Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1884-01-05
Sl'Esz.:.E g.sEs, III PARIS.
Cheap Concerts ass.i Their Performers.

STEsEEE EEEs, ~ PARIS.
Cheap Concerts :,s.i Their Performers.
Them is no admission charged, to these places
OF amusement. You are free to enter but you
must pay to get ont. Every one who visits a
cate concert in Paris will be furnished with a
seat. AID then they MUS. order Il drink The
first rounl costs - Cents to % cents according
t. house aud location: after that you can Or,icr
other drlks for 10 Cents each. 1t goes with
out saying that the liquids furnished are OF
Il very poor kind. If you drink beer you'l
wish You had taken brandy; and if Won
take brandy you'll wish you hadn't come
The tobacco smoke is almost thick enough
10 cut. and seats are very uncomfortable.
and the place is SO hot that you're bound
to persplre. People make fools OF them
selves by going to these places night after
night. and the only persons actually bene-
fitted are the stockholders of the establishment.
Perhaps the real reason of their popularity is
their che&pnCSs. The Scala. OIe OF the largest
ami pest III the city, takes IN ali average of 800
every performance The manager told ne that
his daily expenses. Including rent art SIS and
liquids, was 10 more than 300: this gives a net
profit Of at l1.,St -5o40 Week. and the place is
kept open Tor 10 weeks every year The salaries
o some f,..g o the artists ere enormous PaulUs
receives so for each performance and he is
never Olt OF employment Nile. Duparc-a
Very handsome woman who went to America
WITH Maurice GTau som" years aIG-Wno has Il
lovely voice and who dresses eXIuisitely re-
Gives 81 $50 month Lihert q baton SINGER
quite as prominent a haUluS. but altogether of
another school, is pad - .2J0 month Brapt
and EiTl"re, man and wi.c, who SIM Tyro!ean
songs. demanded $500 Il month from an
American manager. He offered the couple $50.
hli5 they positively refused to take less than
- coo.
Another person. who is well paid is kadoudfa.
an Arap girl, or at least. she was Z girl 4 rood
many years ego. when she first appeared in
Paris. one day She disappeared and was not
seen in The Gay capital tor Eighteen years She
made her T5a. appearance At the Concert Parisica
and very soon several rich dudes were knct.!in
a her rect Whenever she came on the STAGE
she was almost Covered with diamonds. She
has supple. Wel-shapcd form aud she dresses
richly and after the fashion OF Or.entals. y
DARK a q nuiatto with black shiny eyes. beau
tlfu hair. q superb bust. and perfect teeth size
makes most remarkable appearance. One of
B,sT1IiH 5 agents said to me one day that he
wanted to engage something Sensational for
America. recommended kadou4ia ana took
him to see her. That night she sung a selection
trOII 'tar.ncn. and gave for GI encore an EryD-
tiG1 song. very weird and wonderful. she had on
all her jewels. ard ey we're wort II at least % 900
Later it offered 20 an engagement to travel
NtE baFi!til.. ....-,. 500 q week and the eX-
pcnSeS Of herself AMI maid. an engagement Of 80
weeks She turned up her nose at this offer
saying that she could get twice that sum in st
Petersburg. Ii was BarnumS intention 10 have
advertised kadOudia as one of the wives of
Arab Pdstia, who, owing to the i'll treatment of
her famous master by the British government
nad been forced to 20 on the stare in order to
earn an honest living. 1t was about that time
that tilS same agent was trying to get control
OF ATaD! I1Sila for a lect turing tour in America
Mr.. Raraun was Wiz ng 10 give Arab 80, 900 a
year and pay the expenses of reasonable num-
Ter OF wives II he wished to bring them with
him. Eut, when poor Arab was Imprisoned on
TT" island OF Ceylon. this plan fell through.
These cafe concerts are OF comparatively re-
cent Ori2jn. Prior 10 1870 there was but one of
thea! in Paris 1t was known as the Cafe des
AvcrGtes- IL was situated in the Iaiais Royal
and 1t owed its existence to the fact that ali its
performers and the orchestra were blind men and
women. soon after the establishment OF the
second empire. cafes chaatants b"4an to make
their appearance in increased numbers. The
songs we're mostly sentimental or patriotic bal
i"i. and Tie police watched over their morality
Wit Virii,tEt and paterAal eye. There was no
charge made for admission. and the taria for
drinks Was uniform thrOU .hout the hnIlsc Dur-
Ii- TIE entr actr Tie yOuHEeSt and hlnds0mest
performers took up collection for tine benefit
Of the troupe 1t was not permitted to
these cafe concerts to give other than strictly
vocal and instrumental musical entertainment
executed ny performers in the ordinary evening
dress of the period. and all plays. dancing and
pantOtGinc We're fOrb.dda N. This was to pre-
vent the concerts from encrOaching on dramatic
/ ttIitlblA- me lnbSL popular Oh THESE establish
mtIits were then. aS now. in the summer time
I in the Champs Elys"es under the trees and
where the warm evenings could be passed COM
fOrtabiy- There We're among the rrOlrietcrs Of
these concerts some entcrpriSing men. who dis
covered that there were among the patrons of
the regular theaters q good many persons who
could be secured for their adjustments if they
We're offered an entertaining program at mod
crate prices. The working classes. clubs, shop
| girls and ldlcrs living on small incomes were
/ lin
cost them less THAI to 30 to the theater.
Don't Lend YOur Cigar.
| From the Pittsburg Despatch.
man Of letters was. smoking and
chatting with a physician on Hudson
/ river ferry boat, when a stranger stepped
up and asked for light. LET me
| give you match" replied the man of letters
adding, after his petitioner had witbdrawn Il
| don't Know how You feel about it. doctor, but
iof ny part very much dislike to put the end
OF my cigar back into my mouth. after it has
| been fingered by Tom. Dick and Harry.
always carry matches with me, and make it a
! point to o!icr one of them instead" And
| quite right ven are, said the doctor; Il believe
I that some of the worst diseases can Tee con-
yeycd by one man to another through the con-
/ tact oil his fingers with a borrowed cigar.
| personally know of 4 case where varioloid was
| transmitted 10y means OF n 50 BILL and | firmly
| believe that yarioloid and things much worse
| can pas. FROM q mans fingers into q cigar and
| thence into the smoker OF it,"
Lord Shaftesbury said in a recent snecch in
| England that he did not believe the question o
| 1isestablishin@ the Church of England had been
put in its full proportions before the country at
| large. He felt that there was a large number OF
| Workingmen who. if the matter were placed
| 4rayeiy before them whether they would extln.
| %uish the church which had existed in thu
country for more than Thousand years. and
| with all its'cvils, had produced prodigioris