FRANCE: Quel Beau Nu

Scores of Parisians taxied to the Concert Mayol. They all but crowded out the foreigners who have long since found that the Concert, which is just off the Grands Boulevards, is more convenient, more daring and more chic than the Folies Bergére, farther up Montmartre. Elbowing their way forward the eager Parisians were waited upon by the most insolent and rapacious hat-check girls, program boys, and tip-extracting ushers in Western Europe. Forewarned that the foreigners have accustomed the Concert's servitors to pocket a bill of any size...

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