The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-11-16
NEW CABARET IN
PARIS IS DAZZLING
Latest and Most Up to Date
Place of Amusement Scores
Great Success.
ARTISTIC IN GAYETY
Entrance Fee Provides for a
Drink of Champagne to
Whet Appetite.
BY GEORGES DUFRESNE.

Special Cable TO The Tribune
PARIS, Nov. 15.-Paris has a new
place of amusement, which you must
not fail to visit when you come here
next, for it will repay you even if your
knowledge OF French is limited. / am
speaking of the new cabaret, "L'Epa-
tant,' situated in tho heart Of the
Mecca of pleasure seekers, almost next
door to the old Moulin Rouge
Of all public halls of amusement the
cabaret is the most typically Partisan,
artistic and unpretentious, sparkling
with a spirit so typically Gallo that
all attempts TO initiate it abroad have
failed. Berlin has hundreds OF cabar-
cts along Friedrichstrasse, Leipziger-
strasse and Jaegerstrasse, but they are
cabarets only in name. and there is as
much difference between them and
those of Paris as between heavy Mum
ich beer and our light, bubbling cham
pagre. London has its "Den of the
Golden Calf,' but it is only the last
stopping place Of evening dressed.
sleepy, spleeny night birds, and even in
America, the attempts to acclimatizs
the cabaret have been failures.
Change Is Apparent.
While the original 'cabarets here were
originally modest but bizarre meeting
places of the gayest and most brilliant
spirits among our students and artists,
which flourished unknown to the tour
list and the sightseer, othors soon fol-
lowed whose doors were open TO our
host of cosmopolitan visitors, but they
were all dingy, quantity decorated lit
tie places with limited seating capsci-
ty and sorely devoid Of all modern i'm
provements and comfort.
The new cabaret, l. L'Epatant, is en-
tirely different, being quite spacious,
well lighted and well ventilated and
the prophecies Of those who predicted
that these improvements would be fatal
10 its character as n cabaret have ut
terly failed. There is no gnyer place
in Paris at night than l. L'Epataut. 1t
is the cabaret of cabarets and its gaye-
ty is Of the most infectious and breezi-
est kind. The limitations given there
of all our political literary and drama
tic stars are masterpieces Of art, and
the topical songs with joke aud a
point in every line are delivered with
diabolical skill, as the artistic Partisan
loves it,
System" That Pays.
Without that glass of champagne to
which your entrance fee entities you,
| doubt whether any foreign ear could
keep pace with those intellectual fire
works, it was the cabaret, of course,
that invented the excellent system of
making the cate money pay for n round
of drinks. Could any better way Of
tuning up your public be inventedf By
the time the bottom of the glass is
reached you have recalled all your
French. feeling of fraternity is estab-
lished in the hall, and you are in tho
diapason required by the entertainers.
The verdict that Paris is the most
beautiful city In the world is almost
unanimous, but still it cannot be denied
that in regard 10 public parks several
other cities are ahead Of u.s. We have,
of course, tho Garden of the Tuileries,
with its beautiful statues and msgnifi.
cent view across the Place de In Con-
corde towards l'Arc de Triomph, the
aristocratic Luxembourg, gardens,
the Pare dc Monceau and the Bois dc
Boulogne. The right bank OF the
Seine is bordered by little parks be-
tween the approaches to tho numerous
bridges. But this is not nearly enough;
we want Paris TO become known as the
Garden City of Europe, and the Paris
ian, being like spoiled child in every
thing, of course he must have what be
asks for, II you stay away from here
year or two you will not recognize
Paris when you sec 1t ngain.
"The Moth" Is Popular.
Some of the critics have been hard
on NJ. Henri Bataille s new play -'I4a
Phalene' (The Moth), which would
probably deeply shock a good many
theater- -gcers but the play is q great
success here. Those of your country
men here with whom j have talked
about it arc full of enthusiasm, and not
without reason.
There is plenty OF brilliant dialogue,
the situations are clever and original
one is even carried away for the mo-
ment, and then the mind revolts. All
the critics speak of VI. Bntaille's au-
dace and some 90 much farther than
that. Thyra Marlieu is not 10 be re-
carded as the heroine, but as the
q moth" She is young. rich, an artist.
bizarre and fascinating. character
OF the Marie Bashkirtseff type She
is engaged to be married to tho Prince
de Thyeste, and then. for what reason
we know not, she wants to break off
and to do that effectually she takes IL
into her head TO play the coc otte at the