New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1885-05-17
FAMOUS FOLK AT THE SALON.

PARIS, May z.
The conditions Of admission 10 what is called the
private or opening day view at the Salon have
been altered this year. 1t was decided that no free
tickets would be gwen except to the press the
artists and those connected with the artistic word
such as dealers, models, frame makers and vendors
OF colors, canvas and other materials needed in
studios. The price Of admission was fixed at ten
francs t$2 In former years nobody was thought
placed in society who did not get in on May Day to
see the painters giving the last touches of the
varnish brush to their pictures at the Palas de
Plndustrie. great crowd and everybody who
counted in the worlds of fashion, art literature and
exc the camp followers of these different mondes,
went to the show to see almost anything but the
paintings which the dust rendered invisible; and
to be seen. Tho brilliant mob was pretty much at
the pictorial exhibition what one sees on Grand
Prix days at Longchamps minus the horsey
Englishmen. Sporting Frenchmen arc not ex-
clusively devoted to their stables and by no means
insensible to the fine arts. The Jockey Club has
been always well represented on private view days.
and at the gay deeuneis at Iedoyens restaurant IN
the Champs Elysess, of which the Salon is the
occasion. This restaurant stands in the garden
between the Palais do PIndustrie and the Place de
la Concorde, and its verandah is literally en-
bosomed in roses. hedge of rose bushes of early
and rich blooming species surrounds it. Fancy
prices are asked for everything; walters have too
much to do to attend to anybody. But there is an
amusing racket and exhilnratoD in the whole place
from about IL till 3 O'clock in the early days OF
May which delights rich and fast Parisians. The
effect of the roses in the verandah is charming.
But to enjoy it, one should sit at table there.
There is very close association between chic and
the power to sign checks that will be honOred 1t
very chic yesterday for gentlemen who escorted
ladies to the Salon in the morning to take them 10
Ledoyen's. treat them there to deeuner, and go
back with them to look at the pictures. In letvng
the exhibition building they lost the benefit of the
ton francs paid to get in and had to expend the
same sum when they returned. To breakfast
within the building was confession Of coseness OF
small means.
Sarah Bernhardt and her innumerable following
went of course to the restaurant embosOmed IN the
roses. How was the still slender and wonderfully
youthful-lookng puadragenarian dressedf She
in green, the hue OF Turkish dervishs turban,
made with full skirt descending everywhere in
straight folds and trimmed the edge with
vertical bands of velvet of the same tone. The
cOrsage opens in point. The opening was filed
with gathered velvet and n collar aud cuffs were of
the same material The corsage descen ed in front
and behind in long peak. The hair was moro
FURNISHED than usual. Its Venetian dde tint was
set oil by Manon Lescant lat of green lace and
lime blossoms Of paler shade. She wore pale
green bouquet in her cOrsage. Clairn. the painter.
piloted her around and her son Maurice. who
seemed Just as old she did carried her catalogue,
fan and parasol. Shr stopped before Dubos's por-
trait of u young lady in brown,-the leading work
of the kind IN the square room,-bcfore Renaud's
Sleeping Children" and Rolps /" Pasiph@ and the
Ball"
At II short distance from her walked n beauty who
sery es as model in the studios of various eminent
painters and whose dress was as staring as that OF
Nine. Bernhardt was quietly distiagu<. From top
to toe she was in red of various tones. The gown
was of that deep crimson known as sang de bGaE
trimmed with a red OF more yellow hue Her
bonnet was of still brighter shade The boots
were red, the gloves which reached to tho elbows
still ruddier, and the flaming sash which glrdled
her waist was tied in an enormous bow at tho
lett side and had broad ends that fell TO
the edge of the skirt An unkempt young fellow
was the cavalier of this famingo, aud both seemed
unconscious of the sensation which they caused.
The woman astOundngiy handsome. IL
was thought by some that she was employed by
Sarah to give value" to her ladylike attire This
was not so. She merely saw opportunity, by
remaining almost as close to the actress as her
shadow to obtain for herself greater publicity than
she had ever enjoyed before.
Baron Alphonse de Rothschd who has been
just defeated owing to the energetic though not per-
sonally unfrcndly opposition of Messonier in his
candidature for seat in the Academy OF Fine Arts,
was in the midst, when saw him. of Royalist
and Oreanist group. Ii was sufficiently "mI6ed"
10 have done for Madame Tussaud when she used TO
have on show together Plutarch, Neptune and
Nioodemus The Baron was clearly the boss" As
his bouses are ovorcrowded with O6jets dart he is
not a great patron of artists, and he never buys
ANYTHING Of painter who has not won great
name Nevertheless he is rs much bowed down to
~ If he we're Lorenzo do Medci who took pride
in discovering talent and smoothing the road for
genius.
The Baron went to Ledoyen's, where saw the
Duchess do Luynes, who exhibits under borrowed
name at tho same table with the Duke do Ponar,
the Princess Charlotte de Bourbon and Madame de
Cbevarrier Her Grace is the eldest daughter of The
Due de Bissacia who was Ambassador to tho Court
of St James in the first year of the MacMahonate.
and though one of the dullest ounces IN existence
manapes often to catch the Prince of Wales for his
shooting PARTIES when ii. r. II. is bird OF passage
here Madame do Luynes has been widow since
1870 She is handsome. interesting. has very
large fortune, two children whom she adores,
spendid town house. q cOuntry-seat. and one time
believed that Don Carlos was madly in love with
her She seems to enjoy the liberty OF widowhood.
At the next table to her Prince Strbey entertained
Madame Gustave Fould. known in the theatrical
and literary world as Gustave daller Mile. Louise
Athena, Sarah Dernhardt's friend and lmner
Comte de Richemond Paul de Charry and La
boulaye tie diplomatist. were of the company.
Louise wore q dove-colored pelisse fitting tight at
the waist, ample of skirt and trimmed with brown
silk. SIZE HAD on straight linen COLLAR masculine
brown cravat, neat little melon hat. and her HAIR
cropped short and CURED. Prince Stirbey is a great
patron of the arts. lie resides at the Chateau de
Recon. on the cliG half way between Asnieres and
Neuilly Gustave Halter is his neighbour he having
placed at her disposal the pavilion of the FRINGE of
Wales, which was q prominent feature OF the |