The Washington times., 1919-04-13

eral quarterly allowance Max mysterousy disappeared
from the fashionable boarding school where he was
student The school authorities notified his father who
promptly put the best detectives in Paris on the case
After weeks search they found Max at midnight
seated in obscure little cafe in the Latin Quarter He
had Skfuy disguised his bOyh appearance with false
mousache and of the exaggerated costumes affected
by French students At the moment when the detec.
tves discovered him he spending his last gold piece
wine for curious party Of newfOund friends There
gypsy vionist two artists models professional
dancing girl shabby artist and the stout wife Of the
cafes prOprietOrsrange companions for schoObOy of
sixteenI
Max went back to his school books His indig.
nan father took him home and gave him the punishment
which he richly deserved But in this case the rod
might just well have been spared
few months later his father the great Sugar King
of France died leaving Max free to return to the fasc
nations of the life he had found so irresistible when he
away from school True, he was not to come into
possession of his share of the millions until he of age
But he found it easy wheedle large of his
indugent mother and brothers, and later he devised
ways of realizing in advance on his inheritance
Ask anyone who knew the gay side of Partisan life
during Max Lebaudys time and he will tell you that
neither before since has the city known a or
who cultivated all the vices to such appalling
Before his thrifty father had been in his grave
year this most prodiga Of hailed everywhere
along the boulevards the Sugar Bowl of Paris This
title tribute not to the way Lebaudys father had
amassed his fortune, but to the unparalleled hberality
with which the spending the pleasureOvng
companions who shared his debaucherieS.
To recount briefly tenth part of the astonishing incl
dents which Max Lebaudy crowded into the brief space
Of five years would fill volume. Perhaps of them
made baSe Paris open its eyes wider than the real Spanish
bulfght which he staged at expense just to
crafty the whm of the pretty actress with whom he
falling in love.
1t all started one night when Max was dining at
Maxims. This cafe he frequented more than
any other In fact it his lberality which raised it
from ObScurity to the commanding Importance among
Partisan restaurants it has held since 1t used to
be said that Max paved the floors of Maxm with gold
foot deep
As usual when Max Lebaudy dined, the party
small affair of three four On this particular
night no less than twenty and women reveing
In the hospitality of this prince of hosts The table about
which they sat not only the centre but the actual
of most of the gayety that filled the place for Max
according to his CUSTOM had hidden everybody in the
restaurant to drink his health in the best champagne
In the place of honor by Lebaudys side sat Mile
Marie Louise MarSy the reigning beauty of the day
few months before she had scored striking triumph
the stage of the COmede Franchise but had this not been
she would still have been the toast of Paris Her
physical charms had all the allure that has been the joy
of and the despair of less fortunate since Eve
ate the apple.
Her leap into fame had been almost coincident with
Max Lebaudys entry into the night life of Paris He had
met her evening at Maxim s-the night that he
astonished proprietor walters and guests by giving his
first order for champagne for everybody Since then