Salt Lake Telegram | 1928-07-15 | Page 23 | Hocus-Pocus of Fairs Still Draws French

HOCUS 2 Of fAIRS STILL RAWS fR C Americans in Paris Surp Sur- Sur p se to Find Such t It Simp Simplicity Remains S B By PIERRE VAN Press Publishing CornS Corn Com S ew World 1928 to the gin gina S PARIS ext asid l' l joints joint of the the Boulevard Boule a d gl girl Clichy In Montmartre where trans trans- Ati re in In thousands c cometo let seel seek the most highly spiced a In the world orld Paris has series series- of its annual ned opened just op fais and and Americans i e sf trig in amaZe amaZe- anent anent- that so much simplicity s leti In Ii the wo WorldS World ld S of the older folk tolk are car carried led back to the scenes ot of their youth for something was known II In America a quarter century or so ago before a jazz loving sener generation lon back eon eon- drove the fairs Into the cessiOns and the tall sticks Here nere however the fair flourishes more than ever eer a living witness ess to the ete that lurks among the most P people ople irs In the world BEARDED LADIES S Bearded ladles are are still a a. magnetic mag- mag attraction wild men n captured l th fuh- fuh Ies' Ies ot- ot B Borneo howl with tle same ferocity ot of yore or when fed theft daily ration ot of live rabbits tabbits tab tab- bits Hindu fakirs run swords and needles edles through their epIdermis the strong tr ng man challenges the head ot of the blonde oung lady In t the e wooden wood- wood en box winks cunningly and the m Guina still es ped convict con fr Irom shows how he managed to subsist his lug fugl live s durIng days In the sWamps amps of Brazil Tens of thousands of people peo- peo pie from the provinces crowd he he thorough thoroughfares tares and I divide their open mouthe i stares s between the v wonders won won- fl ders on exhibition and the dam dames s from America In e clothes who ho taKe a stroll along the stalls stans and booths and tents when the they establish establish- nerge from the booting and cabarets of the Mont Mont- artre nel TALLEST GIANT ALSO T There re Is s. s of t. t course the tallest gIant In the world and the sultans sultan's S a tame to the hula hula- buli dancers so 50 dear to the sup suppressed sup sup- pressed lubricity ot of our ker 1 and boiled ancestors the yogi sages who read the past present and future Then th there re Is the joyous little shooting galery ga where f if you hIt the bulls bulls- i eYe you ou can see a a littI little dumm dummy pr lead out a 11 criminal to the guillotine and chop his head oft off or ther S spectacles that might bring bring- ba back k memories es ot of the dear dead days das ot of sly reading ot of tise t Police Gazette Trumpets and c cOmets bray In tr front nt of t a tent where the spicier a announces n Two girls runa as the o of the king of of Slam Siam will execute a. a and forbidden for for- or bidden Oriental dance To entice enUce the boobs the wenches strut up and down a bit in s asich ch a manner r tb s would get them the h ha hatin hatI 1 the sr smallest amateur str 1 show back home Isome O NED BY MAYORS er E Every Paris fair and a new one is In another quarter every week eek Om now till is officially by the tI mayor councillors ot of the as by the chief of police the dep for the and ander er very often the president of the republic an all In gala sala uniform of oe office with Ith badges s. s golden chains decorations and frock coats t. M. president likes better than opening a fair nd has literally to be dragged awa away room the spectacles dialogues In wh h the various vet vet- formers engage for fot- the tue entertainment entertain entertain- ment or of the crowd and as baIt to to draw them Inside the tents It is curl curious us that the joyously childish ot of the street fairs arrs should be mixed with a aotis tH rt- rt otis oua question of but that Is what hi hapP happening Parking space at th fairs is auctioned off by the mayors of the several Ar me ot of Paris an am the proceeds are r turned over overto to the school funds Three and a a. halt bait francs francs' are arc realized this way every year and they ate are used to buy clothes for tor children to keep up canteens where her they may have luncheons and to send the less healthy off ott In Inthe the ummer fo the seaside or moun moun- I HOWL HEARD The trouble The trouble Is now that the prete pre pre- te lecture ture ot of olice proposes that the adjudication ot of space be done done- dl- dl r Uy by authorities instead ead ot of the local mayors and the profits carried In the city budget bud bud- get as a whole and then theft turned over to the schools Thereupon there Is a a. bIg bowl T The e principle of the nonreligious ts being called In I- I For or sa say the tha defenders of if our sup sep ry sums sums are tak n away the lous schools will take our pupils from us o longer shan shall ve se be able to give them free fre meals and in the mountains but that assuredly will be be- bedone done b by the the- eve tireless tireless' church people