The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-11-18
ANTIQUES MADE
 WHILE YOU WAIT
Paris Concern Furnishes Period Furniture With All
 Necessary Age

PARIS, Nov. 17.-Antiques, par ticularly period furniture, have long been material for the jokesmiths, and recently have figured in law suits and museum scandals, but those per
 sons who have retained their faith in
 the genuiness of everything that has an ancient appearance received quite shock the other day when 1t was discovered that genuine old furni- tur9" was being made on wholesale scale and advertised in the trade journals.
 The prospectus of one manufacturer
 offers a line of goods especially for
 antiquarians at specified prices, with
 five per cent extra when the articles are painted In imitation old grey or | ivory lacQuer." A ten per gent in
 crease Is asked for "old lacquer"
 These articles are guaranteed to be
 "of an antique type of construction
 ticed," and fully equipped with "an-
 cient incrustations" and signs of
 usage.
 Chairs are offered at from sS to $15, stools, at $10 to s15, cnapes at $14, while the dealer can buy chaise
 lonGreie for $2s and bed for $50. These are the wholesale prices. It is 1 assumed the lover of veal period furniture will have to pay at retail according to his or her apparent pros
 perity or bargaining ability.
 O o o
 Tardieu Making Himself Fit. Andre Tardieu, once French high commissioner to the United States and now occasionally mentioned for
 the foreign ministry or even the premiership, is fitting himself physi- cally for the strenuous career that
 may He before him.
 M. Tardieu has become a devotee of but n great deal of mystery surrounded his sporting activities. It has now be- come known that, braving the dan gers the ancient and honorable game ha1 held for the political fortunes of other public men of France, he has boldly taken up golf.
 Some funmakers recall that M.
 Tardieu severely jibed former Pre-
 mier Brand for playing golf with 1 Lloyd George at Cannes just before NJ. Briands ministerial career was in- 1 terrupted for the seventh time. M. 1 Tardieu was not alone in chaffing
 the premier at that time. and that un- fortunate round of the links was
 made to bear the onus of Brian's fall
 Golf immediately became unpopular
 with aspirants for political honors.
 NJ. Tardieu is now confronted with 1 the problem not only Of learning the | game, but of bringing IL back into
 repute among statesmen. It i~ said | that so far he has succeeded with sSe technical part of his job, and that he is now willing % play before a | gallery, taking chance as to what effect his game may have on his po- l litical career.
 The theatres in Paris are more 1 prosperous than ever, and the girl | shows" are crowded every night, but l the footlights are growing dinner in the provinces. A stage census ih 1 the smaller towns and cities reveals l panies of cherished memory are rap 1 idly disappearing and that standard
 plays are hardly ever given. The musical shows and she movies are l too popular.
 Paris is blamed for this change. 1 because the managers and authors l of the metropolitan productions see l no financial attractions in showing
 outside the capital. Consequently | they refuse to send on the road such old time favorites as "Cyrano de Bergerac." "Aiglon," Dame Aux | Camelias" and "Abbe Consta utine.p One result of this change has been
 the withdrawal by the municipalities | of financial support Of the small l theatres. and there now remain only ! six companies of the 20 that once | played the provinces. What the country folk now get are the sex problems plays sent our sparingly by
 the Paris producers during an off
 season. The theatrical managers
 outside the capital, consequently.
 have elaborated a plan, which they
 intend to present to Parliament,
 whereby government and municipal
 aid will be enlisted to preserve the drama "on the road