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...Concert Mayol, most rapacious of Parisian revue halls, Mr. Freddy Bate (with whom Edward of Wales sometimes stops in Paris) once elected to give no tip, and sat for seven minutes and forty seconds by his watch, until the usher finally ceased to cry out, wilted. Melting, Mr. Bate, originally of Chicago, now a fashionable expatriate, rushed after the usher and gave her 100 francs...
...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...
Last week the officers of this institution learned with alarm that the U. S. debt claims upon France were being held up to ridicule by a loud-voiced Parisian revue performer, Mlle. Marcelle Parisys, in Quel Beau Nu at the Concert Mayol, Paris, (TIME, Feb. 8). Swiftly the following cablegram was despatched to the Washington-Lafayette Institute's Paris agent: "Parisys' number Mayol against America bad effect on press here. Will do much harm if continued. See revue; also Oscar Dufrenne, producer; explain what Washington-Lafayette is doing. Cable results...
Scores of Parisians taxied to the Concert Mayol. They all but crowded out the foreigners who have long since found that the Concert, which is just off the Grands Boulevards, is more convenient, more daring and more chic than the Folies Bergére, farther up Montmartre. Elbowing their way forward the 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...
...Concert Mayol has been until very recently the only theatre in France which has had the hardihood to make this charge...