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Show THRILLS AMERICAN AUDIENCES fl JP ? s jp PAR1SIENNE TO LECTURE HERE COUNTESS DE BRYAS lecturing in United States under committee on public information in behalf of devastated France. A V 5 ' V w A1 'n - f , " ' ' -t?)k '('''''Krv w . - "lHk 1 h t u- l a t f i $ ,v' , i i i f A Countess de Bryas Will Tell How Sammies Are Treated in France. JUST how the American soldier boys are being taken into the Jionies of the French people and made welcome wel-come at clubs and other places of entertainment w-ill be told the people of Salt Lake City by the Countess Madeleine de Bryas of Paris, who, with her sister. Mademoiselle Jacqueline de Bryas, will be here on August 9 and 10, speaking in behalf of the American Committee for Devastated France. The American Committee for Devastated France is the official title of the work which is better known through the activity ac-tivity of Miss Anne Morgan, daughter of the late John Pierpont Morgan, who is financing it and largely directing it in France. Miss Morgan and the countess are warm friends and it was to give a tour to give the idea of the work to tho American public in general that the countess and her sister came to America. Amer-ica. While on her father's side, the countess coun-tess is descended from one of the oldest and most patrician families of France, on her mother's side she is of American blood. Both her great grandfathers were signers of the Declaration of In-denendence. In-denendence. Until the wnr KrMr ! the countess and her sister enjoyed all the delights of the best society on the continent. Immediately hostilities began be-gan the countess enlisted in the Red I Cross work and became a nurse. She also formed a small organization for doing relief work in the devastated regions. re-gions. In .behalf of this relief work she has not only toured southern France, but also visited Spain in this last year. All the while her tamily has maintained its home in Paris. This home, like all other homes, is open to the American soldiers. |