The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-05-29
SLENDER WAISTS,
CHARITY and ART
Americans Combining These for
Benefit of Trinity
Lodge.
KING OF DAADIEs COACHING
Fair Women Are Posing as
Beauties Noted in His
tory.
BY MARQUIS DE cAsrELLASr.

tspe clai cabe,o The Times. Dispntchi
Paris. May os.Is takes Americans
TO make striking corn binations. Just
now the Americans OF Paris are com
bining charity. art and slender waists
for the benefit of Trinity Lodge.
philanthropic institution. which has
an art department. hospital, IL
brary. restaurant and an informa-
ton bureau. Although Trinity Lodge
is In the heart of the Latin Quarter,
1t is conducted in connection with the
American church, OF which DR.. John
Morgan, cousin of j. Pierpont Nor
gan. has been the pastor for the last
thirty-hye years.
Andre do Fouguieres. tho King of tho
French dandies Is coaching American
men and girls. all OF whom he insists
shall have slender figures. how TO
for the benefit of DIR. Morgans Trinity
Lodge.
4 Notably Artistic Jury.
He is assisted by Jury composed
OF Julian Story, Alexander Harrison.
Walter Gay. Julius Stewart and the
venerable Augustus Eddy, OF Chicago,
all of them famous painters Major
T. Bentley Mott. the American mill
tary attache, and Viscount Chanbrun.
the brother in-iaw of Mrs. Bellamy
Storer. arc the Slim wasted men who
will pose az Washington and Rocham
beau in the tableau representing the
surrender of Yorktown:
Mrs. Baxter Tevis Mckee will an
pear In living picture az the Empress
Eugene at the zenith of her beauty.
A number Of young girls will figure as
her ladies of the court.
Mrs. John Warden. of Philadelphia.
Will pose as Carmencita, after Sar
gents brilliant portrait in the Luxem-
bourg Gallery. Madame Henri Gervex
Will represent France, after a pictpre.
France and America which her hus-
band recently painted for Baltimore.
Francois Flsmeng Fcted.
Since his return from the United
States. Francois F'lameng. the famous
painter OF fair women. has been fetsd
and battered by his compatriots- Es-
peciaiiy they have congratulated him
upon having painted the portraits OF
fifteen of New York's most beautiful
women. Some of his sitter5 were so
pleased with their likenesscs that they
insisted upon being painted twice
Among the we'll known New workers
,F'lameng painted during his four
months stay in America are Mrs.
Whitney Warren, Miss C. Pearce. Mrs.
J. n. Duke. Miss Duke. Miss Dins
more. Mrs. Carstairs Mrs. George
widener and the Misses sherman.
Francois Flameng has taken stu
do in New York. and. needless to say,
will return next winter
curious fashion Is sprinEins UP
among American singers OF changing
their family names and sottening them
down into imitation Italian. Nevada.
Nordica and Melba arc probably re
sponsible for the fashion which the
younger generation has adopted. Thus
Miss Elizabeth Parkinson. of Kansas
CITY. calls herself Par}eina; Miss May
McEvilly. of Helena. Is Nine. Montana:
Miss Esther Cob. of Portland. Ore. IS
Cobana: the former Mrs, Charles
Becker. who used TO sing at our opera.
was always announced as Miss Jane
Noria.
1t seems to me they would do quite
as well If they chung to the good
Americans. as Mary Garden. Geraldine
Farrar and Minnie Tracey have done.