European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 4, 1947, Darmstadt, Hesse                                The  French Singer is Back in country he feb needs entertainment which is something Folksy and Downto Earth by Arthur Noyes German refugees continued from Page 10 Paris it was the night for the Columbia pm club in the dub was closing As Western base troops were being withdrawn from Maurice looking much younger than his fifty eight was the featured attraction at the closeout was leaving Paris to go to Lon Don the following Day to Board the Queen Mary for when Chevaliers one hour of gallic songs impressions was a Western base sergeant things Are Back to nor Mal the americans Are leaving Paris and Chevalier is going to the the French singers return to America May not be a return to Normal but it certainly marked americas return to the Continental entertainers of the and for at the same time Chevalier was heading toward Singer Audenne Boyer was making plans to open at cafe society after a Long wartime absence from new Chevalier made no that he is a great but i am he said that he had no doubts that he would be appreciated on his return to new York for the first time since March he was appreciated since arriving in reports from the states indicate that Chev Alier knew what he was talking about As press notices have acclaimed his present appearance at the Henry Miller his Oneman show was a cheerful evening by Newsweek and Jack a theatrical called Chevaliers show a pleasant the French artist said that be intends to travel throughout the states and present the same Type of entertainment i offered to Ameri cans from 1926 to his show for the men of the Columbia club was typical of the performances now being offered to stateside audiences at six dollars a his repertory is designed to allow him to run the Gamut of tricks with which he gained his original he strides out his lower lip and does a simple routine of dance Steps and balances his Straw hat on his he has a list of new songs which he practice last fall on a trip through Belgium and stand but he still relies on the old favourites he first introduced before the tunes like you brought a new kind of love to me and Chevalier has one new How that was a great hit with his Soldier audience in Paris and he be a great hit All Over especially with former gis who know the tune is a pleasant tune which recounts the ugliness and activity of the lamed place returning to America is a great personal Triumph for the grading musical comedy and movie for he had been accused of collaboration with the germans and once was re ported to have been shot for Chevalier explained that after the fighting ended he was Able to con Vince the French government that the Only thing he had done was go to Germany to sing for French after one he the germans released twelve French prisoners As a tribute to this was not my he the germans made gestures like that at not because they were Nice but because they wanted to look like Nice the Only Mark still against i Chevalier is a Story that Many frenchmen will Tell they say that during the he toured France singing a tune which roughly lated Means lets along to Chevalier said the tune had nothing to do with occupation but was Good he does not sing the song he Doest talk about himself nor does he talk about his activities Dur ing the he says that he was a Loyal French but he does not claim toy great resistance although two Paris news papers have carried stories that show he took part in some Fri the time is he for my return to your country today needs easy entertain ment and wants something Folksy and for the return of Folk singers to new York night clubs is an indication that my Type of Folk singing will be he often mentioned his fifty eight years As if he were proud of reaching age without looking More than he also continually emphasized that he has grown up in this he pointed out that last year he made a French movie Man about in which he didst sing a was an he and i had to wait until i was an old Man to prove to producers i could do it Chevalier has never been married and explained that he never found a woman who compare with my he added that i have Al ways been so Busy with my work that i Haven had time for the nor Mal married life other people the show he presented in Paris i at the Columbia club much longer than the schedule of five tunes and two encores would Chevalier explained the words of each Long to his ing usually the explanations were so Long and involved that they were longer than the when the Columbia show was Chevalier removed his Straw hat and placed it on the he no his hands through his thin Ning he have not been Good Here since the German occupation i no longer a Rich in i am not even moderately wealthy one of the reasons for my going to Amer Ica is to make he paused and then but As much As i need in not returning to America so that people can pay to see old Man Mau Rice the Star of if i find that i am not no matter How Large the i will go right Back to latest theatrical reports from the states said he had been offered a new movie contract and might return to France in a year for a rest of course were All Hitler they had to she added and now we Are trying to change this life is very hard on Young they like to carry their Heads High As they were formerly taught they see that it was wrong to treat foreign nations As we treated taking their people to work for us in but it is hard to make them believe the stories of the they cant be Lieve that German people would do things they have heard about i think there is too much about this the authorities insist on making the people see these terrible Why do they persist is it not terrible enough the Frau Wissman sex Are somewhat selective and one of the things never mentioned is Germany treatment of our children know that the things they were taught about the jews is said but to touch on our inhuman treatment of the jews hurts them too so we never mention it danish government thousands of gis saw the familiar Straw hat in Paris a special newspaper for the edited by germans who fled to Den Mark before the War to escape hit Frau who always referred to the Camp As spoke bitterly of the Emigrant editors of the they dont understand us Here at she sometimes x think they Are Aht Germant always they write about the bad for the when the trials began they took up four pages in the paper about it they will not understand that we Are not but of we cannot expect them to after they have not suffered As we most of the work Camp is women work in the Kitchen one Day each fortnight huge tins of Are carried from the kitchens to each Row of Barracks and the people eat at their own Tab children and professional such As nurses and others who work at their assigned tasks get half litre of milk each Day in addition to their 2300 they receive other benefits such As cots with Springs and tresses instead of the usual there Are five Hundred doctors in the Camp and the Danes provide All drugs and equipment necessary for the maintenance of on arrival virtually was covered with vermin and suffering with but there is none of health in the Camp is excellent although Many died on the trip from Germany to Denmark there has not been a single death since the Danes made every Effort to reunite and in the beginning there was a constant shifting from Camp to Camp to bring children to their or even aunts and the Only Case of separation has been Between a Hus band and the jealous because her husband was courting another hit the woman with a Skillet the removed to another Camp for a Short period As for her assault women work around the huts keeping them Dean and mending their most of them spend their spare moments ripping out old knitted things and re knitting them into new sweaters for the each hut inmate is allowed a strip of ground by the door of the for carrots and other Garden truck with a Border of seed is provided by the the germans maintain their own internal police and have their own courts for trying offenders against Camp the offences Are usually involving theft of food or fuel but since women outnumber men three to most of the cases involve physical attacks incited by if the sentence cannot be carried out in the the offender is turned Over to 22