Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1914-12-17
THEATRES
TO REOPEN SOON

Correspondence Of the Associated Press
Paris, Dec 16.--Many theatres soon
will be reopened. thanks to Minister
of the Interior Malvy. who obtained
from his colleagues permission to do
as he saw fit with the amusement
places The lower lights also soon
will be burning on the boulevards.
The Opera Comique will reopen with
The Daughter of the Regiment as
the first attraction and Mile Chenal,
draped with the French colors, viii sing
the Marsoillaise between the acts
The orchestra is ready and the cast
complete excepting the leading tenor.
The place of Frantz. serving as n mil
itary postman at Nogent, is not easy
to fill
Here | am and here stay" says
Jacques RouChe when anyone asks il
it is true that he will give up the di-
rection of the opera
The national opera house, however.
is cold and dark and callers crowd
into the portors' lodge, for the porter
alone about the place has the funds
to buy coal, This is not due to the
moratorium, it is simply a case of
and the gas company gives no credit
while in the scarcity of coal all orders
must be accompanied by cash
Nevertheless artists and chorus
people stamp about the icy stage re-
hearsing LA Favorite" and "Semira-
mis- with the same zest as IL the re-
opening was certainty.
At the Theatre Francois there is
plenty of coal and the gas bill has been
paid but the place recalls the times
when the scene shifters We're on strike
All except six of them are off to war.
BY instructions of Lieut. Colonel Care
who keeps in sort OF wireless touch wiz
LA Maison de Moliere" stage hands
of the Theatre de la Monnaie now in
Brussels will he modified for the VIM
ter campaign,
| Fifteen per cent. of the gross receipts
Of all places Of amusement during the
war must he paid over to the different
relief funds. II Belleville is a criterion,
substantial aid for the suffering will he
derived from this source The Casino
there reopened within five hours after
the word go" and the house was crowd
ed with workmen and their families
eager to applaud the patriotic songs that
constituted the program.
Stockholm, sweden, Dec l6.--The
Swedish contributions to the Panama
Pacific exhibition have grown consider
ably in size and importance since the
beginning of the European war largely
because commercial firms in all parts
Of the country believe that the war Of
fers them good opportunity to gain a
distinct advantage over their European
competitors for the American trade.
/ Sweden's exhibits will reach America
early in December on the big Danish
motor ship Rhodesia. They represent
every important branch of the coun-
try's commercial activity. Some of the
larger exhibits are illustrative of Swe-
denis manufactures OF telephones, gas
lighting apparatus and ball bearings.
Geneva Dec l6.-EnElish and French
soldier prisoners in Germany are well
treated especially the wounded in hos
nitals as a recent visit by a Swiss COM
mittca to the hospitals Of Constance and
Munich proves, but the men want some
thing to do The soldiers, 1t is stated,
are feeling the effects OF idlencss and
many are willing to break stones to pass
away the time. Among the England and
French prisoners even i'm the ranks are
many we'll educated men, and the pros
poet of remaining many months, per
haps a year, without doing anything ap-
nails them. German authorities arc dis
tributing among the prisoners pamphr
let's of German Kultur translated in diff
ferent LANGUAGES, giving Berlin ac-
count Of the war intended to show that
Germany was attacked by the triple en-
tente and is only defending herself,
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