Four out of 50

In unexpected sunshine after days and days of heavy rain. Albert Lebrun, President of the French Republic, climbed into a big motor launch, chugged two miles down the Seine and up again accompanied by Premier Leon Blum, many a foreign ambassador and other bigwig. The party then hastened to the colonnaded Grand Palais and thus was inaugurated last week the Paris Exposition, originally scheduled to open May i.

Only four of the more than 50 pavilions were ready--the German, Russian, Belgian, Italian--and there was much caustic criticism because the President had had to make his tour of the Exposition by boat to avoid "holes in the ground and the mess of construction." Jean Frenchman, however, had little cause to grumble at the delay. Because the turnstiles could not be erected in time, everybody was let in free.

Next day the sun shone again and tempers began to improve. Painters, though forbidden by their unions to exert themselves, plied their brushes vigorously. Plasterers, bricklayer and frame-builders broke into a gallop of activity. By week's end 17 pavilions were finished and functioning, though it was expected that the whole thing would not be ready for a month.

Notable exhibit; in the Italian pavilion, many photographs of barbarously cruel Ethiopian practices before the Italian Conquest.

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