Mr. Hubert. Do you know anything about the changeover from the Sovereign to the Carousel?
Mr. Paul. Oh, yes; I forced him to change that over.
Mr. Hubert. All right; tell us about that, if you can tell us the dates and times, as close as you can.
Mr. Paul. And, he needed money; the Sovereign Club was dead, as far as he was concerned. Either he closed it or—either he closes it or he does something else with it. So, I told him to change it to a burlesque house and I will give him $1,650 to pay more rent on the place so he could go on, so I loaned him $1,650 more to turn it over to a burlesque. That’s when he changed it from the Sovereign Club, a private club, to a burlesque house, which was an open place.
Mr. Hubert. In other words, with the Sovereign Club you had to belong to the club?
Mr. Paul. That’s right.
Mr. Hubert. Sort of a bottle club, as required by the laws of Texas?
Mr. Paul. That’s right; he had a bottle club.
Mr. Hubert. If you belonged to the club, you could buy liquor in the club, and if you didn’t you couldn’t, and it was your thought that the thing could be a success if its nature were changed?
Mr. Paul. Yes; well, it’s an open place.