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Show ON THE MIDWAY "AT "PARIS. Curious Side stows ol the Great Exposition, with a Bar Every lime You Turn Around. (Pntls Utter) The Midway Plalaanco Is dead long lire tho Midway Plaltance' When the original street ot Cnlro was In its heyday hey-day tho Paris life o( amusement (till depended on the night Tho Moulin Itouge And tho Cafe American were the height of chic and the gaycty ot the fair was ot the old-style Frencbl-new Frencbl-new Tho bicycle, the automobile anil the now llfo ot sport" chanced nil that, and the Midway I'lalsanre ot tho exhibition Is strikingly different from tho old street where the weird cadences ca-dences of the dansc du ventre first burst upon tho worl I In the old Jar-din Jar-din do Paris the 'fin de steels dance," Willi Ilayon il Or l-a Melenlte, La Mome Fromvgo and I.a (loulue, wavol Its Ineo-odged pettlrnats as the Inst Riwturo ot the dying century lidos' the fin de rlecle danoo Itself la den I, and Us divinities hnro grows stout and heavy The Mldwiy Plalennce Is ns amualng as ovor, only It has changed chang-ed It ha grown soberer ojtwnrdly We, who have Just returned from tho Swiss village, can bear witness that for Innocent deviltry nnd tho kind of Bnycty that Is ngnvd to be "Parisian" neither the waving skirts of I.a Momo Fromngo nor jot tho gauze waistband ot La Dolle Fatlmn are essential He-yond He-yond question tho mark ot the present exhibition Is the pretty waiter girl In hitherto undreamed of profusion Tho pretty waiter girl In tho Swiss vlllago runs lo blue eyes, blonde braids and a smart black corset put on outside It la the Swiss peasant costume, and It goes well with, yodllng We saw three youug Americans drinking pink flwlss champagne under the arbor on tho summit of Mount Pllatua to tho sound of tholr own yodllng, while tho yellow braids wero bobbing In tho winds "How ilt) you like, the midway?" no naked "This Is our mountain," was nil that they oiled down to us "Ynh-boodlo-oy, yah hoodie oy " Tho Swiss vlllago vll-lago la the biggest sideshow, nnd Mount I'llntiiH Is Its biggest feature yet Its ascension Is no moro laborious than dragglug up six flights of jour Paris mansard at night, and Its scattered scat-tered nrbora and bosky nooks with their expectant nymphs, havo all the cozlnesa ot home llfo I'rom many a Ix-storlcd wooden mountain, colored with scene, painted canvas, tho gay youth ot the various nations yodlo to . .. cli other across verdant valleys, en- , llvoncd with lowing kino ami red-lip- ped milkmaids, whllo from crag to crag tho fleet chamois (rend goat) skips after tho biscuits of tho charlt-ablo charlt-ablo Down In joniler vlllago you are Importuned by yellow braids with cuckoo clocks for sale Up In tho highlands high-lands they tempt )ou with pink champagne cham-pagne Now speaking of champagne, this Is another feature of the present exhibition ex-hibition tho riotous omnipresence ot the wine Hit. Nut to mention the opera op-era comlque scenic effect ot tho wines of Trance exhibit In the old Salle del Mechlnes the son ot tempervnee Until himself running up against flzz at ever) ev-er) turn After climbing laboriously. In a diagonal spiral around tho glrdlo of the universe on tho Immense coles-t.al coles-t.al globe, one me.U beyond tho furthcrest stor an American bar! This by the way, strikes another keynote ot the present exhibition and Its Midway Plalenme tho Instructive and practically useful character ot Its gnyetles It Is a globe within a globe, the Inner one and much tbo smaller being our earth Many havo asked why tho heavens nro represented by a globe If you wero Insldo It )ou would perceive, not n convex globe, but a concavo heavenly vault III up on every side, above, below, with stars Tho central sphere (It will hold twenty twen-ty people) Is tho earth, and It turns over ns tho earth does on Its axis. Round goes the moon, with double ul?r motion, tho planets circle around tho sun, and tho sun seems to bo moved round, although It Is tho sun that moves, stars, nebula, the milky way and fiery comets keep up their apparent appa-rent motion When one, climbing around tho sphere that is the earth, begins descending to tho southern hemisphere, to look, down on the southern cross, the effect Is startling Tor the first tlmo In my llfo I got an lilea of what eternal space Is with no tin nor down ex- X9sr2- l - - T Cnaviaj paviuom ccpt In relation to our own little sphere Tho star-spangled, star-spangled, blue-black blue-black Immensity extends all around, underneath ns welt ns above. Then the great Salnt-Sacns organ booms tho music ot tho sphores It wns well to havo put that bar there. Tho ' zig-zag" and the "rollo" books nro not In It with this exposition for mlngltd Instruction Instruc-tion and amuso-in amuso-in e n t After tho Irln nrnntwl I I. a universe there Is tho trip around the world. and this In various forms Tbo Tour flu Mondo Itself Is n theater on which pass scenes from every country, acted by natives No one has seen it yet, because halt the native actors have been painting Paris a bright vermilion ever sine their arrival The Chinese got Into trouble for maltreating a girl ot tho Quartler d Kurnpe Borne of the American In dims aro at the depot, the result of jj too much flre-wnt ej?5 er The trouble. TjiivJiOJ of the Annmltes yi 'fcrV havo become clas- JlV I eleal It seems VaK I post. Then eich jv-!lgfcj lpL'P.SaBVE'- Tfr?7 Anamlto stopped BxitlstfSjl Uc'J'Jk-11't'-u'"M Of this Tour du fctjjfe' t3wroJ at raws, -jc' Mnn.l ..rlo. (if S panoramas and dioramas tho greatest Is, perhaps, the maroorama, of which I have already written a atoamer trip round the Mediterranean, where tho boat rolls and pitches, whero It cornea up night at sea, and where tho sweet shores of tho Itlvlora glldo past the view from Marseilles all the way to Aloxandrla. Tho Panorama Transat-lantlque, Transat-lantlque, a ahow of the same kind, takes one from Havre, to the harbor ot New York Uy tar tho most novel nl theso panorama pano-rama effects, however, Is tho device of tho clneorama an application of tho cinematograph, or blograph, to tho panorama Here, In a big building by Itself, aro four simultaneous bio-graphs bio-graphs Instead ot ono, and a whole panorama circle ot moving ploUrw Instead of a flat picture on a sheet The rnult Is an extraordinary ghott-llko ghott-llko effect ot real life. Imsglno tit panorama ot the Crucifixion or tbi battle of Gettysburg with nil the Attires At-tires In motlonl |
