New Britain herald., 1929-06-19
BY MINOTT SAUNDERS NEA Service Writer

BY MINOTT SAUNDERS NEA Service Writer Paris, June 1o-The whoopee in dustry of Paris soon will be working 10 capacity and the combination of Just enough American luxury with just enough Parisian novelty is glad 1 dening the hearts and reducing the | purses of tourists,
 In famed Mantmartre, the lights begin to flare up shortly before mid 1 night, as of old and outshine the sun for merry makers until after breakfast. Joe Zelli, with his eXpan-
 sive smile at the Royal Box still holds iordly sway over The Hill and still enter1ains more Americans than ever descended from the original passengers of the Mayflower.
 But there's new machinery in Joe's joy factory this year that puts it jump ahead of anything his guests have seen back home. Tele- phones have been installed at each
 of the tables so that diners may con- verse with each other across the | from Indiana who never would dare
 walk over and ask the pretty blonde for a dance now can converse over telephone with semi-prlvacy. It is Q. great institution for facilitating friendships.
 Real American Life
 The tourist doesn't miss many of the comforts Of home. He is eating good old ham, an'-eggs, being enter tained by American theatrical folk. guided by policemen who speak his own language-and everywhere about seeing American faces and recognizing American practices.
 This season promises to eclipse all records for tourist business here. Government propaganda, steamship lines publicity and the activity of tourist agencies have been big fac tors, but aside from all that Paris has determined to be cordial to her visitors.
 Theaters play to the American section of their audiences. Restau- rants serve American dishes. In alT of the big stores. and many small ones, English speaking interpreters are at hand. It has been the practice for such stores here to place sign in the window reading, English Spoken" but today one of the big gest stores on the Boulevard des Ca- pucinse has signs reading, We all speak English" These stores carry American goods, American food stuffs, and appeal to American tastes. So great has been the change that NJ. Pierre Denoyer, writing in La Liberte. asks:
 ''Is France acquiring American tastes?" He thinks so, and he says 1t is irresistible. He mentions the growing popularity of American cocktails, American breakfast foods. American plays and movies, and even women's American stockings. He thinks the change is taking place unconsciously.
 We're Bit Attractive
 "There are few persons in France who deliberately attend the Amcri- can school or who consider the American life and atmosphere su- perior," he wrote. But we feel in spite of ourselves. the irresistible at- traction of the richest and most powerful nation of the modern world.
 'Too well aware of the gaps and the flaws in the American 'civili- zation,' we avoid admiring it, but quite unawares we acquire tastes and habits that we think are only the latest thing, but which are. as a matter of fact, essentially Ameri- can. Albeit We do not wish to Amer jcanize ourselves. we are inevitably On the way to modernizing ourselves in the American manner"
 This modernizing of Paris is what | makes American visitors feel more | at home this year than ever before. Old World philosophy and back ground are mixing happily with New World progress. The great galleries | and museums here have guides who 1 are required to speak English. So ! are the American bars, in several of | which French is considered almost foreign tongue. Visitors drop in the i Ritz or Harry New York Bar. or Johnny's in the rue du Port Mahon, | and revel in that familiar atmos- phere of the good old pre- Nolstead | days. And the cocktails are just as good as they ever were back home. 1 Women go shopping with the same | c a r. .S11 D in hD States
 Paris Isn't Cheap Now
 The oft-rc peated accusation that | stores here have different prices for foreigners than for natives is with cut foundation. No respectable house could afford to have a tWo-price scale. What many visitors forget is that prices in Paris are no longer cheap. as they were a few years ago because Of the low French exchange. Today they are on a par with those of New York, and in some depart ments. notably mons goods. they are higher than in the average American city.
 Merchants agree that prir" dis Pu''' di le' 'nltilN out or the NlSl- tors lack of familiarity with the French currency. An American stranger will casn his crccnbacks for q haniful of this funny money" It seems lot 10 him until he starts buying eXpcnsivcly and then he finds . that ii has funny way of going as |. asily as if came.
 Drinks in American bars range from five francs (ou cents) on un