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GAY LIFE AND GRIM
SHADOWS BEHIND.
Interesting sidelights on life in Germany to-day are given in the following article by Mr. George Renwick, the Daily Chronicle's Berlin Correspondent-
It is natural that people should ask many questions of someone who has come out of Germany after a stay there of nearly five months." Has Germany really changed much is, perhaps, the query which has been put to we most frequently.
It is a somewhat hard question to answer briefly, for there are many particulars in which the Fatherland seems scarcely to have changed, at all; war and revolution appear to have swept past and altered nothing by their tempests. In other directions, five months are scarcely suf- ficient to accustom one to the tremendous changes which have taken place
MONDAY, OCTOBER 13, 1919.
than before the war, and "night" life," despite restrictions and official edicts, Bourishes exceed- ingly, with its gaudy and materi- al gaiety, made possible by gam- bling dens dancing palaces cabarets, bars, and-"grill rooms"
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will cost, the public approximate ly £100,000,000 in increased hotel prices during the next year, Gambling has seized hold of Berlin's gilded age and youth to according to a statement issued a terrible extent; the dens, where by an association opposed to national prohibition. In support baccarat mostly is played, are
the opinions of secret places known only to the of these figures the association initiated, for the watchfulness of quotes the authorities makes Tibetan several leading hotel managers. But Thus Mr. Edward Tierney, vice- and president of the Bowman Hotel they exist by hundreds, really unbelievable amounts of Company, which owns several of money are won and lost nightly, the largest hotels in New York. No. in all those things Berlin There are three sources of hotel has not changed much. crowds of people still watch and ant. No money can be made follow the soldiers as they march through the streets. uniform bas certainly smartened up since he came back to Berlin months ago. .. beaten, nine wears. footsore, but revolutionary. According to statistics collected by the association, hotel rates Not many days ago I had occa- The army
has, indeed, lost generally have already been in- sion to walk along the Avenue much of its colour"; the once creased from 5s. to 358. a day. of Victory," and it was some-picturesquely uniformed officer Ohio hotels, it is stated, having thing of a surprise to see is now hard to distinguish from unsuccessfully tried to make up workmen busy in that vain-glor-his men; the men, well-clad and the loss in revenue following the ious valhalla "spring-cleaning equipped, look infinitely more closing of the bars by the sale of the pompously-posed statues of workmanlike than they did some "soft" drinks, have raised their
But it is quite rates 13 per cent. the ex-Eaisers ancestors! Revo-months ago. lutionaries of any other country another army-you can see that enough. And the would surely have made short plainly work of such glaring reminders numerous placards appealing for of a past with which they had volunteers suggest a difficulty in you can imagine, therefore, how obtaining recruits or in persuad- general health must suffer. Coals (ing men to rejoin.
are indeed black diamonds ";. One evening I tried to obtain a Linden into Friedrichstrasse utmost care. Prices on the whole, But turn out of Unter den gas must be husbanded with seat at the Deutsches Theater the difference is something like I think tend to rise. where Shakespeare's "Corio-
And though all parts of the lanus" was being played; but the that between Regent-street and
the the, Strand-and
other, country do not suffer equally- house was "sold out." The
the changed Germany, still Weimar is better off than Berlin, theatre which was flourishing
strikes you AS forcibly as Hamburg endures more hardships with Charley's Aunt" was like- wise booked up; and at the ever it has done since the revo- than the capital-matters are bad Theater des Westen. I think it lution.
When you can buy enough everywhere to produce matches very bad ones at 4d. one general effect. was someone
playing
a box from a man who, still in Baaten far more completely Mimosa San for the two thousandth time; our "Geisha" shabby feldgrau. was once in one than the outer world even yet be- of the famous Guard regiments, lieves, Germany, with about one- with its untranslatable lines preserved in English, has been then you recognise bow far war third of the food she had before running continuously in Berlin has broken and reduced a nation, she let war loose on the world, is સ nation broken not only since the Revolution, with crowd-once so great and formidable.
All along the street you will physically but mentally. She is ed houses every night There, too. not s seat was to be had. find many of his one-time com- "hanging on" with a sort of des- Berlin's theatres have been asrades selling all sorts of things: perate patience, but it will be packed every night as those of here are a few of the things and, long, long years London.
broken.
was,
THEATRES FLOURISHING.
The world of art, indeed, in Germany has changed little, been but little affected, so far, by five years of world war.
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Not many
But among the well-to-do the physical and mental strain has its serious effect. This street hawking on a large weeks ago a well-known member of the National Assembly called scale brings you near to the great
Round in to see me. Instead of taking the changed Germany. Unter den Linden it is the world lift to the third floor of the hotel of wealth you see, the people who, in which, I was living, he came
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little more liberty of expression on the stage, in stone cr canvas ever and anon some revolution
by a syndicate headed by the ary little "twist in the work of
Duke of Northumberland (who an artist seeking a new path or
will act as editor) and including, seeing something in a new light.
the Duke of Sutherland, Mr. But neither war nor revolution
Walter Long, and Major Waldorf has stirred literature out of the
The bride and bridegroom, Astor, was founded by the late dull, unimaginative ways into which it had fallen before the
bridesmaids, best man, and many Sir James Knowles in 1877. war; it remains an arid waste. having the money, can obtain up by the stairs. A'robust-looking of the guests at a marriage which Knowles was by, profession an with here and there the tempting almost anything. But it is in man in the prime of life, fairly took place at Kingston Parish architect, but his mental activi- Friedrichstrasse that one meets wealthy (and, therefore, able to Church recently were dressed. in mirage of a poem and "one fine the vanguard of starving broken buy "extra food "), he was only boating costume, and after the ties carried him into the other spheres, particularly literature, oasis-Heinrich Mann's daring and brilliant caricature of the ex-Germany-the poor hawking or able, on reaching my room, to reception in the garden of aand he became intimate with leaders of thought as such streets, in the
the gasp out a request to be allowed riverside hotel the bride and Kaiser, one of the really great loungiosis in the offices and to lie down on the sofa, where he bridegroom left in a camping Ruskin, Tyndall, Froute, Glad- novels of the war years, Der
lay for ten minutes before he punt for a honeymoon on the shops.
stone, Manning, Lubbock, Bage- Unterthan "verboten" before
river. The
Miss bride was Both sections are starving could speak with ease. the end of the old regime.
he met through the Metaphysical badly, and their ranks being thin- That is only one out of very Miriam May Lockett, of Kingshot, and Tennyson, most of whom many similar cases within my ton, and the bridegroom was Mr. Society, which he and Tennyson BERLIN BOXING MAD.
ned terribly by death.
It is often Edward N. T. Griffith, of Harrow.founded in 1869. Knowles became Turn to the lighter side of life.
The other evening I walked own experience.
A LARGE RUBY.
editor of the Contemporary, Re- The large restaurants and cafes along Friedrichstrasse: in the dangerous, indeed, to argue with
Áo unusually large ruby.view, but disagreement with its ell over the city are lively with course of a quarter of an hour-it people, for the mild excitement the music of all nations. On was a pleasant evening after a involved may easily prove too said to be of the first quality, proprietors led to his establishing Sundays, if you feel so inclined, day during which the heat had much for them! The mental has just been found in Mogok by his rival review and taking with you may go to the races, watch been by no meane great-I saw fatigue of the people in general the Ruby Mines Co. The stone him most of his leading con- boxing or fencing matches, see four people faint and fall down is such that, as a rule, they simply weighs 45 carats and when cut tributors. The Nineteenth Century tournaments in billiards and That speaks as plainly as do the believe the last thing they hear down and polished will be about has throughout its career been an following statistics regarding or read. I have been to many half that weight. Its value is influential periodical, and its It is boxing which, perhaps, Berlin:
meetings where political subjects placed at ten lakhs. This is not collection of articles in opposition attracts the people most of all;
were discussed the whole audi- the largest ruby found in Mogok to the Channel scheme had a Berlin, indeed, may be said to
ence would applaud one speaker, for in 1899 one weighing 75 carats great deal to do with the abandon have gone "boxing mad," and he
the next, though he took up an and then just as heartily cheer was discovered.
ment of that project in 1882. must be a great enthusiast who
exactly opposite attitude. Ger-
HUNGRY VIENNA,
TRADE UNION WAR Food conditions are so bad inj can keep count of all the different
During a discussion at a meet- championships in "the noble art"
many is suffering from a bad
Vienna (writes a correspondent to ing the executive of the Iron and which have been fought and which,
the civilian population.) mental breakdown.
a Home paper) that children of Steel Trade Federation, held re- according to the grim placards, Go into the quarters of the FROM FAMINE TO PLENTY.
eight or nine years of age have cently complaints were received Lare to be contested- new art" city where those two classes live.
I came out of Germany through the appearance of being only five against the action of the smaller placards on which the boxer is You will find, that rations are the occupied region. It was like or six. As much as possible is unlions, members of which con- often represented as quit as less satisfactory now than ever. reaching an oasis from a desert being done publicly for them, and nected with iron and steel works, terrible a person as the dread The bourgeoisie is, I think, more In the Fatherland the country with American assistance the strike and throw out of employ and steel. Bolshevist, on the weird posters heavily hit by circumstances than side is stripped bare of cattle, apalling dearth of fats, milk, and thousands of iron issued so lavishly by the Anti- the working clases. The latter though the crops look fairly good. eggs is being made good. Free workers, causing enormous sums, Bolshevist League!
often have the benefit of special Hour after hour the train rumbles Kitchens for children have been in out-of-work pay to be spent by "Unter den Linden" during rations for heavy work"; their along, often slowing down to a opened in various districts, and the larger unions. Reference was the sunny midday hours and inexpenditure is naturaily less than halt, and waiting till the ancient thither the pale, sickly, under- made to the action of a few brick- the evening, with its cafes and that of the middle-classes, whom, engine gets up sufficient steam developed children are brought ayers in Monmosthshire who restaurants, its cinemas, and in Germany as elsewhere, every-again to pull a train of creaking by their mothers to be fed. As through striking cost the federat
£3,000 A week LONDON DIRECTORY, shops, and its shady centre walk thing conspires against. carriages. Hour after hour, and there is no room for the mothers, 'ion
its members being is quite as gay as ever it was. SECRET PURCHASES OF FOOD. not a goods train passes.
the children are fed by volun- through The shops make a tremendous I know a family of three which, i Then the cheery people of teers. The food, which varies, thrown idle when they them- display of articles of luxury to before the war, lived well inside Cologne, the white bread, the generally includes a nourishing, selves had no dispute. Another war-profiteer a £500 a year; it now spends on plentiful food, the well-filled shops soup, and care it taken not to instance given was at Partington, personage who, I think, has food alone, though exercising theit was all like the sunlight again make it too rich at first, as many near Manchester, where. 16 men flourished more in Germany than greatest economy. £1000 a month! after a terrible dream. And after of the children are unable to striking have thrown 2,000 iron in all the other great warring That family, like so very many only about five months in stricken digest it. The children have been and steel workers out, the 16 countries put together.
others, is entrenching on its Germany, I find (though I was known to complain that they are having, it was reported, taken NIGHT LIFE AND GAMBLING. capital, and that cannot last favoured in the way of food by given too much, and even that other jobs at sometimes a less rate Of an afternoon you will find long."
the kindness of the British Red the food is too sweet. Many of than they were getting before. that the famous Avenue of the Tea, suger, butter, and all the Cross Mission) that London, with the younger ones do not know The loss to the federation is con- Lime Trees is a parade of starti- common necessaries of life" its noise, and its busy life, the taste of sugar and do not like siderable, but the bad effect of ing feminine fashions; the dandy have to be purchased secretly at almost too much of a strain for While one battalion of in-such action on production was mach-Berlin style, in somewhat something like twelve times their me!
fantry" is being fed two more are dwelt upon, It was felt that this crudely-designed and badly mix pre-war cost or bave to be done Everything, says a German waiting outside. The local author wes bringing tra te unionism into ed sartorial glories has "return without. There is no fat-so proverb, takes its vengeance inities hope to increase the number a state of anarchy, and that s ed to town." Round about the think what most household this life. The Fatherland has of free kitchens until 60,000 chil-fight would have to be made with Linden quarter and "out West, cookery like! Bread is still as proved that truth up to the hilt.
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