Evening star., 1921-03-20
STERLING HEILIG WRITES OF CARNIVAL
AND THE UNUSUAL PROFESSIONS AT NICE

OF the new rich" made up like
burly millionaircs in high silk hats.
enormous watch chains over padded
corporations" and dress suits OF
golden yellow cloth. American jazz
dancing tcraZc of rich hotels) is carl
catured by the foXtrotters. twenty
youths in evening clothes and twenty
sprightly Shopgirls in absurd dance
frocks all hiding their Identities IN
foxes heads-big hairy artificial heads
that cost the fctes committee dear.
Behind them. the pajama dances. Ger
tain dances. truly, in tiowered satin
pa jana costumes, started the story
in the families of Nice that the rich
hotels are full of it,
Envy and malice in the group Of
"thc Compla ainers" Well dressed m"u
Call. as they walk in the procession
acting. squahhlinE among themselves
raise arms to heaven. crying in pro
test: II am no jobard tcasy markE
will not nay it, This cravat is NO.
Lyon silk" The service is worth
less" Il paid half for the same good
in Paris. And rich girls vocifcrat'
Your curling iron is cold Il ncN'
saw such tea DO YOU call that DIR
cleaning" ''Zut. Zut, Zut.'
There are the "undesirablcs, ~
"cranks" tas butterfly chasers). ana
group of lady gamblers" in eNa"-
geratcd gowus of London. Paris ana
New York. whosa hat trimmings a.
vast "fetishes'' or luck -hringers. Tho"
are the room hunters. good jokes
the tourists There is even Madelor
sweet Madelnn of the soldiers song
padded grotrsuuelE to vast huN"
p~oportionS.
They lampoon even themselves. r
topical group Of tho big hands Wa
thn success Of the second process" u.
''Wa're all there They are ~
N'cois themselves. in false faces "
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dollar. And tho foat iuet nrecc'
them is tho ""uttcr OF god " - s"'-
ciIvart SpIa shed with gold piece
the slime. wherefrom q goose emeres7'
:: x s:
THE goose has a ticket. We
overwhelmed with tickets.
cannot do anything in Nice with
Il ticket aud TO lose one may me-
serious trouble.
You must have cloakroom tic's'
for your hat and coat-can't go int
the club or bacrarat with either. Y
go in aud out of the Casino YOU mus
have ticket. and another for -
club and restaurant. and Yet anot
for. the gambling game Of boulc. u
there in plain view, but ropcd Of
and YOU need a ticket.
Quite another set OF tickets ar"
duired for the Casino OF the j,
none OF which are good for the b:
carat in either To gamble higl
than 100 francs YOU must show yoi
passport.
Also YOU must have your idenii
cation card and residence tax rec"
to breatl e the air The take de II
receipt Tor your hotel is quite ap:
Everywhere you go people pr
tickets on yo"-ticket for your "a
at the tea. ticket for your chair
sit in the sun. ticket for the G..
concerts ticket for the tennis. tic'
to see the hydroplane passengers =
splashed. one night ! counted foi
teen tickets in my pockets. TlT'
most OF them were out of date. J.
it is a iickl;sh thing to destroy
ticket at Nice. You might tear
the wrong one.
You might tear up money.
tickets look like money and the m"
ey looks like tickets Your pocke
bulge with paper money. But T.
tickets are clean and the paper mons
isn't The Chips also. Of bac"rf
and boule and Monte Carlo roule''
fauite current as money! are heaut
fully clean and pretty. but they ii
not give the thrill of gold before IN
war-thc rivers and cascades Of go-'
rolling over tie green tables.
None OF il seems like real montE.
Not to us. no: but to them. yes
the natives of Nice before the Wal