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...your issue of Feb. 8 (FRANCE), your little article under the caption of "Quel Beau Nu" doesn't exaggerate one bit. I spent the summer in Paris and was at the Concert Mayol several times. Why I went is beyond me, as it is without question the greatest "gyp" joint ever foisted on an American public. You can't turn around without bumping into an extended palm, and my first experience cost a 20-franc note for a one-franc service. They don't know the meaning of the word "change." The insipid Harry Pilcer was the leading (?) attraction...
...years ago, U. S. students at Paris celebrated with notable champagne-bibbing the fact that they could get, roughly, 29 francs for a dollar?and a drinkable quart of champagne for the 29 francs. That was the greatest number of francs ever* exchangeable for a dollar in the history of the world. Then the firm of Morgan loaned the French Government $100,000,000; and one could get only some 14 francs for the dollar. Last spring the franc began to slip badly again. Last week the American Express Co., at Paris, was paying out approximately? 28 francs...
...eager Parisians were waited upon by the most insolent and rapacious hat-check girls, program boys, and tip-extracting ushers in Western Europe. Forewarned that the foreigners have accustomed the Concert's servitors to pocket a bill of any size without giving change, the Parisians placed exactly one franc 50 centimes (6c) in the hands of the program boys, and rewarded the ushers with 50 centimes per head (2c) for showing them to their seats. Then they settled down to enjoy Quel Beau Nu, successor to last year's devastatingly successful revue, Trés Excitant...
From now on, Marshal Foch and the other Marshals of France will receive 75,000 francs ($3,000) a year; French lieutenants will get 6,000 francs ($325) a year; and the ordinary French poilu is to receive one franc a day (about...
...length they held back an enormous crowd gathered to witness the opening of the Hungarian Parliament. Excitement ran high, for it was known that Premier Count Bethlen would present to the Deputies the Government's position with respect to the "national scandal," the recently discovered plot to flood France with counterfeited -in- Hungary 1,000-franc notes (TIME, Jan. 18). Premier Bethlen slipped into the Parliament building by a side entrance. For two hours he held last minute conferences with the leaders of the Opposition in the lobbies -cajoled, threatened, begged. It became obvious to the merest dullard that...