Show Th Tha a clE m B f tf V VW W 1 I Ill Illi i I ui C k Y III I II I 1 I IIII I II I it I II II x i v ild Kevels in which Fashionable y h l i r Beauties Drink and Carouse With 4 44 u ll l lI Doe Fiends Bur lays Pick I Q the Underworld z I h s r f 4 J i t J f- f fj j Y 4 I 1 c V j i Sylvia Goodman the wealthy London lawyers lawyer's daughter 7 s hl q V il I whose recent mysterious disappearance is believed believed- to I r p I have followed her introduction to the dissipations of ofa a r rI y S 'S night club of dubious reputation K i I LONDON LL the wild young men arid and gay ALL A young women who set the pace walk walk- walking walking for the life are ing softly these days waiting for tor an outraged public to forget the Donkey Donley Derby of Leicester Square re All AU the canny night club proprietors are dropping those snappy novelties and and specialties that figured so largely in the programs a few months ago go Sporty debutantes and nestly 1 precocious sub debs are earnestly earnestly ear- ear nestly pater and the tho mater that they never frolicked at the notorious Frivolity Club or anyway hardly ever Preachers are viewing with i j the the utmost alarm Editors sare I are writing in the gloomiest possible vein sy Y t t 7 Everywhere th the forces of convention convention and propriety are being being mo mobilized for a war to r the death with the underworld underworld under- under v world more specifically with i f those representatives of tho the underworld underworld who i dress for dinner dinner haunt the tho clubs and masquerade 1 masquerade as bohemians before the seeking romance-seeking rr daughters of the upper class i In the meantime Mr Frank Ellis the unwitting means oi a no means innocent cause of it but by means J all is nursing a grievance For doing what many many another night nightclub 4 clu club impre r o is only doing doing only a little littlemore more so so-be 80 he has been lampooned from one end of the country to the other as the most moat sinister sort of malefactor He has been deprived deprived of his license as owner host and master of the revels at atthe atthe atthe the Club Frivolity Newspapers have exhumed his past and proved he is an inmate inmate ex-inmate of the Old Bailey and once one was known as the ablest butler burglar butler in the profession Just as he was get ting started respectable like too as Ellis himself points out The public in in- in indignation in that followed the raid on his club has bas pretty thoroughly ruined him Many months ago ago the ex turned up in is London London with considerable cash and an idea that there was big I mones W to ta be De made is in ii V o op- op mones W De V money mone crating a really speedy night club Backers of unimpeachable unimpeachable ch able ablo integrity were obtained ob- ob obtained ob obtained and the Frivolity was opened in Leicester Square From the lust first it paid And also from the first it attracted a de de- de decidedly de mixed clientele Which was the reason an unimaginative police potice ser ser- sergeant ser sergeant geant finally decided to lace a v visit ro t f A t r t r- r rd 1 d ft t t tt 4 4 41 1 i l tJ I v w Jt s 1 This Thi costume co turne worn by Mlle Mile Spindly at one of the most reputable of London's London night clubs is declared by the police to have been outdone in daring by those worn by guests and enter enter- entertainers entertainers entertainers at many disreputable resorts pay V- V VEarly Early one fog foggy London morning this fall police potice in to plain clothes bearing cre- cre credentials ere cre credentials obtained by methods best known to themselves presented their cards to the reformed Mr Ellis and were a admit admitted ted to his temple of mirth and jollity What they saw and told later caused an explosion in London society that will not cease cense to echo for months to come In the dust dry style stylo of conscientious conscientious conscientious police officers they have described revels that would s seem m moro morn natural if witnessed o on on Flushed and cx excited daughters of vicars and city baronets dancing dancing anc- anc S ing the latest steps with dapper drug addicts in evening Pretty matrons of old county families exchanging small aU talk and powder boxes with women of the town Soft Soft footed footed waiters just out of prison gliding gilding ingratiatingly among the hun hun- hundred hundred hundred dred strangely assorted guests I Ellis alumnus of the Old Baile Bailey and time andone-time time one butler-burglar butler of renown smil smil- smilIng smil- smil smiling smiling ing like tike the tho Cheshire cat upon clients who may have been among his professional professional victims in the days of his bur bur- burgling bur bur- burgling burgling gling and and As for the rest the now intern Internationally internationally tion- tion ally notorious Donkey Derby h here re is the initial entry on the police blotter co con concerning i- i it While we were there we observed To wind mind up ap the early morning 11 1 l l cl r I 1 revelry at a club later closed by I 11 I I the thi police a number of donkeys ll II I II I were brought in Mounted on these I Ill l l I scantily clad society beauties and 1 women of the underworld raced around the dancing floor to the great of th hilarious onlookers onlooker a number of donkeys led into the club and out on the ballroom floor Waiters known to us as dubious characters held them while young I women in various stages of undress mounted them 1 Among the women w were re ladies ladles of fine family and reputation andi and J II i women of no reputation at all At the crack of a whip they were off around the ballroom floor They called S called it the Donk Donkey y Derby V VIn In conversation with reporters Ithe the police potice have elaborated upon this I I j official description There were atI at I least a dozen women jockeys in therace the tho race race Some of them were scantily clad indeed And be it noted the women of the town did not outstrip the i women of society before the weighing in in Virtually all aU the girls had V been been drinking according to the tho raiders Some of them tarried champagne bottles with them when they climbed aboard their mounts and ased used the bottles to urge the eyed pop eyed terrified little ani ani- ani anin orals mals n ah on At the turns naturally there thero were several spills London donkeys are sophisticated sophis- sophis l from their long association association asso- asso association with coster mongers but sprinting on waxed wood floors is not ot among t their accomplish accomplish- ac ish ments When a girl fell a male volun volun- volunteer volunteer volunteer teer would drag her lier away from the fly fly- flying flying fly flying ing heels of her indignant donkey stand her upright and help her to find her clothes Occasionally the gallant would be bo a ayoung ayoung ayoung young university man on the loose for forthe forthe forthe the evening Occasionally he would be bea bea bea a notorious drug peddler or a quick quick moving moving eyed shifty lightning fingered lightning lightning fingered pickpocket There seems to be doubt as to which of the half dressed girls was first to the wire in the weird Derby Shortly after the end after end after Mr Ellis and his assistant judges had declared a winner the winner the po- po police po police lice began to act Nearly all the customers had liquor of some sort in front of them though it was after hours the police told Mr Ir Graham Graham Campbell Campbell the Bow Street magistrate Many of them were a bit on they added while a few were well away and slept soundly through the excite excite- excitement excitement excite ment ment attendant on the closing of the club None of the tho society girls found in the place was taken to a police sta- sta station station sta station tion Nor were their escorts Nor the ladies of the were evening who were T laet u is IKI w bJ Jol 1010 r v a y J J jc 7 k ka w P f S a 4 i Peggy Scott Scott Lord de Clif who came to ford whose via vis- grief when she its to a night began to frequent clubs of the club ended in lower class and finally killed her his marrying self selfon on hearing of the death ofra of ra 3 the daughter of her friend Rudolph Valentino its notorious I their companions A few suspects of undoubted underworld were taken away but most of them have since been released until next time Played up a at first by the London newspapers because of its element of the comic and bizarre the Donkey Derby has become a crusading symbol in inthe inthe the drawing rooms of London The words arouse the tho proper and conven conven- conventional conventional conventional as a bugle all caU cal stirs the ardor of a soldier It is u not that some reckless young things from Mayfair went slumming Always there has been curiosity among amons the well born bom concerning the way the theother theother theother other half lives It is that in this case and other cases the gilded young men and adventurous young women of the upper classes have been not merely with underworld characters but of them If the boys and girls of Mayfair had been merely looking on while enter enter- entertainers entertainers entertainers were call galloped around the room in their lingerie the thin thing might be ex- ex excused excused ex excused But the spectacle of high born high women taking part in such a pagan rout v lea IH for tor the amusement of of among other earnest young sneak thieves and second second- story second story men is not soon to be forgotten Respectable people are only infuriated the more by the Frivolity or orgy since they discovered that the infamous Derby was theoretically forthe for the purpose of col- col collecting collecting col collecting money for the blind of St Dunstan's This is a charity in which the Prince of Wales has interested himself It has been said that some of the wild horse horse- horsewomen horsewomen horsewomen women of the Donkey Derby were his friends London's reaction to the shock has not been without its encouraging side Mothers and fathers of th the generation have learned that youth no longer can be governed governed by injunction It wont won't do to find out what Junior and Claribel are arc doing and tell them to stop it immediately Intelligent parents who have sons eons nd daughters at the dangerous age seem converted to the they idea that the way to fight dangerous amusements for the th young oung is to provide them with plenty of entertainment that is safe and whole whole- wholesome wholesome wholesome some by comparison II I i Ii ee Div They realize that those hour after after outlaw clubs did not pass out of exist exist- existence existence ence when the Frivolity was raided And they purpose to co counteract their appeal by giving countenance to reputable night clubs such as the Kit flit Kat the Florida Chez Victors Victor's and the Cafe de deParis deParis deParis Paris Those places as proper as thea thea- theaters theaters theaters have not until now had the benefit of society's unqualified support But society apparently is left little choice It must choose between them and such places as the Frivolity There is one particularly serious as aspect I pest of the free and easy mingling of classes at the advanced night clubs In the atmosphere of ot artificial gayety class lines and traditions are occasion occasion- occasionally occasionally occasionally ally forgotten and strange matrimonial I alliances are made There was the rather fast young oung Lord de Clifford who at nineteen took unto himself a bride from a club run by the dashing Mrs Kate Fate Merrick a well known police character Doll Herrick indeed is said to be Fates Kates daughter She was an enter enter- entertainer and hostess in her mothers mother's place when the thrill-seeking thrill young peer first saw her I It is toward oward the grimmer tragedies of dark after London dark though that serious commentators are directing their atten atten- attention tion as a result of the raid on the Club such Frivolity tragedies as Peggy Scotts Scott's When Rudolph Valentino Valentine visited London she was a frequenter of the better bettor bet bet- bet ter tor class of clubs such as that made mado popular by Spindly the danseuse When Valentino died she killed herself Blighted love said the romantically Inclined They insisted she had cherished an unrequited passion for the film star Too much night clubs clubs said those who knew their London They were right In the months after his departure the wayward Peggy drifted downward with fascinating speed It may be only across the street from froma a club like the Florida to one like the tho Frivolity But its it's a long way down as social values arc reckoned And Peggy her sorrowing intimates admit had gone the entire distance There was wasa wasa wasa a storm of indignation over that tragedy too But London forgets quickly Al AI Al- Al Although Although though this time there are signs it wont won't forget Revelations following the Frivolity Club raid are arc too terrible to be he dis- dis dismissed dis dismissed missed as quickly as have certain other night club escapades |