The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-08-17
DEAUV|LLE ENDS
MOST BRILLIANT
SEASON TODAY
Many Americans With the
Throng of Nobility at Sea-
side Race Course.


Deauville, August 16.-Deauvilic-
Trouville week ends Tomorrow. \
fortnight hence both towns will be de-
serted. Deauville this year killed its
next door neighbour killed it deliber-
atcly with aforethousht and malice
Trouville which used to be the pet OF
fashion. has been abandoned TO the
humble bourgeois. while Deauvillc
which once was It's placid annex. is now
the centre Of French summer life.
Apart from It's casino and hotels.
pcauvillc has little IN itself to draw I,
crowd. with the exception or its race
course and its polo ground It's beach
is bare aud sad, It's streets sordid, the
local shops are merely oifshoots Of
Partisan stores. The natives are nm
civil and ill-brcd; yet somehow. Dcau-
Vile Is the heart OF fashion. Newport
would give its very soul 20 boast OF n
tenth Of the nobility which lounges
about the Dcauvillc Casino and chat
ters NJ the ''potiniere" ana tangocs In
new and garish villas. Grouped about
those haunts half the Fauborg Saint
German and the cream OF American
plutocracy seem pent up here In n space
one mile square. The chief hotels the
rcck OF money.
suppIants Mary Gnrdcn.
Great singers. famous actors and
popular musicians add TO the brilliancy
Of the season. In tho tiny Casino Thea
ire one may hear French and Italian
opera sung by Maria kousnezon, the
gifted Russian who has supplanted
Mary Garden in Paris; Chaliapinc. Sam
marco l-afont and other favoriies.
society comes here. above all. 10 see
itself. 10 talk scandal or to cause
/ scandal. TO display dresses and TO air
Its millions Each morning the Rue
Gontant Biron. adjoining tho Casino. is
! thronGcd with women wearing cCccn-
trio costumes slashed and low.
Mesdames with titles yard long
The men clan. laugh: and airt with All
alike. ana For an hour the street re-
senblcs big love mart
i'y far the best dressed woman here
this year Is Nine. Kousnezo0 Ycstcr-
day when ] met her 1t the Royal, she
wore n poetic white silk gown cut
rather low and relieved by knots Of
dark blue satin. n much ,nodernized
mob cap trimmed with lace. transpar-
ent white stockings and white sandal
shoes. About her arms and neck we're
sapphires. pearls and diamonds. from
her ears hung costly sapphire and dia-
mond earrings
Nine Kousnezor. who il the dnugh
ter Of famous Russian painter. told
me she had hoped to sing with the Chi
cago Opera Company next winter
Baron Gunzburg, her French manager,
however, Aaty refused to release her,
so II may be another year before she
goes to America. she Is planning IN
American concert tour with her hus-
pahd ana distinguished conductor
haiheu LaFhiie thahapine. her COM
patriot. paid her an unusual co.npli-
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