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"How much longer are they going to be working out this equal-pay-equal-work business?"

NEW YORK.

nolicemen's tummies.

are

Paris

without

the Folies?

.

By SALLY SWING WHAT would Paris be without

Bergeres?

the Folies-

The probability that the Folles, the Bal Tabarin and other music halls. of. Paris would be forced to close loonted as a ghustly reality re- cently as the municipal government of Parla slapped one more tax on the already tax-weary music halla

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Music halls, where fancy jugglers caught sabres in their moutha, where shapely nudes rode around on stuffed' ponies, where song hits were launched by stars like Maurice Chevaller, have always been a Paris tradition. Tomorrow they may be only a memory.

"Is Paris going to toss the little hudo women out on the sidewalk "the evening news paper L'Intransigeant asked in a ruoful article.

ALREADY the death blow to musis halla has

come by way of taxation.

Big-name stars who were the piece de resis tance of any Paris variety show have wandered into greener fields, leaving their rickety stages for radio stations and foreign lands,

Edith Piaf, the spindly legged urchin who sang her way to fame from the crooked streets of Montmartre via the music halla is now in Scan- dinavin.

Maurice" Chevalier, dean of the music hall singers, is now a smash success in New York.

Yves Montand, a six-foot-two baritone who sent Parisians into chuckles and tears when ho sang such modern-day spirituals as "Hello Dick" and "The Lagi Metro," is making a Laxing plature.”

TED KAVANAGH

THE MAN WHO CREATED. “ITMA," NOW IN AMERICA. VIEWS BROADWAY WITH MR HANDLEY.. HEARS FROM A MYS- TERIOUS STRANGER...AND REGRETS THE NEW SINATRA, ALIAS THE 'VELVET FOG'

And that man Speaking of such, New York

Handley! When police have been enjoying them the waiter handed him the bill of selves lately. The other day fare all he could do was un armed smash-and-grab boy at it

and yell, "Blimey.

euss anything under the some things that are not.

sun-and

Charles Trenet, the "singing madman," whose "It rains In my nom. It rains in my bed" and "The Vagabund Song" were on the lips of all Frenchmen from the President of the Republic to the Concierge, is also singing in an American night club.

For

Reason: net profits of all music halls are taxɛa 43 percent,

Folica. large music halis ke the the

where the show is de luxe, the tax their is 47 percent of the profits.

Theatres, on the other hand, are

red 25 percent. only taxed

The tax for

Parla the city of

your

time,

One

If you phone you gol dubious pleasure of hearing remarks over your radio and telephone at the same of the disc jockeys ends his conver-municipal government is 20 percent.

alone, sations with the words "drop dead" of the net profits

against anything&ght peretnt for theatres, eo this Ex- hail monagers when he can't think of to stare else to say. But we don't mind. plains why musie

are changing their fare. This It is being so beerful keeps us go-

ing.

to

over

here. Ai

small

0

radio

Alham-

other

off the

T'S that Manhattan again. I'm still here in this in- ferno called New York- this hot. clanging, noisy city, ran through the streets and on menu's like a West End revue."

to a bus, pursued by a conper He is difficult when it comes to Anyway, he is no more Incredible ONE recent week, the ABC music where everything is the big also carrying a gun. They rigorelles, too. He keeps mutter than other things

hall was presenting a review; the gest in the world, including the shot it out in the middle of the in "Only tenpence for 20, only mysterious stranger has been tele- "Etolieans operetta;

| Belleville, a bus-load of 40 passengers. The tenpence for 20" (current price for phoning every night since our ar ben, a radio programme; the Folles- programme Even the skyscrapers

crook was killed. He didn't cigarettes here). And he stands rival. He calls in the wee high.

While I write in

my even have time to pay his fare. outside the cinemas-where smok- hours inviting us in go to parties at (it will convert to a movie theatre

next season). Managers of

"live entertainment" thirty-first floor hotel room the But, then he didn't know where ing is prohibited-gazing bulgy eyed the Stork Club or the Waldorf or on well-known other scrapera reach 'so

Washington.centres are also snapping far he was going, did he?

at the ashtrays into which the cus- airplane trips above me I feel I'm in a bun-

tomers dump their smokes before Most of all, though, he wants us to klelg lights and rolling up the all-

ver screen. galow.

the music hali Hardest hit in going in. These truys are full

entertainment almost new fags. It is terrible,

are not, the

publice. The

smaller al and through the tulipain Great big tears roll down Tommy's he telephone's saying he saw

repeatedly fold comedians. the youngsters trying out a cop's back garden. The enraged cheeks as he stands there watching there. We have

their own gags, the man who could amficer was eff duty at the time, but the waste. We have had to use him we are asleep, but all he says lawake a card. Jump out of an or- dinary tumbler, the little nude dan-

the real. Perhaps cer-thase are

people who Perhaps he isn't

to to-night he will say he is Funf suffer, though we didn't think Funí would follow us here. If he does say he Funf, then we will know he isn't

Manhattan is a vast restau- rant entirely surrounded by building water. Every third

is

an eating-house, and many are open all night.

They're all busy

keeping

nction. cating. 'They sell "Hamburgers with a. college education" and "Glorified ham and eggs," to mention only two of be food shopa.

They Shoot To Kill

NOTHER bandit on the run car:-

of moose hunting.

If we go to a night club or a show y

was wearing his gun (probably force once or twice to slon him "What, again?" would have ft naked without ).

1ĺek ním and shot the trespasser

the great American jaw in When he saw his ruined blooms he stuming the butts into his pockets.

dead Didn't apologise or anything. Mitzi Grows Up

let me tell you about the imony of the city's polles com-

One aldelight on this is the tes- AND

▲▲ gnu. Whenever Handley missioner, Wallander, who says his hands his around the Yanicees atare Bremen shot to kill, "not because because snuff is not enalted here. they are bloodthirsty, but because. spicterular kings temporarily cut. We think snuff is as good as a feast and you should see that man walk down the crime rate.".

It's a mystery to me why the Americans ever chew gum here's so much else here to chew.

4

Stil, Manhattan isn't really so big. It reminds me of provincial town of several High- streets, with a

disappointing that they fairground

call Broadway.

Just Like Southend

a

real.

To song-writers as well as pleasure seekers, the music hall tax of the municipal council is dealing a denth blow to the very heart of Paris itself.-United Press.

BY THE WAY

by Beachcomber ·

You know Mitzi Green has made TEARING the husband of a of three. "But I only want one,"

Bigger screams. more noise-good about with his snuff-box pen Invit new Ing the Americans to "snetze up old New York. I'll need tar if I'm here much longer-a Uncle Sam." bigger one than I ever had before. But you can buy anything here.

Flapping to pleasanter things than Bobby my ears, wa went to see Clark, one of the world's best comedians, in "Sweethearts."

IL 'very

intelligent

as

famous of the eighteenth con- You are also going hear about tury salons.

a errore named

sorry Term

Miel Torment

Papuan milking song

The pigmy cows of Papua

Are barely two feet tall, And they are inliced by Title

Tids

Proportionately, sinali

Chorus:

It's littic and peod that doce fi

dogs it does it,

It's title and good that does it,

And to say all of us Papuans."

woman suld, "You have to take three,

rald the assiant. "Why" asked Fald the "Because," A dull dog, d a New York come-back. You will

the woman. described in

quota is so restricted her as a baby star

assistum, "our rem:mber

thought of poor, Geoffrin. the She now clocs pictures years ago. Impersonations and songs in a night manufacturer of mirrors, who that they are only cold in sels of married Marie-Therese Rodet, thres." Obviously, If they become And when there are no more. club, and she is great, especially in) and afterwards sat as a silent arstr Maty will be sold in seta of "Sweethearts" is the 1913 Victor burlesque of Carmen Mirando. 7.30 9.30 p.m. BROADWAY is like Southend Herbert musteri. No, it hasn't been Mitzi would be a big hit in London. spectator of one of the most it, you will have to take a hun-

then. This Is the

red. running since with a pinch of Blackpool third revival, and Bobby makes no and a

Butlin's bones about it. "Never," he says to spoonful of

ploi

To brighten him up, his wife tried Light the mixture

vul the audience, "was so thin a up,

to get him to read a work of history garise vastly, and you have the made to complicated." (I wonder

But as the absent- They say he is another Sinatra-ar travel. Great White Way. It's cer- i London producers would chance

such a remark?)

as if he weren't enough--and he mindedly always gave him the Br

"Not tainly a blaze of light, though

comes complete with quilt on top volume, his criticism was: Mr Shinwell would go. raving

cking #ke every mother's son, uninteresting, hut the author repents They're Still At It

himself a line." Once they give mnd if he saw it, especially, as

Terme is billed as "the velvet him a volume of the Encyclopedia, the lights shine all day. OLSEN and Schren Ere sill at it,

but ta my mind their show could for," but if that is velvet for give-printed in double columns. The good

me a good Landon prasouptr. Broadway not cempore with that of our

man read right across the page in- Typical of the

This fog-bound Sinaira gets stead of down one column, and rod: posters is one describing a film Crazy Gang. Typical of their ear-

£250 every time he sings, and he "Not Lad, but rather absiruse." the one where of New Orleans ns "blocks of rent humeur is

believes has been writing songs ever since vice and corruption.” In this. Disen asks Johnson it he

in reincarnation. When Johnson was six, he says, I will but he His epitaph

what wrote ene I heard him sing heal it's a wonder the blocks

NE day a newcomer to the salon Osun Boys: "Well, snys yes,

raid to Mme. Groffrin: "Whattish Museum in Edinburgh will be a

From the ceiling. of vice, don't melt.

were you belors veu died?" That beinre that.

easily,

has become of that old gentleman. Forrtalhat affair.

whate The Fangs the skeleton of On The Record People here are still talking was the only go 7 hourd

who used to be here a great deal?" the guns going off all over

"That was my husband," mid she, architet "will make the best of it!

by lighting and by fling in the “THE PRIVATE LIFE of DON JUAN” bout the flying saucers. These the place, and the hellapoppin

created quite a stir. It's only stalls.

BAUCH ct New York's night club "He's dead."

caviles with

An elephant near been discful thinking, bough, Lart night we wel" to Copaca- entertainment is provided

arts and crafts chowing Scottish. and, as I always say, they're Lano Not Cub. 1. hope the the "disc jockeys" who broadcast saucepan mystery.

woman had a triangular piece of checse on is Ilichardets play a other, day that a often seen at home, especially alm featuring Groucho Marx is bet- from the premises all night long. A MORNING paper reported the by, in a glass case, will, I trust, hava

named These Gordon far it than the place it's in domestic circles. Still, next after. It was so dark down there few records and talk, the rest of the gone into a shop ta ask for an all-head, and a rham tali mads of glass.

phone minium saucepan, and that she was beds. Otherwise 1 shan't care much time we see one.we're going to I am sure I bit the hand that fed time. They invite you to

them during the broadcast to dis- told that they wone enly sold in els rut the exhibien. call a cup.

-Hal Wallis'

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