Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-15
The
Cosmopolite
Paris Theater. Broadcasting
Views With Itinerant
Musician.
BY ROSE PATTERSON,

BY ROSE PATTERSON,
etaf Correspondent Of The Star ana the
North American Newspaper Alliance.
PARIS, March 15.--The Partisan who
thankful for just now. In the first place
he Is spared the full force of the omni-
present strains of the itinerant musician,
who has lately invaded even the metro
trains, besides giving q performance on
the station platform Toss the ittnerant
coin in your courtyard you meet him
again in the street. Leave him behind
In a crowded thoroughfare and walk out
q bit, and you viii come across him
seated and singing, or playing away, en-
camped by some road-repairing up
heaval.
Enter the station to go home and he
will insist upon entertaining you on the
platform. And now, after that. he will
follow you into the train and play you
right home As this minstrel may travel
all over the underground system as long
as he pleases with 75-centime (3-cent)
ticket, provided he doesn't emerge from
any station meantime, the deaf news
paper-reading passenger obviously has
the better of it.
Broadcasting From Stage.
But in the theater monsieur wants to
hear the music and the singing, and be
he ever so hard of hearing he may now
do So at any rate In two Paris theaters.
He will ask for q aeadphone and con-
meet its fiex TO the back of his seat. fit
on his ear pieces and listen In comfort
to all the stage has to offer.
These two theaters are already fitted
with microphones used by a distributing
company for broadcasting the perform
ances to subscribers in their homes, and
it is this principle which is being util-
lied for the deaf. Before the sound
reaches the deaf man in the tfeater
it will have Travelled from the stage to
the simplifying center and back to his
earphones, but 80 rapidly that he viii
hear it at the same time as the rest OF
the audience.
The arrival Of the tennis players 10
not likely to pass unnoticed, for they
seem to have the gayest taste In cars
Miss Betty Nuthall's is Of cerise and
beige, Fraulein Ausem's q smart and
striking vehicle In black and white, and
Senorita de Alvarezis sky-biue bugatti
is already well known. It may be re-
membered that Mile. Suzanne Lengien's
first car was bright yellow, and one Of
Miss Elizabeth Ryan's. In which she
drove herself up and down between
Calais and the Cote D'AEur, Q most
vivid scarlet.
Guildsmen I'm Rist.
The Carpenters Guild of Hamburg
has recently come into the public eye
in consequence Of a riot between the
guildsmen and the "immertreau" or
ganization. The Carpenters Guild uni 4
form consists Of wedge-shaped trousers.
black broad brimmed Calabrian hat and
the short "bclero" type of Jacket, COM
pleted by q stout and curly stick. It's
members carry their TOOLS under their
arm in q roiled-up haversack called q
''Berliner." This is protected again by
an outer covering called -Charloten-
burger"
The German ioUrneyman must travel,
spending less than six weeks In any one
place. To obtain work again he must
present clean record, with no debts
and no dishoncr. He salutes his COM
rades by knocking on the table and re-
citing q short verse, both these salu-
tations being answered by the other
members.
Here is now one Of the biggest and
best public baths IN the world, with
real waves tproduced by compressed
air. that will run high or calm down
to the tranquility of an ordinary SWIM
ming bath. A new note is q pocket at
the back of the costume, in which the
bather carries the key Of his cubicle;
pressed and his shoes niended on tina
premises.
A Spartan viennese mother was seen
the other day giving her sturdy son his
daily dip IN the Icy Danube. Standing
on snow-covered steps, she dipped mas
ter two-year in and out Of the
water with the temperature below
zero.
Marie-Jose. Pianist.
Princess Marie-Jose, only daughter
of the King and Queen of the Belgians,
whom the papers have engaged half
dozen times 10 the Crown Prince of
Italy, as well as 70 the Crown Prince
of Denmark and Prince Humbert of
Apulia, is proficient pianist. She play.
ed well at 10 and lately her wonderful
expression in rendering Mozart, Handel,
Schumann and Bach has delighted the
critics.
The other day she vas the soloist
In Schumann's Concerto in A Minor"
and little while ago she won first
prize in a contest organized by the
Belgian Musical Unicn. She Is now
learning the cello.
A spelling officer, with the new on
cial dictionary, is one Of the new flowers
of the Latin alphabet era He and
his comrades are finding that a good
many shop owners have misspelled their
own names in labelling their places. II
they have they must put the matter
right within week under pain Of
fine
Most Of the Turkish police force are
learning to speak English. The police
system grows more and more efncient:
almost every street In Constantinopie
The traffic controllers have red helmets
with brass fittings and the patrol po-
lice are distinguished by peak caps.
In the land of the Pharoahs the
Winter Is consistently mild and the
Cairo hotels are packed. You may d.
vide your attention between air
pageants and motor shows and archie
ology. Lords Forteviot and Inehcape
and John D. Rockefeller, IT., have IA
vored Cairo, while Sir Henry and Lady
Page-Croft, Lord Bellhaven and STEM
ton and Sir Hartman and Lady Lever
have preferred Assouan. ASsouan, of
course, has its golf club, race course and
tennis courts and offers sailing and mo-
tor boating on the Nile. desert riding on
camels or donkeys-warmth and sun
shine.
How queer it sounds when some one
tells you that he has won the table
tennis championship of Jerusalem.
The tournament takes place at the
Sports Club, in the jana road, and the
local team has fixtures for matches
with Jericho!
Copyright. 1879 by North American News
paper Alliance.