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THE PARISIAN CAKE WALK.Tho l,colre-wQHc,» delirium is still rag-h Paris. Nothing like fit has been witnessed in tho French capital since the days of tho Empire. Says a writer in “Leslie’s Weekly”; —“Pans is simply eake-wolk mad. Olio hears nothing but- American rag-timo wherever ono goe^in eafce, i„ the stroota, in tho gardens, issuing from private houses, whistled and hummed by pedestrioiiB 011 the boulevards, shrieked by tho newsboys, and howled in every vaudeville theatre in town. The street! of Parts aro full of men and boys selling rag-timo musio.”UNEQUALLED 8INOE 1870.At tho Nouveau Cirque’ tho manage stated the cake-walk is ;lie greatest in. ho has soen in 25 years. Ho has give: his patrons notliiug else for sere: months. At an ovoniug porforraauc tho writer witnessed: —“Ono could easily imagiue it waB gala night at tho Opera, and that eom dearly beloved composer was presentin to tho judgment of critical Paris som wonderful now composition. . . Tli prizes for tho best “walkers” inolude au exquisite gown from Redfem's, vuiuo at one thousand francs; a beautiful hi from Madnme Lion’s; vases, ornament; pioturos, and fans, all from the bei ehops in Paris, The judges of tl walk” included many barons, count
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Perth Daily News
Perth, Western Australia, AU
Tue, Sep 15, 1903
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Wayne D.
NA, 29 Jul 2021
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