AMERICANS FEWER.

Waikato Times, Volume 103, Issue 17296, 7 January 1928, Page 14 (Supplement)

AMERICANS FEWER.

IN LATIN QUARTER. INFLUX OF EUROPEAN HIGHBROWS (From a Correspondent.) PARIS, Nov. 12. American "highbrows" are yielding first place in the Parisian Latin Quarter to Old World invaders, many from former enemy countries. A year ago the overflow of population from the Greenwich Villages of American cities dominated the Montparnasse quarter and was heavily represented in the old Latin Quarter along the Boulevard St. Michel. Now, with the summer tourists gone, only a few permanent residents who are old-timers hold the fort against invasion by long-haired men and shorthaired women from the Central European nations, who are glad to have the chanace to return to the French capital.

Figures published by the Prefecture of Police show that not a single American living in the "Boule Mich" quarter dares to admit being an intellectual, which in this connection means a person who earns a living by means other than with the hands. Foreign intellectuals include 500 Armenians, 350 Russians, 350 Chinese, 250 Roumanians, 200 Yugoslavians, 200 Turks and many Germans, Scandinavians, Poles, Italians and Greeks. In the Montparnasse section the American intellectual, artistic and pseudo-artistic population has fallen off more heavily this year than any ohter since the great influx started in 1919.

"It is all Lindbergh's fault," is the explanation of Gaston, a veteran waiter in a cafe patronised by Americans for a quarter of a century. Before Lindbergh came through the air to Paris, according to Gaston, Americans abroad found great delight in running dt>wn thqir counl|ry and boasting of their Europeanisation. After Lindbergh, Byrd and Chamberlin took Europe by storm, however, says Gaston, they got puffed up with pride and ran home to see what the old place looked like.