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Show up GAY LITTLE CAFES CLOSE FAMED HOTEL . NK W YORK, June 24 - -The seml-seeret seml-seeret little restaurants where drinks and gayety are still on tap for the Initiate have driven Hotel Clarldne. long a Broadway Institution, out of business. L M Boomer its president, announced today. The Claridge once The famous 'Rectors,' having been built by , Charles E Rector of Chicago will put up lta shutters August 1 " Mr. Boomer's announcement attributed at-tributed the downfall of the Claridge to "the unequal enforcement of the Volstead act by prohibition officers. offi-cers. " The Claridge, overlooking Longacre square, in the heart of th? white light district, has been the haunt of famous fa-mous theatrical and moving picture stars for years. It was built In 1912. op |