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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 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 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 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 most of us. Those famous dancing elephants from the Hippodrome
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 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 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, 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 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
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, 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 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 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 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
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 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 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 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
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 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, 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 — 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
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 — 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 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 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 York,” said Thomas Hastings on his return from Europe. “The higher, the crazier. I believe in limiting the height of
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 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 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 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 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.
H. Overman spoke in St. Louis at the convention of 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 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 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 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
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 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 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 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
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 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 England. That is certainly encouraging, since the iron and steel trades were the first to be hit, and the most seriously hit, by the coal stoppage. Another moment of serious reflection shows that the coal situation is not as bad as it might be. Ninety-five percent of the miners in the great Lancashire fields are back at work and, if they are not satisfied with the conditions in which they resumed, at least they intend to make the best of them during the three years that the agreement has to run. Until June 30, 1927, wages in the grades regulated by percentages will be at the rates paid before the stoppage. Of course, Great Britain may have a little trouble collecting her war debts, but there are more serious matters in the world than that. The coal strike—how it has a hand in everything!—put the Treasury in a difficult position and the Chancellor of the Exchequer has been compelled to call representatives of Portugal and Greece into conference on the matter of funding their war debts. Both countries are seeking to gain reductions of the amounts due. Holiday Accidents. Holiday
as it might be. Ninety-five percent of the miners in the great Lancashire fields are back at work and, if they are not satisfied with the conditions in which they resumed, at least they intend to make the best of them during the three years that the agreement has to run. Until June 30, 1927, wages in the grades regulated by percentages will be at the rates paid before the stoppage. Of course, Great Britain may have a little trouble collecting her war debts, but there are more serious matters in the world than that. The coal strike—how it has a hand in everything!—put the Treasury in a difficult position and the Chancellor of the Exchequer has been compelled to call representatives of Portugal and Greece into conference on the matter of funding their war debts. Both countries are seeking to gain reductions of the amounts due. Holiday Accidents. Holiday accidents give another cause for serious reflection, even though, in most cases, holiday levity was not responsible for them. A girl twenty-two years old was killed in Manchester on Christmas Eve when an automobile skidded into her as she stood behind her own car to repair the lights. A seventeen-year-old boy was killed at Romford on Christmas Eve, when he fell from the side of an automobile driven by his brother. Two men, the driver and a passenger in a motor-cycle combination, were killed in Birmingham on Christmas Eve. They ran into a gate-post. On the same day seven men were hurt in a collision between a motor omnibus and a Great Western Railway luggage van at Cross, Trefordawe. A boy acting as a Christmas mail postman was killed when he ran his bicycle into an omnibus near Rochester. All was in readiness for a Christmas party at the home of a Burton-on-Trent family when news came that the father, driving on the seat of his lorry, fell and was killed. A man twenty years old was killed on Christmas Day at Torpoint, Cornwall, when he ran his bicycle into a stone wall in an effort to avoid hitting a