New Britain herald., 1930-10-30
Poets, Racketeers, Ribbon Clerks
 Attend Opening of New Night Club

New York, Oct. 30. (UP)-In that darkest hour that comes just be- fore the dawn Mile. Belle Livingston struck a blow today in her cam paign to reconcile Greenwich Village and Park avenue.
 She opened her new night club Ga mecca of merriment, Miss Liv- ingston calls iD and gathered around her beauty brains and bill Hons in the hope that they would commune as kindred spirits and re- vive the days of the French salons.
 "Come to my opening" Miss Liv- ingston had urged, and behold the lifting of the lid from my Pandora box of surprises, The savage, un- censored dances of the jungles of Africa. The titillating, tintinahulatinS secret excitations Of the Congo and the flesh -Shuddering. goose-creeplnS delicious horrors of the Grand Gulg- mol. Continental bizarrerie such as will be cayenne to the jaded mental tongue and pep up stomachs leather ed to syntheticism and minds lm- pOtenlZed by DdnalltS'
 Poets and Racketeers There
 Mademoiselle stood at the door and shouted welcome above the savage. uncensored music Of the jungle. Inside lounged 14 ribbon clerks 23 chorus girls, six racket eers, three poets (the brains from Greenwich Nillage) and a corpulent gentleman who was under suspicion of being millionaire. One poet. working under the lash of Miss Liv- ingston's tongue, was seated at a table penning q sonnet in purple ink, and his two colleagues leaned against the wall, thinking. Apparent ly the process was not at all pain ful because they smiled occasional ly. The millionaire was telling how he came to be millionaire, and the chorus girls were lifting and lower ing their limbs on the dance floor, keeping time to the uncensored music.
 More guests arrived until Mile. Livingston thought she had a repre- sentative mingling of the rich and the intellectual, whereupon the say age music ceased and she stepped into the glow of a golden spotlight. It was intensely dramatic as she lifted her arms for silence.
 Hostess Makes Oration
 "In this atmosphere of the piquant and beautiful" she acclaimed, it will be my aim to bring together the moneycd and the mental, both the aristocracy of Park avenue and of the intellect. I want to bring back to our time something of the camaraderie and joyance of the Nentian carnivals and the F'lorentin- ian fiestas-days when the opulent and colorful aristocracy fraternized with the shining spirits that made the world beautiful through poetry, philosophy. drama and art
 "Hooray," said the gentleman who had not yet been eXonerated of the charge of being a millionaire.
 "Hooray.' said the poets.
 Good Time Had by All
 Thus did Mile. Livingston's party continue, interspersed with speeches by her and "hoorays' by the guests. It was. experts agreed, the most suspicious night club opening since Helen Morgan first ascended piano. It was Miss Livingston's first ap- pearance on Broadway since her lamentable meeting with the sing ing prohibition agent who invaded and closed her former mecca of merriment. On that occasion. the prohibition agent-a stranger to everybody in the club-entered, seated himself at a table and, after absorbing the spirit of gayety, offer cd to sing. He gave them Mother Machree' in melting tenor. An en- core was demanded and he Obligins- ly rendered "Where the River shan non Flows" and there wasn't q dry eye in the house.
 Please" implored Mile. Living ston, "Please sing When Irish Eyes Are Smiling."
 T can't, lady" said the prohibi-