The New York herald., 1922-06-04

the meal tremendously. One may imagine
that the young women asked him innu-
merable questions about himself and en-
joyed, secretly, his bashfulness and rather
solemn consideration of events around
him. There is a room for dancing at this
cafe and Boris Is known to be a moder-
ately good dancer. All young women Of
the Montmartre are immoderately good
at this diversion. 1t does not run In the
record that they danced, but decidedly It
is possible.
There was, 1t is certified, an exchange
Of names. the Prince remaining IN.
Boris"
Thus identified, the young women were:
Claudine-the Mile. Sueur, who had
come from Passy to find work and who
had been engaged by M. Plaudon, one Of
the artists working on the great painting
for the Pantheon, to pose for his various
figures of Red Cross nurses, ambulance
drivers and other feminine helpers in the
war. She had knack Of wearing clothes,
M. Plaudon declared, that more expert
enced models seemed to have lost. Mile.
Claudine was very joyous at her success,
now four weeks old, and gayly related
that she was earning as much as twenty
francs day.
Mile. Felix, also a model, only two
months in the Quarter, but already sue
cessful among artists who liked to por-
tray schoolgirls. Mile. Felix was very en-
thusiastic about her future and asked the
stranger-M. Boris-if he, being so SOL
emn and sedate, thought there could be
anything amiss about her being q model
rather than dressmaker's errand girl.
Suzanne-Mlle. Tilly, who was studying
in the atelier of M. de Migurac, the
scenic artist Mile Suzanne had displayed
marvellous talent, one of the other girls
confided to NJ Boris. for sketching ami
mails and houses and things during her
last year at school. Her parents had
scraped up all they could to give her
course under the great scene painter.
She hoped she would be able some day to
do sets for the opera-the Comique at
least.
did M. Boris think the men artists
ever would allow girl to work with them
on those wonderful scenes they did for
the Maeterlinck and the Bergerac plays?"
And the fourth was Cecille, Mile.
Guerin, from the Lorraine. She arrived
in Paris only that day and the little
gathering of the four at the cafe was in
her honor. She had found lodgings at
the same modest hotel which sheltered
three young chums had become four.
Mile. Cecille did not know what she was
going to do. She had to have employ
ment, as her parents had lived in the dew
astated district and their savings had
been exhausted. One brother had gone to
work on the trans. Now that she had
finished school-its first stages-she, too,
must become a breadwinner.
'1t 10 delightful, M. Boris, you should
give this banquet for our little Cecille
here tonight. All of us together could
not have purchased such an elaborate din
ner for her."
Certainly this was an occasion and
company to interest any Prince-even one
with Czardom confronting him. Almost
any one would have pondered the future
of these four blithesome young women
all recently escaped schoolgirls. whole
some, ambitious, carefree and confident.
And all at the beginning Of whatever
drama or tragedy life in Paris held in
store for them.
A canvass of their ages disclosed that
all were In the after months OF their six
teenth birthdays. The future King was
himself little more than 20.
1t is Mile. Claudine, now one of the
most sought after of the models whose
work is done mostly for American art
lists in Paris, who tells the rest of the
story to all who come to her to hear it
over and over again:
"He was a most sympathetic young
man. not at all sad, but little wistful.
And he was SO earnest. He liked to
laugh with us and soon we we're trying
our best to draw from him really joyful
smile. He was so gallant and thoughtful
he put us all at our ease and we said to
one another what delightful reception
he was giving us for our new friend.
"He amused himself by drawing out OF
us all our ambitions. He talked of art
and models and the stage as II he we're
familiar with all three. And when we
compared ages and he learned that we all