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Updated: June 22, 2025
"They were doing about what they are always doing, amusing themselves a good deal." "At the theatres, eh?" sighed the Countess. "At the cafés-concerts, at the little tables in front of the doors? Quelle existence! You know I am a Parisienne, monsieur," she added, "to my fingertips." "Miss Spencer was mistaken, then," I ventured to rejoin, "in telling me that you are a Provençale."
There was subject matter for one of the pretty quarrels dear to music-hall folk. But Elodie summed up the whole matter, with her air of precocious wisdom a wisdom gained in the streets and sewing-rooms and cafes-concerts of Marseilles. "What you do is excellent, mon cher; but it is vieux jeu. The circus is not the music-hall. You must be original."
The most celebrated companies of the old and the new world play there amid an enthusiasm that is steadily maintained by the foresight of the managers: Russian and foreign dancers, and above all the French chanteuses, the little dolls of the cafes-concerts, so long as they are young, bright, and elegantly dressed, may meet their fortune there.
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