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J j i I y 9 fr 1 1 Y J 1 R e I t y J r If r By Pierre Raville OME Ol one called these last days the twilight S of booze No matter what you call caU them the days das of naughty drink are arc ng r r an end 1 I t t It Is a dramatic interval A thousand features of life Hie arc supposed supposed- s reformers and conservative e sociologists insist that sI s the supposition is inaccurate to to be built upon or I J f around wicked liquor t. t In fact both sides in the momentous contra contra- versy are in one way agreed agreed that that booze is basic One side says that booze is the basis of all evil or r at all events affords a mighty foothold for formost J most of the ills of life The other insists that it belongs to fundamental liberty liberty- and that if it is isI is I Y pulled away the structure of good cheer and fellowship fel leI t will tumble down The End of the Tether No need to say ay which side is occupied by gay White Ways wherever they may be located and the gay part of N New ew York is no exception Frivolous olous and festal N New ew York after being seized by a paroxysm of horror has set about using the interval until July 1 as it might go about the business of dying game Ga Gay New York has begun to have its last fling The prospect beyond is so 50 dreadful that sometimes some some- times there is an effect of the pathetic in the preparations for the flinging flinging flinging-as if as a execution execution execution exe exe- cution had b ben en fixed and the condemned were told to go as far as he liked until that time Eat drink and be merry for tomorrow we die Oh yes yes yes' New York is being beinS merry but very often it seems to me as if the die part of it were really too vivid a vision altogether The White Way is going to be one last fling w after another until the curfew 1 So much of the White Way presumes upon k w booze boole rink shines so vividly in the midst of BO so 0 many of the pictures its strange civilization has built up that the imagination is simply staggered by any effort to picture it as existing with any II other central motive Just now while the White Way passes from jest to brooding and and from from brooding to flinging j. j the great question is What shall be done to give ithe the he departing spirit of conviviality a fitting exit t How Far May It Go The White Way Nay is wondering how far g going ing as far as it likes really is It is wondering whether a paternal govern govern- n ent ent will wilI relax its it- fatherly severity in remember remember- J ing that the c children ildren g are re to go o un under er a severe naster er some time later and whether the last fling 4 ma may not be quite an extraordinary and matter 4 so Surely says the Cabaret we can do as we wease please ase for this little time Sur Surely l says the Spectacular Barwe e loosen ca cart can p up a bit on the question of hours of closing and with t l re regard to little matters like Sunday L I Surely say the Clubs that dance or toy with chips we may have o it out while yet there is the time honored lubricant Maybe rl e they are right Perhaps the guardians of public and private propriety will look the other way until July 1 after I after which of course there is V an In n assumption that there will be nothing more to lo be seen I It may depend upon whether high spirits keep within reasonable bounds When there is is an eke elec- a New Year an armistice or something New York becomes hysterical and extremely boyish v r Rules 1 are suspected of not applying under such circumstances Are the last days of b I an t i. i even greater excuse 1 Who can tell teU 1 y New York itself is wondering In the midst t of or the present not tot at all violent gayety there is a whispered wonder as ns to what is going to io happen to later r on OD 0 The Social Socia Whirl 4 qT M Meanwhile too there is an extraordinary of cf picturesque and fantastic mul mul- events social with Society 0 n a big biJ S and a little extremely animated and one one-is in resource r J t L' L 1 1 t t i r 1 I l tv r iJ I l t YV lr I 0 r 1 j t 1 The Frenzied Fakirs have have had a ball baIl and others more frenzied are coming The Moulin Rouge ball had a big opera l house ouse setting A group of the famous illustrators illustrators illus illus- have had a ball with ball with a swimming tank in which beautiful models disported themselves An Oriental ball with a Masque of the Moon and a Feast of a Thousand Thousand Thou Thou- sand Lanterns with Japanese dancers a j Four Arts Ball these Ball these are arc only the beginning beginning beginning begin begin- ning of a a series that will stretch toward that fateful summer day One of the most fashionable of or recent fetes with patronesses from the nobility was a festival of colonial costumes which had an historical and pictorial charm in quite a distinguished degree This is 15 not to say a word about the tIle festivals which come each year year like like the Emerald Ball BaU which was so brilliant event this year year and and which are an expected in many numy instances to be a trifle different in that stretching far later time when everything everything every every- thing festal is is expected to take on an obscurely obscurely ob ob- ob- ob changed cast It It be may Y that will wU not be greatly they different that humanity will wIl find a way of being New Y with- with i J it i I t y B. B 1 b ht h i. i J ti if V yo r h J U Ji I 1 wa f. f g sefiK n a I A Sprite r t 3 Reflecting R I II f w y ti the thc I Stage to i f l C r 1 Th s sk k r k S 'S rN P r T N f Sop t rJ f t 1 tt k J lIi o I Jj 1 nu r 1 Photo Pho o Sy y 37 OL 4 J 1 I r r I 4 v c i y P PH H TP c y y t py Vr Y y ys i s K GU N 0 f fout out its champagne The point is that every everyone one is is expecting some sort of oi sudden and unthinkable unthinkable able change you change you would think that even a six- six minute to railroad lunch counter nibble nibble- was goi going g be metamorphosed somehow by the change now looming The psychologists ought to have a lot of fun studying humanity in n a booze storm centre at I th the time of or such a change Of course they have done this already in one ono state after another ye yet I 1 doubt if they er ever have done it in a scene quite like New Yorks York's setting This may show that tha Jer 1 rat me 10 1919 ID r 7 Rt L 4 n rI r i Above bove A Contrasting Pair Pair at the he C Frenzied Fakirs' Fakirs r I t Bbl Ball 1 On the he Le Left Two of the the Leading Fun- Fun f makers at the t Famous Artists' Artists Ya dr Ball Ban Held Sa in the theArt theArt tt 1 I Ir r Art Capital t ry 4 i of New Yorks York's f i fi r Bohemia w I. I r rI r. r I Y f j if x t tl g I am partaking of New NewYork's ew Yorks York's feeling for the special t and nd p peculiar u I dOff difference 1 In in 1 its t S rf situation You may may tell teU me ur r u i that it isn't t different 1 eren t a at t all 1 all all- that oJ you ou have seen people I elsewhere tea wait it for the world 1 I to come to an nn end and fi find nd j I l that it simply didn't come to toan toan an end But But well well you ought to see bee N New ew York face its last fling g. g Really you ou should It Itis t Is a a study And it will be c still more mor of a stud study if certain certain tain thin prophecies come true An old New Yorker Yorker Yorker-he he real realty y was born in New York fork Ei an and l s be some some- somewhere somewhere where elsei els s like most born New says Yorkers Yorkers says HY You u see as Ne New Y York lk will have no more beer after April 1st a a staggering joke the joke the metropolis will be on a whiskey whiskey whis whis- ke key basis bash from then on until the curtain is rung down What will happen if all those who resent being deprived of their ther beer drown their sorrow in ill the hal hard d stuff Add t this is possibility to the sor- sor sorrowing rowing rowin of the regular hard liquor drinkers Add tp these those who are going to make merry at att atthe t the e wal wake e and you have a n convivial prospect But it wont won't be he for long N New w York will sober up and slink into line I e believe l it will have an extraordinary ex ex- fling but it will willon only on be a fling Afew A Afew few weeks and it all an will be e o over er Then New York r J Jr r Photo Litin Li AP tin T t k r. r 1 ka i. i J. J a tt Jr J r 1 i A A. Striking Costume Worn Vorn by One of of the Beauties at the Frenzied 5 5 Fakirs Fakirs' Ball ot 4 i will begin to find ways of being convivial without without without with with- out booze It will find that booze wasn't as I necessary necessary aSI it thinks it is to most of olife o oJ life hie it has accepted It will find as other cities cities' have found that grog isn't indispensable It will keep on howling it will live Hye in secret joy on its secret ec ret supplies but it will vill learn to adjust itself at last to cheer that doesn't hurt hurt or or let us say that doesn't hurt anybody's feelings I 6 |