Evening star., 1928-12-23
The
Cosnopolite
Architects Studying Problems
of Paris of Future.
BY ROSE PATTERSON.

STAR Correspondent OF The Star. and the
North American Newspaper Alliance.
PARIS. December 22.-Arehitects
are putting their heads together about
the Paris of the future. They are con-
strained to do so by the problems of
housing accommodation and street traf-
f1c, and possibly by the bargain sales!
The bargains take up a lot of room,
overlooking as they do, in the boulevard
Haussmann for example, from the
shops onto the "etalages" or stalls upon
the pavement, where they are piled up
in tempting mountains of all the colors
of the rainbow.
The bargain-hunters flock in from all
over Paris and the suburbs. 1t is just
| as well that the sellers at the outside
stalls are mostly men, for the word
| ISOLDE" (remnant or bargain) Is per-
haps more glamorously magic here than
anywhere else in the world. and the
| feminine rush upon 1t is correspondingly
Superlative.
To escape this struggling mass of
women, particularly just after the
luncheon hour, he who is not out for
bargains will do well to travel by an
other road.
But to be more serious about the
| Paris of the future-the architects are
dreaming of SkyScrapers and spacious
| avenues. of houses more than 800 feet
high, and the sweeping away into
oblivion of the old Paris. One has
even suggestedAthat the city be razed,
| leaving only a chosen number of his
| toric monuments
Others would extend, and not pull
down; they visualize center of Paris
where there shall be no tram cars or
| BUSES or automobiles or traffic of any
| kind. 1t would be for foot passengers
only, and escalators are recommended
to help them make haste about it,
Then there is proposed modern
| quarter, linking Versailles, Vile dAv-
ray and ST. Germain, with three-story
/ streets, the bottom for heavy vehicles,
the second for busses and automobiles
and the third, with shops, for pedes-
| tri&ns only On the top story would
be the houses, and on the other offices
and business premises.
So the pedestrian is perhaps coming
f, into his own, with either a center or
"top-deck" where he simply cannot
be run over.
Berlin-The u. S. i'm Germany.
Every day the Germans want to know
more about America. The most notable
feature of the Berlin book market Is
the demand for any kind of work deal
ing with present-day life in the United
States. Biographies of Ford and Nor
gan are on sale everywhere, alsp works
on American industry and industrial
naturalization.
On the whole, the Berlin of today Is
altogether much more Americanized
than London.
Regarding the results of the English
cult, one is certainly the improvement
in mems clothes. Many Germans are
now getting their clothes from Saville
row, and with the introduction of golf
and rugby, the German tailorS are try
ing hard to induce their customers to
dress as well as Englishmen.
This has, of course, resulted in some
sartorial extravaganceS; putting on
fashion squirt generally does. But the
Federation of German Tailors has de-
cided to nip this in the bud, and to
that end has established central Of
Is Ito define uniform style and to
stabilize fashions in mems tailoring"
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GeneVa-CnangeS AZ 81. MOrltZ.
Skating has begun In the Engadine
and the Stazersee rink is open. In st.
Moritz the funicular is being extended
up to the Corviglia hut, so 1t viii take
only eight minutes and no effort to
get there. Hitherto the ardent expert
skier had to make his way up on foot
to avail himself of the admirable runs
from that point when the Cresta no
longer satisfied his growing ambition.
Probably, too, those skiers who are
neither experts nor beginners may find
some runs that they can manage from
the Corviglia, now that they will not
have the preliminary difficulty of max
ing their way up to 1t on foot If
any but the expert ever did make his
way up on foot!
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vienna-The Schubert Centenary.
Vienna has been making much of
Schubert. Centenary fever and fervor
have been running high OrcheStras,
cloirs and musical societies great and
small have done Schubert's memory
honor, and a memorial service in the
parish church of Lichtenthal, where
Schubert was leading soprano when he
was IL, recalled his early years of song.
What would he think of it ALL of the
massed choirs of children singing be-
fore his modest birthplace and the
handsome fountain they have set up