Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-12-27
YOUTH IS BEING
/ SERVED IN PARIS
Young Men Taking Place in
Government and Business,
and Even Art Is New.

BY Associated Press staff Writer.
PARIS, December 27.-When the
young new year comes to Paris it will
And youth being served in more ways
than one.
The new year will see only one beard
In the new Tardieu cabinet, and that's
pretty fair symptom of a new state of
things. The beard belongs to Henri
Cneron, minister of finance, indicating
youth utilities the caution of age.
Seen from an airplane, Paris hasn't
changed her broad general outline, but
her face has been lifted and she is
massaging her wrinkles. She needs a
little more color to stand the light of
the sample of Broadway she is giving
Europe.
Modern art has hit the stores. New
fronts of geometrical angularity stick
out like lighthouses. Green, blue and
violet lights illuminate the shops, and
even the opera. The old bourgeoisie is
afraid 1.-The traditional beauty of old
Paris" will be destroyed There even
has been legislation to protect historic
spots from the ambition of those who
want modern quarters.
Higher-Priced Beer.
Yet the thirsty traveller can rest, as
usual, on cafes sidewalk ''terrasses."
Many old landmark places are gone, re-
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higher-priced beer and brisk, prosper
ouS-looking walters. Soon the shabby,
friendly garcon who likes to gossip with
his customers and always said "Merci,
monsieur!" will get his place in mu-
scum.
English spoken" no longer attracts
attention on store windows Foreign
shoppers take for granted they can find
IN any store some one with enough
polyglot to take their money. Even the
cops are learning English.
Those who bring too much money can
put 1t in residence district branches
American banks are starting.
Those who like Broadway hits, we'll
seasoned by a couple of years delay,
can see them here. The theater, in
fact. now runs largely to American,
English, Russian and German shows.
>.Skbout half the French actors and three
1@rths of the singers are out of work
Baron de RothSchild has given Paris
the best-equipped playhouse in the
world, but modernism hasn't gone so
Tar as to use printed tickets with seat
checks. 1legibly penciled f1insy still
is used, and the three solemn, judge
like persons in evening clothes still sit
IN rostrum and assign seats to those
who pay as they enter without knowing
where they can sit.
Strangely, although there are more
cars, there is less noise Buses are
getting pneumatic tires, and the police
have forbidden horns after 1 o'clock in
the morning. Paris being a 9 O'Clock
town, most people have had half their
sleep by that time and don't mind the
silence
But the real youthfulneSs of France
Is in other directionS-in government,
business and social life.
Andre Tardieu, the new premier, al
though So, is young man-young in
manner and method. He took on more
younger men than ever before ran the
government. He cut a lot of red tape
and shocked his political ancestors by
deciding taxes could be lowered and yet
more money could be spent on things
that would increase prosperity such as
better roads, modern ports and more
telephones and electricity.
Looking ahead, the young premier de-
cided Paris must have room to grow,
and he got behind the plan to build a
boulevard out west from the edge of
town along new, fast suburban ex-
press line, SO people could live in the |
air.
Youth in Business.
Youth is in business, both because of
the after-waT awakening and the heavy
toll of death. A large proportion of the
men who would be 40 to As today were
killed, so their places have been taken
by those who were too young to be
soldiers.
Women likewise came out of the war
with a taste for work, and women are
everywhere. crowding men in the uni
VerSitieS and often in business. AS the
women have no business traditions of
their own and are eXuberant in their
new freedom, they accept new ideas
readily.
Coupled with all this is the growth
OF modern art. There are more pic
lures than ever before. Mere force of
quantity overwhelmS traditional art, so
that Paris, and gradually France, is
ever seeking the new" in all things.
Yet the Eiffel Tower still towers and
the opera sings on and the Louvre is
full of old pictures, and Paris still is
Paris and French continues to be
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