Salt Lake Telegram | 1924-12-19 | Page 8 | Americans Try to Avoid Own Lingo in Paris

AMERICANS TRY T TO AVOID OWN LINGO IN PARIS I PARIS Dec 19 By A A. A P. P The P.-The The sign English Spoken Is 15 no longer necessary or even advisable on a lI aStore a i store window in Paris American and English customers have havo be become become be- be come so plentiful that every first I be-I class establishment pretends to have someone about who speaks a amore amore amore more or less vague version of the language Americans in particular run into their mother tongue so often that the they h try now and then to find one of ot those essentially 1 French rench places I especially In the restaurant line where there are no foreigners They seldom succeed When a new maitre maItre maI- maI tre is engaged today in a restaurant the tho first question Is Can you speak English It If he can he ho has a a. chance chanco at the Job otherwise not When the person who thinks he has found a nice little little lit little lit lit- tle French place where there are areno areno no Saxons Anglo-Saxons enters he rarely escapes being spotted and ad addressed addressed addressed ad- ad dressed In fn En English and he hears a as much English as French In an anyplace any place where it costs as much as 1 1 to eat Dressmakers specialize In En En En- glish The They believe beleve the American to tobe bo be a good spender and they capitalize capitalize cap cap- the fact tact that the price ofa of ofa ofa a gown seems low here They forget forget torget for tor- get to remind the customer that the duty will amunt to not less Jess than 70 per cent As for the big hotels no one need ever speak French In the music halls and even in many of ot the legitimate theatres the programs programs pro pro- grams are printed In both French j I and nc- nc English