The Washington times., 1934-07-31
Drinking Changes

pOAO6S 4oSoV SA4N0JS 0NS SsAA~
the serene surroundings and
studied customers. And pom
dered over the change in our
drinking habits since repeal. :.
For I am in a position to OBJ
serve and I can tell you this.
Except in isolated instances, I
have seen few cases Of extreme
imbibing and certainly much
less drunkenness around these
places. What surprises me,
however, is that with wines
reasonably priced, there is not
so much of it in sight at tables
patrons still adhering to their
hard drinks-and to beer, OF
course.
1 run into illustrator Henry
Give, Thursday night, and he
comments upon the many out
lets for the artists work these
days. Time was when the
painter or illustrator sought a
patron or q magazine for his
work and cOntented himself
with that. Today, Give points
out, even the best and foremost
artist is eager for commercial
wOrk-for bill posters or news
paper advertising or magazine
advertising, regardless of the
product. ."YOu get more for a
drawing that you turn out for
q garter or soft drink firm
than the old timers got some
times for a years wOrk-the
spirit may chafe but, the
stomach is filed. AT Zelli'S
Tuesday night, white-haired
Charles Winninger drifts by,
florid-cOmplected and spry-
still among the finer Of our
veteran performers. AT the bar
stands, Ralph Wonders in a pen
sfve mood and seated at a table
is Marjorie de Voc (MrS. Harry
ROSenthaD, one Of the prettieSt
women in town.
At the Casino de Pnree Tues
day night ] passed Dorothy
MGckGiIL on her DGy out, slim
and IoveIy, and much thinner
than 1Dhe1t I last SGtD her some
three or four months ago. Peter
Arno is do1Dn front 1Dith Ed
Mori. "Prettiest girls in the
1UorZd right here in NeD York,
nothing like them Gny1Dhere," he
nIurnINrS as ColIette Frances
settles dolDn near him. Arno
has a story to tell of the enter
priSiNg gent 1DEo detieS depreS-
sion By getting orders that run
from a half million to a million
of his products. He sells jelly
beans, so laugh politely and
neglect to inform the cGrtooniSt
hoW long ago the story aDGS told
on the stage.
The following night, in the
same place, one long table at
which sit Producer Lew Brown,
Singer Belle Baker, Writer
Harry Akst, Composer Lew Al
ter, Producer Ben Stein, Hotel
man Nathan Kramer and his
bride, Lillian, the Eugene B.
RodneyS Of New Haven, Yerrni
Stern, and Ben Platt, jr. Later
that evening, in Kings Terrace,
where I feel something of sad
ness as watch Mildred Harris
Chaplin and listen to her little
songs. Still a beautiful and
talented woman, but hard luck
has stalked her ever since she
ceased to be the wife Of the
great cinema comedian.
Beautiful and placid-faced
Helen Wills Moody sits in the
b. r. Music Hall Monday
night with Frank CrOwinShield
and Condo Mast and watches
the movie short Of herself, the
first shot, she insists, she has
seen Of herself in action while
abroad. Doesn't my little dog
look cute?" she whispers. At
Leon and Eddie's Thursday
night, Movie Critics Regina
Crewe, Julia Shawell, Carica-
turist Irving Hoffman, Press
Agent Marc Lachmann, Writer
Herb CruickShank sit and
listen while Publisher Billy
WilkersOn just in from the
coast discusses the decency
drive.
At another table, is Sports
Editor William FGrnSUorth and
Walter st. Denis, and leaning
against the bar is young Dun-
can MGcMGrtin, the Canadian
millionaire, 1DI1oSe marriage 1Uith
francesca Carey is ending so
diSGStroHSly. Monday night,
together tDith ScuIptreSS ST.
sGnne SilDercruyS and Cartoon
tst CIeGRtte Carr, / sit at the
Stork Club and listen Uhile the
tho tDonIen of artistic tendencies
discuss tDorld politics and try
to add a bright remark here
and there, but find myself
lEoWndering tDoetully endeGUor-
ing to match them. Fortunate
ly. 1UE1iIe I'm stumbling oUer the
, European situation, someone
, comes oUer to inform me Bill
, CorNm is hGUing a birthday Sun
day. and I Immediately engage
the chap In d lengthy discourse