THE TWO CITIES
PAEIS DEAD AS GRAVE
BERLIN LIFE AND LIGHT
AN AMAZING CONTRAST
(United Press Association.—Copyright.) (Received 7th March, noon.) *
LONDON, 6th March,
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 tho attraction to tourists. One strawberry costs a florin, asparagus 10s, ordinary wines are doubled, and'fine wines show an increase, while the customer scans the menu. On the other hand, Berlin is a city of blazing lights. lis night life is the gayest in Europe. Cabarets and dancing saloons are springing up amazingly. Cafes have their own jazz bands. The streets are thronged after midnight. The city is a bewildering maze of illuminated signs, each street vicing 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, fastW and frugality. . fa>
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Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 55, 7 March 1927, Page 11
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182THE TWO CITIES Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 55, 7 March 1927, Page 11
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