Show theogden standard examiner—Sunday morning January u 'A u U: - i t 3 :' "a v "ji 1'--" r (3 sss E5 1 A V -- r uJf&t h r A YF JR it c v f ' 1 A Si"iWIf' '' V if i In t 1 it Ml -- Pive ywr tfifo ou wourf ice irr i tht Dome lUh a tiring of young men Wailcrt pushed paid the bilU in front of her the towering teetering pilet of taueert 7 UJ Jit " v 5e ' p 1 'Hi '' m IK r 'j 4 - V ' I Li V 1 1 V Hi I i I ilWWBSSj 4: V ¥1 r i " I '" m 1 v j M© r" t 1! i'i ! i '"I A i MM Till ul W I fiUfdaeious but alwavs nrv prupriate' manners rretty soon lie was tn demand not only for the sorcery hp practiced on a piano but for other sorwhich he perceries formed on canvas The young American from the: Midlands became a most popular portraitist nmong the rich set CERTAIN eminent and (10 years ago) the the "post-vyar- His collecsue-2es- " because the' dollar has Bona —in the French term— "maul" Then there wps the mcr girl from Indiana—the night angel of Montparnasse Five years ago any night you would see her at the Dome with a string of young men around her She! Pa'd the bills Waiters inher of! the towering variably pushed jn frot teetering piles of jsaucers each with their little price labels forinej consumed When the party reached its height she would break it up and drag the whole crowd home to ner husband i lor bridge— she was a swell — and othtr amusements until daylight player i 11 ' i ''i roncci arounti Perhaps it is - T AST It took four spring s ie went home farewell par ics to get her away Even in Ca the down Riviera on jailers th( gnes might have wept when she departed for she charmed them so 6ne time having been 'pinched tor too much partying that ithey lent her 5 i franca for breakfast I Now her husband is deadj he is back in the States on a southern farm There are the cows to milk the chickens for company an occasional drink of moonshine ' for old times' sake and memories of a glorious and spendthrift and joyous Montparnasse for consolation ! j j in her lonely hours Who in Montparnasse - j doesn't remember the American composer with the banged blond hair whose works had a great vogue here and in the States not long ago? Operas and concert pieces by this younrj mln resounded with much clangor throughout the stateliest halls of music of the civilized world His tiny flat and studio in a hotel in the rue Jules Champlain were most always crowded with adoring females A you and blond jcomposer whose composition! go with a bang ' is something to run after He is Today Montparnasse misses him in seclusion in the south of France Hoping no doubt for the time when better days will come again in wahztime' with plenty of ad a go tostenuto j C©pyriM i 1931 fey EvoryWsclC HasizlntJ 17' LOSS IE Evervone who huns out imund the Dome and the Rotunde the Select and the Coupole remembers Flossie Her monocle The flags of all nations in her hair on patriotic festivities dancing Her zest for living for publicity for kissing for Two tragedies happened to Flossie fust about the same time ( 1 ) The dollar went i blooic (2) Flossie went fat Flossie isn't seen around the corner of the Boulevard Raspail and the Boulevard e She serms to have disunnearcd now with her gaiety her camaraderie her dancing energy Maybe Flossie is back in the U S A Nobody around Montparnasse appears to know what has become of her What of the old guard still remains? one might ask Surely somebody among those dizhundreds was well enough established in the zy of quicksand Montparnasse to rebuff the tides of depression Somebody must have had enough of a clientele or enough outside money or enough cleverness to take it en the chin and stick That's true Some are still sticking to it in their old haunts Among the veterans for instance Raymond Duncan ineffable brother of the scintillating Isadora He and his Grecian colony still remain in Montparnasse The weaving and other handicraft of his little group can still be seen and bought "on the Left Bank His Grecian and sandals still are chlamys to be seen picturesquely penduluming' between the Deux Magots and the Cafe de Versailles Raymond Duncan was at La Baule last summer his buoyant locks at times a trifle befrom the waters draggled and And still this winter on certain specified weekly occasions he ran be found delivering his treatises on the Greeks their philosophy and their lives to rapt audiences' of elderly ' Mont-parntss- j sea-weedi- sh gentle-minde- d A disciples CAIN— Paul Swan ' Billed at onetime in vaudeville at "the mojt beautiful man in America" he is here in evidence in the Quarter his exquisite profile uamarred by the years his dancing and his canvaseistill holding the attention of certain ycajrfieri after o beauty Swan hat a dance called ?Prycr"' acclaimed by those disciples ho cojhe to hit tudio for tea and esthetics on a Satul)Uy afternoon He intones a few phrases! o a poem illustrated with flowing plastic gesture lien he halts transfixed A lady pickilvphe poem reads the lines which Swan has fysi acted b French Then he proceeds to the rxt stanza Tlien there is tea talk and admiration ol th works of Swan which line the wls fol his apartment in gay profusion This goni on now just as in the boom days Finally— by no means least— $e the Americans who really must have ParlaUftd Montparnasse for their homes and work at it ta These ways comprehensible to average people are a'tizens of the world who havj hiade their choice whom no financial earftquakes can shift from their work in the olicelof their Ill I A- ii llllliil ill illllllllllll ' HPHE girl with the Irish name lor instance and the gift for the pianof ij Concerts don 't bring in much money there) ii rtcvet a crushing surplus but there is eriogVlo keep on in these lean times She and her partner — they do "sister act' with two pianos-- had a good success this summer on tKe1 Riviera and made money : riH Now they're back in Paris ffcllers in drum-Uof the nearby studios can hear the twin pianos six hours a day Parts tey find ii a good place to work and? there is always the promise of a new tour Another fixture in Montparnasse :jt (? wen Le Gallienne half-sistof America's Ea An artist who works Another one wl?o fgmains is i Lilian Fifke j With them the tradition— the real tradition —of the Quarter of Montparna persists ' And it would probably take jots murejhan the financial juggling t the central bank of the leading industrial nationi of the wpr14 to jar them loose They are not to be ccfcfused with ' theposeurs ni er tZ'l " ' - much-publiciz- ed Hlllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllljlillllllllllllllllllllll mvmtsm Win : 3 i 1 4 i 'J : J exchanged many a flowing silk tie on the Boulevard Raspail for a flannel shirt back on Main Street U S I naiiif I I c ' : 1 (to ll-ral- J r vzt 1 A tion had a furious $ here and in a Madiyouthful American artist son Avenue gallery one Most everybody in Paris year who mingles at all with 'j fThe land of Iopporthe artistic and worldly See tunity — America let around Montparnasse remember Everyone what it means! See Flossie her (and even on the rich whit it produces I Here monocle her zest for knows his Right Bank) is an example" people for l(issing living Most everybody name cried in ecstasy and for dancing who ever went out nights pampered him in these good old days j His success was finanheard the magic of his highly educated fingers cial and social too 'A on the keys of the piano ot one of Paris's most certain great lady becelebrated cabarets— boites de nuitt Paris calls came his special patron them The Midlander basked He came over just after the war on a cattle in the expensive glow of It was a long journey but a paying boat the favor of the rich the one from the pleasant pasture land the peaceeminent the smart ful small towns of his native Midlands Even It became his intimate then he was an artist— by ambition— and a duty — when ' the great brilliant ad lib syncopator on the piano— by lady's noble husband vocation dld— to be the nersonai He was soon installed in the boile de nuit bearer of flowers to the grave on days of s musician And it happened that that boite j r mourning in those days the most popular the most was Meanwhile his career through Montparnasse expensive and fashionable of all whoopee places was o the tune of trumpets flutes and drums in Paris It was tremendous A panic The young man The young man's fingers talked to that rich was sitting on the world clientele in persuasive tones He was AmeriWell today is different The Today? He played jizz American jazz was can young— not so young now— Midlander is still itill a novelty And the rich patrons el the here still in Monfparnarse He goes softly entranced place were by his charming wit his now without accompaniment 1 o 4 Y The play-sho-p of Paris that so recently rand to the mad mvpc nf the wa "I is dull and flatMor the - rubber dollar has " - y 1 y By Morris Gilbert PARIS A MERICAN Montparnasse play- hop of Paris rendezvous ol wat-i- y rels lycophanti and workers H the art from all the world hat gone dowdy Dowdier one might lay For there wai always even in the boom days wlien it was so closely identified with spenders from the U S A a sort ol raffish Greenwich-Vill- a gy look about the place Of the scores possibly hundreds of Americans who hung out here making Montparnasse at least the most eccentric if not the most artistic center of the civilized world not many are left Either those who disappeared have dug into some quiet inexpensive refuge in Mallorca or the Cote d'Azur— or they have simply and silently gone back home to the States where their money will go farther than it does hre The rubber dollar has exchanged more than one flowing silk tie on the Boulevard Raspail for a flannel shirt on Main Street But some of them reIW III main These are habitues or people W-H-)- i for whom no other Is fe on earth has any meanSome of these are ing carrying on as usual - Others are taking their All are sufferbeating ing—more or less For instance J ('" V f J 5 :4 -- : V 1 semi-successf- LI ' H V' r 1 ti 1 MM 7 s SI i ' r I y 1 A L I r a 25 r-- 1 DCS ' ' V T ilX I W7 R l '" 1 i- f i £ S3 i 1931 --i I ! i ( |