Evening Star Newspaper, November 30, 1930, Page 115

THE SUNDAY The book bootlegger. “Now, I hope, Mr. Mink, you're not easily shocked. Because what I have to show you, while of a highly artistic nature—" Thus begins Mr. Hotsome, the suppressed edition salesboy, who is about to produce for inspection an art edition of “How a Pretty Typewriter Girl Was Nearly Kissed to Death in Chicago” or a de luxe art special of “The Secret Memoirs of Mms. Eliya Loud, Court Favorite of Louis the Lustful of Moravia.” The price of publicity. “My daughter La Belle has only had three days’ booking since last March, Mr. Nus- baum, although critics rave over her toe and tap dancing.” “Yeah? Well, what your kid needs is some real publicity, Mrs. Wonkler. If La Belle could manage a hook-up with some dope king, or maybe a swell hijacker, we could get her on al! the front pages.” Complains the hostess: “I think it’s too bad of you, Mr. O'Horigan, to send me such terrible gzm! Seven of my guests have passed out at the soup course. . STAR. WASHINGTON. D. C.—GRAVURE SECTION—NOVEMBER The Bootlegging Interests By W. E. Hill (Cooyright, 1930, by the Chicago Tribune Syndicate.) Stalking a celebrity in 1930. When a beer racketeer travels he gets about the same attention which movie stars and princes of the blood got in the old days. Here is a stairway on one of the simpler ocean liners jammed with debutantes, subdebs and others from the higher circles waiting to get an autograph from Four-Toed Mike Slavinsky, a czar of the liquor racket game, who is traveling for his health in strict seclusion. The girls are going to be just as thrilled as their mammas were when they got autographs from McKinley or Joe Jefferson. “Francie, just what is a racketeer, anyway " “Well, Coralie, as near as I can make out, a racketeer is some one who makes you buy a carload of liquor when you only want a pint.” I 30, 1930. The bootlegging vote. Candidates for office in this day and age have a terrible time pleasing everybody. There's the liquor interests and their vote, which mounts up at the polls, and the dry vote, which likewise has to be considered. Wise politicians have got over this difficulty by adopting a plat- form advocating wines, beers and other spirituous beverages, with absolute enforcement of prohibition, so that everybody will feel pleased over the outlook. The fur bootlegger. One of those “smuggled in from the Canadian border” near-fur neckpieces being offered at a bargain price to a pair of lady shoppers. The lady shop- pers are undecided. “Of course, he’s stolen it,” Aunt Lottie is saying to Aunt Carrie, “but you could cut off the head or change the expression of its face and no one would ever recognize it!" Irving, head bellhop of the small town hotel, is fefend in need of the traveling salesmen who may require a quart or so of gin on the side. iy 4l