Show 1 DISCOVER QUIET BRITTANY IS NOISIER THAN NEW NE YORK CITY I Romantic Fishermen Get Up and Yodel at 3 o'Clock In the Morning Quaint Customs I Give Way lay to American Ideas Autos Roar Through Streets of Resort No Rest There r I BT By n JESSIE DERSON The tw ew w Yorker Abroad itch to fn o The Standard Standard- I Copyright 1935 1 by Consolidated Con d Press se Association Brittany July 11 W Voll the tho for tor a 0 night a weve we've been looking leap Oh yea yu for one of ot those ever er since Ince reaching 1 Pane has Paris haa led at last la t to Brittany BrittAn Everyone knows about Brittany I Charming quaint out of ot the thA world these thue these are arc the It-ast It of the adjectives adjectives tives which the guide Ulde books apply to It But when one ono wonders were the guide book authors here hero Not Not ot since the tho American Am soldiers and aviators were stationed at Lo LA near this thle town tova The town hasn't got over It yet The town Indeed is so eo full fun of American pep PCp and American re reminders re- re reminders minders that you might Just juet as well look for a nights night's sleep In the tho mid mid- middle middle dle dIe of Times Square EARL EARLY Olt SONGS This Is the typical French eum- eum sumi eummer resort of the th i mer mH resort retort Not a n. fashionables like and Biar Blar- Biarritz ritz but the kind of place where French families with granma and grandpa In tow come tome for a 0 bit of quiet When hen you Fay ray quiet you OU are speaking In the Breton sense The are arc n. n people full of ot vim and their Idea Ideo of tranquility would make Coney Con y Island look like Sunday afternoon at Corners Histories Insist that the early Bretons Bretone were Egyptians Egyptian No- No Nobody Nobody body knows how early Bret Bret- on Egyptians were W re but they could not have been earlier than the sturdy Breton Br ton fishermen n of whom ono one reads read such delightful tales Three o'clock In n the morning Is nothing to a Breton fisherman lie Ile and the rest of his club members gather on the bank of the little littleport littleport littleport port beneath the windows of the hotel to practice college yells ells long Iong before the sun eun dreams dream of tinting the fantastic blue old rose and am am- amber amber amber I ber sails ealIs with one tentative timid I beaming of dawning I DOGS r. I Each fisherman romantic fel fel- fellow fellow fellow low that he Is In lilt hie dark blue smock amock and wide patched 1 blue trousers Is accompanied by at least two dogs dog None of the dogs doge is on friendly terms terme with any other pup hereabouts nor does doCS any of the dogs approve the college songs chanted to the tho brisk accompaniment ment of rattling spare pars slamming ropes and clanking chains These told old world Include at the I moment Hard Yard Hearted Hannah and Over There Therl The Litter latter song helped carry carr across the water be be- between between between tween three and se sewn on a 0 corn com com I calm summer morning no MOTORS In front of the hotel draw v up i even motor cars some converted c according to the owners owner's taste from froma a standard etan ard American make snake The Jovial olal fishermen n n had crashed up to the port In these care cars some time during the dark hours before jump jump- fig ing aboard their cattle boats with foud loud cries of Joy 0 Wearing gowns gowns' and the picturesque cape which Is said to be bo a me hand-me-down from the Breton women go to market And they go In modern motor cycles roaring past the the as astounded as- as astounded astounded I windmills that hold up while arms of horror Past the I chateau that fell Into ruin ruins about I the he time Henry the Eighth lived and past pMt the stone houses with I moss and rose rOM bushes quivering I Under the vibration of ot this thle modern I speed And yet jet et if you dont don't care I about bout sleep this Is an Ideal place I Pine trees fringe a splendid sandy emdy I shore More where even grandma bathes bathe In tn a piece one suit The ancient I clock Has s melodious chimes which boom every IIi 11 minutes The lob lob- lobsters lobsters eten are Incredible for the bigness of their size and the smallness of their price In the evening some of the fishermen or some of their sons lions don white flannels and practice more college yells and as you sip Pip coffee at the tho sidewalk cafe cate with Its Us sign In American of Welcome Captain Jean who ho lives liveson on the street or the fields will tell you In American between puffs of his long Breton Dreton pipe all about his hl trips to India Africa Norway Mexico South American and the United States SlAtes SARDINES OR on BEET BEEF The waitress altre with the tho dimples leans Jeans against the th door post POt with reminiscences of the American eol- eol soldiers diers who used to come In search of an which they con con- consumed consumed e. e In heroic er quantities s and of of I 1 veal which c they called little cow She has hu not recovered d yet from the of It It that with In abundance the Ameri Ameri- American American American I can soldiers should have Insisted on more expensive and surely less nourishing n diets I The tourist t Is ready a. a sr to rise s up and an call those sol soldiers eo sol sol- soldiers diers blessed today For e ea en If It you cant can't get any sleep you can I get a ham anywhere Yes Yu and Ice water w ter too Any number of American veter veter- veterans veterans veterans I ans will remember Mme Ime Therese of or the dimples ask aak me she explains I Mademoiselle TOUS prom prom- promenade promenade promenade enade with me I consent Then they ask uk Will you marry marn me Will you ou come to lAm But Dut no They ave ove promise prom lee ser ser- servants servants all these things s. s But Dut no no I Iam Iam Iam am blen bIen contente contento with Ith Le guen and my native naVe city of Nancy Noncy She explains In rapid French This town has waked aked up since the he Americana Americans were here I like your our your American customs All the American soldiers have saluted me with the pleasant greetings which have at home bread Mademoiselle and keeso keese me The captain puffs reflectively on his pipe heedless of the tho oily Jolly up up- uproar uproar uproar roar which tho th tireless Breton Dreton fishermen are ore raising NEW V YORK CALM CAiar I I 1 liked New York well when I Iwas Iwas was as there he vouchsafes It is le isso so what hat what you OU say eay You said said said- we wo begun began A mouse full Mademoiselle offers dimpling Oh for tor the pastoral calm of ot |