South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1920-07-14
FEW CLOTHES ARE
BEST TASTE NOW
IN GERMAN CAPITAL
n Theaters, Cabarets and
{. Stores Dress Economy
Comes 10 Notice.

BERLIN. July 18.-Auother
Amusement popular here just now Is
the ballet natural" IL SIS very nat
ural one % the cast in particular
ranked with the principal ~ the old
song about the string ~ beads and
heaverEy smile. But she didn't
smile Neither did the audience. nor
did they enthuse visibly. they sat
and looked. The house was packed.
There, also. was a new version Of
the circus tabIeauX-the figures IN
tights. so powdered as 20 give the
appearance ~ marble statues. THE
Three Virgins the act was called.
They were bronze, not marble figures.
There were 10 tights. ] wonder
whether % washes OF easily9 And
when the weather's cold
Cheers for Artist
The act brought a curtain call
The bronze statues bowed clen zee
sumed their poses. man came out
dressed Ia an artists frock. He also
bowed and got the biggest hand. one
gathered that 10 was his idea and
that he painted the ladies. The vir-
gins braved pneumonia and the public
gaze. but the audience gave him the
credit
BeTun's taste runs so. Cabaret
dancers Invariably see INTO eCOn0-
mize in the nations interest IN one
respect. They wear out no shoes
and stockings while amusing the
public, simply because they wear
none. one cannot help noticing. all
50. that art store windows reveal an
ecouOmy in wearing apparel. Nudes
have quite a vogue boz the art stores
and III the smart weekly magazines.
But Berlin keeps two opera houses
filled and in the gigantic new theater
finished since the war j saw the Dlob
scene IN Julius Caesar followed by "a
ght1demOustrati0n ON the part
OF tie audience. which itself APP
preached the mob scene i'm pep.
Germany has adopted Shakespeare
as her own largely on the plea that
the immortal bard himself borrowed
rather extensively from TeutOn
sources IL his day. and as a result
his plays continued % be staged
throughout the war
Curfcw at 1880.
Theoretically, the curfeW rings at
1880 in Berlin. The restaurant lights
30 out then and taxis stop running.
There are many night gam bling clubs
I'm told, but their numbers are less
snIng all the while. Following the
Kapp "putsch" the government grip
on the country relaxed. Germans of
various classes neglected 20 "veU-
bOte" when the rules read "verbot-
en-. But the rules and regulations
are being more stringently enforced
now. Among other things. gambling
places are liable 10 frequent raidings
and a law is now before the Reich
stag making the patrons as well as
the proprietOrs subject TO punish
meDt
The Berlin of the restaurants and
hotels dimes well into the night
night up 20 the curfew hour. in fact.
Many a time / found myself dining
IN solemn and solitary state al
o'clock before I learned that such an
hour was more or less the middle of
the afternoon.
A party OF four. we went one night
20 a place OF many letters. which. ]
believe constituted German for The
Hat. AT Sis we arrived. The cloak
room women looked up IN surprise.
Inside. i'm a dome-like and highly
Eiidcd room where only every NTH
light socket held an electric globe.
the orchestra bestirred itself-dOubt-
less with silent remarks-and start
ed a concert solely for our benefit. A
half hour later some other folk ar
s!ved.
The Announcer.
T. England there is a professional
POSTMASTER at banquets, a sort of
upper servant who stands behind
the chairman's seat and 'prays ST.
ience" for this and that speaker. I
am told that afJer-dinner speaking
isn't done here. but the professional
POSTMASTER survives IN the announc-
"a for a cabaret performance. He
tells funny story or two. then an
nounCcs a singer. a little later he
reappears and tells a couple more
then announces a magician. Again
some stories. and he announces
dancer. bare of foot and leg az
course. This German version of the
English professional tCastmaster was
Particularly versatile After an
nouncing a comedian. whose Jokes
companion Informed me. would bc
indecent IT translated into English
the announcer came forward on his
own behalf and staged an act of his
Owa.
IL was a ditty OF many verses tell
ing about Germany today. one dealt
with the bolsheviks. I looked at the
walters. They weren't cheering. An
other verse dealt with the politician
And so on down the line until he
had drawn a picture of everybody
for himself
The PrOftccr One.
Then came the Scheiber. the prof
ftesr.
Pardon me" said the performer.