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...Mlle. Parisys' supporting cast rushed from the wings: "No, my dear Mademoiselle! You cannot make this sale until you have bought a sales-tax-stamp from Finance Minister Doumer! He must have money to pay our debts...
Amid cries of "à bas Américains" from the audience, Mlle. Parisys burst into a song in untranslatable* argot, in which she voiced her determination to sell whatever she pleased without paying a sales...
Wild cheering ensued. An actor in horn-rimmed glasses and huge trousers, "an American," rushed upon the stage from the audience and hinted that there might be still other ways in which "the honest girls of France" could liquidate the national debt. Mlle. Parisys slapped him in the face, amid pandemonium...
Later scare-head-seeking journalists pointed out that the French political stage-censor must have O. K.'d Mlle. Parisys' act, and drew ugly and excited conclusions from this fact...
Wednesday. I know all these women are watching what I wear, and my dresses didn't come today. Insufferable people, dressmakers. Mlle. Lenglen had on an elaborate thing on Monday, which gives her the idea that she's getting ahead of me. . . . She asked me to have tea with her at the Imperial Club at Nice. Her idea of tea was a bottle of champagne. We drank each other's healths. Not a word about tennis. She showed me the centre court where she beat Molla Mallory in 1923. I had on lavender and blue...