The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-06-18
A New Yorker !. In Europe
By PAUL HARRISON

Paris, June 1S--Meanderings
 France has complained that 6 lot of Americans have been stranded here without funds or jobs. Tho
 only idle really welcome are the
 ones who look we'll in the rotograv-
 ure sections.
 The celebrity market 1 stronger.
 Grace Moore, No. daughter of
 Jellicoe, Tenn, is here after her appearances in London's Covent
 Garden. She's going down to her villa at Cannes, near that of Maur-
 ice Chevalier Katherine Cor- nell, tired of crowds and cities, ia off for the hinterlands and won't see Broadway until autumn Lily Pons tho worlds cutest opera
 star, is getting no end of attention in her native land--which paid her no mind when she was struggling
 along in provincial productions. Longchamps is not whit pret.
 tier than Belmont or Saratoga, and isn't in class with Hialeah .g like the dog and cat market near
 the flower market, on Q Sunday morning I like onion soup at
 4 a. m. And the fountains on the Champs Elysees, throwing their
 diamond-spangled plumes against
 a morning sky.
 Spooning To press reception at the min
 istry of foreign affairs--where ev-
 erybody showed up but theh minis-
 ter. Or maybe they weren't sure
 just who was the minister that day Count Serge Fleury, who has
 been goodwill touring in America,
 entertained us; he's lucky enough to be the departments permanent secretary The collation. was
 held in the big room looking out on the gardens of the Qual dorsey.
 where Briand used to walk, smok- ing his interminabie cigarets, and where more international affairs
 have been settled, possibly than
 anywhere else in the world. Tho English would put on dinner clothes to go to a cafeteria or a
 hot dog stand--if they had cafetor.
 ias and hot-dog stands. But in Paris you can go pretty much
 where you please, as you please--
 an informality applaud Y. Now if the French only would learn how to mash potatoes And how to mako ice cream sodas. You can got leo cream cones in Paris, but natives
 eat them with little tin spoons.
 Explorer Discovered
 Lincoln Ellsworth, the explorer, is in town after a trip to Swltzor-
 land where he has been discovering
 an Alp, or something Saw the Aga Khan, Derby winner, head of the Islamic Mohamedans, and a genial gentleman who has very iit- tie to worry about. I noted his too: Sir Sultan Mohamed Shah
 Aga Khan, c. c. s. |, c. c. I. E..
 c. c. v. O., K. c. I. D. .. Fran
 ces Robinson Duff. who teaches
 Broadway actors how to act, is
 here. Crossed with her star pupil.
 Ina Claire. Margalo Gilmore is
 around somewhere.
 It's nice to see an occasional
 brougham being trrotted along the
 boulevards; and there are fiacres for hire, on the voise de Cologne. hear they were named for a Paris hotel where they first stood in 1850 :. {. There's an ominous sugges- ton in the air-raid alarm atop the
 church of St. Gervais pAuxerrois,
 where the beels once signaled the
 massacre of St. Bartholomew. cen turies ago.
 Glimpsed Mrs. William K. van- derbilt on, her return. She has her own home. and not very preten- tious one. in the Rue Lerouxs .. William Lyon Phelps, who helped select the Pulitzer prize play but came to Europe before the storm broke over that unpopular award, has nothing to say about the the 7 ater.
 Stein Song
 Gertrude Stein Is about, stili full of her first visit to America in 31 years. think the best Stein-line is her estimation of newspapermen
 ''There are some hangovers. some rather sweet really sweet hangov- CTS and they are rather touching these sweet hangovers. They ars mostly reporters"
 President Albert Lebrun Is
 known to newsmen here as Poo poo" All on account of some baby-talking he did to his grand children while pictures were be- ing taken around the family
 hearth Mrs. Madeleine Force
 Astor Dick Fiermonte and her %.
 year-old ex-prizefighter husband
 ride horseback every morning
 Afternoons they ride in theii 800. .000-frane car. which Q abou' aa inconspicuous as a mobile soda