shows, practice
common with some of the dramatic
critics. Actors and actresses have come 70
look eagerly for him at the openings. and
thus far he has been right there in the
same seat for nearly two score of years.
His features are as familiar to those back
of the footlights as the features OF Chief
Justice Taft OF President Harding
That Is why his friends are making
such to-do over the failure of one theat-
rical manager to have him painted on
curtain representative of New York first
nighters, which has been attracting at
tention In theater West of Broadway
In the Forties.
Edith Helena, high soprano now sing
ing Keith time. has come forward as the
champion of the whaleboned stays as
woman's hest friend If she hoDDenS TO be