Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-05-19
QUEEN TO SEE PARIS
WiIheImina of Netherlands to
Visit City in June.
ETIQUETTE Is STUDIED
Program Of Fetes and Military Re-
view to Be Given.
FLOWERS FOR DECORATION
Are Considered More Suitable Than
Flags for Woman
Sovereign.
ETIQUETTE is STUDIED
FOR DECORATION

Special Cabegram to The Star.
| PARIS, May 1S.-Queen Wilhelmina of
the Netherlands has finally decided to pay
her official visit to Paris. accompanied by
the prince consort June 1, and 3. Paris
already has laid all plans for her recep-
ton. This being the most conservative
country in the world, the municipality has
| gone back to its archives for precedents.
| No queen in her own right has been re-
ceived here since Queen Victoria's last
official visit under the empire. The mu-
nicipality has, therefore, consulted the
| program of fetes given some forty-five
years ago for the Queen of England. to
find ideas for the reception of the Queen
of Holland. Thus. street decoration will
consist as much as possible of flowers as
being more suitable to a woman sovereign.
The usual display of national flags will
be discreet. and will be half hidden by
wreaths and masses of flowers"
Mere bunting" and flags are good
enough for a king, but a queen deserves
a more delicate tribute. The rranco-Dutch
fetes will be on the customary lines, de-
signed by the adamantine protocol, and
will include gala performance at the
opera, a visit to Versatile palace, and,
of course banquets. The Queen of Holland
view and battle maneuvers into the bar
gain. and these will take place at Satory
camp. near Versailles, where sort of
coming tower Is being specially built,
whence her majesty will be able to follow
all the operations.
Concerts de Danse.
Never have two sister arts of music,
dancing and stage decoration been so har-
cd Mt ho do
danse' which the Russian Mile. Trouhan-
ova is giving at the Chatelet We have
all been panied by ladies who insisted on
dancing Beethoven sonatas or Bach
fugues. However well they danced. they
distressed the music lover. IN another
way. even the wonderful performers of
the Russian ballet have not been guiltless.
We all remember what an enchantment
for the eye their dancing of Schumann' s
"Carnavaf' was, yet one could hardly
pardon the impertnence of orchestrating
the pieces which the composer, presuma-
bly, for good reasons of his own, wrote
for the pianoforte
Mile. Trouhanova has taken none of
these liberties. She dances only to music
written for dancing. Her composers are
the greatest of living French musicians
M. Vincent d'Indy, and three of the most
NM. Florent Schmitt, Paul Dukas and
Maurice Ravel, and each of the four did
her the honor of conducting his own
score at the first performance.
Decorations in Harmony.
But on an equality with the two arts
of dancing and music was third. that
of stage decoration; In each of the four
works, 'Istar.'' THE Tragedy of
Salome," THE Peri" and Adelaide" or.
the Language of Flowers. NM. Des-
valieres, Max de Thomas. Rene Plot
and Dresa coiiaborated with dancer and
composer i'm each of the works respec-
lively. The colors and the lighting, the
dresses and the scenery, were almost al
ways in admirable harmony with the
music and the pantomine. Istar, In the
legend magnificently expressed in sound
by NJ. Vincent d'Indy, enters the Palace
of Eternity. where seven sentinels strip
her of all her earthly jewels. The
strange, sumptuous colors Of the palace,
Istar's splendid robes. the magic flowers
suddenly blooming at the close are all
fine decoration M. Florent Schmitte's
that of DR.. Richard Strauss, is distin-
gushed expressive and original
The decoration again holds its own in
the triple work of art. The portico of
Der trees on to the sea. The dresses.
some violently brilliant. others light and
delicate, are in complete harmony. VI
the dances, that of the lightning is the
performed it with fine dramatic truth.
At the end Salome. terrified at what she
had done and pursued by visions. throws
the salver and the head into the sea,
which turns blood-red.
Legend of the Peri.
The legend of the Peri is shown In a
surprisingly sumptuous scene OF gold and
crimson and silver. We see gold noun
o~{vn
silver fruit The Peri is asleep holding
the flower Of Immortality in her hand.
King Iskender robs her OF the flower.
She wakes, and wins it back from him
| and scars up to the mountain, leaving
| him in the growing shadow below. The
lofty fancy to suit the legends.
| Adelaide" Is delightful piece of early
! nineteenth century artifciality. in high
| wasted frocks and turbans, and puce
| iirt with delicious affectation in the
| language of flowers throughout a ball in
i violently green and blue drawing ROOM
/ and fall into each others arms at last
| before the balcony opening on to an i'm
| possibly blue sea, after Loredan casting
| at her feet a sprig of cypress to tell his
| despair. has placed pistol to his temple
| without firing it of. The same amusing
| artificiality is in the theme, the staging
| the dancing and the music. The great
/ interest of these concerts de danse" is
that all three arts of dancing, music and
/ decoration are kept In constant harmony
! Potatoes Bring Fine.
| Nearly a month ago the wife Of coal
miner at Dortmund put a pan Of fried
i potatoes on the window ledge of her
! kitchen to cool. They were done to a
/ turn. and their seductive odor was waited
4 down the dismal street just as a band OF
/ strikebreakers passed along. They had
1 been forced to be idle, and they had not
| the advantage Of receiving strike pay
/ They were thankful to get a crust OF
/ bread for their families. and to have de-
licious potatoes. fried in oil. thrust be-
i meath their noses by the wife of a man
| getting regular pay was intolerable. Ii
/ was, moreover, clearly a studied insult
/ carefully planned by a purse-proud wom-
/ an. They decided to prosecute her for
/ insulting them
She has been duly arraigned before the
4 local justice. whom she informed that
4 fried potatoes cannot be eaten red-hot
/ from the pan. that her husband was wait
/ ing for his meal. and that, therefore. she
/ put the pan in the window to cool II
4 was argued for the prosecution that it Is
i not the practice in Dortmund to eat fried
i potatoes with the midday coffee. The
| lady declared that her husband had q
| satisfied with the explanation, and, al
| though the presiding magistrate stated
that the case was not very grave one