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Show FEW CLOTHES I BEST TASTE I IN BERLIN I In Theatres, Cabarets and . Stores Dress Economy j Comes to Notice j Bv EARL1 1:1 1 1 - ( Iniern.tlona1 News Service Staff D Corresnnndent. BSSSSifl BERLIN Another amusement pop mm , ular here jusi now Is tho "onllet na- 'ssssssnl I- t v-erv ii.itnr.il 'n.-. of the Br1 particular ranked with tim Wm ( ', I i- ii -1 j , : , I ,.r ih old yi-iri about tho Ltfc string of beads and a heavenly smile PSssssssssa 1 But she didn't smile. Neither did the H audience, nor did they enthuse vlslMy. j They sal and looked. The house Was BsH packed. There, also, was a new version of BBBr 1 the old circus tableau the figures In n tights, so powdered .1 to g.-- the ap- H pea ranee of marble Btatuteet "Tho Wm There were no tights 1 wonder whether II washes off easily And rp,' when the' weather's old 1 The id brought S urtnln call Th I bronze statutes bowed, thn resumed 1ft their poseR. A man came out. a I eased K in an artist's frock. He also bOWOd V I and got ihe blrfgest hand Onp gatn- m ered that It was his Idea and that ho W painted the ladles. The vlrslns brav ei w I pneumonia and the public gaze, but i;- I the audience gave him the credit. i Berlin's taste runs so. Cabaret Jjl dancers Invariably set no to economise I In the nation's Interest In one respect. IB They wear out no shoes and stockings f whiio amusing the public, simply be- f cause they wear none. One cannot help noticing, also, that are store win- 1 .low reveal sn economj In wearing i. apparel, Nudes hive quite ,i vogue in Mil the art stores and In the smart WCCKiy H ' ( magazines. W But Berlin keeps two opm houses mw filled, and in the gigantic now then- BJ tre finished since the war I saw the mmw mob scene In Julius Caesar followea bssssbu' by a flr?t-nlght demonstr itlnn on the vmmw part of the audience which Itself ap- Slr proaehed the mob scone in pep. Ger- BJWjj man ha idoptcd Shakespeare 1 a her Bj,( own largely on tho plea that the Im- BW mortal bard himself borrowed rather BE MM extensively from Teuton sources in Hi 'his (Jay, and as a result his plays con- LbWBsd tinued to be staged throughout the Bsssnsa BBBn t ki rv nic5 II Theoretically, the CUrfew rings at BBHSl II 3 " In Berlin. The restaurant lights HHsR! I go out then, and (axis stop running. BK There are many night gambling clubs, Br I'm told, bur tnelr numbers are s- Hfel enlng all tho while. Following the BBiSI ! Kap "putsch" the Government cii;i Hlm various (lasses neglected to "verbote" BEal? when the rules read "v erboten." Bllt BVCd ' 1)10 rules and regulations are being Bliti nor stringently enforced now Amoi Bj . other thing- BTambllng pice.- m- II- LA. able i" frequent raidings, and 1 BJ f is now bi fore the Reichstag making wm 1 the p i li ons as well as the proprietors BV subject to punishment. BJ The Berlin of the res'a urn nta nntl BIBB'S hotels dine well Into the night right B ; up to the curfew hour. In fact. M iny , BJ n time i found myself dining In solemn and solitary state nl 8 o'clock ! f. re I bh I learned that such an hour was more j I, I or less the middle of the afternoon. HaVT A party of four, we went one nlcht HBBai place o( mans letter I M believe, constituted German for "Tho I Bat At s 15 we arrived. The clonk BflBEi ! room women looked up in Surprise, Bftl9 Inside, in a dome-like und highly Bm glided room. Where only every fifth BB0 held an 1 let I rlc glob , I & . , 1 I M f ' 1 , . .. 01, 1,1 1 tartci I .1 concert solely for our benefit. A BEH half hour later some other folk ar- I BlBE TETjLS fussy st rt I In England there Is a professional BlBJ toastmaster at banquets, a sort of BflBJ who si inda bi bli d I n fl . .h.ilcm.in's seat and 'play's sllenCi ' 1 B for this and that speaker. I am told Bk.BH that after-dinner speaking Isn't done Bfl here, but the professional toastmas- ftPsl cabaret performance, lie tolls A funny wBB story or two. then announces a sing- Hssl I er. A little later he reappears and HBb ii- couph more, then announces 'i V I .galn stories md hs of foot and Lf - j leg, of course. This German version k B BsA La 1 ompanlon Informed me, would be In- BBBJ dc If translated Into English, (lie BBBJ announcer cam forward on his own BBBB behalf and staged an net of his own. BBBJ It was a ditty of many verses, toll- BBT.B , BSSSsKS with (ho Bolsheviks. I looked at the HH ' waiters. They weren't cheering. An- BBBJ other vu'li Ihe politician. BBBfl I .1 1 1 . r, ., ptctun of "evsrybodj for him- Then came the Schlcber, the profl- TBBfl f BJ "Pardon me." said the performer, BBJ I "If I look at the celling while I sing BBB ml m of iim there. In a restaurant which I had seen the bill of fare prev- BVAbh It convicted every one of the BBBJ thirty-four of us of being Ichlobcrs1 WWWU II profiteering class Is 40 tremendously BBT 01 thai Berlin's night life 1 1 J wpt. BJaj Ba i ssm7 n the Rhine sits lrance. B' BhC must not advnnce farther. ' ( 1 i Hsl |