The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-01-15
PAR|S|ANS FLOCK
TO BOLOINI STUDIO
Great Attraction This Season
Is Portrait OF American
Woman.
MODERN MASTERS INITIATED
Outsiders Refer to Skating Club
as a Matrimonial
Bureau.
BY MARQUIS DE cAsTEI.LANE.

Especial Cable to The Tiines-Dispatch.l
Paris. January 1.-THE studio OF
Boldini, the famous painter. has be-
come a fashionable haunt OF the most
fashionable Parisians. The great at
traction this season, is the beautiful
portrait OF a beautiful American wo-
man. Mrs. George w. Vanderbilt, for
merly Miss Edith S. Dresser, OF New
York.
Boldini says he has painted the por-
traits Of many American women, but
he has never had such n splendid model
as Mrs. Vanderbilt. She poses as easily
and naturally as any professional. Her
portrait Will be exhibited in the Salon
of the French artist. after which 1t
Will be sent to Baltimore to adorn a
picture gallery there. Mrs. George
eral years before her marriage to Mr..
Vanderbilt. of Baltimore fame. and
their wedding was one OF the great
events of that Paris season.
Last year he portrait of another
Mrs. Vanderbilt was OF exhibition in
our salon. 1t was that OF Mrs. W.. *.
of the great Francois Flameng. Now
comparisons are being made between
the two portraits of the two Mrs. Van
derbilts. Flameng has also painted a
- u VI % ~ tAll| dIIGIl, MIS-.
j.. g.. Duke. Mrs. DinsnIore and many
other we'll known New Workers.
M"dern Masters Initiated.
We have a Worldwide reputation
for supplying the American market
with bogus old masters. am in a
position to state there are also many
bogus young masters being manufac-
tu:oG. On the heights of Montmartre
are scores of artists secretly and
s~trenuously at work copying well
known modern works for dealers who
Ia "a Yen nc nfaS n ~ ~ - - ~ Ill -,
crs.
Not so very long ago. hred by en-
thusiasm for the red-haired girl that
Iienner made immortal on his can
came over to Paris and bought up all
the original Hennc to lie found. lie
then returned to America. engaged a
score of young. clever artists, who once
they caught the trick. easily turned out
a Henner a day, and a good lIenner too.
These licnncrs had a good sale in
were excellent copies. | hear that some
of them were bought By politicians
of Tammany Hall. Poor old Henner,
who had his studio over that OF Wal
ter MucEwan. in the Place PieaIie. how
surprised and pleased he would he If
he knew the delicate compliment of
imitation now being paid him In the
New World.
lee Rink or Marriage Bureau.
The Skating Club. of Paris. founded
by Mrs. John G. Leishnan, wife of
the tiiltl lCdi tiI!DdSSitlOT 10 ltdlN, mas
taken on IL new lease of life. Formerly
II met every Friday; now 1t holds re-
unions twice a week. On these occa-
sions the Plaise de Glaze is given over
exclusively TO the members of this
fashionable club.
This eXclusivcness. however. has
created a sort of SKATING aristocracy
and our bourgcoisie rescnts the crea-
ton OF n new caste. Hence the
Skating Club has many enemies. Out
siders say spitefully the club is sim
ply a matrimonial bureau in disguise.
Others refer to it as Mrs. Leishman's
Folly" AS a matter OF fact. the Skating
Club is a skating club. pure and sim
pie. n n very nice one at that.
1t is true that il was at this club
that Miss Leishman met the late Count
Gontaut de Brion. was woocd by him
and afterward became his wife. This
is perhaps why jealous non-mem-
hers declared the club is Il sort OF ma
trimonial bureau. There. too. | re-
member now that Mrs. Hamilton Paine
also met here her new husband, the
Duke de Praslin.