BERLIN GAY.
PARIS QUIET AS THE GRAVE. AN AMAZING CONTRAST. LONDON, March 6. Conditions in Paris and Berlin today form an amazing contrast. Paris is virtually quiet as the grave without a foreigner. In Montmartre lights are out and cafes closed. Fantastic prices are charged for dishes previously the attraction of tourists. One strawberry costs a florin, asparagus 10s., ordinary wines are doubled, and fine wiaes show an increase, while the customer scans the menu. On the other hand, Berlin is a city of blazing lights. Its night life is the gayest in Europe. Cabarets and dancing saloons are springing up amazingly. Cafes have their own jazz hands. The streets are thronged after midnight. The city is a bewildering maze of illuminated signs, each street vieing with the other in brilliance of illumination and diversity of entertainment and hope of achieving distinction as the chief centre of glittering night life. Lights are not lowered until dawn, when the other Berlin rises to its feet—the Berlin of work, fasting, and frugality.—(A. and N.Z.)
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Wairarapa Age, 8 March 1927, Page 3
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172BERLIN GAY. Wairarapa Age, 8 March 1927, Page 3
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