Show BERLIOZ HOME I TO BE SAVED Americans in Paris Dis Dis- Discover DisI Discover cover c ver Real Novelty in I Montmartre nr fT n HENDERSON The TIle New Yorker Abroad Special Dispatch DI t p. to 1110 The r aJl Copyright 1925 by The Consoli Consoli- Consolidated Consolidated dated Press Association July 25 Montmartre has been discovered by the Amer Amer- Just a n moment Will the six Americans in tho the back row be bo seated again till we wo have a chanco chance to explain Yes yes to be sure youve you've all seen the Moulin Rouge and LEnter LEner But we wo said BAld Mont Montmartre Montmartre Island martre not the tho Coney which roars at Us its foot root After all these seasons of ot clever concealment behind the tho bright lights of ot the broad broad Oh Oh very cry broad streets broad streets at tho the foot of ot tho the hill hilI Montmartre has haa at last lait been discovered by the tho Americans and its it's duo II to the fact tact that Victor Berlioz house Is falling down It isn't many man months since Berlioz Ber died He lie composed the music Ith which everybody e except us is acquainted and he lived li in Mont Mont- Montmartre martro martre because he ho had to have havea a n quiet spot In which first to com com- composo composo poso peso his thoughts Choosing Montmartre for tor the sake ot of its quiet will seem to the average American tourist like picking a anice anice anice nice calm alm spot In the exact center of ot a II boiler belier factory But climb on up the steep sleep slopes past the and the Dead Hats Rats and the tho to tho the I point where Berlioz house Is lIS tum turn tumbling tumbling bling down the hill hili and you'll youil see sec seethe seethe the man had as the French so sowell sowell well put it it reason QUIET LITTLE TOWN rOW New lC Montmartre now hOW In process of being discovered by America Is as u quiet as a padlocked padlock lI cafe are Its It's a n little town by itself tho tIto real Montmartre as different from the laris of today as the Paris Parisot of ot today Is oJ I different from the Paris of 1325 Narrow streets paved pa with cobbles discouraging to the hardiest motorist plunge up and down Its Ls precipitous sides streets bordered by shuttered stone atone houses set fiot amid big trees and Inhabited by staid citizens who think that 10 p. p m. m Is late Hero here and there an Ineffective spills just lust enough enouch light to show the roadway Is sound Bound I asleep except for a n group of ot i American discoverers And half halt halfway halfway way down a slope at the end of ot ofa I a 1 row of ot small mansions which I discreetly have havo almost no windows win wIn- wIndows dows dotes except on the garden side loans leans crazily cr tho the house where Berlioz found round quiet People leople paid a 1 good deal of attention to Berlioz while he was stilt still alive And now that hes he's I dead d ad theres there's nothing they wont won't do for him him So the news s finally trickled down hill bIll into Iana Pari that the tho Berlioz house was doing like like- like likewise wise subscriptions for its repair began to be bo circulated the gov gov- government government bestirred Itself and the tho of ot American tourists I up to deplore and cx- cx ex ex- The benefits have been mutual Unless the Berlioz house tails falls more rapidly than the subscription lion tion mounts there will soon be sufficient repairs to keep k ell it safe Bare safely Barely safely ly tacked to the thc edge of ot tho the lull hill Meanwhile a lot of Americans not notto notto to mention a lot of ot Parisians are arc becoming acquainted a l with t the I i tre and with Paris as asit asit it to be A sprinkling of American tour tour- tourists tourIsts tourists c have discovered the restaurant at the top of ot an nn end end- endless endless endless I less flight night ot of stone steps Hero Here the proprietor still considers that 1 I steak with onions Is worth forty I cents though as a a. concession to toI I the American he ha ha- Imported tho the peach melba for which he ho charges about twenty cents a n throw I JAZZ ON 0 WAY AY I Here it is that the famous scene In Louise Lou Iso was laid With Ith 1 the aid LId of the tho Imagination and a ai i I small string orchestra you can canI I rear fear hear the thc hapless lady singing I Depuys Lo La Jour But Dut you dont don't hear it very long because all the tho thoI I semi pro entertainers in Paris arle ha hate discovered ered and they o have beat Leat it hot-foot hot up the hill I to discover the Americans After Arter you have consumed tho the peach melba you may take your way over the cruel cobbles past the Malson Maison Carree which some some- somebody somebody body in search of ot tranquility built with no windows at all and so by bydo dolous do lous and darkling paths to the tho Lapin Agile It Is an nn ancient atone house crouching beneath an immemorial tree treo this Jumping Tourists have run the Jumping Rabbit to earth but tho the proprietor refuses to change his hla e s program Anti And just to pro prove how i tally nollY French anti and un Parisian U is tho the program neither The Rose of ot Mont Mont- Montmartre martre nor Hard Hearted Han Han- hannab nuh nab from Savannah Ga It Is IsI I made up solely of ot poems from the thc French poets recited by French girls amid uproarious French ap Jp ap- I Many of ot the Americans look on In at the ness neBS ot of this applause But that's because our knowledge of or French I has s well defined limits which 1 I same Mme cannot ca bo ho eald for the lo pools poets |