Evening star., 1914-04-26
THE BRILLIANT SOCIAL LIFE AND DISPLAY

4 ing carnival week which was sadly
] spoiled this year by the 1ncesSaht rams
| 1t is at Cannes that one gets the brii-
/ liant social life which does not eclipse,
4 however. the gayety that goes on between
\ Nice and Monte Carlo. for every mile oi
4 it is a pleasure ground, and in each house
/ there is gayety and fashion.
/ All about the country are tennis and
/ polo balls. dinners and afternoon dances.
All the women Of fashion seem to be
! centcred in this strip Of enchanted land.
ar enchanted is really the only aa-
! jective to use Whether YOU are motor
4 ing down the Corniche road, whether
J YOU are lettering by boat down the coast
! from the French to the Italian Riviera
| trampns up the mountains to the so''
4 links behind Monte Carlo or ldtirg down
the wonderful proulenade on the water
front at Nice You are confused by the
multitude of sensations offered by nature
| and by humanity.
! Here the place. the climate and the
people have met. You have that certain
| feeling that no matter where any one else
! happens TO .je YOU are at the right spot
on this planet There is no better as
| surance for making one happy and con-
| tent
/ Probably the tennis games at Cannes
/ brought out the greatest assemblage OF
! fashionable people. The number of races
/ familiar from photographs. the names
| that were heretofore legends and had pc
come actual. the flash of color and the
|
| as il a human picture puzzle had oeeI
/ put on the boards of life and your TASK
/ was to assert the pieces
i The casino at Monte Carlo is traditional
! ard one expects to see there the glory of
womanly beauty and the dressmaher
/! art combined. to say nothing of a few
/, jewels thrown in. Well, the disappoint-
ment is rather overwhelming. AS almost
any one can gain admittance. there IS no
! attempt at smart dressing. and coat suits
with hats are the rule instead of the ex-
| ceptien.
/ In other days the casino have
1 been a gorgeous scene but today 1t is
! not. One becomes fascinated by the ex-
| change of money, the mental WEAKNESS
| of the croupier. who rakes in gold pieces
\ as though they were dead leaves, ana Tue
/ GOODNESS of the woman gamblers who lose
/ and win great sums of money with the
! EXPRESSION of a wooden Indian on their
! faces: but there is little ornate or fash
| ionahle dressing there.
: TIE scene is not first cousin even to
what one sees at the casino at DeauVliie
\ during the week OF the drahu TN -
| August
| II is in the sporting club that one gets
| brilliant dash OF Monte Carlo. which,
! coming after the casino. makes one
gaS0 If GlnoS. let us SdS. dl tuS
Hotel de Paris and waits until Il o CLOCK
to go to the sporting club, one is dropped
downward ay 50 many elevators, LED
through so many underground passa ses'
arrested and then waved onward by so
many uniformed fiunkeys. that one IS
prepared 10 be dazzled. And one is
Through these immense rooms. Win
their costly decorations in the best
French taste glide the privileged men
and women who play for high stakes
in life as well as on the table
There are no coat suits here, no
sacaue coats of rough tweed on the men.
All is slippered and decollete elegance
Here are Jewels of the kind that Sind
bad the Sailor must have found at
tached to the raw meat when he brought
it up from the nest OF diamonds fearis
like pigeon eggs. tiaras of emeralds ana
diamonds wondrously set in platinum:
ropes of pearls that were sluns arouna
the neck several times as a cnlin Wouio
sling paper roses on gala day. corsase
ornaments that modeStly took the piaces
of the corsage. sleeves half held up 10
the arm with bracelets of gems, black
and pink pearls that covered the nm
gers-such were the jewels that these
women wore.
ono has a feeling of provincialism 1T
having boasted of the jewels worn in the
horseshoe of the Metropolitan Opera
House on gala night. They were as
candle light to an electric cluster IL
comparison to these baubies.
The brilliancy which ends there at .
O. clock in the morning begins again at
o'clock the next day on the terrace in
front of Ciro's. where the fashionaoies
assemble for lunch Here the accom-
moda ting matre dhotel will whisper IN
your car the names of the great who
surround YOU if you do not happen to
know them.
You are glad that the brilliant young
countess who sits at the next table is
an American. for you like her face. her