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an atmosphere of gloom, and—let us be candid—of boredom difficult to overcome. The first, by MM. Lunel and Darius Milhaud, is an attempt at modernizing the old subject of Oedipus. It holds a feeble place between Offenbach’s "Orphée aux Enfers" and Gluck’s masterpiece and it should be better considered a parody. The hero this time is not a poet but a healer and Eurydice a gypsy who follows her lover into the forest, where she dies a sudden death. Thereupon two sisters of Eurydice arrive on the scene and make it uncomfortable for Oedipus, whom they accuse of murder while
it uncomfortable for Oedipus, whom they accuse of murder while a third coolly offers him her love. Finally, the three of them throw themselves on the unfortunate man and tear him to pieces, whence no doubt the title of the play. The mise-en-scène is truly incongruous, the music incoherent and the libretto confuse. Mme. Beriza, M. Brouet, Mlles. Dubourdonné, Aumônier and the others did their best in seeing it through, but good interpretation scarcely helps to make such a subject interesting. “Le Fonctionnaire MCMXII” depicts the grotesque mannerisms and habits of a Government official. M. Florent-Schmitt’s music colors this piece
of a Government official. M. Florent-Schmitt’s music colors this piece of utter nonsense. The French production of Rose Marie at the Théâtre Mogador is to take place at the end of this month. The cast will include MM. Boucot, Oudart, Burnier, Mmes. Cloé Vidiane, Cécilia Navarre and Mixandra, while the title part will be held alternately by Miss Massé, due to arrive from New York for this purpose, and Mlle. Cloé Vidiane. J. A. -M ri:ri^ “Pas Encore.” The Théâtre de l’Atelier has given a play by M. Steve Passeur, entitled “Pas Encore.” The first act is exceptionally good. Mme.
entitled “Pas Encore.” The first act is exceptionally good. Mme. Dullin’s acting is as profound as the idea she expresses: “Have we all life in which to love?” Love will abandon us before life, and life will know how to compel us to become philosophical at the cost of much suffering. H. nu P. TENANTS OF WIDOW IN NEW COMPLAINT The latest victims of Mme. Angele Vauvert, the widow who is fifty-two times a millionaire—in francs—and who gets richer by extorting illegal “commissions” from her small army of tenants in Paris, are pre-war bungalow owners who have complained to the
Paris, are pre-war bungalow owners who have complained to the authorities. They declare that Mme. Vauvert told them that she snapped her fingers at the law and that unless they paid her sums from 5,000 fr. to 6,000 fr. in addition to their rent she would turn them out. They paid. Now they would like to be reimbursed. The case against the woman was initiated by a would-be tenant who, instead of paying a commission, visited the police. ANTI-SUICIDE CLUB University Group Hopes to Check Student Depression. BALTIMORE, Wednesday.—-Suicide clubs have been heard of before; in fact, the recent wave
have been heard of before; in fact, the recent wave of suicides among students in the United States has reminded many of the Russian organizations of which the members swore themselves to self-destruction. It has remained for thirteen undergraduates at the University of Baltimore to form an anti-suicide club. This club was formed yesterday. Paris Is in Time as Time Is Called For City Clocks and Midnight Is Noon if You Wish. The impossible has happened! Time has been stayed in its flight! At least compressed-air time—in Paris—as registered by pneumatic clocks in various streets of the city. Municipally, for
pneumatic clocks in various streets of the city. Municipally, for the clocks in question belong to the city, it is noon—or midnight. Since midnight on the night of Monday, the minute hand and the hour hand of these official clocks have been at rest, exactly aligned on the figure twelve. There is an explanation. It takes time to tell it. In the year 1887, the City of Paris made a contract with a compressed-air producer, whereby the latter was to furnish the necessary atmospheric pressure to move the hands of municipal clocks. The contract was for a period of forty
municipal clocks. The contract was for a period of forty years. Hour by hour, the hands of the clocks turned round and round and round on their dials, ticking off the months and years. At midnight on Monday, the last second of the forty years expired. The hour hand marked time. The minute hand followed suit. Two score years of labor and—rest. But time appeared to have passed too rapidly for municipal authorities. It had been agreed to let the contract come to an end, for electricity was judged more efficient. Nevertheless, no steps were taken to prepare for electric
efficient. Nevertheless, no steps were taken to prepare for electric installation. Only when the witching hour of midnight came on Monday was it realized that the switching hour had arrived. Which means that Paris must be publicly timeless for a certain time. Some say only a week. Others are less optimistic. However, there is one satisfaction for Parisians. At last, after many years of differences in time between the various pneumatic clocks in the city, the public may look with pride at one clock after another, from one municipal boundary to another, and say: “Paris is in time.” War Hero
to another, and say: “Paris is in time.” War Hero Held for Fraud. A French war hero has raised into "evil ways. Hippolyte Blasy, a former lieutenant of artillery, with four wound stripes and the Légion of Honor as witnesses to his war record, was arrested in Paris yesterday for defrauding an insurance company of Strasbourg. His accomplice was Jean Mouroux, employed by the company in the fire insurance department. Last December Blasy presented to the company an insurance policy made out to an imaginary person, claiming payment for an equally imaginary fire. Aided by Mouroux, he obtained the sum
equally imaginary fire. Aided by Mouroux, he obtained the sum and later divided with him. A few days ago Blasy appeared again with a similar request. An investigation revealed that the policy was false and the man was arrested. A touch of irony was introduced by the fact that the policeman who arrested Blasy had been under his orders during the war. Cashier Surrenders. As a cashier for six years in a bank in the Rue de Châteaudun in Paris, André Reb knows the value of being businesslike and efficient. Deciding yesterday that it was time he was arrested, he
Deciding yesterday that it was time he was arrested, he saw the matter well done by going himself to the police station in the Rue Drouot. “I have not earned more than 1,100fr. a month,” he announced. “My wife and I could not live on that. To make up the difference I have stolen from the cash. I have taken 75,000fr; arrest me.” Police complied. Reb is twenty-eight years old. Young Bandit Corrupts Companions. One of the problems which the police authorities have to contend with is the segregation of young offenders in prison in order that they may not
young offenders in prison in order that they may not further corrupt one another or be corrupted by habitual criminals. The manner in which a young criminal with the instinct for leadership can find accomplices while in prison for crimes planned during confinement, is brought out in the Assize Court at Versailles (Seine-et-Oise). Paris, where four youthful “apaches” are being tried for the murder of a prison guard at Rambouillet, and it is shown that the ringleader, Barrère, aged twenty-one years, met two of the other three youths in prison. They are named Montfort and Motilson. The fourth, Lopez, made
They are named Montfort and Motilson. The fourth, Lopez, made the acquaintance of Barrère at Dunkirk. After a career of burglary and highway robbery, Barrère, Montfort and Lopez found themselves at Rambouillet. There Barrère induced Motilson to enter into the plot to escape. This they succeeded in doing, with the exception of Lopez, after killing a guard. The quartet now faces a charge of murder. AMERICAN COLUMN IN PARIS M. E. CHAMPION GUEST OF CLUB Many from Europe have gone to America and have returned to tell their impressions, but few have gone with the critical insight and the opportunities
few have gone with the critical insight and the opportunities to study the culture of the United States possessed by M. Edouard Champion, the Parisian publisher and bookseller, who went to the United States last summer and will communicate his impressions at the luncheon of the American Club of Paris tomorrow. M. Champion went to America last July. He visited sixty-two cities. He gave 102 lectures, and he inspected the majority of the larger universities. His eyes and his ears were open to impressions of all kinds, as his comments since his return have indicated. Tomorrow M. Champion will cite
since his return have indicated. Tomorrow M. Champion will cite four messages which he has received from four famous Frenchmen while on his tour, expressing their friendship for America. The messages are from M. Camille Jullian, the historian; M. Marcel Prévost and M. Charles Maurras, two of the best known of contemporary French littérateurs; and from M. Raymond Poincaré, the Premier. “I have visited all the capitals and great cities of Europe and found them, after a time, more or less like Paris—I was soon chez moi,” M. Champion says. “But in New York it was immediately different; my first
“But in New York it was immediately different; my first impression of dépaysement was my last.” M. Champion studied American universities particularly. He found a “fever of study,” a general desire not to be left behind in any thought or modern movement. Sometimes this runs unchecked; at Smith College he found a “Chair in Dadaism.” In France, after the War, Dadaism had a slight success among young folk, but mostly for diversion, perhaps for a farce. “At any rate, it is a sterile fantasy and of no interest for the future.” America is athirst for novelty. Almost any young author
future.” America is athirst for novelty. Almost any young author can readily find a publisher for his first book, and an eager public. American literature seems to M. Champion to be absorbed in the cinema—the literature of imagination, the novel, as well as the theatre. About twenty authors are producing the contemporary literature of America. The theatre prefers foreign playwrights. French authors in greatest demand in America now are Rémy de Gourmont, and Charles Maurras and even Dekobra. M. Champion noted on the part of the Italians a desire to expand knowledge of Italian culture in the United States, which
expand knowledge of Italian culture in the United States, which has led them to equip a number of University libraries with Italian rooms, filled with the best literary productions of Italy, magnificently printed and bound. This led the French publisher to propose the creation, in ten of the leading universities, of French library rooms, to be stocked with fine French books and ornamented with the autographed portraits of one hundred leading representatives of the French intellectual movement, from Maurras to Dullin. A taste for reading is a national characteristic of the United States, M. Champion found. In trains, the subways,
the United States, M. Champion found. In trains, the subways, automobiles, boats, and in the streets people read books, while libraries are very numerous and stocked with magnificence. M. CHAMPION “MOVIE” COWBOYS HOLD REAL DUEL UNIVERSITY CITY, California.—One of the few things that could really surprise the “movie” colonies of the West Coast happened when two “movie” cowboys “shot it out” with pistols. George Emerson was seriously injured and George Wonderful received a minor wound. Their friends explain that they had been enemies since they worked as real cowboys fifteen years ago, in Texas. They shot almost at the same
years ago, in Texas. They shot almost at the same moment when they met before the door of a gambling house in the Street set up for the filming of Western pictures. Blue-coated policemen and an ambulance brought an unaccustomed finish to the drama. PARIS DISCUSSES COST OF LIVING Has the cost of living really declined in Paris and if it has not, why not? In considerable detail, but substantially to this effect, M. Morain, Prefect of Police, this morning put the question to the Municipal Commission on Prices. The outcome was the Commission decided to draw up a table
outcome was the Commission decided to draw up a table comparing the Wholesale and retail prices of foodstuffs from October 1, 1926, to Mardi 1, 1927, and also showing the rise and fall of the franc. The President of the Epicerie Française astonished the Commission when he claimed that a list of articles which have decreased in price shows distinctly that imported foodstuffs are cheaper while native French products are at the same level, or higher. SOVIET OFFICIALS TRIED FOR OPPRESSIVE ACTS RICA.—The Chief Communist official of the Kirghiz district, Babaklianow, has been sentenced to ten years imprisonment and his
Babaklianow, has been sentenced to ten years imprisonment and his assistant, Khudaikulov, has been imprisoned for seven years, following their trial at Pishpek. They were charged with bribery, plundering the poor and acts of violence. Babakhanov was accused of committing one murder and hiring assassins to kill a second person. BRITISH COLONY IN PARIS REV. HODGSON LEAVES PARIS Assistant Chaplain of St. George’s Church Takes Living in London. The Rev. John Hodgson, Assistant Chaplain of St. George’s Church, Rue Auguste-Vacquerie, will leave the church about May 1 to take the living of St. Augustine’s, Highgate, London. The Rev. Mr. Hodgson
living of St. Augustine’s, Highgate, London. The Rev. Mr. Hodgson will have been sixteen months with the church in Paris on May 1. WINTER EVENING SOCIETY A lecture on Persian life and customs will be given this evening, under the auspices of the Winter Evening Society, by Colonel Grey, at the Salle Jouffroy, 70, Rue Jouffroy, at 8.45. Colonel Grey will tell of what he learned during twenty years of study and residence in Persia. IN THE QUARTER The neighborhood playhouses of the Left Bank are burgeoning with new bills. The Vaugirard Theatre is offering “Faust,” beginning tonight, with several
The Vaugirard Theatre is offering “Faust,” beginning tonight, with several artistes from the Opéra appearing in the production. Along the Rue de la Gaieté, which is consecrated to the muse of Comedy, there are nearly half a dozen cinémas and two or three variety théâtres, all of which appear to be doing heavy business. The most famous of the Rue de la Gaieté playhouses is, of course, Bobino, the old original Bobino, which now displays an exciting program consisting of jongleurs from Japan, acrobats, singers, comédiens bouffes, and the supermendain Tompson, champion du monde du saut. We deprived ourselves of
Tompson, champion du monde du saut. We deprived ourselves of seeing the world champion of the leap because the last time—and the first—that we patronized Bobino our head was the object which stopped the flight of a crêpe, warm and moist, that was being hurled from one urchin to another. Things like that are likely to happen at Bobino. In fact, the audience is a large part of the show, an audience that expresses its feelings rather too freely for the comfort of those who are not accustomed to such spontaneity. Yesterday afternoon the Rue de la Gaieté, if not
spontaneity. Yesterday afternoon the Rue de la Gaieté, if not the Grand Boulevards, exhibited something of the old Carnival spirit. Duly conducted infant duchesses, Marie-Antoinettes, Columbines and Pierrots were threading their way through the crowds. There was a plentiful display of chapeaux à plumes. The crêpe merchants were turning out their product in large quantités at fifty centimes each, all shops were open and a lively spirit reigned despite the showers. E. P. B. Phillips, who has been in The Quarter all winter, has taken a studio in the Rue Denfert-Rochereau, where he will continue his interesting experiments in color
Denfert-Rochereau, where he will continue his interesting experiments in color photography. Mrs. Phillips has recently left for Tunis, where the Phillips lived for many years, for a brief trip. Robert Kohl, the Swiss painter, caused a howl to go up at a certain costume party in Montparnasse on Mardi Gras when he appeared as a boyish imitation of a sailor in the Swiss Navy. When Switzerland starts floating her hôtels, thus building up a merchant marine, Kohl, it is expected, will be appointed Commander of the Fleet. The American dancer Katherine Edson has gone to Vienna where she will probably
Katherine Edson has gone to Vienna where she will probably take part in the Beethoven Festival to be held there this spring. Later she will go to Germany and dance in Berlin and other cities. From Nice, Mrs. Ethel Moorhead, editor of This Quarter, telegraphs that the Paris Times erred when it announced that the forthcoming third number of This Quarter had been delayed because of shortness of funds. Miss Moorhead explains that an advance notice concerning the publication had been misquoted, but that “a refund is due from the United States Government to the literary executors of Ernest Walsh,
United States Government to the literary executors of Ernest Walsh, war veteran and late editor of This Quarter.” ALPINE VILLAGE FIRE CHAMBERY (Savoie), Wednesday. —Fourteen houses have been destroyed by fire at Jarsy, in the canton of Châtelard. Nine were occupied. HYERES THE GOLF HOTEL HYERES IS UNIVERSALLY KNOWN THE SPORTING CENTRE OF THE RIVIERA 200 ROOMS. 100 BATHROOMS. RESTAURANT. ORCHESTRA Sole Proprietors of the Famous Hyères Golf Links, (18 holes). 4 Lawn Tennis Courts. 6 Croquet Lawns. Apply to: L. G. ROSSI GNOLI, Managing Director. GENOA GENOA Runningwater In every room. Superior first-class Hôtel. Quiet position outside left central
every room. Superior first-class Hôtel. Quiet position outside left central station. OPPOSITE CENTRAL STATION Caterers of dining and restaurant service of S.S. Giulio Cesare to America and S.S. Esperia to Egypt. BOOKS. EDWARD W. TITUS 4, rue Delambre, Montparnasse, PARIS Current English and American Books Unusual Books First Editions CIRCULATING LIBRARY of NEW BOOKS BOOKSELLER & PUBLISHER Tel.; Fleurus 71-05 BANKING. PARIS LONDON NEW YORK BANKERS TRUST COMPANY PARIS OFFICE 3 PLACE VENDÔME Smith certified Captain Hume-Spry as insane, having seen him at an officers’ hospital. A few days later Dr. Watson also certified him as of sound mind. The
Dr. Watson also certified him as of sound mind. The grounds on which Dr. Smith’s recommendation was made were alleged delusions on the part of the patient, to the effect that the medical officer in charge of the hospital was visiting Mrs. Hume-Spry, his wife. Captain Hume-Spry claims that the belief in his wife's unfaithfulness was no delusion. She wrote to him, confessing that a medical officer had visited her. Captain Hume-Spry was put in an asylum, but he escaped after nine months. Three doctors certified him as sane. A case in which a man was not sent quickly enough
case in which a man was not sent quickly enough to an asylum was referred to at an inquest at Nuneaton, in Warwickshire. A verdict of suicide while of unsound mind was returned in the case of a miner and his wife. A doctor admitted that he had attended the man for melancholia. The man was disproportionately jealous of his wife. The doctor considered sending him to an asylum but deferred signing a certificate. A General Election? A question that is engrossing the interest of Parliamentary circles at the moment is that of the possibility of a general election in
is that of the possibility of a general election in 1928. Normally, there would be no election until the following year, but in view of the continually widening differences between certain members of the Cabinet and the main body of the Government Party, an early election is probable. In any case, the next general election should be one of the most sensational for many years. With all three parties seriously divided, it would take a superman to forecast the result at this stage. The Prime Minister and Sir Austen Chamberlain continue in a moderate attitude with regard to China and
continue in a moderate attitude with regard to China and the Soviets. Other members of the Cabinet are opposed to this, as is also an appreciable section of the party. Mr. Baldwin has failed to deal with the Bill enfranchising women at the same age as men. The Chancellor has not realized the economies that he promised—another point that irritates some Conservatives who hold seats on this issue. Possibly it is this fact that is pushing Mr. Churchill to consider further taxes on wine and silk, though whether this will please Conservatives is an open question. At the moment, the
please Conservatives is an open question. At the moment, the deficit on the national revenue seems to be decreasing, but not to an extent that will affect the position of the Chancellor. Whether Mr. Lloyd George can rebuild the Liberal Party in time for a general election seems a question that will be answered by the doubts cast on the origin of his election fund. The divided party will have a difficult time to maintain its present numerical standing so long as such definitions as “A moribund party supported by the price of peerages” are applicable by its opponents. The
the price of peerages” are applicable by its opponents. The Reds of the Socialist Party may outnumber the moderates and Mr. MacDonald may lose the leadership. Woman M.F.H. Killed. An inquest is being held today on the body of Mrs. Fernie, for six years Master of the hunt that bears her name in Rutlandshire. Her mutilated body was found on the railway line at Woodhall Spa, in Lincolnshire. It is presumed that she was knocked down by a train when returning from a cinema. The epidemic of influenza has almost disappeared in the South of England, but in the North
disappeared in the South of England, but in the North it is still raging. While there were eighty-one deaths in London last week —a marked decrease— in other large towns and cities in the country there were 1023 —a definite increase. A Comedy of Languages. A swarthy, foreign-looking seaman was charged at Liverpool Police Court with having stolen a piece of bacon from a ship. An interpreter tried talking to the man in French, but received no answer. Italian was tried, but the man returned only a blank stare. Spanish was next decided upon, but the man only seemed bored.
was next decided upon, but the man only seemed bored. A Portuguese interpreter was then sent for, but without result. One of the magistrates then said: “What are we to do now? I suppose I had better ask him. ‘Do you speak English?’” The Prisoner... ‘Yes, sir.” He was fined 10s. LONDON THEATRES PALLADIUM near OXFORD CIRCUS CHARLES GULLIVER presents THE APACHE DOROTHY WARD, SHAUN CERVILLI ADRIENNE BRUNE and GARY BRISSON Twice Daily 2.-10 and 8 p.m. New York, February 20. Walking around Manhattan Island is an athletic feat a young man recently undertook. This attracted considerable attention. Walking has
young man recently undertook. This attracted considerable attention. Walking has become a curiosity, “About forty years ago William Cummings, Frederick Cummings and myself walked around Manhattan Island unaccompanied by an automobile,” writes A. K. Stiger. “Instead of being hailed as heroes we were treated to showers of pebbles from the roofs of tenements.” Pedestrians were not heroes in those days. A Connecticut legislator wants to compel pedestrians to carry a light visible at least 50 ft. when walking on the highway between sunset and sunrise. He has the pedestrians’ own safety in mind. Another Connecticut Bill would reduce pedestrians to