BOOKIE DRESSES WINDOW

Waipa Post, Volume 36, Issue 2146, 19 April 1928, Page 3

BOOKIE DRESSES WINDOW

A bookmaker's shop, tastefully decorated and with windows brightly lit all night, has been opened in Knightsbridge, S.W. (says the "Daily 'Mail"). Hitherto bookmakers in London have been noted for their reticence—a neat brass plate, as a rule, being the extent of the display at their business premises. The advent of the Bets Act, however, has given the bookmaker a new status. It has made him less modest in announcing his activities.

Many people must wonder how a bookmaker would arrange his shopfront. In the Knightsbridge shop the window is in harmony with those of the milliners and modistes on the thoroughfare. A painting of a charming country scene —trees and green fields—forms the sides and back of his small window, and at the top there is a frieze of horses and greyhounds racing. The window is furnished with three high boards giving the runners and prices for the Lincoln Handicap and the Grand National. There is a notice: "Facilities are given to all" "clients on our books to make investments on greyhound racing," and another reads: "We pay the whole of the betting tax."