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take it if I need it. If I have stolen, it is because I have two passions: money and love. Take off your black robes, Messieurs les juges, look into your consciences, and see if you will not pardon me." Rehm's lawyer made a brilliant defense. Rehm, a gay, harmless bandit, was in the best tradition of French literature, he said. In time to come, he will be a romantic tradition of the early 20th Century. He pleaded for the indulgence of the court. Judgment was passed thirty minutes later. Rehm grinned and laughed with his lawyers. Careful Spy Arrested.
Rehm grinned and laughed with his lawyers. Careful Spy Arrested. Although he had destroyed all incriminating evidence at once, Vivian Spanders, a former captain in the British Army, since employed as Berlin representative of several German aircraft companies, was forced to confess to espionage when arrested in Paris last evening by agents of the Sûreté Générale who had carefully watched him during seven visits in the past year. He said that he is employed by a Dr. Weber, who on each trip gave him a list of questions to determine, all related to the latest developments of aviation and armaments
all related to the latest developments of aviation and armaments in general. After obtaining as much information as possible, he would write a full report, commit it to memory, burn all his papers and dictate the report after returning to Germany. For this work, he received a total of 5,000 gold marks. Suspicion was first aroused by the frequency of his short visits to Paris. It was then learned that he was a former British officer, and the Intelligence Service of the British Army cooperated with the French authorities in further investigations. At the recent Aviation Salon, his work as
further investigations. At the recent Aviation Salon, his work as a spy seemed to be certain. Last week it was decided to arrest him. Taken at the Gare du Nord, where he had purchased a ticket for Reims, presumably with the intention of crossing the border into Germany, he at first expressed great anger and surprise. Finally, finding himself with his back to the wall, he confessed. THE PARIS STAGE MANY NEW PLAYS Passengers Show Their Minds. All cars at the Barbès-Rochechouart Métro station were held up for a quarter of an hour last night when passengers demonstrated in favor
of an hour last night when passengers demonstrated in favor of one of their number who had been arrested for striking a guard. The offending passenger was a young man who carried in his arms a baby a few months old. The guard did not give him sufficient time to get off the car when they reached the station, but sounded for the conductor to start again. The young father, staggering in the effort not to fall with his baby, reached out and delivered a glancing blow on the guard's chin. The guard immediately stopped the car and sounded the
chin. The guard immediately stopped the car and sounded the alarm, proclaimed himself wounded, and caused the arrest of the passenger with the baby. The other passengers, indignant, demonstrated for fifteen minutes. EVENTS OF TODAY AND TOMORROW Washington-Lafayette Club dance, American Women's Club. Winter Evening Society social, Salle Jouffroy, 8:30 p.m. Salle Gaveau: The Fisk Jubilee Singers, 9 p.m. Capucade Concert, 7, Faubourg Poissonnière, 9 p.m. FOR THE SPORTSMEN Boxing at Salle Wagram, Devos vs. Lepesant and other bouts, 8:15 p.m. EVENTS TOMORROW Miss Florence Heywood lectures on The Early Venetians, Mantegna and Bellini, Louvre, 10:30 a.m. Trotting at Vincennes.
Venetians, Mantegna and Bellini, Louvre, 10:30 a.m. Trotting at Vincennes. ART EXHIBITIONS Fermes la Nuit, 42 Quai de l’Horloge: Exhibition of art books. Galerie Marcel Guiot, 4, Rue Volney: Exhibition of etchings and drawings by Mr. Heintzeman. Ends December 31. POSTAL RATES IN FRANCE France and Colonies. — Letters to 20gr., 50 centimes; from 20gr. to 50gr., 75 centimes; from 50gr. to 100gr., 1 franc; above that weight 30 centimes per 100gr. or fraction thereof. Registered letters, 1 fr. in addition. Postcards, 40 centimes. Foreign Countries — Letters to 20gr. inclusive 1 fr. 50 centimes; every additional 20gr. or fraction
inclusive 1 fr. 50 centimes; every additional 20gr. or fraction thereof 90 centimes. All postcards, 90 centimes. Registration, 1 fr. 50 centimes in addition. Letters posted on boat trains for Transatlantic liners must bear 25 centimes extra. Spécial Delivery Letters Paris and Suburbs. — Correspondance by pneumatic tube: Up to 1gr., 1 fr. 50 centimes; from 7 gr. to 15gr., 2 fr.; from 15gr. to 30gr., 3 fr. Express Letters. — Letters, postcards and samples express in France, 2 fr. 50 to places having post offices, 6 fr. to places without. 2 fr. 50 to foreign countries having postal agreements.
without. 2 fr. 50 to foreign countries having postal agreements. RADIO PROGRAMMES EIFFEL TOWER (2,650m.): 6 p.m., talks; 7:15 p.m., concert ECOLE DES POSTES (ISSm.): 8:30 p.m., talk; 8:45 p.m., literary talk; concert. HADLEY-PARIS. (1,750m.) 8:30 p.m., talk on electricity; concert, LONDON (3.61m.): 8 p.m. Dance music: 7 p.m., weather, news; 7:25 p.m., Chopin melodies played by Solomon; 8 p.m., “Reaching Out”; 9 p.m., symphony concert; 10 p.m., time, weather, news; 10:15 p.m., symphony concert. BRUSSES (308m.5): 8:30 p.m., “Rigoletto.” BARGELONA (325111.): 8:43 p.m., opéra. What Is in a Name. When Mme. Louise-Emilie Huchery, born in 1865, married in 1883,
When Mme. Louise-Emilie Huchery, born in 1865, married in 1883, divorced in 1892, applied to the authorities recently for a marriage license, she was considerably astonished to hear the clerk déclaré: “Your name is not Huchery. Your name is Coignet. You have not divorced; your husband is dead and you have a grown son, born in 1891.” Mme. Huchery objected to this violently; if the legal records had such facts down about her, she said, the reason must be that her sister, who is Mme. Coignet, had used her name in the marriage ceremony. Therefore Mme. Huchery sued her sister
in the marriage ceremony. Therefore Mme. Huchery sued her sister and her sister's husband for 5,000fr. damages and for restitution of the Christian names Louise-Emilie, which the sister had taken from her. Mme. Coignet turned out to be an illiterate who was not sure of her name; in particular, as her father and mother had had sixteen or seventeen children, she could not remember which. In the circumstances, since Mme. Huchery had called herself Louise-Emilie in 1891, while Mme. Coignet had not recorded that name until 1915, the court ruled that Mme. Huchery henceforth is to have the name and
that Mme. Huchery henceforth is to have the name and legal status. Mme. Coignet will have to choose another name for herself. Sailor Stabbed by Sentry. Daniel Laughlin, a young English sailor somewhat the worse for liquor, was stabbed by a sentry’s bayonet yesterday when he tried to disregard the challenge given in front of the Jean Bart Barracks at Dunkirk (Nord). Laughlin was with two friends, also sailors, who wanted to go near the barracks and were halted by a sentry. The other two retreated, but Laughlin paid no attention to the challenge and walked on to the bayonet.
attention to the challenge and walked on to the bayonet. The wound will not be fatal. NORTH AFRICA IN FILMS French Line Presents Interesting Pictures at Theatre Mogador. Tourist films full of the exotic beauty of Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, and the Sahara desert were presented this afternoon by the Compagnie Générale Transatlantique and its subsidiary, the Society of Travel and Hotels in North Africa, at the Theatre Mogador, in Paris. The theatre was filled and spectators expressed much interest in the variety of the scenes presented and the cleverness of the filming. Modern buildings and hotels in the cities of
the filming. Modern buildings and hotels in the cities of North Africa were contrasted with the vast emptiness of the desert. Mr. Sutton Vane’s play, “Outward Bound,” which enjoyed such a great success a few years ago in London and New York, has been produced by M. Louis Jouvet at the Theatre de la Comédie des Champs-Elysées in a French translation by Paul Verola. The almost childish earnestness of the piece, its naive mixture of broad comedy and unremitting pathos, created more laughs than thrills in the French audience. The effectiveness of the play, to a very considerable extent, is
effectiveness of the play, to a very considerable extent, is lost in French and to a French audience; the conception is thoroughly fantastic, sentimental, and exceedingly broad. The boatload of passengers bound for “Heaven or Hell, either one, because they are the same place,” and the debates about whether they are dead or alive remotely suggest Pirandello, but a Pirandello done over by a romantic young man in a London fog. M. Jouvet himself plays the young drunkard on the ship. The English Players at the théâtre Albert-Ier have given a performance of “The Ringer,” a mystery play which had
a performance of “The Ringer,” a mystery play which had great success in London and which thrilled audiences for more than ten months. “The Ringer,” a notorious criminal, so named because of his skill in changing his disguise, although reported dead, is strongly suspected at Scotland Yard (the scene of the first act) to be alive and in England. This first act shows Maurice Meister, a shady lawyer, a receiver, a drug addict, and the seducer of the Ringer’s sister, claiming protection from the police against the threatened avenger of the man. As the play develops it is shown that
the man. As the play develops it is shown that Meister’s fears are well grounded. Not even a sagacious old Scotch doctor, the official police surgeon, can allay his terror. In the third act Meister is mysteriously murdered, under the eyes of the detectives who are guarding his house. Who committed the crime? If the murder was the work of the Ringer then how was it accomplished? The explanation, of course, leaves everyone saying; “I told you so.” But very few of those who made the remark were very communicative before the climax. The play is capably performed with Edward
before the climax. The play is capably performed with Edward Sterling as Dr. Lomax, Bernard Merfield as Maurice Meister, and Margaret Vaughan as Cora Ann Milton, the Ringer’s wife. M. Pagnol’s “Jazz,” a comedy of age and disillusionment, holds the boards at the Théâtre des Arts. It tells the story of an aged savant whose life-work is proved (Act 1) to be a fraud, just as it was to have given him the final recognition of admission to the Institut de France; he gives his last lecture (Act II) and bitterly renounces science and knowledge as being themselves frauds. The
bitterly renounces science and knowledge as being themselves frauds. The savant regrets his lost youth, his years spent in libraries which might have been spent elsewhere. His lost youth, personified in a young “double,” advises him to seek love. Love is a young student of his, but she turns out to be very much in love with someone else. Therefore the aged savant communes again with his lost youth, and the only advice he gets is to seek the degrading and enervating pleasures of the old who regret and who seek to forget their regrets. At this point a jazz
seek to forget their regrets. At this point a jazz band breaks forth in the distance, and we are led to suppose that the old man has decided to take the first taxi to Montmartre. The piece contains many overdrawn and over-romantic passages, but many others of great power. The Palais-Royal has a new farce by MM. Paul Armant and Marcel Gerbidon, the authors of that unorganizable “Ecole des Cocottes” which was the delight of audiences in every capital in the World a few years ago. This one is called “Le Monsieur de Cléopâtre.” Like “L’Ecole des Cocottes” it shows
“Le Monsieur de Cléopâtre.” Like “L’Ecole des Cocottes” it shows a profound and ironic sensibility far beyond what might reasonably be expected of a Palais-Royal farce. It has, in addition, the benefit of the talents of M. Victor Boucher, one of the most brilliant—and most consistently popular—actors of comedy in Paris. “J’aime” is the name given to a new musical comedy by MM. Villenetz and Saint-Grallier, with Christine music. It is a nice little piece about a family of French aristocrats who have to go into the circus in order to earn an inheritance, and as they do so with
to earn an inheritance, and as they do so with comic results. All ends well, and there is pretty music of the “Philipp” variety by M. Christine. It is given at the Bouffes-Parisiens. At the Music-Halls, Mlle. Mistinguett’s new show, “Ça, c’est Paris,” at the Moulin-Rouge, is very sumptuously mounted, and one trembles to think what the cost of the two great finales must have been (the first in silver and the second in gold, each chorus girl glittering in silks and jewels). Mlle. Mistinguett is still Mlle. Mistinguett, and that is to say something which remains almost magical to
that is to say something which remains almost magical to most of us. Those famous dancing elephants from the Hippodrome in New York are performing at the Empire now, and the music-hall audiences are in raptures about them. They could give lessons to many a ballerina, and their Spanish numbers and a dance du ventre are particularly in favour. M. Sylvestre Schaeffer, who does everything from animal training to aesthetic dancing, heads the bill at the Olympia, and the chansonnier Perchicot is his close second. WOMAN PROFESSOR IN PRAGUE PRAGUE.—The German University here has just appointed its first woman professor,
German University here has just appointed its first woman professor, Frau Hedwig Langecker, who will lecture on experimental pharmacology. IN THE QUARTER There is something of a monastic air—let us say the air of a miniature and modern monastery—about the bookshop La Maison des Amis des Livres, in the Rue de l’Odéon, and this impression is enhanced by the nun-like costume of its founder and proprietor, Mlle. Adrienne Mounier. Since the founding of the shop in 1915 Mlle. Adrienne Mounier has frankly devoted herself to furthering the interests of a group of writers, freely chosen, whose work she admires. Among
group of writers, freely chosen, whose work she admires. Among the members of this cénacle have been Gide, Romains, Cocteau, Fargue, Larbaud, Jammes, Claudel, Valéry and Duhamel. This shop has been the centre of literary discoveries, movements and agitations, and it continues to maintain an interesting series of activities. At present an exhibition of pencil portraits by the French artist Paul-Emile Bécat is being shown. There are excellent studies of André Gide, James Joyce, Georges Duhamel, Paul Valéry, Havelock Ellis and many others. Joyce’s publisher, Miss Sylvia Beach, of Shakespeare and Company, is bringing suit against Samuel Roth for pirating
and Company, is bringing suit against Samuel Roth for pirating portions of “Ulysses" in America. She has succeeded in massing public opinion in her defence, and with justice so clearly on her side is virtually certain to win judgment. A portrait of Miss Beach is included in the Bécat exhibition. Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French critic and author of “Anatole France en Pantoufles," has written another more or less indiscreet book about his one-time employer and friend. It is called “Itinéraire de Paris à Buenos Aires.” Rousseau, it is recalled, accompanied Anatole France on his short but exciting journey to the New
France on his short but exciting journey to the New World, and his account thereof may prove even more entertaining than "Anatole France en Pantoufles.” William A. Bradley has made arrangements for the publication of the new book in New York. He will return to Paris in January with American publishers’ contracts for a number of French writers. A fine boutique À Paris À la Place Vendôme Every year during December the sale of models at Maison Montaillé attracts universal attention. Ladies find there a selection of dresses and coats at very reduced prices. The coats shown this year have
at very reduced prices. The coats shown this year have been especially attractive and there are some still to be sold at prices ranging between 450 francs and 1,200 francs which are real bargains. Ladies should not fail to pay a visit to Maison Montaillé, it will be both a pleasure and a business opportunity. À la Maison-Montaillé À Paris À la Place Vendôme CANNES HURRY UP AND COME TO CANNES WHERE A PERFECT SPRING IS WAITING FOR YOU THE Restaurant des Ambassadeurs is preparing a marvellous and unique GALA-SUPPER FOR NEW YEAR'S EVE Jean Berlin, the Swedish Dancer, Margaret
FOR NEW YEAR'S EVE Jean Berlin, the Swedish Dancer, Margaret Jesson, the chanson, Siva Blomquist, the singer, and Jack Kinney, the comedian. The Victoria Girls, the Operative Ballet of the Municipal Casino, RILLY ARNOLD’S JAZZ BAND, and Two Other Orchestras. From December 27 to January 2; OFFICIAL TOURNAMENT at the BEAU-SITE LAWN-TENNIS CLUB, POLO, 2 GOLF LINKS, REGATTAS. TWENTY-FIRST-CLASS HOTELS. NICE NICE BRIGHTON AGENCY Cannes Monte-Carlo 32, Rue Hôtel-des-Postes. — Tel. 21-03. 37-56. General agent for the S.E. of France for Av. Spéléogège UNITED STATES LINES 5 Se. Merillée Tel. 6-10. AND LLOYD SABAUDO Tel. 11-96. Regular service Nice, Monte-Carlo,
6-10. AND LLOYD SABAUDO Tel. 11-96. Regular service Nice, Monte-Carlo, and Cannes BANKING. SAN KING. PARIS LONDON NEW YORK BANKERS TRUST COMPANY PARIS OFFICE 3 & 5, PLACE VENDÔME OPPORTUNITIES IN AMERICAN ART OR CONFUSION? War of Praise and Criticism Rages - And Stone Titans Stretch Higher and Higher Towards the Sky. The visiting German architect examined dizzy walls fighting one another for the upper reaches of Manhattan air. In ambitious Chicago, he noted Greco columns propping the modern mass of the Federal Reserve Bank and sneered at making Greece “the carrier-mule of steel construction.” He gazed on swiftly-growing Detroit
“the carrier-mule of steel construction.” He gazed on swiftly-growing Detroit — another prairie city without narrow-bound Manhattan’s excuse for stacking city upon city. And Erich Mendelsohn found an explanation. It all demonstrates the impulse to sensation. a drunkenness of size and height which dissolves life from its true proportions... the American is made unhappy unless he is incessantly and outwardly active. This is the American in his stronghold. The German master-builder whose Edinburgh in Tower marked a new epoch in architecture has always admired the American spirit in building. But why are there not in the New World dreamers as
why are there not in the New World dreamers as well as workers in steel and glass and concrete? Herr Mendelsohn, finding architectural history in a stone nutshell in Fifth Avenue, is no Columbus. Years ago it was written: “A walk up Fifth Avenue leaves an indelible impression of chaos. One may see in a scant two miles Roman temples and Parisian shops; Gothic of sorts (and out of sorts); delicate little Georgian ghosts, shrinking in their ill-considered contact with Babylonian skyscrapers...” An American architect wrote that. Ralph Adams Cram, of Boston, Ecclesiastic of architecture. New World apostle of a
of Boston, Ecclesiastic of architecture. New World apostle of a Gothic restoration. Aesthetic criticism of the skyscraper began at home. It was Edison's practical indictment that started something. A time-waster and a traffic jammer, the modern Aladdin damned the skyscraper. The editor of the Journal of the American Institute of Architects agreed. “New madness will be required to cope with the present madness,” said Chaucer Harris Whitaker. He referred to double-decked streets. Some now on the way in New York; in Chicago the ingenious and handsome Wacker Drive carries traffic on two levels. “Skyscrapers are the craziest buildings in New
on two levels. “Skyscrapers are the craziest buildings in New York,” said Thomas Hastings on his return from Europe. “The higher, the crazier. I believe in limiting the height of buildings to not more than eight stories. Then New York could hold twice its present population.” Only the first two stories of the tallest building produce revenue. That is the expert opinion of W. Bourke Harmon. This realtor declares that additional floors can only pay interest on the investment. Henry H. Overman spoke in St. Louis at the convention of the National Municipal League. He said the skyscraper was a
the National Municipal League. He said the skyscraper was a plague that might “well range alongside our ancient scourges of cholera, yellow fever, tuberculosis, and slums. The collective skyscraper at the city's workday hub breeds more subways, less money for other needs, more motor vehicles to kill more children.” But the skyscraper is not without friends. The Borough President of Manhattan defends it as an economic necessity. Julius Miller maintains that it increases property values and makes possible improvements in outing districts. He points out that fire risk has been reduced to a minimum and that a steel skyscraper is
reduced to a minimum and that a steel skyscraper is the safest building in case of earthquake. “Double-decked and triple-decked streets are quite as feasible as forty-story or fifty-story buildings,” said Harvey Wiley Corbett. This architect suggests that skyscrapers would be to future civilizations what the pyramids are to this. “The explorer of a thousand years hence might piece together the fragments of our life gathered in a skyscraper and know the whole as though he had lived among us.” It was the apt moment to open an exhibition of skyscrapers—models, photographs, and designs. In a Riverside Drive building modestly
skyscrapers—models, photographs, and designs. In a Riverside Drive building modestly named Corona Mundi such an exposition was arranged by Alfred C. Bossom. The public was invited to judge whether the skyscraper is a modern curse or an art form comparable with the pyramids and the creations of Greece and Rome. The exposition will tour other cities. “Skyscrapers relieve traffic congestion,” defends Mr. Bossom. “They convert horizontal traffic into perpendicular traffic. Occupants travel three and four blocks up and down in the air instead of in a horizontal direction. They are living in the sky where the air is pure and
living in the sky where the air is pure and there is no question but that they are adding years to their lives.” Many drawings on exhibition will not become realities for perhaps five years. Meanwhile, in Detroit, the Book Building is rising 873 ft. in eighty-five stories to top all of man’s monuments except the Eiffel Tower. Chicago’s press chants paeans over towering new hotels, newspaper cathedrals, and dizzy spires under which jewelers, oil men, furniture merchants, and chewing-gum vendors will do business. One, even, to support a Methodist cross. Universities in Chicago, Pittsburgh, and Philadelphia have begun skyscrapers
cross. Universities in Chicago, Pittsburgh, and Philadelphia have begun skyscrapers of learning. And in New York, John A. Larkin defiantly announces plans for a building one hundred stories high—about the height of the present record-holding Woolworth and Metropolitan Life buildings stacked one on the other. THE TALK OF LONDON Britain Feels that the Time Has Come For Serious Reflection, After Holiday Festivities. The holiday spirit cannot be kept up forever. January 1 is almost here and Great Britain is beginning to feel her serious responsibilities towards the New Year. There is a great task ahead. The more mention of the
is a great task ahead. The more mention of the coal strike calls the imagination to play over some phases of the economic battle to be waged in 1927. But, at that, Great Britain is not embarked on a hopeless task of trying to build up prosperity. Sir Arthur Dorman, head of the great Teesside iron firm of Dorman, Long and Company, Limited, says that prospects for the immediate future in the iron and steel trade are brighter than at any time during the past four years. He finds that conditions on the Continent are moving steadily in favor of