The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-01-22
4 DRESS MAY BE
 4 WORK OF ART And Cannot be Monopolized
 in Trade so SAYS THE COURT New Form of Divided Skirt Has Come to Take the Place of the No-
 toriOps HObble
 Skirt


 nopolized in trade. A question of great interest in dressmaking circles was set tied, namely, that the copyright for a dress, in court this week. Two costum- iers were at loggerheads over the matter. Che accused the other of having copied and reproduced one of his exclusive ere ations. Suit was brought and s40o0 dam ages were demanded. Maitre Maillard. counsel for the plaintiffs, cited the copy light law regulating the rights of literary and artistic property, as well as the law on manufacturers designs. According to him all these laws had been infringed. A dress enjoyed copyright as well as any other artistic production Maitre Levi sales, for the defendant, said @ dress may be an artistic creation, nevertheless held literary and artistic copyright laws could not apply to it, nor the law as to manufacturers drawings Besides, he added, the firm had sold its dresses before registering the sign. and therefore it was public property. The court also adopted this view, and decided the case against the plaintiffs.
 The successor of the hobble skirt has arrived A new form of divided skirt, to come into fashion in the spring, is to be launched by the "mannequins' of a well known dressmaking firm. The new cos tune comes from Turkey, and is an al- most exact reproduction of the dress
 worn by the harem ladies. It consists of long, loose, divided skirt, fitting tightly at each ankle.
 The latest object of reforming zeal is the celebrated tavern of the Halles,
 known as the Ange Gabriel. Notwith- standing its title, its clientele were far from being angelic. Here at Casque dor, the queen of footpads held her court The foreign visitors were invariably
 shown the "Ange Gabriel" and experi-
 enced all the emotions of passing through a dangerous experience-without much danger. AS matter of fact, the bandits pointed out by guides generally proved to be innocent all-night workers. How ever some ugly episodes have taken place in this quaint looking house and police officers in multi have themselves been stabbed on the threshold. And now 1t Is
 to disappear, with its quadrangular lan- tern and painted angel, the Vile de Paris having condemned the property. Paris is splitting it's sides with laughter over a practical joke which went off splendidly and left POGO would-be matri- moniai enthusiasts standing staring at one another. The other day two adver- tisements appeared in a newspaper One ran thus:
 "A rich man wishes to marry a distin- ! gushed woman, even without fortune" The other was as follows:
 "A wealthy lady would like to marry a distinguished and good looking gentle
 man, even without fortune"
 | Replies were to be sent poste restante, and nearly 2000 letters arrived. Answers were returned to the ladies in a mans handwriting and to the gentlemen in woman's, appointed a meeting at a cer- tain cafe, all of them being asked to wear a white rose to assist recognition One thousand men and women gathered fin and around the restaurant. Several other men not decorated were there
 They were detectives, who had been sent by the prefecture of police, as to the perpetrator of the hoax, who is also sus- pected, and with good reason, of having been present to enjoy the fun, had fore
 warded a letter Informing the authorities l that a party of royalists, bent on hatch ing plot, were to meet at the cafe at that hour
 The incomparable Chauchard collection Is at last visible in the Louvre. It is the
 more priceless in that the Louvre here- tofore has had no elaborate collections of the great pointers of 1880, the NTllets, the Corots, Tryons, Dauhbignies, Rousseaus | and Jules Dupres.
 Every one of the numerous Corots are
 masterpieces. His pictures may be called the poetry of nature. Corot is more ap- preciated as he grows older. M Aynard | once asked Chavannes who was the greatest painter of the 18th century, and
 the artist said, You know very well that Is Corot. Cheneviard was asked | the same. question and he said What a foolish question; you know as well as do | that 1t is Corot." Corot remained unap.
 preciated for years; he was refused in the Salon. During his lifetime the pie lures which would have been bought for
 s100 now cost $1oO,00o. or cannot be had
 for any price.
 | was at the Grand Guignol the other evening when the big water pipe burst in the ..theatre. I was in a dress circle
 box, and could afford to laugh at the
 people in the front row of the stalls
 They were drenched to the skin The stage was swamped, of course, so that the performance could mot continue. The accident proved good advertisement for
 that theatre, however, for there are few theatres here provided with useful sup ply of water in case of fire. For nearly week an insane murderer kept the. police at bay outside his house at La Chapelle-sous-B Briancon The mans i,ame is Tallemard After killing his fa- ther and wounding his wife, he took ref
 uge in hay loft with gun. Tallemard was suspected of having fired a neigh
 bors hayrick, and the gendarmes pre- sented themselves at his house to aues-
 ton him. Directly he caught sight of
 them he got his gun. His wife came to tell him he was wanted, and he leveled the gun at her and fired. He missed her and then went to the haylQft His fa- ther, nearly 80 years of age. next ap-