The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-08-22
P IN NN | NEW | l YORK
By JULIA BLANsHARD


 Paris-While Americans won
 dered where Prince Alexis Mdivani purchased the handsome black
 pearl ring that the former Barbara Hutton wore on her engagement finger, 1t turned out to be Wool worth pearl after all! Miss Hutton
 herself purchased the ring at q Paris jewellers and paid 1,O00,00O francs for it. She paid 10,000,0OO francs for her pearl necklace. From now on silk stockings will be the best possible present to bring French friends from America. A French law has just been passed prohibiting the sale in France of American-madei islk stockings A debonair taxi driver, cap on one side of his head, a la Maurice Mhe-
 valier, sepnds all his spare time while at hsi taxi stand in front of the book stalls on the Left aBnk, practicing on small accordion
 He seems to be more popular as an er-for-the-loiterers than as taxi driver In the imposing white Church of the Sacred Heart, atop Monmartre, whene on Sunday afternoons Paris families, all dres. sed in their Sunday best. gather ts burn candles for sick friends or t6 aid and abet, some business deal. signs about the church read (trans.
 lated freely) Watch your purses while you pray!" Cafe Amers icaine (American coffee with real cream) costs 35 cents a cup here
 now The biggest ad that many
 Paris cafes can boast these tourist days is Corn on the Cob", though it costs 60 cents an ear, and tastes
 like field corn
 At the Rond Point, a huge cafs
 located on the Rond Point of tht
 Champs Elysees, they have show piece It is a heavy FrencI | dessert spoon, about the equivalen. of our tablespoons .. The han
 dle has two complete twists to ti instead of being straight .. On(
 evening Cochet and some friendG | were eating there SomeonT
 asked him how his good right wris
 was these days ,. Cochet sim- ply picked up this big spoon, put
 his napkin oyer it, to hold it, and | with two quick twists of that right
 wrist, turned. the handle completely around twice
 Americans returning from Spain
 say that senoritas have gone "Joan
 Crawford" particularly in Madrid,
 coping her makeup, her costumes
 her plucked eyebrows. There are
 more pictures of Joan Crawford
 sold in Spain than of any two Spanish actresses.
 | It is an interesting experience for | an American to have tea at the
 Paris apartment of Valentine
 Thompson, French political writer and lecturer who has tonred
 Amercia several times for the For eign Policy Association Her
 home is a veritable museum, locat- ed in a street of homes that her
 mother owns -. Two handsome walnut cases house the collection of early French glass that the great Anatole France gave her
 Around a plate rail high above spacious sofa covered with leop-
 ard skin that her husbands friend,
 Rex Ingram, presented to her,
 stand a whole row of fascinating
 little French porcelains that are
 part of the late Clemenceau's col
 lection, which he gave her He
 was a lifelong friend of her fa- | ther, the late Gaston Thompson.
 long the Dean of the Chamber of
 France during the World War
 Tiger" Clemenceau used to trot
 Valentine on his knee, when she
 was a child. And she was always
 allowed to sit and listen during
 the private political talks between
 her father and Clemenceau In
 her bookcase gre several first edi-
 tions which were presents to her
 from her cousin. Marcel Proust Watch for green fur this winter
 The Paris zoo has a tiny bright green monkey that is tremendously
 populad with French children and it is rumored that since monkey
 fur will be. used extensively this
 year, its color will get its idea from
 this new pet.
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