Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-07-06


France. She personifies the
charm, chic and refinement OF
the girls of her land. which every one
has heard about and which might
have wounded. in 10000 900 separate
Nhensives. hearts of lonesome Ameri-
can boys adventuring among them on
generous errand, Not to mention
colonies with eagles on their
shoulders.
To complete her, Yvonne has art
and the sweetest voice, to stand for
French accomplishments. She is the
greatest singer of France, the lead
ing dramatic soprano of the Paris
Grand opera, In word, she is the
French voice.
Now, when the Chicago Opera Asso-
citation imported her for that unfor-
.ettable season when 2OO0,O0O boys
were sailing eastward and 2,00O,0oo
girls Cat lcasD were worrying about
them. Yvonne said a brash thing That
raised storm in the papers, from
Chicago to the seas.
when the American soldier returns
home to his old girl in America" the
gal OF Gaul had the gall to say ne
will long for his French girl whom
he left in France
She meant no harm Being F'rench
and knowing the qualities of the
average French girl, she took up
cudgels for her race.
But now it Is different. Yvonne, re-
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triumph of our boys in war, saw
equally their labor in its preparation
and their tedium after armistice
And. seeing what she saw she said
another thing that ought to be put
beside the first.
"Sapristi." said the voice OF France,
They're impatient to sail home"
I have had a talk, in Paris. with the
personification of seductions which
failed Because-do you value the
appropriations of Anatole France. the
grand old author of "Thais?" Yvonne
Gall is the girl for whom Anatole. in
the ripe time Of his white moustache
and imperial, has written a libretto
out of his poem, Les Noces Corin-
themes" (Corinthian Bridals). on
the principle that she is the most
beautiful thing he knows.
All right.
Those American bridals." says
Yvonne. revealing collective despite.
ARE not likely to be marred by souve-
Mrs of France. AS far as the French
girl is concerned, the American SOL
dier seems to have been woman
proof. He did not have much time,
and he spent it dreaming about the
girl in America"
She said that the barrage OF an UNI
practiced language had something to
do with it; but isn't it queer that
most OF her examples were able to get
along in French conversation quite
deCently?
In a rest area of the Riviera the
heroine was young French countess.
The girl aristocrat came from her
perch in honest gratitude to allies
who changed the fate of France in
month.
The boys enjoyed it. To ward off
sudden proposals of marriage. she
made her nurse stick close to her in
the three days before any fellow was
due to return to camp. Americans
are SO sudden" said the countess;
and you seldom know one more than
two weeks in a rest area. Then. sud
denly. she spilled the haricots over
tall boy from Ohio whose grandfather
was six times president of the pig
iron association. She did not know it,
She did not know anything. except
that she dreaded the moment he
should grow tender. and she knew
we'll she would send nurse to match
. ribbon. Then he went Off.
The war has made great changes in
France. Over this part Yvonne passes
gently, but one is still amazed at the
picture OF an aristocratic demoiselle
motoring to Marseile with her
chaperone. two weeks later to as
certain with her own eyes if she had
ruined the life of the lad from Ohio.
They found him working at six junk
dumps after she had passed her card
in; and she overheard him saying to
the sergeant:
Il promised the little countess
keepsake. DO you see anything here