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PARIS BY NIGHT: A WAIL OF WOE.
UPWARD TREND OF LIFE.
TANGO DISPLACES THE CHARLESTON AND
(UNITED PRESS.}
The French capital is loosing its, can see beautiful costumes at Zieg- grip on the nice but naughty side felds or at White's Scandales-all the costumes they want to see. of life, mourns one of those spright What they want to see in Paris is ly weekly magazines called Fun- something they can't see in New tasio. Although Fantasio, and its York!. contreres, such as La Vie Peri- xicane, Le Sourire, Le Rire, Le Journal Amusant, and others are doing their best to keep up this touch with naughtiest nature; they
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all wrong A thorough examina. tion of the kind, temperament, nationality, colour and language of all the four or five big music-halls of Paris shows that four out of five. speaks Freach, either like a Pari- In fact, there is one "wise cracken, or like a Frenchman from in the Casinò de Paris show, which
some far-flung province, warrants sleeping through the rest of it, and it comes from an Ameri- can, the delectable and elegantly dressed person who beads the act known as the Millionaira Band
Inasmuch as the text of these revues is about 99.44 per cent, in the French language, it seems they are intended for Frenchmen. Thero are lots of Americans and Europeans
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brilliant city gone absolutely moral, suddenly stalks across the the fan crust that stretches into stage, whereupon all the hoboes | darkest Russia, but the gang is leave their work and follow the essentially French, and all the lady off the stage. Monsieur the wise cracks in French Millionaire Director looks sadly taken up. by the French-speaking after his departing troupe, then audience and re-echoed through the observes philosophically:"Well, hall; that is, when the clack is not
guess they are right, because' too loud. those fellows came over here to study abroad."
The Chici of Police Chiappe is blamed for this upward trend of the life in Paris. In fact, two painstaking and enthusiastic United Press correspondents made the horrible discovery the other night that the present revue at the Casino de Paris goes through the entire first part without showing one nude
To Berlin i
When, during the second act, one correspondent Ead to wake up the other correspondent, who was gent. ly sleeping on his aboulder, and inform him that a nude had actual- ly, appeared somewhere in the dim remoteness of the stage, the awak ened visitor could hardly believe his eyes. The show, which features Mistinguets in almost every sketch, in every position, costume, colour and combination, is the kind of revuo which is causing the light hearted and frolicsome foreigner to go to Berlin instead of staying
in Paris.
Parisien stage managers, pro- ducers and Chiefs of Police, should be informed that Americans. and
Argentines, and Greeks, and Cali. fornians and Automobile salesmen
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This joke might be a dud in New York, but for those Americans who have been working abroad for the last ten years, it drew a long and rollicking peal of uproarious laugh-
ter.
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The..." Clack." "
The clack is perhaps the hardiest in Europe, or in the world. They þ ̈ practice cracking old-fashioned their English walnuts between palms when young, then in latter days they go through a course of beating Yorkshire puddings into Marvellous Mistinguett.
cannon-balla för the West End dining-room trade, ard after For the rest of the "Casino de qualifying as brothers of the Iron Paris show, one spends the time Palm Brigade, they trip lightly to speculating on whether or not Mis- Paris, and get a job hanging over Linguett is sixty or seventy years the balcony of any French theatre, old She is still good, etill the in rows of threes and sixes, and same gamine, the same red-haired, their job is to drown out any out- pappy, graceful, and straight tide, noises, and generally spoil but in her advanced days, she by breaking simultaneously into 5mbed artiste of before the war,
some of the best lines of the play
should not seem to cling too much clack." After the beautiful and to the limelight. We might remind touching scenes in some of the her also that the liberal use of rerues; when the curtain falls on a whole stage full of dancers, pretty," young dancing-men is not nearly so interesting as the gener-nudes, principals, and waiting aus presentation of girl choruses, stage hands, the clack responds part of the Chief of Police's moral emotion into their work. It doesn't seem that it would be magnificently, putting 1 tearful ty programme to substitute pink. faced boys with soft E fat voices for dimpled-kneed girl dancers who leave no doubt in the mind of men that they are women and girls.
The only audience that ever, out shouted a elack was the one that almost broke up the Viennese. modern show called "Johnny Leads the Dance," at the Champs Elysse And another thing. The oft Theatre, and at this event the remarked saying that these Pari clack retired, beaten and disgraced sien revises are designed for for--and so did the play, '"* eigners and not for Frenchmen is (Continued on Page 2.)
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Lawn Tennia-Open Singles: C. A. L. Rumjahn v. S. A. Rumjahn, Ka. Lau 2. Ng Sze Kwong,
Opening of St. Stephen's College, Stanley by H.E., S p.m.
University Lecture: Dr. Minett
H.K.A.D.C. presenta And So to Bed," Theatre Royal, 3.15 p.
Queen's Theatre: "Dynamite."? World Theatre: Westward, Ho"
and at 5:15 and 9:30 "A Girl from Chicago.
Star Theatre: "Honeymoon," sula Hotel, 6 p.m.
Tea Dances: H.K. Hotel, Penín-
Peninsula Hotel.. 8.30 p.m.
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