The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-04-15
In Paris
BY GEORGE ROSS
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ETencn are now III possession OI Paris are not exaggerated. It is too early for the Americans to step in and take over and British week. enders barricade themselves only at the Ritz Bar and Bal Tabarin. Not that Paris minds visitors. Paris loves visitors and the bankrolls they bring. But just now the city by the Seine is enjoying brief respite and Paris is for the Parisians.
 Truth to tell, however, certain caravansaries and bistros plying to the Anglo-Saxons make a stab out of season for transients. Harry's Bar, for example, issues cards at street corners urging the stranger to merely tell the taxi driver, Sank Roo Dee Noo." And both Johnny and Tommy'S Bars are eager to arouse 8 nostalgia for home in lonesome tourists.
 Saunter the Champs Elysees from the Arc de Triomphe to the Place de Ia Concorde and one is likely to run into Joe'S California Inn and others consecrated to the Americans. But, alas, all their high stools are occupied by Frenchmen.
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 The Gallic denizens are having a good time by themselves. Though the hoorshow at the Bal Tabarin is a little less spectacular than the one in our own French Casino, na- tives consider it the seventh wonder of France and challenge anybody to show them more indigenous Can Can. All right, concede the Can Can as some American night clubs have already done. But 8 New Yorker has right to be carping and claim to have seen more wonderful sights in aMnhattan without the necessity of ordering an expensive Dry Monopole Champagne.
 That, however, is but one of innumerablbe dens in Montmartre, in the Place Pigalle, on the Left Bank, along the Boulevard Mont parnasse. PariSians arrange their nights gaiety chronologically, talk ing an initial Dubonnet at the street cafe, the Dome, proceeding to the Coupole for a dinner table d'hote, thence to the Select for a fine.
 After these preliminaries, the gadabout of Paris is ready to make the rounds among such haunts as the Boeuf Sur le Toit, Sheherazade, Maxim's, Baghdad and 8 host fo clubs, many naugh- tier than would stand description in print. Ze Jazz 'Ot
 The Folies Bergeres, of course, is an old and revered instution but isn't gaining the interest, these days, of many FTenchmen. Not even the presence of that dusky queen of Parisian night life, Josephine Baker, can lift the native lethargy. Most chorines in Paris, incidentally, are British and American, if you hap pen to be interested and have heard so much about the wicked gals and the Gallic pulchritude of Paris.
 In fact, Paris may now be in the hands of the Parisians, but they have also appropriated Tin Pan Alley. American jazz is heard everywhere and the crooners sing the original lyrics in Berlitz School accents. The average Frenchman doesn't pay attention, anyway. But where. gourmandry is con- cerned, Paris borrows from nc one and excels anyone. A na- tive of this cit by the Seine vouchsafing epicurean information points out the Tour D'Argent, Prun- ier's Foyot's, the original Rumple- mayors, Petit Matelot and the Lior dor as examples of a few hundred others, for superb dining and Sensi- blbe winning. This transient has time only for cursory trials of several Oi them. He will take his Gallic friends word for 1t.
 Rumors, by the way, that tn, Parisian man or woman has join. ed the hustle of the world ane now is hurrying life along lik' the average resident of Manhat. tan, are also grossly exaggerated As if Paris had not enough side. Iwalk cafes and enough tables anc chairs on the broad pavements more spring up every day. You will find them crowded usually between morning and midnight by cafe au lait slippers, who know how to get the most leisure out Oi their leisure.