The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-09-15

cd to London after five months sO- jouru in Germany)
 London. Sept. 1s.-"IIas Germany really changed much 9" is, perhaps. the query which has been put to me most frequently.
 It is a somewhat hard question 70 answer briefly, for there are many particulars in which the FatherIand seems scarcely to have changed at all; war and revolution appear to have swept past and al.e-ed nothing by their tempests- In other directions, five months are scarcely sufficient to aCcustOm one to the tremendous changes which have taken place.
 Not many days ago l had OCca- sion to walk along the Avenue of Victory" and it was something of a surprise to see workmen busy in that vainglOriOus valhalla "sprinE-clcan- ing the pompously-po statues of the ex-Kaiser's ancestorsl Revolution aries of any other country would sure ly have mado short work of such glaring remin of a past with which they had broken.
 I1lcatrNrs F1our1shing.
 One evening tried 10 obtain seat at the Deutsches Theater, where Shakespeare's 'tCoriolanus" was being played; but the house was sold out" The theatcr which was flourishing with ''CharrIey's Aunt was likewise booked up; and at the Theater des Westens. I think it was. someone was playing Mimosa San for the two thOus- andth time; our "Geish8," with un- transferable lines preserved in Eng fish, has been running continuously In Berlin since the Revolution, with E, VRfg too. not seat was to be had.
 The world of art, indeed. in Ger many has changed little, been but lit tie affected, so far, by five years of world war.
 Here and there one notices q little more liberty of expression on the stage, In stone or on canvas-ever and anon some revolutionary little twist in the work of an artist seek ing a new path or seeing something 2 in a new light. But neither war nor revolution has stirred literature out of the dull, unima Einative ways into which 1t had fallen before the war; 1t remains an arid waste, with here and there the tempting mirage of a poem and one fine oasis-Heinrich Mann's daring and brilliant caricature of the ex-Kaiser, one of the really great novels of the war years, Der Unterthan''-''verbOt before the end of the old regime.
 Berlin BO1ing Mad.
 Turn to the lighter side of life. The large restaurants and cafes all over the city arc lively with music of all nations On Sundays, if you feel so inclined, you may go to the races, watch boxing or fencing matches, see tournaments in billiards and tennis.
 It is boxing which, perhaps, attracts the people most of all; Berlin indeed, may be said to have gone "boxing mad" and he must be a great enthu- siast who can keep count of all the different championships in 'the mo- bie art which have been fought and which according to the grim placards, are to be Contested-''New Art pla- cards on which the boxer is often rep resented as quite as terrible person as the dread Bolshevist on the wierd posters issued lavishly by the anti Bolshevist League!
 .TJnter den Idnten'' during the sun nv midday hours and in the evening, with its cafes and restaurants. its ciuemas. and shops, and it's shady cen ire walk, is quite as gay as 1t ever was. The shops make a tremendous dispIav of articles in luxury to catch the war -prollleer- persoudBe HlAO' think. has flourished more in Ger many than in all the other warning countries put together.
 Night Life and Gambling.
 On an afternoon you will find that the famous Avenue of the Lime Trees is A parade of startling feminine fa- shfons; the dandy-Berlin style, ir somewhat crudely designed and bad lv mixed sarteria1 glories-has Ire turned to town" Round about the Linden quarter and "out West" after noon tea-"Ffve o'clock Tea, from 4:sO to 6:3O." as one of the great cafes adertises iti-is. too, a far more fashtonable and social function thar before the war; and night nfe." des