El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-12-27
PARIS HAS
IT'S ANNUAL
MIGRATION
All Who Have the Money
Have Gone to Midwinter
Resorts.
THE TANGO is LOSING
FAVOR WITH FRENCH
az Ia RACoNTEUsE.

n ARTS, FRANCE, Dec. 27.-The Pa
risienne who loves her beautiful
city above anything in this world,
and who misses it every moment she is
away from it, nevertheless feels her
self compelled to leave it at certain
periods every year and this is one of
them. To remain in Paris during
Christmas and the weeks that follow
Immediately after it is taken either as
sign of bad taste or of lack of money,
both of which are counted among the
sins that cannot be forgiven. You may
spend your Christmas eve and even
Christmas day here, but then if you
want to count for something in Paris
society you must pack your trunks and
drive to Care du Nord or Care de Lyons
en- route either for Switzerland to ex-
hibit your skill ski-running at Ander-
matt, Murren or Chamonix, or for the
Cote d'Azure, where you spend your
time basking in the sunlight and your
money to the green tables of Monte
Carlo. Only towards the middle Of
January are you permitted to return
to the gaieties of Paris and that IS
why all our fashionable cafes are emp
ty every night now or in the hands OF
a noisy crowd of merry making Ameri-
cans or StOlid visitors from the other
side the channel, who have come over
with the cheap Christmas excursions
of the great tourist bureaus.
Tango Popularity Wanes.
The short but merry reign of tango
is drawing towards an end. One after
one our great 'elegantes' desert the
tango and return to the waltz of our
grandmOthers. Even Andre de Fou-
quieres himself no longer champions
the Brazilian maXiXe, and when society
n
of the winter in all ball rooms will be
the quadrine Square dance.
There are a few younger handles who
are bravely attempting to launch a
new dance ia rallOnge," which comes
to US from the famous ball-musettes
of La Bastoche" and ia ViltOuse," and
which is said to have its origin in ia
pan.
BernhardFs New Play.
Certainly no actress ever had as
many admirers among her own sex as
the ever youthful Sarah Bernhard, but
no one ever deserved admiration more.
In her new play she is wonderful and
simply SurpaSseS herself as a pathetic
old neWSWOman, whose son has COM
mitted murder. No one who attends
that play and sees Sarah depicting the
emotions of the old woman when the Z
news of her sons crime reaches her
ears as she is in the act of wrapping I
up book for a customer, will ever for (
get her acting, and If you look about I
you in the audience YOU will see tears I
in every eye. Words fail to 4
describe the dramatic effect which |
Sarah's genius produces with the /
smallest of means, and if she had never
done anything besides acting this one {
scene she would be immortal.
1t was originally intended that her /
own son, Maurice Bernhardt, whose /
birth has forever robbed her of the +
possibility of getting the coveted Cross !
of the Legion of Honor Che is an ille-
Ultimate SOM should have played the /
part Of the murderer, but under the eff
feet of his mothers wonderful acting,
he broke down with emotion time after
time during the rehearsals and the
part had to be given to young NJ Ber-
nard, son of the famous novelist, iris
tan Bernard.