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Singers Of Paris: Early Programs. Early radio borrowed its program forms and talent from the culture in which it was bom. Anything that produced sound was grist for the microphone: singers and comedians from vaudeville; singers and instrumental soloists from the concert hall; lecturers and readers from the lyceum circuit; or string groups from behind the potted palms of hotel lobbies and department stores. At the beginning there was no time for program experimentation; the pressing problems were all technical problems.
Jacques, rising from a lovely green, reminding us that a church once stood here; the Church of St-Germain TAuxerrois, with a carillon, heard at 11 and 4 daily, that penetrates the din of traffic and with a famous special choir, the Boy Singers of Paris, that sometimes gives concerts here; the Palais Royal, originally built for Cardinal Richelieu and now a vast quadrilateral with dozens of little shops (in one of which Charlotte Corday bought the Knife that she used in killing Marat); the Gallery of the Louvre, of which more under Art below; the well-loved Garden of the Tuileries, culminating in two galleries, the Jeu de Paume, for exhibitions of modern art, and the Orangerie, for special exhibits;
The Selective Shopper on the Prowl Paris is a shopper's heaven, especially if the shopper is on the distaff side. It is an expensive heaven, in these days, notably excepting perfumes, which are far cheaper in Paris than in America, but the cost doesn't seem to frighten tourists away. Paris est toujours Paris. |
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