ARTISTS WANT GREENWICH VILLAGE PURGED OF ALL BOOTLEGGING CAMOUFLAGE in Fitchburg Sentinel (Fitchburg MA, September 19, 1922, p. 7—
Greenwich Village Follies / program cover 1921
New York. Sept 19—The high cost of studio apartments In New York City Is partly explained, at least in the declaration of the rent committee of the League of American Artists, that such quarters are much sought for by bootleggers. The artists In complaining to the district attorney's office asked police Investigation with the view to raising the moral average of Greenwich Village and the Columbus Circle art neighborhood.
"The studio is well adapted to camouflage," Stewart Browne, president of the United Real Estate Owners' association, said "but it is too late for New Yorkers to get excited over that. Real estate owners cannot control it entirely. "
Artists have demanded that the police rid their colonies of painters who can’t paint, sculptors who can't sculpt, and models who can't pose.
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