New Britain herald., 1930-07-03

Paris, July 3.-All Paris has gone
 modernistic with a bang. Every shop of consequence expresses the new art. New buildings of stone along the Champs Elysees are chiseled in the modern manner. That fam91
 four block shopping area-the rue dc la Paix-is almost a solid sharp edged glitter of silver and glass. Thus the first time in century, Paris presents a physical change.
 Tt never changes" had become automatic but you should see the old town now Nothing has escaped the modernistic sweep. l picked up a pen in my hotel room this morni lg and it was baveled in the mode. l cant tell a hat rack from a chair
 In the studio attics of Montmartre there are derisive chuckles. For out of the welter of Futurism. Cubism and such that lowered in such art l istic idiocies as Nude Descending the Stairs has come a sweeping i1- i novation in furniture and decor1-
 tions that bespeaks permanence. i Against my wishes I was dragged away from my sidewalk cafe sitting ! this morning to see a modernistlc 1 exhibit at the Grand Palace. 1 had already become a convert but the l display more than ever convinced me that, like the auto, modernism | has come to stay. It is beautiful It i is practical.
 Even the most devout enthusiasts
 see the finish of period furniture
 and all other schemes of decor that
 have attracted their followings dur
 ing the past decade. It is the dev-
 astating simplicity of French mod.
 crnism that leaves it's indelib,e | stamp.
 The most beautiful and useful | Gesk-and I'll own it if l have 10
 hawk naughty postcards to raise the money-consisted of three sheets of
 exquisitely cut plate glass and group of short silver posts. Thee l are no drawers but it is the ideal 1 escritoire or I'm as fat-headed as ! usual.
 | At the exhibit was Lalique glass 1 table with gllss legs that whoopc1 i up the appetite at a mere glanc". | There were beds and chairs of en- l tire satin that lurad with their eX- Quisite plaInness. For the first time ic years of hotel living l have a1
 unsuitable desire to go in for housa- i keeping
 It is possible I may yet get inside | the Louvre which I have never visl- ! ted. So far this trip my proving ! has been mainly artistic. After the modernistic exhibit we enjoyed that
 triumph of Gothic architecture - | Sainte- Chapelle. The chapel in the l jewelled radiance of a summer day 1 is breath taking. In the HOO sepa
 rate panels that form the windoW3
 the Bible is represented, almost
 chapter by chapter, from Creation
 tc the Apocalypse.
 I tried to Telephone Ray Long al ! the Crillon at noon today. It re- l quired 36 minutes by the wrist
 watch to get that hotel. At the end
 of another period during which played tit t-tat-toe with myself for | three closely penciled pages l was told Mir. Long-the Lebanon, Ind.
 upstart-was lunching with General Pershing and could not be disturb1 l,
 Paris clings to it's historic past
 with it's "faubourgs." A street may be a rue and then suddenly be- come a rue du Faubourg." Eau bourg means suburb and indicates
 the point where a street suddenly
 passed the walls of the city into ] fields beyond The fields and walls l have vanished but the name re- mains.
 Bill HogG showed his Texas sn- III
 town bringing up by starting out at
 sun up to attend a French CountrT 1 lair in a nearby province. I hope some sharper lures him into the lo-
 cal variant of guessing under which
 shell rests the elusive pea.
 The most popular Of the sidewalk