The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-08-31
.ezO French
LazU Bans
Newcomers
BY JULIA BLANSHARD
NEA Service Writer

PARIS, Aug. 31.-The first Ameri-
can women to become outstanding
business successes in Paris are likely
to be the last. For an old French
law which stipulates that no for
eigner can be given working card
unless it's for work that no French
citizen can do, has been revived.
1t dooms newcomers-and only
the American women who already
have captured the Paris busine4s
world will have an opportunity to
carry on.
But there are several of these.
Smartly dressed and continental in
their suavity and poise, they have
gotten ahead" in France through
good old American ambition, ingen-
nifty and pluck.
Take little Dorothy of Paris" as
every one calls Dorothy Couteaur.
Having worked her way through
school and art school and having
designed clothes for a year for a
New York Arm, Dorothy saved 500
over her steamship ticket and sailed
for France.
Runs Another Shop Too
Arriving friendless, 20 years old,
speaking no French but undaunted,
she found the cheapest lodging she
could, learned to call tea and a roll
dinner and spent five weeks Of end
less searching.
MY money was practically all
gone when I finally got work as
add job girl in a dressmaking house"
she told me. But it gave me
chance to learn everything in the
place and just loved It'll"
Today she not only is manager
of Molyneux's establishment, but
runs her own little shop in a smart
street under the name of Anna
Lowe and fairly coins money!
Runs American Restaurant
In court off the Cafe DIES DeuX
Magots, famous old place, there
is an amazingly welcome reStau-
rant where hungry Americans can
get chicken a la Maryland, fluffy
mashed potatoes, hot gravy and
biscuits, American coffee with real
American cream, and breakfasts
with cereal and ham and eggs.
An American woman runs it, Eliza
Lee. Having managed a restaurant
in San Francisco, Miss Lee missed
American cooking SO much when
she was over here seven years ago
that she came back two years later,
bringing her Chinese cook and a
Negro waiter and started in to
cater to Americans.
Speaking no French at all, she
used to be at the market at 4 a. m.
daily and point at what she wanted
before the crowd arrived to buy.
She has had to enlarge her res
taurant space twice and add more
walters. Last year she married her
French grocer's clerk and stimuli
taneously bought car and place
in the country for vacations.
Just Off Champs Elysee
Quite different, but equally in
teresting is an old Paris map and
globe shop run by Mrs. Alexander
Hamilton, descendant of the Alex
ander Hamilton.
1t is a charming shop off the
Champs Elysee, done in cream COL
ored walls and woodwork with bits
of soft sage green in the hangings
and upholstery and the old browns
of the maps and ships models CIV
ing exquisite touches of contrast
and richness.
Mrs. Hamilton was society wo-
man who collected for hobby.
Losing her money few years ago
she turned her avocation to ac-
count and has built up remun-
erative business for herself, with
clients from Shanghai to New
York.
Success in Fashion Field
At the Worth opening, guests
were welcomed by charmingly
poised woman, eXquisitely gowned
and groomed.
She was Mrs. Rene Scudamore,
an American woman who holds one
of the most important positions oc-
cupied by her countrywomen in this
city.
Formerly a newspaper woman, she
came to France to join a party OF
friends who were taking tour.
They never reached here so she
spent her vacation seeing Paris and
the day before she was to leave for
home she met Worth at luncheon,
talked to him and got a job.
Today she holds an important
position in his establishment, fash
ion advisor to American clients, a
go-between for clients and vende-
uses, a kind of foreign secretary
with an Office force under her and
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