European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 17, 1981, Darmstadt, Hesse February the stars and stripes Page 7 ficlclliii9 around Paris is a Good town for in any Given Isaac Stern May turn or Henryk or Itz Hak but even if they Are not there is a Good Chance you can catch Vinh Pham at the concorde or Joseph Townsend at be forum Des Vinh Pham is 13 years looks and plays almost every weekday in the preferably in the station under the place de la who is plays with a Small group of friends at the a vast underground shopping Center built on the site of the old Central Les the two younger violinists Are part of an old Paris they Are Street they Are also part of a revolution that has taken place in that venerable the traditional Paris Street Musi a grizzled old Man in a dirty would squat on an Orange crate and play an two of them would appear at a Street Market and Crank out old music Hall songs on a barrel the old timers Are still to be serenading strollers on a crowded summer night in the place de la diverting tourists trying to recapture the Montmartre of the hop ing to find a few sentimentalist with extra centimes in the corridors of the but times have we play classical said Downs a hirsute fiddler from when you play serious the people think youve got a Little that you Are probably a Thompson generally works in the Franklin Roosevelt metro station with his a 32yearold romanian named Lachezar the two met while they were play ing Solo in the metro communicating through music and pidgin decided to team we do Thompson when things get Latch throws in a Little Gypsy who is married to a French grinning the busiest spot in Paris for Street and underground musicians is the sunken main Plaza of be forum Des where on sunny Days wan Dering minstrels of a dozen most of them in their play from morning to Here Folk music reigns Blue grass specialists from Penny whistlers from bagpipers from Glasgow and guitarists from it is All very said Jean Marie a Young guitarist from everyone is allotted a cer Tain amount of depending on How Many people want to on Busy summer its usually 30 and you dont have to wait you can leave and come Back just before its your turn to the classics May be most popular in the but there is no Lack of popular commuters hurrying into the suburban line station at the Etoile on a recent Day heard a skilled guitarist someone to watch Over what with the unemployment in there is a certain tension against the said Alan so i do a lot of Django Reinhardt and shove in a Little Gershwin when 1 who comes from Castlegar in gets Over to Paris now and again to work the Ive been doing it for six years on and he i love the Freedom of he might have added the Mon like most of the More Clever Street Kelly can make to on a Good you have to pick a location where the acoustics Are he when they can hear you a Long Way where there is plenty of where they Are fairly affluent and where they Are liable to appreciate the music you Kelly agrees that classical music is More lucrative at the moment but he has devoted his life to popular and that is what he in both Ireland and not a few unknown amateurs have begun careers As Street musicians in the current group at the a self styled Ameri can restaurant near the be Aubourg were discovered playing at the the new York times faces places fiction the woman who was crowned miss Wyoming in 1978 says that her life was ruined when she read a Story in Penthouse Magazine portraying the fictional sexual exploits of a miss Wyoming at the miss America i Felt like everything i had done in 26 years had been Kimerlin Jayne Pring testified in her million libel suit in against the after Reading the article in july i started i Felt helpless and said through Pring said that since then anybody that talks to me knows me As miss Penthouse or nobody even knows me As what i stand the 26yearold University of Wyoming student said she has been harassed by obscene Telephone Calls and messages since the publication of the i feel like a standing joke for people to laugh she i am a wholesome person but people make me feel like i am dirty and the Story is about a Bato twirling miss and Pring testified that she per formed a Bato twirling routine for the Talent Competition portion of the miss America music it took nearly a but Leonard bernsteins mass has finally made it to the stage of the Vienna state the former conductor of the new York philharmonic and composer of such musicals As West Side Story and on the Bernstein was on hand sunday for a nationally televised performance of the work from the famed a performance of the mass in Vienna has been the dream of my the which Burstein Calls a reverently conceived search for inaugurated the John Kennedy Center for the performing arts in on deflowered Penthouse publisher Bob Guccione one of Britain favorite annual Public the Chelsea Flower is quickly becoming one of the most controversial events of the the reason allegations of discrimination against disabled lord president of the Royal horticulture started the juror earlier this month by saying that it was impractical to build wheelchair ramps and other special facilities on the grounds of the Chelsea Royal Hospital in London for disabled persons wanting to attend the Flower show in then Aberconway compounded the controversy by refusing to admit disabled persons to Royal the Day set aside each year for members of the Royal family and selected guests to see the Flo ral exhibits before the Public is More than 60 members of incensed by Aberconway signed a motion last week deploring the attitude toward the i think this decision is said Jack a deaf member of Par there is the rancid smell of discrimination among the Sweet fragrances of he Leonard Bernstein
