The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-05-15
By WESTBROOK PEGLER. (Leased Wire to Age.Herald)

NEW YORK, May 14.-Five years late in arriving, prohibition landed in New York Wednesday afternoon. and gave Broadway swift kick on the hip pocket with a copper-toed boot that smashed the flask. Just as the walters and hat-snatchers and the bob-haired banditti who sell the 20-cent cigarettes for a half a dollar were reporting for what is technically known as their work, in nine cabarets and nightclubs, United States Marshal Hecht rolled along the street in big car, personify- ing prohibition.
 When he got to Forty eighth street he drew over to the curb, moored his machine in the spot. formerly occupied by old Mississippi's hack, and walked to the door of the famaous Palais Royal, where Paul Whiteman's band used to animate the feet and shoulder blades of the skeptics who had heard of prohibition but had never seen any thing that looked like it.
 This is the PaIais Royal, isn't it?'' He inquired of the doorman who was just crawling into the manificent blue and gold uniform which made Marshal Foch seem trifle dowdy the last time he was here. It lS, Sdlu lue uOOrulhH.
 'It Was"
 You mean it was" said Mir Hecht. who is, a great joker, as he riffled a sheaf of paper slips into hand and picked out one of them which he posted on the door.
 Now" Mir. Hecht invited, ''would you rather walk ont or be thrown out? Because l mean to imply that you are no longer the doorman of the Palais Royal"
 ''The joint is -"
 'Pinched you learn fast, don't you ?,'
 The little slip of paper was what is known as a Paddock Notice" It came from United States Judge Luse and ii ordered that the premises of the Palais Royal, the proudest palace of the boot leg royality who owned the Broadway cabaret trust should remain closed and untenanted by any business, legal or otherwise, until May IA, 1925.
 May Pop Up Again
 Well, l must tear myself away said the marshal, don't take in any that, like William Jennings Bryan, l may pop up again when you think you've seen the last of me-"
 The marshal got back in his car and rode along to the Plantation. Mfr. Hecht pasted notice on the notice on the door of the Plantation, too. Then he hurried along to the Mou- lin Rouge, the Mont Martre, the club Royale, the Balmoral club, the Barn club, the 400 club and finally, the club Gallant, conducted by Barney Gal. lant' down in Greenwich. village. If yOu 20 hack n week to the closing fhe ring, cabaret in which Benny Leon ard, the lightweight champion, was said to have had an interest, that makes i ten of these stations that have been removed from the route of the evening tourist in New York, leaving perhaps no more than 40 or 50 places in which l boy or girl may dance between drinks of an evening.
 Walters Strike To Blame A walters strike was responsible for 1 the misfortune of the cabaret trust which owned the Palais Royal and sev- eral other institutions which were closed for a year Wednesday,. afternoon. Gil Boag, the husband of Gilda Gray, the shimmy dancer, formed the trust in partnership with Jimmy Thompson and Paul Salvin a few years ago, just after prohibition had ecome effective elsewhere.
 At that time all the old cabaret | owners were scared and weres getting out of the business, thinking prohibit tion might strike New York, but Boag, Thompson and Salvin watched them quit one by one and followed along after them, picking up their leases and their trade. After about four years of