Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-06-16
SMALL LIVING EXPENSES
ATTRACT ARTISTS TO PARIS
Young Man Can Live in French Capital for 500 q
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
Costs Low.

Paris, most of them with little shops
where they will hang paintings for a
rake-of on the sales. OF the $50 dealers
few have shops on the Rue de Ia
PAX and are open only to painters of
established reputation. The others are
probably more hospitable to new talent
than dealers in any other city in the
world. Prices for beginners paintings
range upward from $25 a canvas.
II the artist doesn't land in a deal
er's shop window there are still all
sorts of places where he can hang his
pictures. Most of the youngsters sneer
at the Salon-but usually send their
| pictures there just the same If re-
jected by the Salon proper there is then
the Salon des Independents. There any
painter may hang any picture on pay
ment OF fee Of Is francs SD.
But If perhaps. our young painter is
contemptuous of the Independent Salon,
| too, there is the Salon of Real Inde-
| pendents." That was opened recently
near the Porte Versailles, and, to any
but their authors, nine out of ten Of
the canvases were completely, wildly
unintelligible.
And, finally, OF course, there is the
hawkers' market-on the Boulevard
Raspail-where many artists land.
Cheapest Capital in World.
There's one reason above all others
why students and artists flock to Paris
and make the Latin quarter what it is
because, by and large, Paris is the
cheapest capital in the world.
| There is lot to say, of course, about
the charm Of Paris, the impalpable
atmosphere which makes the streets of
Montparnasse unique. One may talk
| about the camarRderie of Paris, the
pretty girls. the artistic heritage, the
carefree hospitality of boulevard and
| cafe; but none of these things really
counts against the fact that a young
man in Paris can live---if he must-on
$50 month.
About half of the $1,000 students al
the University Of Paris attend classes
scot free. For the rest the tuition
charges are so nominal as to be ridic-
ulous
What does an American student-or
artist---do in an average day? What
doris IT cost him?
Rooms at SO Month.
Suppose it's the first of the month
! when he pays his rent. If he is poor
and lives in one of the tiny hotels
along the Rue St. Jacques or Rue
Jacob, probably his room costs 25G
| francs month--about $40. It isn't
much of a room. Studios come higher
have heard of studios for $50 francs
a month 1920. Breakfast is a piece
of bread-"petit pain"-and coffee
Probably for nine-tenths of the stu
dents of Paris breakfast costs less
than francs. The morning paper Ia
IS confines, / cent shot of rum
Con these cold mornings) may come
to cents more. II you buy meal
tickets 10 at time, luncheon comes
to ATS francs 09 cents) and dinner
to 3.25 francs G3 centsJ. Cigarettes
are fairly expensive
After classes or after hours in the
studios comes the cafe. 1t is an un-
ceasing miracle to everybody dnclud-
ing the cafe proprietors) how many
hours anybody in the Latin quarter
can spend over one drink without or
dering another. +. At cheap cafes Q
book" Ca quarter-beer) is 40 CEN
times (under cents) real beer is
franc a cents. Any OF the ordinary
aperitifs. like vermouth or pernod OF
amourette, costs about cents and
| liqueurs about the same. Buying wine
by the bottle is the cheapest way to
drink. Hundreds of students every day
probably get liter of vim rouge fol
$50 francs, or 10 cents.
All these prices are, Of course, rock
bottom.