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...Browne got 15 friends to invest $1,000 apiece in an expanded version of the Sundown, opened the Gaslight Club. He decorated it to resemble a fancy turn-of-the-century saloon in red velvet, covered the walls with paintings of nudes, supplied a ragtime piano player and free platters of cold cuts. The biggest attractions were beautiful waitresses in abbreviated versions of 1905 ball gowns. Mostly aspiring models and actresses, they earn up to $15,000 a year, are strictly supervised by Browne's pretty wife, Jean...
Prohibition: "I was always against it. I was one of the leaders for Repeal and faced the best political maneuverer I have ever dealt with, Wayne B. Wheeler, of the Anti-Saloon League. He produced an absolute miracle...
...when he struck it rich, hid $300,000 in a stove, where it was burned to a crisp. When he struck it richer, she carted him to Denver, got mauled trying to crash society, and carted him to Europe. He in time went back to Leadville and his saloon pals; she in time survived the Titanic ; and the two of them-in the theater- are reunited...
World War II, when it flung up flimsy barracks for Southern Negro defense workers. Today nearly half the population is on relief. Narcotics, robbery and corruption are common. Last winter Police Chief William Ware stole a Christ mas fund for underprivileged children. Township Supervisor Elwood Dickens' saloon, the dirtiest in town, is a hangout for minors. Royal Oak Township's rapes, burglaries and arson cases go uninvestigated. The township treasury has an unexplained shortage...
...entire family and plenty of floor space for dancing (about $6.75 per person). There is little night life in Sweden and Norway, where strip shows are forbidden, but some restaurants stay open until 4 a.m. with bands for dancing. Best jazz is at Vienna's Fatty's Saloon and the Adebar, Rome's Bricktop's on the Via Veneto, and Paris' Caveau de la Huchette. To end the evening, Paris has the traditional onion soup at Les Halles, Paris' great produce market. There is also Le Drug Store on the Champs Elys...