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PASSING OF THE "FOLIES."

MADE POPULAR DURING THE WAR.

THE NEW PALACE."

[United Press.)

Paris, July 12-It is not without a few pangs that tourists accustom- ed to spend their vacations in the shadows of the stone gate of Saint Denis, have discovered that the old Folies Bergeres is dead and an its place has arisen a palace, architse- turally Sner and certainly cleaner, bat without the tradition of the famous old music-hall.

Architects and builders perform ed a miracle in building the new music-ball right over. around and through the old, without stopping a single performance. Bricklayers concentrated on their bricks, and riveters tried to riset in unison with he jazz hands while the nimble little girls waved wicked knees on the stage.

The war made the Folies what they were until the builders got busy. There was agrer a "Tomunic" or a doughboy who did not spend the first and last nights of His Paris leave at the Folies. ..Ee learned about French women there. and it was not to Frenchwomen's eredit either.

The Folies had struggled along for years as a rather wild music hall without attaining much glory

ready cash until the Allied troops reached Paris. The Ameri

an doughboys took right away to the dirty little theatre and its scantily clad girls, and the giris took to the doughboys.

AN AFGHAN EPIC OF THE AIR.

SIR F. HUMPHRYS'

- DISCLOSURES.

HOW THE RA:F. SAVED BRITAIN FROM A WAR.

Exciting experiences during the fighting round Kabal were related, by Sir Francis Humphrys, recently' British Minister in the Afghan capital. when he distributed prizes at his old school, Shrewsbury, re- centiy. He said:-

"I want to tell you something about an epic of the air which is unparalleled in history. When all Beans of communication by land few to our rescue from Baghdad were hopelessly cut off, aeroplanes

and even ibm Egypt, covering as much as 1.100 miles in a single day,

These machines had operated before only in hot climates, and at

miximum height of 4,000 feet. They were suddenly called upon to y over snowbound, inhospitable mountains, at heights for greater than the Alps, in a temperature 30 degrees low zero., and to land on a strange aerodrome in two feet of snow with a fierce battle raging in the neighbourhood.

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Raked With Fire,

"Never once did they refuse my call. More than 50 journeys were anade, and 35,000 miles were flown, with the loss of two machines, Six hundred British subjects and for without a single casualty. cigners were conveyed to safety

There was one exciting incident. King No. 2, besieged with, a zar rison of 3,000, was given a twenty four-hour ultimatum to surrender

except with our tongues. The aero- no means of enforcing authority drome was situated between the tap armies-only 400 yards from each other-and was raked with a de

vastating croasûre.

to an attacking force of 18,000. The The army left the Folies box alternative was a murdering assault office filed with gold. Too much with scaling ladders, no quarter, prosperity has killed off the old and general loct and masacre. music ball and, in 1926, M. Paul would induce him to come out un- "The King replied that nothing Derval decided to build a new theatre. The show was making too ladies was taken in hard by Eng; less the safety of himself and his much money to close it down, se helishmen. We had no soldiers and called in builders and told them his problem. They wanted six months to tear down the old and build a Few theatre bat the Folies could not afford to miss six months gate receipts. So the owner and the can- tractors compromised. He would keep his show running and they telegraphed for aeroplanes. would double the price and take the machines arrived in sight ww sixteen months to do the job.

gave the signal to both armies to So, for sixteen months, the work went on, although the audience aitabeyed the signal. The neroplanes cense fire. Fortunately for us. they ting under a temporary, canvas teil-landed in silence, and the King and ing never knew that cranes were lift his indies, escorted by unarmed ing fifty toa steal girders and loads Englishmen from of brick above their heads. The went to the waiting machines and the Legation. owner insured himself against a

were flown safely to India. girder or a ton of bricks falling during a performance, but he did not aced it for there was not a single accident."

River Discovered.

Drillers sunk hoies to provide a proper focadation and discovered a river running under Paris, then they brought to light a garden with benches, garden tools and fountains. The theatre had been built over filled in marshland and right on the spot where the girls

dance, but about fifty feet down, once slept a hundred monks in the convent of the Order of Quinte-Vingts.

Their convent and garden was willed to an institution "of blind which next moved into the place. The blind were moved away after a hundred years or so, and the place was filled in. A great department store was built there, the Columns of Hercules." and eventually the Folies Trevise came to replace the department store. The Folia Tre- vise became in time the Folies Richer and eventually the Folies Borgeres.

"We had to take the risk and When

"There is no doubt whatever that the R.AF. on this occasion by their gallantry not only saved the city and the foren legations from a terrible fate, but probably also saved England from another war."

TRAVEL FACILITIES IN JAVA:

OPINION OF FILIPINO DELEGATION.

[D.P." Special Service.]

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Islands have much to learn from Manila. P.L-That the Philippine Java is the concensus of opinion of delegates who have returned from agricultural technologists in the attending recent conferences of Dutch East Indies.

Travel conditions in Javd, efforts of the colonial government to cater to tourists and the agricultura! achievements of Java especially are praised by Juan O. Chicco whore. rently returned from a conference of sugar technologista at Sourabaya.

In between times it gave way to n cafe, named the "Cafe of the Bouncing Mattress," because of the trade mark of the old department store which advertised extensively that its mattresses bounced better

A Progressive Island. than any other mattresses existing. "Our trip," says Chioco, "re But the Folies Bergeres in its new vealed to us that Java to-day is one setting seems to have lost the of the most progressive islands in glamour of the Folies of war days.. the world with practically every The girls in the chorus seem to be inch of its soil planted to too well drilled, and they don't useful crop and utilized to the come off the stage and wander utmost. It has no other alterna- through the aisles, sitting in 'the tive, however; its natural resources Laps of customers as they once did. must be developed to the extreme

The place, is like any other money-

to be able to support its dease naking music-hall now.

population."

Chorus Girls in Series.

The Folies realized early in the game that no gold shone so bright fy as American gold, and set out

some

The Filipino visitors to Java were pressed with the manner in which

the Dutch Colonial Government

handles its native problem. They declared, however, that the Fili to become the favourite American pinos should be grateful that they music-ball abroad. No effort is made to gather French, trade by

have no population problem such means of the witty little sketches oficials in the Dutch East Indies.

as that confronting Netherlands Frenchmen crave; instead the pro- The Filipinos were especially im

pressed with airplane travel

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gramme is a successión of speechless stage settings intended to allow ap

Oddments Java, a service yet to be deve- many girls on the stage at one time oped in the Philippines although as possible.

The management studied the ized for this purpose in Manila.- A strong company has been organ- tastes of Americans, and found that United Press.

they show a preference, for nimble

and fairly lightweight blondes, but

like the brunettes to be long and

slim Bo the scales were set at a the Folies chorgus-girls accept in- certain weight; the yardsticks cut vitations to after-theatre cham- off at five feet three and applicantspagne parties only if you accept to for chorus were invited.

buy drinks for the entire chorus in The English girls were found to unison. come closer to the American taste The management now boasts, and than any other, so the Folies was seems to have the statistics to back the first music-hall to import their up their assertion, that ten million chorus girls in series. Now all the Amerienas have paid their way in. others have English or American That they olain, is better than any choruses which if their legs in "Theatre along Broadway can say. perfect unison. The individualismAnd, to help pay for the increased of the old chorus-girl was lost, and overhead and the new building, (Continued at foot of neat column), prices have gone up again.

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