The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1909-07-25
low PARIS IS
BEAUTIFIED
Buildings Are Moved to
Extend Streets.
pERNHARDT's MOTOR TOUR
WONDERED Production Of Macbeth
Planned.
-, Trasesey WIN be Prodaced In m
Ancient Castle WITH
Heart Interest
ut Paris.
NJ =. w. DAMoUREUx.

NJ a. w. HAMOUREUA.
pnris. July 24.--The junction OF the
8ouleyard Haussmann. one Of the finest
fnoroughfares In the French capital
With the main system Of boulevards
has been brought nearer by the 'deci-
q 40, OF the Municipal Council to &C
ouire q block of buildings In the kue
yfnffhouf These bouldings are 10 De
X rullAd down when the various leases
expire at the end Of the next Two OF
B three years, and the Boulevard aauys-
mann viii thus be carried an the way
ehrouxh to the Rue Lafhtte, across
which II II ultimately to be linked UP
wirh the Boulevard des Italiens. some
81 the ground now acquired Will De
ayailable for building sites, the en-
hanced value Of which Will enable the
Council to reimburse itself in large
barf for the cost of acquiring the ex-
isfinr block of buildings.
one had thought that 1t was I'M
ro~sible even for Nine Sarah Bern
hardt herself to beat her own feats OF
energy. but she has just surpassed
aven her own records. She has come
back from a tour OF twenty-one days
1.-THE provinces, during which she act
~la11y played the Dame aux Camenas
On the fwenty-one successive evenings.
How many times she has by now oieo
EUM8umQIlOu
& Marguerite Gautier. even she propapiy
can no longer count. During her Ia
TEST tour she travelled by motor-car
throughout, and never set foot In q
railway carriage. When next sne
starts on q circuit OF Europe and OF
4he globe she thinks of 1ourneying by
the same meals wherever possible. For
the present she Is or TO her castle OF
Belle Isle. on the Brittany coast, for
few weeks, rest, II she ever does rest.
An interesting scheme under the
patronaRe of the Cahmber of Commerce
81 Mentone IL afoot for the foundation
In the Riviera of a hotel-keepers school
Tor Frenchmen. It is pointed out that
the hotel industry on the Riviera
alone represents capital OF sS1e,ooo-
600. and that most of the hotels be-
long to Swiss and other foreigners.
There is no real reason why French
men should not make excellent hotel
keepers. but hotel-keeping has to be
learned, and the idea Is to found
college at which young Frenchmen
may be trained In everything apper-
tanning TO the hotel from languages 70
cooking and hygiene. In Swftzeriand.
4 number Of these schools exist. and
they have always been successful.
interesting Exhibition.
most interesting exhibition OF the
paris OF fifty years ago has been OPEN
ed at the Hotel lie Peilitier de Saint
Fnrxeau by the Librarian of the Paris
library OF History. with the object or
showing the younger generation the
Paris Of the fall of Louis Philippe and
che Revolution Of February. 1t Is an
exhibition of pictures, OF books, OF
newspapers, OF songs, and OF souvenirs.
Among them are statuettes OF the
Prince President inkpots in his 'effgy.
and numbers OF the newspapers OF the
day, with such strange titles as The
Workman's Tocsin," THE Red Cap,
The Republican Christ na III the on aep psIl-
ed -Fraternity," the leading article OF
which Is headed 1.-The War Cry"
There is a most interesting daguer-
reotype of Louis Philippe. in which the
bourgeois king looks very cross indeed.
and there are songs In honor or Algeria
and colonization and of a now for
gotten communist colony called 1caria.
founded in the United States by
Frenchmen discontended with the mon
archy Under a glass case Is little
piece Of wood, to which still hangs a
bit of red. white and blue silk with
scrap Of golden fringe. This frag-
ment is all that remains of Louis
PhiIliue's throne in the Tuilleries. which
was burned by the revolutionaries on
February "a. 1s4s.
Electric Snails.
Eiectrifying shop wares to prevent
larceny is an ingenious but dangerous
Invention. A man who sells live
snaiis near the Bourse found that
gourmets in passing frequently pinch
EDS a handful of them and disappear
ed He had a brilliant idea. and con-
nected the wire baskets in which the
enaiIs are offered for sale with an
electric battery in his shop. When a
genuine customer came along he cut
on the current. The snails themselves
rzYtfh
apparent harm. Anyhow, they did not
object to eat audibly. and they SEEM
ed Just as good to eat after the treat
ment as before. when boiled and sea-
Boned. But a party of schoolboys pass
ed the shop and ''pinched" some of
them. They had no sooner done SO
than they set up bowls which brought
a crowd. Inquiring bystanders touch
ed the snails also, and similarly yell
ed The current was not strong en-
Dugh TO kill the snails. but transmit
ed a shock which made the shocked
persons dance. Having recovered. they
commenced to wreck the establish
ment when the police came.
NJ. and Madame Maurice Maeter.
ltnck MADAME Georgette Leblanc), ac-
cording to a friend of theirs, are plan.
ming a wondrous performance of Mac
beth" for August. It will not be ar
ordinary Macbeth 1t will be almos
a real life Macbeth" a realization Of
Shakespeare There will be no prop.
critics, scenery, pasteboard landscapes
or imelght. all the surroundings ir
which the tragedy will be enacted will
be real. NJ. and Madame MaeterlincA
live in a wonderful castle at St. Wand
rifle, In Normandy. Its architecture 1;
described as an "embattled confusion
of every style. of every age. from the
twelfth to the eighteenth centuries.
IT has great courtyardS and banquetinl
halls medieval battlements, and suites
Of Louis XIV apartments, and moss.
grown ruins Macbeth" will be real.
lied" in and near the castle. Specta'
tors Of the tragedy will not remain III
one place, but will move to different
parts of the castle and grounds as the
scene shifts. They will hear the hoofs
of Duncan's horse in the distance, as
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