The Caledonian-record. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1920-current, 1922-08-15


lean bar. You may walk along the
Avenue dePOpera and the Boule-
ward des Capucncs or des Italiens,
and bow left and right to names
with a look Of home in the very
shape of the letters. On raising
your head you look straight IN at
I an advertisement of a well known
brand of American safety razors,
and on lowering it you meet an
/ advertisement of an, alas, no long
er well known brand of American
/ whiskey.
i The hotels in this quarter Of the
town are so crowded with Ameri-
cans that it might be appropriate
for them to fly the stars and
stripes. Many do pay the subtle
compliment of using "Amerique,"
! or "Etats Unis" in some way in
! their titles. AS for the stores, they
! display the 1--WE speak English"
/ signs prominently in their windows
whether they do speak English or
/ not.
Continuing down the Avenue de
1 TOpera, past the candy shops that
| sell American chocolates and a
book store that sells American
magazines, and tea room with
! American sundaes, and many and
many an American bar, what may
be called "EXhibit A" of the infiu-
ence of the United States on fer
egn traditions comes suddenly
upon the view. 1t is a modest little
cafe, furnished simply with a round
table with a hole in the center,
something like Il doughnut. On
stools around tins sit the knights
of the quick lunch, but there the
comparison ends.
There are no ham n egg sand
witches of indigestible apple pies or
any Of the standbys of the real
quick lunch counter. The menu
consists of queer masses of cooked
food, petitbourres {sweet cakes,
pastry and eternal wine. The
"quick" has been amputated from
the lunch for a Frenchman runs
the cafe and he employs French
help. However, 1t is Iumored that
| one can eat there in an hour, in
stead of the usual two or three
that it takes in an ordinary French
restaurant.
On the left bank of the river,
within a stones throw of the Sor-
bonnie, Greenwich Village has
planted its standards. Many dark
the old city of Paris before the I'M
provements of Napoleon-lead to
the little booIlshop of "Shake-
speare & Co.," in the Rue Dupruy-
ton, where, sooner or later every
shocked and sandalled intellectual
find his way. shakespeare G. Co.
is Miss Sylvia Beach, formerly of
Greenwich Village, the original, in
New York. She came here a year
ago and found that not all the free
dom Of the Latin Quarter or rhe
hilarity of Montmartre could make
up to her for The loss of the cozy
village atmosphere.
At first she considered starting
tearoom, as the proper way OF
Incorporating The Village into Lit
tie America. But the cafes Of Par
is are too numerous and too excel
lent for a tearoom to survive. SO
Miss Beach chased the rats out of
shop on the. Rue Dupryton, set
up three rows of bookshelveS
around the walls oft he shop, plac-
ed table in, the middle and a batik
scarf and vase of flowers on top
of that, or the requisite artistic
touches, painted the sign "Shake
speare & Co" on the window and
opened the "Village" with proper
inaugural ceremonies.
Here every village" genus who
has made enough money out of a
village ball to, cross the ocean finds
cigarettes and sympathy as well as
all the latest literary output of the
newest poets, novelists and ESSAY
lists.
The American artists colony has
its headquarters on the Boulevard
Raspail and the Boulevard Mont
parnasse. and its feet way over the
river in Montmar;re. 1t is an elias
tic colony, however, and art stu
dents paint i'm queer little gaITets,
back of the Ecole DIES Beaux Arts
or even in the bourgeoisie confines
of the Porte de Versatile.
The 'little movement" too, have
found a home in Paris. A sort of
entente little thea:er with an Eng
lish manager, plays by English and
American authors in the repertory,
and English, American and French
actors opened at the Theater Al
bert | or in the Due du Rocher last
week. Like most international af-
fairs, including the peace confer
ence it had some hard shedding,
particularly as regards the French
stage hands, who took small ac-
count of their international duties
Some of the scenery got lost in
the cellar and two Of the actors
fell i'll at the dast minute and the
curtain refused to bulge once at a
critical moment and someone al
most forgot his lines. But this only
engendered more community spirit.
and the first performance went off
! very smoothly.
The entire American colony has