GAIETY OF PARIS

Evening Star, Issue 19786, 9 February 1928, Page 12

GAIETY OF PARIS

FOREIGNERS BLAMED. For the immorality of Paris, veiled under the euphony of gaiety, Parisians arc not to be blamed so much as strangers from alien countries, who demand questionable entertainment, said Pasteur E. Allegret, the president of the Society of Protestant Missions, of Paris, who reached Sydney recently. Pasteur Allcgret is returning to Paris after a fifteen month’s absence on a tour of inspection of mission stations in the Loyalty, Society, and other Pacific Islands, where he found conditions satisfactory. He wears the ribbon of the Legion of Honor, which lie was awarded for active service with the French army in the Great War. He was three times in battles of Verdun. Paris, he said, might be divided into three sections—the intellectual, the .business, ami the gay. In the gay Paris one seldorii heard the French tongue, always Hie foreign. There the strangers congregated, demanding the parade of indelicacy that had become ■•socmtpd v..eh (he whole of the city. The stranger seldom penetrated the outskirts of the intellectual Paris into the family life. Since the war, the wave of hysteria that had swept over the entire civilisation had been most marked in the “ Luna. Park ” of Paris; and it had swept all restraint and discretion with it. But it was receding with the ebb of hysteria and the flow of sanity. The Paris of the Parisians was much the same as any other city, and Parisians could not be blamed for the odorous fame that had enveloped their city,