BERLIN GAMBLING HELLS.
IS SMOKING A BAD HABIT?
ANYTHING TO KILL "THOUGHT.
SCIENTIFIC INQUIRY TO DECIDE.
An international committee of
Mr. Charles Tower, writing. from Berlin says:—Last night, |aminent apecialists is being form-
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med with introductions and ed at New York under the presiHK. & S. Banks b. & 32. $680 accompanied by experts. I went dency of Dr. Alexander Lambert, to inspect for myself the gambling one of the leading New York hells of Berlin which have physicians, and formerly head of sahieved international notoriety. the American Red Cross in
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several supper clubs, only reach-vestigation into the effects of (able with membership cards and tobacco on health and efficiency. by dark alleys, and finally, in the Sir William Osler, who is said amall hours,, some of those all- to be devoring himself to special night dancing establishmentsstudies of the heart, is reported which, now that the edict against to have joined the committee, China Fires public, dances is in force, were Among the other members are f. E. Fires said to flourish behind thick | Professor Cannon, of Hårvard. curtains and under camouflage. Professors Farnum and Fisher.
Let me begin with the gambl of Yale, Dr. O. H. Rogers, Douglases ing clubs, which were the least chief physician of the New Steamboats tedious items of the famed York Life Insurance Сода Indos (Prat) extravagance in revolutionary pany. Dr. E. L. Fisk, head of the Indos (Def.) Berlin. What are left of Berlin's Life Extension Institute. It is Shells once splendid fleet of taxicabs intended to include industrial Ferries formerly as well appointed as leaders as well as economic and private cars. appeared to be medical specialists on the com- drawn up outside a private house mittee, and the exact effects of Sugars in its own grounds. Admission tobacco will be determined by Malabons through the gate seemed to be scientific experiments on students, controlled by the Red Guards, athletes, business leaders, and
I though
conclude they working men. were discharged men. Thence Dr. Fiski speaking on behalf of the production of cards took us the committee, said "An authori
doors past the
without atative analysis of the tobacco challenge into what was really a situation has never been made. fairly well appointed flat, but not The question is now being forced one that would have excited com- on public attention, and the ment before the war. The club public, therefore, should have consists of three large rooms, all the true facts. When our in- full of both sexes, and obviouslyvestigations are completed we of the most various social tank. shall submit a report covering all There were two tables, one phases of the tobacco question, a big baccarat table, one small- and people can determine in- er, a banker table. Round the telligently what they want done. former were about 15 people seat- ed and perhaps 30 standing be hind them. The banker table had a dozen and perhaps another dozen standing.
The air was thick with smoke. the rooms were ill ventilated, and the general atmosphere was as unlike a prosperous gambling place as can be imagined. The whole club reeked of middleclass respectability.
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"We shall divide the committee into .sections devoted to Centrals physiology, clinical medicine, by H.K. Hotels giene, and economice. The extent L. Inves of the world's land given to H'phreys Est. tobacco culture in relation to the Kloon Lands world's food problems will be con- L Reclamations sidered, along with the purely West Points physical effects of tobacco on smokers, and even the relation of smoking to the spreading of fires." Ewos
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University, whose book. "Nico-Lau Kung Mows n. I saw only two bottles of wine tine Next, "suggested that tobacco Orientals open, and if there was any rest should follow alcohol in being Shai Cottons aurant attached, I failed to prohibited for general use, will be Yangiszepoos discover it. One woman
a member of the committee, but sandwiches of war bread taken smokers will also be included, so from her reticule. Play, especi-that, the personal attitude will ally at the baccarat table, was play no part in the final report. fairly high. The highest bid for the bank during the bour watched was £5,900, and the highest in-. dividual stake I noticed won £300. There was neither laughter nor any obvious evidence of nervous strain round the table.
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VICTORIA THEATRE.
was found recently near Noseley Trams, LowLevel ... Hall, Leicestershire, the seat of Trams, Peak, old b. Players were in all sorts of his nephew, Sir Arthur Hazlerigg. Trams, Peak, new b. costumes, from the sombre dark
with whom he had been Laundries grey of a bald-beaded man who
staying. looked a senior bank clerk to the wound in the head. Sir Archibald U. Waterboats
There was a bullet Steel Foundries fairly smart evening dress of a left the hall for a walk and failed Watsons
aristocrat. One high bidder. I was told with a grin, sent out at night, but no discovery Wiseman's
A search party was Wm. Powells was a certain deputy-paymaster was made until the morning. to the forces. There were no when the body was found in a women playing baccarat, while I
The watched, but they appeared to baronet was in his 66th year.
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deceased have a pronounced preference for He married a daugher of the Here stakes were third Viscount Sidmouth. The the bigbest
bank younger of his two so was being £100. One killed in action in 1916 while I noticed young and very well-dressed
serving as £ women-either German women Scots Guards.
captain in the KEENAN'S NEW TRIUMPH. have acquired better figures owing to hunger or they have learned how to dress during the war, for they are much more chic than they used to be had a long run of luck and I guessed her winnings while I was there at £400 or £500. There was some sharp talking at the banker table, and occasionally some disputes, but the prevailing impression was that the people were there either to kill time or strictly on business.
THE ONLY LAUGHTER,
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Those enjoyed Mr. Frank high life at its zenith is supposed Keenan in the two Pathe offer- to prevail. One obtained ad-ings. "More Trouble" and "Load- mission by means of a pass, toed Dice," have a treat and a big sober rooms rather like some of surprise in store for them, in the better-class London tea-rooms "The Bells," which will be shown and decorated in Early Victorian at the Victoria Theatre on Mon- style. Here, at 3 am, there was day. Keenan plays the role PHONE 407. admittedly rather excitable of Mathias, innkeeper dancing by about three couples, murderer, made famous by the of foxtrot, bunny-bug. "and late
"More Henry Irving. tango variations. But at the small Trouble" has been amply described tables couples drank war-sub as tragic farce.but in "The Bells" stitute coffee with black bread. one sees Keenan as an impressive Before this I had been taken by There were a few bottles of and commanding figure, even the aid of a membership card Rhine and Moselle wine open. though a haunted and a craven costing 10s. per year to a supper Thence we went to yet another one. It is a vivid, master per- club which in the day-time is an dancing-room, where "fun" is formance which was first shown ordinary restaurant. This par- kept up until day-light and after. at the Rialto Theatre, New York, ticular place is entered after Here there was evidence of more and stamped by the critics as one hours by a dark alley, then a champagne, but not in anything of the greatest screen productions. dirty courtyard and a narrow like the quantities usually Mr. Keenan portrays the work- iron-staircase giving access to assumed. During the whole ings of a tortured soul, relentless- Transaction of Public Business Gods are being landed at the kitchens. Its speciality is night I saw only one, person ly lashed by conscience, with an on Tuesday, the 3rd June, 1919. their risk into the hazardous the service to members of pea soup really intoxicated. At the time artistic completeness that cannot and minced meat with egg im-I arrived people were eating the be approached by any other mediately after the midnight of raw ham to the strains of a character actor or the stage méatiess days.
waltz..
to-day. It filled towards midnight to
DANCE OF DESPAIR,
Pictorially the story is endow- overflowing with men, some in Summing
impression's ed with the best that screen evening dress, some in" city throughout an extremely tedious technique and the most skillful costume, and women usually well and at times mournful experience, direction could give it. dressed. There was some cham-I can say only that I very rarely pagne drunk, mostly the war heard anybody laugh, and even substitute kind, and there was the once. characteristic raucous- tango dancing, but this was not mess of German conversation had as wild and reckless as one had disappeared. People danced with-
The Paris Journal states that been led to expect.
out even smiling, and appeared at the time of his death Vedrines
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Only once did I hear a whole to me to drink without pleasure. was engaged in perfecting plans, room laugh, and that was earlier in the evening at a cabaret lit who admitted his boredom why had been published. He was offices will be closed for the No Fire Tusurance will be I asked a well-dressed man about which absolutely nothing NOTICE: Is hereby given of arrival, otherwise they will with carbide lamps, where a on earth he came, and he replied, working, in particular, says the would-be comedian in Eastern "What on earth else is there to peper, on a winged machine with Transaction of Public Business effected by us in any case what- costume explained that he could do? I cannot work, because there neither engine nor propeller. In on Tuesday, the 3rd June, 1919.
get rid of his 3,000 is no labour available. I cannot the course of the first trials of odd WİYes because he was sleep because I see ruin ahead this new type of aeroplane, which" not any blooming machine gun, for all of us. The only way I were very successful Vedrines Then the room tittered. In can get through these awful days succeeded in leaving the ground | the small hours I was taken to is to dance all night and try to several times and in traversing a Berlin's Wild West," where I sleep most of the day."
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