The Washington times., 1923-01-24
TURN
VILLAGE INTO
CABARET.
Bohemians Join Conservatives
in Fight on Greenwich
Tea Rooms.
By WARD GREENE,
rosmonolikan News Service.

Cosmopolitan News Service.
NEW YORK, Jan. 24.-War blazed
in Greenwich Village today after de-
tectives yanked ten prapcing couples
off Cushman's smoke-fogged dance
floor. The papers call 1t casual
raid; confidentially. it's the first shot
in funny fight, where Art and
Convention, old enemies, are leagued
to GUST giddy Youth from the cellars
and studios around Sheridan Square.
"The Village il being turned into
huge cabaret by children who
ought to be spanked and put to bed,
the secretary Of the Village chamber
Of commerce Informed me in earnest
tones. "One OF those girls at Cllsh-
mans was fifteen, none over eight
cen. Two of the boys were Prince
ton students. That's the crowd that
burns the candles I'm the tea rooms
now. The old residents and business
men are sick OF this jazz-booze-ciga-
rette gang. The artists and writer's
are with us in this fight, too"
The quaint part Of 1t 10 that he's
right. The Bohemian who used to
scrap against the conservatives now
are scrapping on their side. The
editor OF the Quill tells me Theodore
Dresser, Floyd Dell, Edna. st. Vim
cent Millay, and other serious work
ers who still hang their hats and
smocks below Fourteenth street. are
just as bitter as the chamber of COM
merce against the goings-on I'm Viii
lage tea rooms and trotteries.
What a picture? Bohemia and
business hand in hand; free thinkers
and right thinkers conspiring to-
gether; Rabbit and Carol Kennicott
Trying to shoe Scot Fitzgerald's
1IQnn0F~@
street, Manhattan Leave it to New
York to produce the unusual-even
In Greenwich Village.
A new Broadway cabaret has Gov.
cred all its chairs with old-fashioned
cnlntz tides" They say Lillian
Lauferty (the famous Beatrice Fair.
faO exclaimed: How perfectly
charming! Imagine such a touch
on Broadway" when she was there
the opening night. Whereupon the
waiter lifted the chintz on one side
or the chair and revealed the big
loea-a pocket attachment lust
roomy enough to hide a quart bottle
nicely.
We just can't keep off bus.tops.
Iney are the best place in New
York for lazy Illumination. This
morning, from the upper end of
riverside drive to Forty second
street, we saw
"A girl on the causeway over One
hundred and Twenty-fifth street,
wig-wagging with her arms fo a
sailor, on a destroyer in the Hud-
son; wonder II she said, Love and
kisses, honey!' or Shut your sena-
phore, You big gobr'
Sightseers before Grants tomb.
VIII Rogers says his wife wanted to
see two things on her first trip to
New York, Grants tomb and Ca.
russo. VIII liked Grants tomb best
because he had to go inside the
Metropolitan and he could stand
outside and smoke when he saw the
Kids sliding down the snowy ter.
race in front OF Charlie Schwab's
home; policeman looking the other
way; little girl on the Schwab We.
randa watching wistfully between
the high steel fence.
Marie Doro. who has the most
beautiful brown eyes in New York,
getting into e. limousine on Fifth
avenue, probably on her way to her
occulist's; they say she is 50 near
sighted she watches" her audiences
only by their sounds.
Very pretty girl tripping out Of the
Gould mansion; must be little Gloria
Gould, who Is only sixteen, lives
there by herself, is worth millions
and makes her stage debut at Car.
neg1e Hall next month in Greek
dances.
Russians Cabling and gestering in
front of the Plaza. They've just come
from that trick restaurant around
the corner, where they make a meal
on "borsch." a soup cooked of beets
and sour cream.
Bookstore window advertising Zane
Grey's last novel of the breezy West.
Wonder how many Of his readers
know Zane was born in Ohio. edu.
Gated in Pennsylvania, played semi.
pro baseball in New England, prac.
ticed dentistry in New York and
never saw the West till he was
twenty-three? Well, o. Henry began
1.-The Four Million" after he had been
here a week.