The night clubs of London, now as numerous as those of any capital, on the Continent, are invariably! associated in the popular mind with} Pantagruelian visions of frivolity, excess, and riotous revelry, says writer in a Home paper. They are always conceived as places of piquant possibilities.
"Decorous matrons of Streatham still speak of them with bated; breath. They are the haunts, it is) supposed, of villainy and viciousness, frequented chiefly by the! criminal, the blackmailer, and the parasite. Desperate intrigues, it is whispered, are contrived in them.
But the night clubs flourish under false pretences. They have no) right to their reputation. It is as fictitious as that of the romantic cowboy and the gunman of the American "movie." They are! sheep masquerading as wolves.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.