Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-11-18
''Ameriea Is Dreanaland"
JOSE LAVAL WANTS TO COME BAeK AGAIN.

special Dispatch to The Star.
NARIS. November Is (N.A.N.A).-
IT, America Is q magic dream
land s.r and ~. can s scarcely imagine gin,
France" said Mile Jose Laval.
daughter Of the French premier, who
accompanied her father on his recent
journey to the United States.
Everything combined to make my
trip something like magnificent
hallucination, she added.
Mile Laval had insisted that she
wouldn't give an interview. She has
Just started her studies at the Paris
Law Academy and wants to devote most
of her time to her work there.
She was seated in her own little
boutloir in the ministry of the interior,
where the premier has his residence.
There was an Annapolis pennant pin
ned to the wall, intertwined with the
colors of the Sorbonne.
That's my only trophy" Mile. Laval
said pointing to the flag. Il visited
the Naval Academy at Annapolis. That
was my biggest surprise. People had
told me and l had read so much about
the drabness of the American land
scape. I couldn't believe my eyes when
! saw all those smooth and beautiful
roads and the houses nestled in the
ferent America from what l had ex-'
pected."
Women Show Taste.
What impressed you most on your
yiSit?" she was asked.
1.-THE wonder of America to me was
right on the sidewalks of New York,
the premfer's daughter replied. Never
have l seen so many well dressed
ri in
America seems to have it. It's certainly
not the monopoly of any class.
1T was big surprise to me- con-
TESS l knew American women wore
good clothes as a rule, but I had no
idea this was universal I saw stenog
raphers enter big buildings In the morn
ing on their way to work, and the same
girls would have been taken for society
folk in Paris, so well they looked.
You know" Mile Laval went on,
"there are lots of people who try to
scare us with the idea of Americaniza-
ton. They say it means STANDARDIZED
ton of everything, including clothes.
They would have you believe American
men and women are just automatons
who function with machinelike preci-
sion. who are always efficient. who laugh
as one and who weep as one. just hu-
man Ford automobiles. But / know DIFF
ferently now. II what / saw is Amerl-
canization l am not afraid of 1t. like
it. I wish we had more OF it in France.
Liked MidShipman Bryan.
Everybody met was charming, from
the moment we set out from Paris until
We got back. We danced lot on board,
and father says the financial experts he
took with him to do lot Of calculating
came back first-class hooters. This is
no gibe, please understand me. It's
compliment.
Mile. Laval went on to tell Of her
tour of Annapolis, in the company OF
Lou Bryan, Navy foot ball star. She
implied that her teatime tete-a-tete
with MidShipman Bryan compensated
her entirely for her disappointment at
not seeing the Navy eleven play Prince
ton She admitted having wept over
that disappointment.
There were some things I didn't
like" said Mile. Laval notably, the
whirl I was in. Everything seemed to
be dancing before my eyes at times.
My impressions were all mixed up.
When I close my eyes now and think
back of the United States it is as If
some one were rapidly unrolling news
reel
"Skyscrapers tumble about in gorge
ously lit dining rooms crowds flash by,
photographers mass in front, by my
side and behind. 1t is mad tumble
Of scenery gone crazy.
Some day, when I finish my law
course. I would Like to go back quietly