Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1923-06-17

n ! show Paris next" There
/ NV was boulevard cafe. small
! and fush with the busy
prolnenading street and rather hIgh-
! priced and select, and it was bought
! IN after the war and had its cellar
luxur!ousIy furnished for rich night
parttes-and il did not. succeed. 1t
was sold but kept its name-the
Fo!!ies-without the .foolishness and
still it was not a success. Now II has
been taken by a we'll known New
York entertainer who is going 70
show Parisians what rea! earis
, foIlies are. He has opened well, with
rich Americans to give him send
off. 1t is supposed 10 realize their
ideal of Paris.
! Natives call il American FolIies.
and. as they are curious creatures
| those who have money enough are
sure to come to see what New York
| is like. All that does no harm to
| either.
| CabIegrams have been published in
! Paris saying that the New York po-
| lice have laid their hands on a choice
set of Paris apaches who We're regu-
/ lar artists as burglars of rich folks.
! The Partisan scratches his head and
thinks how very superior the New
York apache must be-for the apache
he knows in Paris never knew enough
about the rich to burgle them. In
! fact, for the Paris apache burglar
is a swell. while he--the apache
/ is just a rough who is determined not
to work and so has to get his living
l.; II hi
wits and women never get anywhere
near the rich quarters, his burgling
does not go much farther than going
| through the pockets of some drunken
man who has fallen asleep on a street
: bench. 80.
Some years ago New York show
! was put on the stage in. Paris with
/ an apache dressed according to the
| New York idea Of him and doing
| dances French Parisians had never
| seen anything like it before. but they
| found it curious and were convinced
/ that was the life-in New York. The.
! French dancer who did the turn was
| asked where he learned his apache
! dance and answered. Why, in, New
/ York of course"
! In all such things the business
! question is the beginning. and it is
this, will Americans passing through
Paris be interested enough in the
| show to make it pay?" Any show
Spanish dances, Russian ballet, Eng.
| lish knockabouts-can be made to.
pay in Paris for the first weeks. The
| French are curious to see foreign
| things. But the show or pleasure
must have staying qualities to become
4 permanently Partisan. What was
! once the Italian ballet holds its own
| in Paris opera, but the old Moulin
| Rouge dances which once drew so
many foreigners are forgotten now.
So it Is with all shows and pleasure
| places. A true story is told of the
old Maxim's. which was owned by an
| English company and was looked up
| to in London and New York as genu-
| Inc, mysterious. naughty Paris. More
than once after midnight, when 1t
/ ought to have been most awful in the
| foreign ideal, in the back room on one
side there was a row Of staid Ameri-
| can women looking across at another
| row of American women on the other
side, each wondering which particu
lar object of their vision was the
| real Paris demi-monde. And their
husbands, who had been obliged to
bring their wives. yawned and won
dered If there would have been any
fun going on without them.
| In those days only foreign women
who pretended to responsibility were
seen at such places. Paris by night
was a mans town. VIII the Ameri-
can women who patronize these
American Follies dancing places keep
them within American bounds in
Paris? And, in that case, will the
| American man say he might as well
have stayed at home in Chicago?
| .'NYawks the place.
| Well. there are now SO many war
profiteers in all countries anxious to
| spend their new money that perhaps
| Parisians may accept Paris made
| over to the image of New York.