The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1916-03-12


w list Is longer by more than
500 names than hat OF the
Sorbonne, or University OF Paris. The
two universities are alike in Offering
a vast number Of courses and in at
tracing students from every part If
the world: but when actual college life
is considered there is M similarity re-
tween the two The Sorbonne IL with
out dormitories. a campus. fraternities.
college papers, athletic teams OF class
organizations. And II has no yell.
Just after that Kansas City theatr"
had explained that the must
cal comedies no longer attract men be-
cause the same abbreviated costumes
are to he seen In the streets every
day. a woman lecturer. George Burns
Lacour. solemnly advised her married
sisters to cultivate low nccks. short
skirts and silk stockings. II all wives
would wear them there would be fewer
divorces. she said. The women are
making the sacrifice generously.
But now the situation Is reversed.
The movies are fiourishing where for
merly the musical comedy held sway.
and women. instead of men. are pack
ing the theatres. II II Is true that
wives drew their husbands from the
play houses by producing much the
same show of stage, must husbands,
to lure wives from the places OF
amusement, cultivate the Charlie
Chaplin shuttle?
Escalators are now being used at
eleven OF the stations OF the London
underground railway and they are
said to expedite the handling OF traffic
greatly in the rush hours. 1t has been
shown that whereas at least $50 pas
sengers can be discharged by an esca-
lator in three minutes with the nov
ing stairway rising straight from the
train platform to the ticket ONCE an
elevator Of tho average size would
have to make six Journeys to accom-
modate the Same number.
When CMrmen Sylvia who 0ed re-
| Gently, was proclaimed Queen OF Ru-
| mania In 1881 II was with difficulty
that her subjects persuaded her that
any expenditure for a crown would he
| other than a useless outlay. She had
worn the wlmple OF a sister Of mercy
| during the war. she said. and con-
sidered that her proper decoration. But
| despite her protests a golden crown
was ordered for her. KinG Charles
sent to the arsenal for one Of the can
| non captured from tho Turks. ordered
II melted down and from its steel had
n --.- $1,000 -adA NVhAH AhA M IN
IL the Queen said: - crown surely
over spoke az this n spoke in days
| gone BY, when I. roarod and Numbered
| night and day and rocked with smoke
and flame"
Even when It's numbered streets are
spe,,ed out. MS Two Hundred and
Twenty-ifth. for instance. New York
has no street names to match In
length several with which the old
world IL afflicted. The Partisan rec
ord Is Rue des Pretres-Saint-Germai
vAuXerrois, while n thoroughfare In
brussels rejoices In the name OF Rus
lie la Montague aux Herhes-Potageres
In the outskirts Of the Relgian capita
one finds the OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
mootjestraat, which mean simply the
Street OF the Little Unpicked Silver
Nut.
The Coincide Franchise. nationa
,hcatre Of France, Whose full company
may come to this country next Oc'
,oher. was founded In the seventeenth
century and IL still conducted accord
ing TO the rules which Moliere lai6
down. The number Of associate mem
hers. the division Of profits accord
ing to talent. the internal government
" the directing society. were all ad
m!rably regulated by h founder ol
the house. which II still the glory o'
French dramatic art, ON the nationn
holiday. July IA. and on certain otier
occasions performances are given nj
which all seats are free. Students OF
rhetoric and OF elocutiOn to the num-
Der OF more than two thousand assist
sratuitously at Thursday matinees
and consider It n great privilege to
receive this practical instruction from
the boards Of the famous theatre.