El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-06-08
TAX THEATRES
FOR BENEFIT
OF POOR
This Is French Practice;
Theater Goers Increasing
Rapidly in Paris.
POOR RECEIVED
$1,275,0OO IN 1911

Paris, France, June -S.-A good idea
of the increasing amount of money
that is spent in theatergOtng in Paris
is Obtainable from figures just pub
lished, giving the receipts OF the diff
ferent places of amusement The
gross receipts of all, which amounted
in 1850 to S1,70O,000, has reached over
Sll ,0Oo, coo IN 1911 The last few years
show a steady rise of from $500 600 to
Sl.OOO,0O0 a year This is largely at
tributed to the opening of cinematO-
graph shows and TO the increased pop
ularlty OF the summer ana winter mu-
sic halls, concerts and cafe concerts.
The great national -theaters, like the
Coincide Franchise, the Opera and the
OdeOn, have also shown an increase in
revenue. and the leading boulevard
theaters have held their own with
handsome door receipts.
On the receipts OF every theater in
Paris the city levies a tax for the poor,
this money being distributed by the
society known as the assistance pub
uque." The poor have benefited con-
slderably from the increase Of revenue
In 1850 they obtained only S13S.0O but
in 1911 their benefits had jumped to
SL275.0 900.
Forward Educational step.
The Inauguration of the official Har-
ward foundation, calling for an addi-
tlonal exchange of professors between
Harvard university and the various
French universities, marks an import
ant forward step in what might be
called the institution Of a foreign pol
ICY for the universities Of France. The
ministry of public instruction has
opened a special department devoted
to finding out what France may offer
to the foreigner who desires to study
IN France, and to the practical estab-
ushment Of French instruction abroad.
There are $3.50 foreign students today
IN French institutions OF learning and
the courses of study Of the universities
at Eennes, Dion and Lille have been
arranged 10 suit the needs Of the for
eign students.
At Tours special summer course is /
to be arranged and at the girls col
leSe there special department viii be
opened for young women from abroad ,
the school ct Versailles.
The other Development is in the prop
asatlon abroad Of French university
influence french professors and teach
eIs have been placed in large mum bers
IN. various European colleges. including
Leipzig, Budapest St Petersburg. and /
recently professor was sent to the
Normal college Of New York.
Inis foreign policy" of the French
universities is also made possible by
such organizations as the Alliance
ranc2ise, the Franco-American COM
nitteeY the French institute Of the
United States. and of course by the
new relations between Harvard and !
the French universities OOther coun- .
tries IN which the French influence is B
spreading are ROumania, Servia, Nor
way, Sweden and Chile.
names 2 movement to create even wild
er bonds Of sympathy between the I
InlIed states and France 1t is planned &
10 send French students to the
United States and the creation of a 4
i rench museum at Harvard is a project
of the near future.
Madam Andre Was Iaferesff-.-- Ffcure
BY the recent death Of Madame
Andre there passes one of the
most interesting figures in the brilliant
trencn society OF the second empire
As Nile. Nelly JacqUemart she won
fame as portrait painter, carving all b
1870, and at the Universal exposition of
1919. Among her best known works ]
are portraits of Marshal Canrobert,
president Ihiers, Gen PalikaO, Count Z
de Chambrun. duke DecaZes. baron g. [
de MOntesCuiOu. count de Saint-Amand Z
and of host Of celebrities of the Pc
After her marriage to the financier
Andre, she ceased exhibiting I
az the salon and devoted herself to I
her collection, which she /
made one OF the finest in Paris. com
erlSlng antiquities. bronZes, sculptures {
worries of the Ogival period: Limoges
5namels, HispanO-AOOrish lustre ware I
-atllan fayence, middle age and renais-
sance furniture, ana very choice gal
ery Of paintings, including excellent
examples of Rembrandt, Rubens, Van
Iyck, Jordaens, Vatican, FragOnard,
Sreuze and many others.
Madame Andre has left her Paris
mansion in the boulevard Haussmann l
ler country seat the chauteau de Cha
Ills, and her personal fortune amount
ng to over $4,000, 600, to the Institute
IF France. BY the terms of her will
'LOOO,CO0 is to be devoted to the up
Keep of the boulevard Haussmann man
sion and the art treasures contained
n IL Another million is to be applied
90 the upkeep Of the chateau of Chaalfs.
lnally $500. 600 is 10 be distributed /
Pr the institute in accordance with I
'crtain private requests. The remain
nS 100000 is TO be devoted to what
s.ef purposes the institute shall deem