Show rAm PARS OA A AS AN Profiteers Exploit New I ich Vice Runs Riot in Night Life PARIS April 23 The The scandalous sc Imbecility of modern manners II in Paris cannot be betterS better understood in contrast contrast contrast con con- to the Seines Seine's unemployed than by y examining the character and the clientele of the costly divertissements divertissements divertissements ments and the special houses where the spending luxury loving minority wastes its nights Who ho b by hazard frequents the pleasure pleasure pleasure pleas ure city of can without difficulty instruct himself on the vice of present day society and pass condemnation condemnation condemnation con con- on the regime which tolerates tol tol- tol- tol crates for the satisfaction of its big business the indiscreet debauchery of the the- money princes With the official complicity of the police certain profiteers have formed a trust the object of which is the x x- x by any and every moans means of the newly rich and the foreigner Never in its history has Paris been hen henso so crowded with dens where the night can be passed in consecration to wine women and song song y especially the first two The day is passed when vice operated its nefarious practices behind closed shutters and sound-deadened sound doors Now Now- it flaunts itself openly unashamed and officially tolerated for all the world to see and Judge that which is Paris NIGHT HOLES MULTIPLIED Since the armistice and particularly since the last six months the night holes have multiplied until now an entire quarter of Paris is exclusively devoted to them American bars tango palaces shimmy salons supper halls all furnished furnished furnished fur fur- in the soft red opulence which advertised ad vice affects touch elbow to elbow the streets of this district known throughout the world as l Many of the proprietors are former enriched by their practices since and during the war In an eternal delirium one dances one stifles one drinks from midnight until dawn despite the law which says music dancing and dining must cease at 2 a. a m. m The competent au authorities services of hygiene agents of manners keep a close surveillance on these pleasure boxes by means of spies The commissIonaire commissionaire com corn who hands you from your taxi the fat woman who chec checks s your hat and coat the maitre who obsequiously waves you to a table the waiter waltr who pulls the of your champagne bottles even the seductive languorous creature who seats herself beside you and capitalizes on the arts of tenderness and sham love as did and Melitta in the days of Aphrodite Aphrodite any any and all of them may be bean bean bean an agent of police there for the ex express ex- ex press purpose of keeping the wealthy spenders under a strict watch POLICE KEEP WATCH By this surveillance t tile the e police find their excuse for what amounts to an open licensing of vice but the ac actual actual actual ac- ac working of the system is that the detectives are too often serving better the tango places than the public weal The personnel of the pleasure boxes includes always beside the walters waiters dancers musicians and commissionaires commission aires dozens of women some scarcely entered on their girlhood g and some amazingly aged all wearing as few clothes as possible who are charged to see that no guest g escapes without paying paying paying pay pay- ing the maximum bottles of champagne or without ordering the most expensive dishes on the tho menu In other places these women find rivals in men scandalously scandalously scan scan- attired Who vho are an unhappy product of open and vice I Every very night Paris watches the scandal scandal scan scan- dal dat of thousands of or automobiles discharging discharging dis dis- dis- dis charging at the portals of these pleasure pleas pleas- ure places their freight of newly rich richand richand richand and international profiteers to say nothing of tourists satisfied at last that they are seeing the real Paris And down in the abyss of misery on the brink of which the profiteers are carelessly dancing are the starving unemployed of France |