Show French at Vichy Kill Time Waiting Permission From Reich to Return to Paris Versailles By Dy RALPH HEINZEN ZE VICHY France Aug 29 UP CUP The The doldrums have settled over over this provisional French capital There Is little left to do here but stroll gossip and eat and everybody Is homesick for Paris The novelty no of of Vichy's health resorts has worn oft off Everyone has had the 21 day 21 day cure has sipped from all the springs promenaded on the covered walks and lounged in all the hotel lobbies They would like to go SO back to the city of ol light even though It Is said that under German occupation the people of ol Paris now now have to stand In line for lor hours ours to buy enough food lood for fora a meal The late summer rains have started Indicating an early autumn autumn autumn au au- au- au and the gloom d deepens every day Nothing seems permanent In Vichy After Alter two months the government Is still camped In bedrooms waiting for German permission to go back to Paris Pans and to Versailles Premier Marshal Marshal Mar olar Philippe Petain has announced announced announced an an- In a radio speech that It t Isn't his fault lault that he has ap applied applied aJ- aJ ap- ap plied JIlted fo for permission to go back but that the Germans have withheld withheld withheld with with- held it for material reasons reasons As long as the government stays stas the army of ol functionaries diplomats and end newspaper men will continue to populate this once gay spa where In times past there were casinos three bathing establishments music concerts Inthe in inthe inthe the park afternoons and evenings evenings evenings eve eve- outdoor movies golf goll and horse racin racing Now Vichy Is blacked out every night against the possibility ity that a It stra stray hostile bomber I will come Two movie theaters show f films of 1930 vintage Bars are open only three days das a week Melancholy diplomats sit all day In the hotel which has been turned over to them and where the Japanese ambassador Renzo and the Chinese ambassador ambassador ambassador ambas ambas- Dr V. V K Wellington Koo live in adjoining bedrooms In good neighborliness The favorite pastime Is strollIng strollIng strolling stroll- stroll Ing the Uie Ambassador and Du Pare Parc hotels Everybody does docs this every everyday everyday everyday day on set hours it would seem and end there are few secrets In the theton town to e |