Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-04-29

money, Inc atmosphere HdS
changed. Fun for funS sake ism I
fashionable any more and even
the lads who have landed mill
lion dollar contracts don't break
loose with the celebrations that
such events would have touched
off two years ago.
The playboys who were the
backbone Of Detrolts cafe
society arc gone, most OF them
in uniform. One of the stories
making the rounds concerns
Irving Goldman, who used 10
stir things up at the London
Chophouse.
Now. he's in Africa. but let
Ter from him, a few days ago.
told about some lump sugar that
was served in army mess IN
Africa. He got A lump still
wrapped in the London Chop
house wrapper.
All The lump sugar, u seems.
went 10 the army because tt
ships better. Back home, people
use graduated and tell stories
about the odd places that the
hump sugar shows up.
Replacing the gay blades are
an entirely new crop Of custom-
ers, grayer men with thicker
middles, and any free spender,
, tbs~e days, Is identified a. "a
tool and die man." whether or
not It's 10.
Unfortunately. some of these
gray haired gentlemen cause
moro trouble than the playboys
ever did and one maitre d'hotel
remarked shortly that when
they get three or four drinks.
they're harder In handle than
even q drunken woman" And
that's the supreme insult.
{ Flamboyant parties are gone.
The average check paid by the
customers is noticeably larger
and people who used TO take
beer and like II are. in many
cases. buying Mumms or Lam
son champagne at Sl5 IL and
when they can find it-one
customer bought whole case
Of Mumm's in one place Just so
I'll have IL in case / want ~
sometime" but they try 10 keep
such spending quiet.
Likewise. the society faces are
absent. They feel that II doesn't
look right TO 20 In for free
spending. Anyway. most Of them
ere genuinely hard at work these
Lays.
Two years ago. il was nothing
Ia have three or four smart
debutante parties in a single
day costing perhaps s. 900 each.
Now. the parties have almost
diSappearedD
Outlying places. true, took a
licking when gas rationlng came
in. but nearly all Of them are
still operating. from the demo-
cratic Palm Beach 10 the not
so-democratic Club Royale.
Some report that customers
are arriving by street car.
The cleaners ban on dress
clothes Is pretty much excess
baggage. Even last fall. the
dressiest Of the night spots, the
statler Terrace Room. had
hardly n black tie. let alone
white one, on Its opening night.
Nearly every place is hammer
Ing at its customers 10 buy war
bonds and the Wonder Bar is AZ
the moment trying 10 sell enough
bonds TO get a bombing plane
named Detroit Wonder Bar.
Two AVIS members from In
dian Village, Dorothy Lawrence
and Mrs. A. p. Ward. have sold
$500 worth in single week
leash cost, not maturity value)
Z and they think they'll get the
bomber.
81 Some. places have quit giving
thows but still have bands, al
Though Frank Gagen and Sam
'lDsbert say that the Detroit
.Fetnrsfion of Musicians lists
600 members who have left for
I'Hsz.
3 1fany who play In bands Mt
4 Night work In factories by day.
ivatchfng for only one thing.
lkfusictans are wary OF Jobs Mt
! which they might lose a finger.
j Worst OF all IS the help situa-
Hon, even the snootiest places
fesorting to calling the Howard
Street Mission for dishwashers,
and one proprietor. who finally
persuaded a waiter 10 60 10
work in his place, was flabber-
gasted when the man said con.
descendingly:
well, I'll work for you. But
send n cab over for me-"
Night life, in short, has