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Show I WHERE LIFE IS GAY AND FRIVOLOUS, on last Monday, iho Los Angela Times gave over the greater part of tip front page to an Illustrated article J describing a bacchanalinn niplu at Vernon. That part of California is supposed to be made up of a largo percentage of eastern people who arc. opposed to "wine, wonieu ;ind song." Eut if the Times holds to i ho bare .facts, the officers in southern California, Califor-nia, and the people p ncrnlly toleratti infractions of the law which would be impossible in this siaio. The Times, in idling of "a jazzy night," :;ays: Whisky $16 a pint! Women of all ages Jazz the muscle-tickling kind. These were the elements that I were tossed together into a hilarious, hilar-ious, riotour jamboree lasting well toward dawn yesterday mornlnc at the Vernon Country club k vaa a wild night. if whisky (here was plent it you had the $16 per. The women numbered into tho hundreds and ranged from b)ond 5 ; nd brunettes bru-nettes in early teens to brunettes and blondes of ages less delicate to mention. All wore young in spirit and pep, however, and carmine car-mine lips, ultra-exposed : ilk hosiery hos-iery and elgaretto-smoklng formed common bonds. The jazz bcpr.n slowly and worked iisHf into high pitch at 2 a. m.. when (he orchestra orches-tra was all but drowned out by the noise of 700 celebrating prohibition prohi-bition dodcers. As Vernon is a suburb, we presume Los Angeles itself is not rree from the hilarious gatherings. These disclo-j sures coupled with the outrages com mitted in San Fianeisso. at the bottom j of which was liquor. Indicate that I California's larger cities r-re scenes of dissipation not loss shocking than the jamborees when drink was unrestricted. |