The evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1914-1922, 1915-10-09
LONDONERS STILL
FLOCKING TO GAY
PARIS FOR FUN
Lacking Usual Amusements in
Their Own Capital, English
men and Women Visiting
French Graveyard Of Gaiety.

ASSOCIATED Press Corrcspondcnce.D
London, sept. 8O.-Oue OF the para
doxes OF the war is the visiting OF
Parisians 30 London for a ot at ex-
citcment and gaiety. Paris is nothing
like It's old self. Tor It's thUaters are
closed, motor buses at the front. most
OF its taXis laid up and a large num-
Der Of its hotels closed. But London
has sacrificed but little OF It's Did lifc
Hotels are full, tca-rooms and res
taurants as crowded ts ever. theatorE.
especially the music halls and reyues.
well attended. and the Hyde Park and
upper Thames have their usual
crowds OF holiday makers.
But this does % mean that Lon
don does not feel the war. The hotel
guests are mainly purchasing agents
Tor the allied powers, visiting attaches
o. official business and agents for
American factories looking Tor supply
contracts. Comparatively few Of the
younger men seen In the fashionable
tea places and restaurants wear civil
ian clothes. Khaki IS also the pre-
%vaiing color among the men 80 the
revucs. The "PicCadilly knut, us the
young men who set the fashions are
called. has largely disappeared from
his old haunts.
London's gaiety ga In one sense
largely kept up by the war Men liy-
ing the hard routine Of duty at b
training camps Of a life OF constant
danger at the front seem To find COM
plete change and rest OF mind in "a
frivolous show as In nothing else. The
first idea Of "a wounded man ON get
ting out OF the hospital ls a round OF
restaurants and variety halls Off
GERS and enlisted men with arms in
slings n on crutChes are sights too
common there To- attract more than
passing notice.
C%urlously enough. the new dramas
based on the war, except "a fCw spy
plays. have had no support at all and
were % o taken OFF, Yet a French
company giving "a series Of short
plays nightly has me- "a great success
because OF It's thrllicrs-talcs OF con-
CcntratCd horror. Comedies uf the
lightly society kind have failed Go at
tract, while those with real humor
and well drawn characters have en-
joycd uninterrupted runs. 4 season
Of Russian and French opera came to
an early and disastrous close. and the
popular priced evening orchestral
'proms" In Albert hall were discon-
tinued for lack % support Concerts
on the whole do not seem, however, to
have suffered greatly from the war
Fashionable life has merely trans
formed It's activities. Instead of pri-
waite affairs. society gives benefits.
ranging from gala theatrical perform
auces with royalty present tu -tr.Du
fetes. 10 IE quite cosmopolitan tor itr
object is jhc raising OF fund. mot ouIs
FOR British charities bat Tor Belgian.
French. Russian, serbian and Italian
relief funds
While London has lost ITS German
and Austrian colony DO Be- 300 filled
with Bolgl1us that Flemish and
French signs can be seen Iu shop win
dOws all over the city. Many French
families hay come over also. There
was "a long season OF Frcnch-BcIgi1u
comedy, played by d company from
Brussels with the best talent Of tho
country. Nine. Rcjauc and q Partisan
company had 20 successful ruu lu
TCpcrt0ry and another French .Hm.
pany nov has "a theatcr