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building [[underline]] with smelly [[/underline]] urinals on outside walls. Bad ventilation inside Real [[underline]] fire-trap as all theatres are in Paris. [[/underline]] Very full house.  [[underline]] 80 [[/underline]] cents for [[underline]] best orchestra seat. [[/underline]]  Place where Odeon stands looks more like an [[underline]] empty corner [[/underline]] of a [[underline]] Provincial [[/underline]] town.
July 8. To [[underline]] Louvre. [[/underline]] Arts Modernes. Some more [[underline]] crazy paintings. [[/underline]] Some American schoolmarm explaining the beauties of 3 pictures by Gogain. Flat badly drawn, badly painted. Then a cubist tableau which [[underline]] could be hung up either side [[/underline]] and in [[underline]] no way represents anything. [[/underline]] Long walk. No news from [[underline]] Frederic. [[/underline]] He is probably away.
I find that Government [[underline]] telegraphists for night work [[/underline]]
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are paid 1.50 fr. per hour or less than [[underline]] 7 cents [[/underline]] per hour or about [[underline]] 70 cents per day [[/underline]] 
There are more [[underline]] idlers [[/underline]] in Paris and people sitting [[underline]] with [[/underline]] a [[underline]] vacant stare than anywhere [[/underline]] else. [[underline]] Sex matters [[/underline]] and [[underline]] sex thoughts seem to fill their idle life. [[/underline]] Every play of any success in Paris [[underline]] involves triangle situation or cacottes or salacious situations. Judging from plays or books a normal household seems to be the exception. [[/underline]] Nor can a [[underline]] Frenchman [[/underline]] understand that matters [[underline]] are not the same in the United States.[[/underline]] The great [[underline]] success of Paris [[/underline]] is mainly [[underline]] due to its tolerance towards the whims and vices of its visitors be they white, black or yellow. [[/underline]]