Arizona republican., 1918-09-10
"The Martial Adventures of
 Henry And Me"

behind the sense. in the higher grades of acting, the Paris shows were, on the whole. better than Broadway shows. But in the choruses, the dancers lack that finish, that top dressing of me chanical unison required by American taste. Moreover the lighting and color were poor. The music at the FollieS was Victor Herbert of 1911, Old Amer ican popular songs seemed to be Tn vogue. One heard 70 Johnny" and Over There" at every vaudeville house this year Sometimes they were done i in French, sometimes in English In Genoa, one may say in passing that We l heard one of the songs from "Hitchy- i Coo done in Italian. It was eery, American artists are popular in Paris. | We saw a girl at three show houses in | Paris. under the name of Betty Wash l ington, doing a gipsy dance, playing i the fiddle. She was barefoot, and Hen ry who has a keen eye, noticed that she had her toes rouged, But she :,l- ways was good for four encores, and she usually got a good start at the | fifth from Henry and me: we had just that much national pridei Great throngs of soldiers filled these gay show houses. The French. the English and the Australians seemed satisfied with them. But the Canadians and Americans sniffed. To them Paris is q poor show town.
 Political News Disseminated
 One night we fell into a Boulevard show the like of which we had never seen before. It was a political revue! The whole evening was devoted to skits directed at the ministry, at the D6 JCty iht, af tn do1c n the interior department and the depu- ties, at the high taxes and the prof l iteering of the munition makers. The skits were done in dialogue, song and dance, and the various forms of bur- | lesque. A good crowd-but not a sol dier crowd-sat through it and ap- plauded appreciatively. Imagine an American audience devoting a whole evening to theatrical performance exclusively concerned with Hoover, Secretary Daniels, Colonel Roosevelt. former Mayor Mitchell and LaFolle1e. In America we get little politics out of the theater. In France, where they distrust the newspapers they get much politics from the theater.. The theater is free in F'rance-and apparently not so closely censored as the newspapers We learned that night at the revue o, ! ct COIulIS CdDiHel DelOGc lne newspapers announced it. And in learning of the crisis we had this cur ious social experience. which we mod estlly hoped was quite as Parisian as the Revue. During the first act of the show it was Greek to Henry and me We could understand a vaudeville show, and by following the synopsis could poke along after the pantomimc in a comedy.
 Chance Acquantances
 But here in this revue, where the refinements of sarcasm and satire were at play and that without a cue. "
 were stumped. Henry was for getting out and going somewhere else But we
 had a dollar a seat in the show and il
 seemed to me that patience would
 bring results And it did! A good
 looking, middle aged couple sat doWr
 in the seats next to us, and the woman
 began talking English. She was sitting
 next to me, so it was my turn, not
 Henry's to speak. We asked her if il
 would be too much trouble to interpre'
 the show for two jays from Middle
 Western America. She replied cordially
 enough. And she gave us splendid
 running interpretation of the show
 The man with her seemed friendly. We noticed that he was slyly holding .hel
 hand when the lights went clear down But that spelled a newly married mid
 dle-aged couple, and we would hav,
 bet money that he was a WidoWer anC
 she, late from his office. was at the , head of his household. Between act!
 he and Henry went out to smoke, leaV ing me with the lady. We exchange,
 condolences of one sort and another af
 ter the manner of strangers in strange land. When it occurred to m , to ask. What does your husband dt : for lving?"
 "My-what?" she exclaimed.
 Your husband there?"
 "Who-that man? Why, never say
 him in my life until picked him up il
 a cafe an hour ago!"
 And she got from me a somewha gaspy Oh" But we had a good cha just the same and she told me all abou
 the coming fall of the cabinet. He type in America would not be inter ested in politics. But the shows of th boulevards discuss politics and tn theaters are free So her type il all kinds of people and also all kinds o
 peoples to make world. And the Wa
 really is being fought so that they maj
 work out their lives and their natiOna
 traditions freely and after the call Q their own blood If we are to hay only one kind of people, the kind i i easy to find. There is kultur, Continued Tomorrow)