People of Other Lands Play at Being Booed As Americans in Paris They Also Play at Being Frenchmen and 800 Real Americans Itv STERLING Lievlig
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THE SUNDAY STAR. WASHINGTON, D. C.. AUGUST 29. 1926-PART 5. 3 People of Other Lands Play at Being Booed as Americans in Paris They Also Play at Being Frenchmen and 800 Real Americans ItV STERLING lIEVLIG. i United States. French factory srfrN PARIS. August can buy silk stockings, and do. 19. Two classes suffer cruelly from the thousands of Americans fall in French money, both of the \v)ir> do “Paris by night” in educated set. Middle-class people "Seeing Paris” motor omni- that is. those who have fixed in- THEbuses are bound to take in comes-—find that their incomes buy sur-h night life as is adapted as to thrones only one-fifth as much before. The in a hurry. same reason applies to civil and cor- XVe admire, we seldom criticize, poration employes, school teachers, srgue or stir up the French. Presi- army navy officers. These, too. dent pleased ami C'oolidge would be to have no time to waste on the boule- know the impressions of a man Figaro vards, but are as likely as not to who went about with- such a “Paris found, officers, by night” be the in their spare crowd.* or auto "If time, at engineering work in the whistlers and bno-ers of night the boulevard garages, accountants at extra could know with what work, university driving tax admiring application marveling students and so on. appreciate ioahs. and these tourists the ‘curiosi- The papers printed in English i:i ties' shown to says the them.” Figaro; Paris avoided giving publicity t> editor, "they would feel disarmed and these moved!” facts and tlte French papers mentioned them only to express r- How to seriously not admire the gret. Suddenly exaggerated stories streets of Paris by night? Four motor omnibuses follow each other down the came back from America by cable. goes fHi- Grand Boulevard, brilliantly lighted Personal knowledge no ther than a very brief disturbance on promenade which every one has heard of. Past the “terrace" of the Case de la Pai.x. the st. Martin and St. Dents Is gates of ancient Paris,*which remain, which about the center of the — tourist Paris. The terrace is the side they arrive at the Place of Bast lie case, along which was torn down by the people walk in front of the which with their hands! What a night ride! chairs and little tables are lined three deep, enough a < to Seine; to hold few hundred ‘ut across Paris the River as stop at the antique Coliseum of "consumers." the French say. Eutcce. where mcr. fought with boasts They consume beer sweetened wa- In Roman times. They stop 20 min- ters, lemonade, coffee, ten. chocolate, utes In the Rue Mouffetard. to go ices of every color. On that particu down into the Catacombs! larly warm night, somehow who can We th<» Pantheon by night!-- j tell how. in a croud like that?--on<* hv way of the old Eat In quarter] Individual, a bare-headed blond- . Boulevard St. Michel; tin- quais of the! ‘spectacled, scarred red on his cheek, Seine—by niglu! ihe pa’ace of the j talked or talked back to a band of French Academy, ihe Beaux Arts, the young Frenchmen passing in front (“heather of Deputies, the Place de la These were not seated, not drinking, Concorde, the Champs Klvsees. the not spending money. Two or three Arch of Triumph, and across Paris Other men at the tables joined in and bv night up. up. to the Basilica of the made the back talk worse. The bare Par red Heart. High up there, on the headed blonde got away before the Kill of Montmartre, we have a pano- police came up to know what v\a< ramic view of Paris night lights! going on in so plotter a place. Thre- Close by the magnificent church arrests were made, not of Ameri dominating profane Montmartre, we cans, for resisting police orders an 1 stop half an hour at a special estab- | that was all. lishment gotten up for “Paris by ** * * Sight” motor bus parties. Music and dancing! The four immense cars, full I 'pilF waiters explained—"Youn t of tourists, roll through Montmartre I Patriots." That is a name for to the famous Place Blanche and young students and employes and T’igallc, centers night ' j Place of life- l:k> thence hack where we started on the middle-class boys who do not boulevard, where Parisians “boo” and the way politics i« going and cm •* whistle at u«! You - see. we are near A TOI IIK-OItT IN I ONF. 01’ THE PARIS TOCRIST V\RS THAT H \VK BKKN ROOM). • Stleks. laughing, talking Copyright, Sioriinp Hoilig. Copyright, Storllttp Hoiiip 300 tourists, and car through perhaps criticizing, in those four big One tourist drove tlm touring cars, all in a line! i crowded Rue Mouffetnrd. all ale e The Palermo (Italian-Englisli name) ;of all the "sights.” in doubt- The Dead Rat has a famous repu- miles, empty and shut up. be- jsteel armor from their hotel to a i j ists, anyway, fee the moftt beautiful ** + * I vast, j with “little people.” and a tourist, .is gay and elegant, because much l'ul taste, but not bad many may tation —it is the Rat Mort which so neath the old Latin Quarter, stone motor omnibus. The foremost re- j part of Paris night lift"--the streets all j so as i who was to be [patronized by the French. It« specialty imagine. The dressed have hoard of. Today, having been from them to build marks to others “Lucky we j lighted up! said an American. COME of us get up in Mont- 1 waiters are many it is cut the j pennies out. jiis the Charleston. El Uarron (as its like angels, with wings. St. Peter, in no more than a cabaret, where spec- the most ancient part of the capital, bought this old armor for the j * * * *¦ I• threw out to them. Even martro, and are lost among the ! i in Morocco such insinuation | name implies) is a gay cabaret where | celestial robes, with a great key. is tacular -and somewhat undressed when Home ndnied it “Lutece.” museum, at home. Tt's just the! are Englishmen j an tha• pleasure seekers of cai»arets and j Argentine j more tour-j j they beggers would he resented j tango is indulged in by real | there —and the doubtful taste does dancing is looked at. The Moulin little ! thing to visit Paris by Night!" 'J'HBRE were sights. Now, night life has claimed a j \ ing here anil nearly as many Hoi- ; Most of the crowd—little tradesmen, ; South Americans. “Pigalle’s" is full f not go further. Rouge is nothing, any more, of the stretch of the Catacombs, reaching Also, they are net all young ; i At the greater ones we sometimes; of correct landers—and Germans, too—all ith artisans, odd-jobbers—gave back lan j Americans and English and "Walls and ceilings of "Heaven," on great popular dance hall that made off into blackness where none ven- Parisians who “boo," just as they w j have to a''guc and criticize about eve- a i i guage so forcible that tlie tourist un- jlias Harlem jazz orchestra. Also, three floors, are decorated in Middle- its name. ture. They have, found a forgotten are not all American tourists who | ! money dearer than the French. They' i ring clothes. How is a tourist in a ! it is in is j derstood. the Place Pigallc—there j Agei ideas of Heaven; and “Nothingness" is the awful “Case entrance to them in the old get “boo-ed.” p« o- motor omnibus to “dress”? Some | no Pigalle more rue | are boo-od all the same -and by j The trouble with things of this proprietor named for | serious looking visitors are told to j of Death," where the drinking cups MoufTetard; and tourists in motor In one motor omnibus of a “Paris j cabarets won't let us in. unless we I "Piga i pie who are not always French, but kind Is that, when they begin, they j lie's!" ! "go up higher,” are shaped like skulls, visitor omnibuses only are taken down to | !j are, at leaat. wearing a “tuxedo!" where the discourses, | and a j | by night.” contingent, there were four | ‘are apt to The travel agency The Abbey very times, companions by twenty ladies, enjoying the night. grow. Also, observe the foremost names, jj and Jeunie arc .at have been beautiful. : can horrify his stand- :j dance for minutes In the Paris Englishmen, five English two jare front of whose boulevard office ! French. I admit. But look at the | lng in an upright coffin, where Catacombs' Danes and four Danish ladies and two The police pet mixed up—usually : !in They arc the Perroquet (means “Par- j With Parisian tact, ttic- angel- j a i | j on | the cabled shindies tomt (dace i- rot”), (America.!!-named>, | others! As their names show, they : trick of projected lignt transforms ' ** * * South American men—-to complete the ;j the wholesome police rule to get there ] rite Florida in | waiters conduct themselves with mod- j ! French. It at once asked the go\ fare made for us. evening clothes e.-t friendliness; ! him slowly to a skeleton. j “American” carful! jlate —and they, too, have difficulty in ; the Cauassinn. the Palermo. Ea as | and the discourses j V/VET same tourists get ' eminent to stop them, “Florenz's,” much as possible.