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Louis Raymond Reid, Shadowland, N. Y., September 1919.

WHAT COULD BE FINER

      THAN A REAL LAUGH?

      Charlie Chaplin, passing through Chicago, spreads

sad tidings. He will never throw another pie.

He has made up his mind to do „finer, better things.“

(...) Editorial, Chicago Tribune, Sept. 28, 1923

„Along with the plays of yesteryear“

Editorial content. „Prohibition and The Cabaret

      By Louis Raymond Reid“ (...)

      „And now with the eclipse of Bacchus the cabaret seems

doomed. These resorts of the Rialto, these oasis upon

the desert of monotonous money-grubbing, these places wherein

the buyer, the deacon, the broker, the student, the

New Yorker-with-relatives-on-his-hand, the New Yorker-with-

time-on-his-hand, the flapper and the grandmother

were regaled with entertainment the while they paid fancy

prices for a hot bird and a cold bottle have seemingly

had their day, or rather their night, and are passing into the

limbo of forgotten things along with the plays

of yesteryear. the Grand Duke Nicholas, red-light districts

and Ford jokes.“ (...)

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