The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-08-12

CAN SEE THEMSELVES
Firms VIII Soon Be Too Busy to At
tend to the Show Business on
Account Of the
Craze.

iSSpohuSnt oI lne United PreSS.
PARIS, Aug. 1.-THE latest fad of
the Franco-American upper acrust
here is to have itself and its ..doings"
photographed by the motion-picture
man. The films are then reeled off
for the common or garden species OF
mortals to look at, at SO much a
throw. the proceeds TO swell charity
funds.
The originator of this scheme was
the Duchess de Noailles. She is chair
man OF movement to raise a fund
to assist poor women of Paris suffer
ing from tuberculosis, and something
out OF the ordinary had to be thought
out if any great good was to be ac-
complished. Charity bazaars," and
poor benefits" of all kinds are so
(! terribly overdone, you know.
About this time the Countess de
chabrillan gave an oriental ball. at
which were present the creme OF
American and French society. The
motion picture man was present and
fine strip Of film was clicked off.
This function was quickly followed by
another of similar sort: the Coun-
tess Blanche de Clermont- Tonnerre's
oriental ball. This was motion
photographed also. The duchesse, who
had been present at these was thus
given her idea: moving picture
show, with these films as the star at
fractions. ought to be success; or
binary people like to look at the ex-
traordinary. Why not let them, but
at a good. round sum?
Nine. Reiane, the actress, loaned
her theatre for the occasion. The
house was packed; every seat was
taken. Many in front seats, or boxes.
We're likewise in the pictures; they
had come Ito see themselves as 9th
q er people saw them The Duchesse
de Gramont was there; Nine. Stan
dish, the Countess de Bourg, Countess
de Castries, Marquise de la Roche,
7 Princesse H. de Colignac. Mrs. Payne
Thompson. Marquise de Breteuil (nee
2 Miss Garner, of New York;, Countess
Pastre, Duchesse de Rohan, Princesse
7 de la Tour d'Auvergne, Mr. NJ Robin
son, Marquise Casati, Princesse Lab
e kowwitz, Countess d'Alsace, and 9TH
els, including present and former
e Americans.
NJ. Andre de Fouquieros, the pres
ent-day beau brummel of French SO.
ciety. lecturer, author and cotillion
e leader. pointer in hand, "lectured'' on
the pictures as they were spun Off
l1<r II.
nice, harmless anecdotes, of course
j but anecdotes just the same. And
everybody laughed, especially those
e In front seats and boxes.
The concluding picture thrown up
s on the screen was one of the Marquis
de Noailles. he Countess F. de Vogue
and the Marquis de Selves, SO fash
8 toned as to make the ladies appear tt
d be standing in a large gilded birc
: cage.
s. The pictures took so well and i
, was such good fun looking on, {
large part of the audience seeing it
slA9 cutting capers at oriental balls
that, as the saying goes, everybody
ldoing it now
Batty McSwat when he tries t.
:. make arrangements with the motor
: picture man to take the prize figh
!. he's promoting, will probably have
this showed at him: Cant accommo
I date you, old man; Just signed III
D. with Percy de Brie, the cotillion lead
., er, to take the Countess de Fromage'
a ball the same night Only one dat
n open for the week; make 1t Sunda.
l. and I'll go you, though really thu
public don't care much for fights an.
more"
|. Americans stand high at the Schoo
e of Fine Arts, here Among foreigner
r they head the list, Mr.. Stanley Brown
an American, winning second honors
after a Frenchman, at the latest en-
trance examinations.
n There were more than 300 appli
s Giants. of these about 100 being fol
k eigners-an extraordinarily large pro
It portion. OF the 81 successful candi
IS dates there were IL foreigners. Il
is the first 25 were 10 foreigners. al
American leading these.
Is, or Is not the pastel of La Tours
I for which Baron Henri de Rothschil
s lately paid 100000 francs ts12o,ooo)
r an original?
d About Is years ago this famou
n work was sold for $1,000, by NJ. d
IN Beaumont The low price was tn
n result of story then circulated T
N the effect that de Beaumont had sol
20 the original La Tour pastel and tina
the present one was only a copy.
The story was never confirmed an
probably would have been forgotte