The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-11-11
-M- NezO York
nv PAUL HARRISON

New York.-While controlled conviviality turks just around the corner with December and for- mai repeal, the hot-spots are mak- ing hey-hey while the sun shines. The lid has come off with a loud pop, and the resulting efferves- cence is reminiscent of the clos ing days of the previous era-Just before prohibition.
 Practically every club is serving liquor openly; so are many Of the l taverns and tap-rooms, and some of the better hotel dining rooms. | Speakeasies are taking the latches off their doors. Everyone seems of the opinion that there is considerably more liberty and li- cense now than there will be after repeal.
 For example, the Merry Go-Round," which not so
 long ago was being raided
 with discouraging regularity, now is one of the places which will admit anyone
 from your Aunt Minnie to a sight seeing prohibition agent. This is the establish ment, on East Fifty-Sixth
 street, where guests perch on carousel horses and ride
 slowly Gone revolution every
 eleven minutes) around the
 circular bar. Food also IS
 served, but on substantial l tables.
 Then there's the Cafe des Beaux Arts, which became . hide away rendezvous with the advent of prohibition. Recently, old pa- irons who remember 1t as one of the most colorful of dining spots in earlier days, have discovered that it is flourishing anew at the same old stand. Another place in the sMerry-Go-R Round" category is the Kings Terrace, a Broad wayish establishment with gawdy decor and lively entertainment that verges on the, rowdy. It's latch-string is out to anyone these nights.
 Music Halls Flourish
 There are important stirrings in the music-hall business, with several openings promised for early in December. Most preten- tious is the Casino de Paree, which is being set among the. glories of the New Yorker theater. Tables. booths and boxes are being in- stalled, together with three big bars and an enlarged stage on which the customers will dance between acts of the show. .. The Manhattan Casino is another of the spacious places which are expected to hasten the doom of small, intimate night clubs. :. And third, the International MusicsHall already Is in operation, with a two-hour show featuring Russian. Hungarian, German, I SpaniAh, Yiddish, French and American entertainers.
 Hotels to Profit
 Hotels, too, which used to en- joy such large proportion of the carriage trade, now are refurnish- ing their grills with chromium and other evidences of modernity, and are carrying up their graceful glassware and champagne buckets from the basements Among the most striking are the Continental grill of the St Moritz, with Leon lBelasco; the Biltmore Casino Bleau. high-hat and high-priced; the seaglades at the St Moritz, excel lent but even more costly; the Elm pire Room at the Waldorf-Astoria, last word in luxury and expenses. !. The Paramount Hotel Grill, is huge, gay and gawdy, with Phil Spitalny's music, trapeze-ballet for a. floor show, and generous sprinkling of Broadway characters. |. Barney Rapp provides the tunes at the Hotel New Yorker's Terrace restaurant, and the prices are lower than you'd guess. :.
 Especially popular with the col- llegiate crowd is the Park Gen. tral's Cocoanut Grove, which is full of trees and thickets and pa pier-mache monkeys and monkey shines and Ozzie Nelson's music. The low tariff Is another feature q |. Two places to see some of the better-known people of the theater are the Algonquin Supper club and the Actors Dinner club. The former hasn't much of regu- lar show, but visiting celebrities of ten> help out with the entertain ment. Lends a pleasant inform ality. The Actors Dinner club, now at the Hotel Woodstock, is the place where jobless perform CTS take turns waiting table and are served free meals. And Broad ways biggest stars take turns ap- bearing in the show.