DRINKING AND DANCING
GAIETY IN NEW YORK
"CRUISES TO NOWHERE"
(Eeceived Sad January, 8 ■ a.m.)
NEW YOBK, Ist January. Now York • greeted tho New Year with the usual racket on the streets and drinking and dancing in hotels and night clubs, where the numbers of "Depression couverts": were considerably lower than in past years.
Tho celebrants seemed more to jeer out 1931 than to wolcomo 1932 with hope, but the customary carnival scenes filled the city.
Week-end "cruises to nowhere" on, "wet" ships proved popular. Prohibition agents failed to make the usual raids, but; their, one effort was highly spectacular, namely, the seizure of "Zelii's Royal Box," an impressive Fifth avenue establishment, where the only bar has luxurious appointments. This was taken by gentlemen entering by'the window after the ;bronze, doors had withstood an attack. Tho patrons, however, soon found' other sources of liquor where the flow was; unchecked..
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Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 1, 2 January 1932, Page 11
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149DRINKING AND DANCING Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 1, 2 January 1932, Page 11
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