The act opened at a hotel breakfast table. James J. Walker, the dapper, glib, little mick who is Mayor of New York, was pleading with photographers and newsgatherers. He held up his coffee cup.

Mayor James J. Walker, was when Prohibition was to go into effect. The problem was that Prohibition has already been the law of the United States for nearly a decade. That Boess had to ask tells ...

When James John Walker wrote these lyrics ... dandified, vote-getting Mayor Walker was giving New York City the kind of musical-comedy administration it could then afford. They danced to Leo ...