The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-08-16
RY JULIA BLANsHARD

BY JULIA BLANDnAnO
Paris - There is no depression
In Paris night life. Enough people
always are on the street or sittine
| in the all-night cafes to give TINS
impression that Paris never sleeps
The evenings round for Ameris
cans starts with the Select ana tns
| Select-artists, dancers, students;
actors, none in evening dress, all
eagerly expounding their theories
of life, or languidly sitting and
sipping. Two youths have lavender
hair! Many drink big mugs OF
beer at the moment. Across the
street, a slightly more affluent ana
| less arty crowd assemblies. NO
seats are available SO more tables
are put onto the sidewalks, almost
to the curb. >. Sydney Franklin,
Brooklyn bullfighter. entertained
party. He was just up for weeks
vacation from Madrid. where ne Is
writing book. (He gave Hemlns
way much valuable material for
his death in the Afternoon.~
| Around the corner from the
Dome is tiny bar, "Dingo." very
popular because of the merry. big
dark girly who pounds the piano
and can play by ear any American
tune whistled to her, though she
Just misses the American jazz beat
stormy Weather" Shuttle
| Off to Buffalo, and I'm Young
and Healthy" are the three most
popular American tunes here right
now. A young American boy VINO
might double for Vines stands by
the piano and sings a very bad
solo, sidewalks of New York..
|
Harlem i'm Paris
From Montparnasse, go across
Paris to Montmartre. The
Moulin Rouge is a picture house
now. Zellfs is "out." Au Grand
Ecart is the smart night club Of
the moment, exotically done in
black walls, black floor. d fringe
of tiny blue lights around the edge
Of the ceiling and eerie, feathery
lighting coming from the bottoms
of the rectangular. daisy-filled
crystal bowls on every table
A Harlem jazz band plays Harlem
music. The bar is crowded with
weather. artist. actors, writer's.
Around the corner is LIE Melo-
dy's. You must get there by 1880
exactly to see Mara-Mara dance.
Marlene Dietrich, all done up in
to her shoulders, rises to take
bow when recognized. Her French
escort rises to seat her. She
merely smiles and bows. Last
1 week, when Josephine Baker was
greeted, she strobe out onto the
floor and did thousand-dollar
dance for nothing Mara-Mara
is a lissom Indian girl, born in
il Rangoon, educated at Barnard
College, New York, who got her
dancing start at Zellfs several
years ago.
| LIE Melodys is the last cafe that
Prince Alex Midicani visited before
his marriage to Barbara Hutton.
Some of the Franklin Roosevelt
Jr, party didn't miss seeing Mara
Mara q single night while here.
Junius Morgan is a frequent visi-
tor when here. Rex Ingram sits
in one corner fascinated May
be Mara-Mara will be in Holly
wood next year LIE Melodys
has the best rhumba band in
Paris; the pianist is a perfect black
, Groucho Marx, except that he has
. two gold front teeth! You either
dance the rhumba at lie Melodys,
or. you watch others dance 1t
. The light is dim, the music stir
ring, HlSH dTOuHu IHS Top VI thS
. walls the illuminated cannibalistic
fresco gives the only light :.
After turbaned Mara Mara dances.
|, Grace Edwards, originally from
Cleveland, Ohio, but more recently
. from Coincide Franchise, sings IN
, her tl1roaty, blues voice
second Libby Holman.
II -
The Same Gold Bar
Three o'clock, when hunger
assails, groups rise and start
trekking towards Fred Payne's
bar =. 1t stands in the same
place it did 20 years ago =. It Is
scarcely more than a hole in the
wall, but the very same red carpet
/ is still on the floor, the same carl
catures on the wall, with new ones
added, the same bartender, the
same wheezy grand piano, even
!! Mabel, the same Cockney girl.
passes the basket TO get money for
Alex, the German pianist whom
! Alex takes look at the Ameri-
leans and dashes out. He returns
with arms full of nasturtiums,
daisies, English primroses. He has
been in America, wishes he were
there now, and he sings "Old Man
River" and Happy Days Are Here
! Again." then leans forward and
asks, "Is that okay?"
One man in the crowd had not
been in Fred Payne's bar in nine
years. He used to eat breakfast
there after finishing work on the
Paris Herald. Fred took one look
) at him, then his big voice doomed
out to the chef, "Corned beef
hash!" Nine years ago, he always
had It for breakfast.
Ontario to Wisconsin and south to
Florida and Texas. The California
rose sometimes forms thickets
along streams. Though native to
! China and Japan, the Cherokee
1 al ~ ~ 80 hA