Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-05-05


II costs two francs. Would YOU visit the
banquet hall of the Good Seirneurg You
must pay Tor the middle age dinner IL
Sets mon0tonous- still. nothing OF the kind
mas ever been seen before. and merely as
decorative effect. Old Paris Is a great ac-
QUESTION TO the exposition One detail Is
raising great controversy. The faithless
page hangs from the battlements pretty
steadily His limp body swinging in ne
breeze. to recall the humors of The good ola
times is OF an uncanny horror. Women
nave been made I'll gazing too long AT n
some say II ought not be permitted Others
call II a good republican object lesson for
reacuonists. Another humanitarian con-
troNersy RACES around the bull fights Of
Andalusia in the times of the Noors We
nave just returned from this gorgeous Mid
way sideshow, our eyes full Of barbara
coIor ana our ears full of barbaric minor
cadences: Here, friends. you see the real
original danse du ventre done flor the FIRST
Tune in the history of western civilizationl
by pretty girls and not old mammies from
.he sums of Cairo, dishwashers from the
back streets of Jerusalem or the forlorn
femininities of Montmartre The girls are
SAID TO be from Cadiz and Tangiers So
much the better for Cadiz and Tangiers
We once. in company of Major Pred Brack-
Ell. now one of the American commission
ers 10 the exposition, searched those cities
IN IAN yam ior iheir like The bull fight that
excltes the humanitarians is practiced in
me OLD style. on good horses. with long
lances. The horses are not killed and
scarcely ever injured. The bull. even "a
the rest, it is a page out Of Washington lr-
wing the street fetes and parades Of Boab-
di ell Chico. how the Count de Cabra sal
lied forth from his castle the marriage ~
Hamet Ell Zegri, alcalde of Ronda and a
dozen other glowing romances acted nv
hundreds OF performers. with appropriate
scenery, In a big. open-air circus-theater
Illusion is Complete.
VI the same character is the Cour des
Miracles en- 400. reconstruction of the
Paris of Victor Hugo's "Notre Dame"
with the old Hotel Saint-Pol. the King of
the Tramps; Esmeralda anu her nanny. and
full tourney or Jousting, with knights in
armor battle-axing each other in the good
old style Should any one not have enough
yet, there is Eenice-the old gondola show
that so long delighted London. Vienna and
the other capitals, now refurbished and en-
larged. You may ask how Is Il that the
people do not tire of all these reconstruct
tons of the past. all these moving piano.
ramas and dioramas? 1t is because first
they are well done, so absolutely life
like, that the magical illusion is complete
Secondly, and most important. there are
pretty girls and mixed drinks at every one
OF them In every corner. Never in our .
life have We seen so much fizz never so
many alleged American bars never SO
many samples given away. sold at half
price and charged for excessively There
Is the water diorama of Niagara at Paris"
Canadian girls 0hey certainly speak
Frenchl sell Niagara-foam champagne
there. There is the panorama of Marchand
and tashoda Black girls sell what they
call maize beer" At the panorama of
Rome it is the headachy asst spumante
offered by wicked-eyed purpIe-lipped peas
ant girls of the Campagna- There are the
panorama OF Madagascar, the panorama of
lena and the panorama of EesuVius at
Paris, spouting flame.
The Uuside Down House.
A whole other series of Midway attrac-
lions is found in the humorous or merely
curious effects Of say, for instance, the
upside-down house. 1t is exactly as 1t
says, a house--an old French manor house
built upside down, the roof first, then the
third story, the second the first, the cellar
in the air and the foundations pointing to
the sky. 1t is a good place to bring your
girl after she has sampled the Swiss pink
champagne the asst spumante, the flute of
demisec they give you at the Merciel pavil-
lon, the profuse hooters of the wines of the
French exhibit Chere free drinks for a
week in this one section), and the cock
tails, cobblers, slings and punches of the
bars. Bring her to the upside-down house
turn her loose in ii and be repaid for all
your tolls and troubles. The rooms are
upside down. too. the tables and chairs
hanging from the ceilings, on the walls the
pictures being wrong side up and every
thing complete. Stranger STILL by an in
genious mechanism, when you look from
the windows you the exhibition grounds
around about are upside down. too. If this
does mol convince her that she is standing
on her head you may take her to the SUBJ
terranean world and twenty thousand
leagues under the sea without fear for she
will be wonder proof.
They have gone to much trouble and ex-
pense with their "Subterranear World Of
the Trocadero" The mining section of it
shows the whole life of mine. with Miners
picking, blasting and operating the eN-
tractors, while mules draw ore in little cars
along a railroad track. In another part
the marvels Of the subterranean flora are
exhibited Geology has its place. Then
comes archaeology, with the famous tomb
of Oyamemnon, the finds of DIR. Schlie-
mann, a metropolis of Memphis and re-
construction of the homes of all the differ
ent cave jewellers. Here the never-absent
bar is in the prettiest part. the stalacute
grottoes, besides mysterious underground
lakes, which are lit up with great effect. 1t is
the same story of expense and realism at the
aquarium, called properly Twenty Thou
sand Leagues Under the Sea" The specta-
tor is down there underneath the waters in
the deep 0here is a ear}, with water on all
sides, where great eels wriggle to get at
you and great fishes bump their noses
against the plate glass.
Dances of the World.
The native theaters of the different coun-
tries take a deal of visiting-the Persian
theater. the Java theater, the Serviau thea
ter, the Bohemian dance hall, the Hunga-
rian ballet and dozen others. The Paris
ian, who never tires of lovely woman. and
who cannot imagine any one else firing,
seems to have brought together all the
races to disport themselves upon the stage
In particular the Palais de la Danse should
be visited, because a unique set of shows is
given in 1T, often imagined, but never be-
fore realized. 1t is no common sideshow.
1t is part OF the exhibition ITSELF under .he
charge of NJ. Georges Bourbon, late stage
manager of the Odeon government thea
teri, and the government architect LemaFie.
Something of this dream was realized in the
''TanZ Maehrchen" ballet that has delighted
visitors to the Grand Opera House of Vien-
ma for so many years Here the story Of
the dance unrolls itself before one, the
dance in all ages and all countries. from the
"Ping-ven" of the Chinese and the "Baya-
deres'' of the Hindoos to the 'tPyrrhic
Dances" Of the Greeks and the 'Bacchana-
fian ReSeis' of the Romans, from the
"Jongleurs' of the middle ages to the
''Passe-pieds'' of the Renaissance Then
there are the minuet,the gavotte, the cancau
and the modern quadrille, with the Tale OF
the Waltz by way of episode. For the first
time in Paris foreign ballet stars and cory
phees get a fair chance beside the French
girls Of the ballet school of the Grand
Opera The company will be changing con-
tfnually through the spring and summer,
a NO ha 1iSr of liph t-ba Io1