The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-01-28
NIGHT CLUBS OF NEW YORK HOWL
 THEIR DISGUST
By HARRY FERGUSON United Press Staff COrrcSDOn(lcnt)

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 New York, Jan 2S-U. P.) - Leaders of New York's night life marshalled their battle lines just be- fore going to bed this morning to oppose the attempt of police Com missioner Edward Mulrooney to close all night clubs at 1 a. m., and make this city "cleaner and sweeter place."
 The commissioner. aroused by the fact that Charles (Chink) sherman, known as an intimate of the late Arnold Rothstein, was pistolled in the Club Abbey promptly at sunrise the other morning, announced yes- terday that the time had arrived when, as he phrased it, steps must be taken. He proposed that all clubs should close at 1 a. m., even those which have carried on until 6 a. m., and he further deposed that he would take the matter up with the legislature if necessary.
 Just before dawn to-day Mir Harry Itfchman, an acquaintance of Miss Clara Bow of Brooklyn and Holly wood, interrupted a ballad in the Club I3ichman to announce that he was ready to run tilt with Commits sioner Mulrooney In fact, he was eager. In the middle of the band box floor of his night club on West 56th street he had been discoursing, with the assistance of an orchestra, on the pleasure of Wandering Down A Vagabond Road" He said you could take all your cities your gold and your wealth; could take every thing but leave me my health and let me wander down vagabond road"
 He came off the vagabond road al- most instantaneously when Commis- sioner Mulrooney's name was men, toned.
 Don't get me wrong" warned Mir Richman, I'm a friend of Commits sioner Mulrooney and I think he is a man of judgment. Unfortunately his judgment has lapsed in this matter. Why, how can people go to the the ater and get to Q night club in time for more than one dance if we have to close at on o'clock?"
 MT Richman paused for an ans- wer, but since there was none avail able, he continued:
 Tt will mean that clubs will have to go out of business and that the night club of this town will be ruin- ed. Think of 1t! ruined!'
 Even the orchestra paused while we thought of it.
 "I", continued MT Richman, twill lead crusade against this move. Sword in hand, will fight it to the end"
 From other sources came the mutt ter of discontent. Mile Belle Living stone, author, artist and ,one-time possessor of the 'most poetic legs in the world" paused in the midst of her book with Livingston Through Darkest America" and an- nounced that she, too, thought MT Mulrooney was an excellent police-, man but that he could never put this thing across. With ink-stained fingers she gestured and related how her salon-which once was raided by willy prohibition agent who wormed his way into her confidence by sing ing Irish songs in a melting tenor would never succumb to such a law without fight.
 As dawn stained the sky with crim son Miss Texas Guinan was still un- available to the press, but persons in her confidence indicated that she would go marching against Commis- sioner Mulrooney even as she did against federal officers who raided her club and brought her to trial several months ago. Need it be said that Miss Guinan was acquitted then? What is mere police com missioner to her?