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

The Inquiring Reporter

      Every Day He Asks Five Persons Picked at Random,

      a Question. (...)

      The Question.

      Should Charlie Chaplin try to do the „finer and

better things“

      Where Asked.

      State, at Randolph street.

(...) Chicago Tribune, Oct. 1, 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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