IN GERMANY.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume XXIII, 15 May 1922, Page 4

IN GERMANY.

BERLIN'S GAY NIGHT LIFE. (by H. J. Mann.) The night life o f Barlin, probably r< n<i T° re extrava gant than the night life of any other city inEurope to-day, i s kept up by the Germans, and not by the foreigners. The claims that the foreigners alone, as a result of the nigh value of their money in German marks, are able to pay the fantastic prices asked at German lobster pala.es are absurd, and are for the most part the defence put up by newrich Germans attempting to defend their action in squandering as much nightly as the average German family requires for its existence for six months. The authority for this statement is Erie Barchardt, American army jazz band player, who has introduced jazz music to-the German capital. Barchardt who plays at several large restaurants and dance halls nightly, is prepared to back up with names hie charge that the Germans themselves supply the major part of the patrons at these places.

“First,” he says, “there are the members of the old German noble families that, in some way or other, have more money than they know what to do with. Thus, various Princes Reuss and Prince Hohenlohe are conspicuous figures in German night life. There is. too, a veritable small army of lesser aristocrats, counts and such, including Count Mumm, of Champagne fame. “The German theatrical and movie world, seems to consider it its duty to frequent the all-night cafes even more than its colleagues in America. Particularly producers and actors.in films that have been sold to America can be seen nightly spending some of the many marks that they get for their dollars. Owners of Berlin department stores and of the large textile factories that are working on American orders are included among the regular patrons of these places. A few. popular authors and playwrights, too, seems to be trying to see if they can’t spend their loyalties faster than they are received. “Theatres with high prices of admission are packed daily, and at certain hours of the day it is hard to get a table in Berlin’s de luxe restaurants. If these things were really being kept up to any considerable extent by foreigners, every foreigner in Berlin would be forced to httendl half a dozen theatres nightly, eat twenty or thirty meals a day in the best restaurants, drink several dozen bottles of champagne nightly, and dash around from one costume ball to another to hold up his end. “The Germans themselves —a small class, of course, of new and rich—are making Berlin known throughout Europe for the wildness and extent ofiryp night life. Foreigners, and particulai p| Americans, have little to do with it. Don’t you make any mistake about that.”