Evening star., 1925-05-25

the Underworld. raStlIne,
Mary Pickford cocaine.
toughs and night life, Paris contains
every one of these in marvellous
abundance, yet colors them all with
The glamoured careSs of her own IL
fuSionS. Every one agrees about that,
Especially women. 1t il Paris, the city
Pf straight streets. shining squares,
queer murders, mad taNis ana un-
ShaVen police. Ii is Paris, wherein
sou may meet men grouped together
Nhom in any other city you would
hot ever see within miles of the same
y. NJ. c. A. smoking concert. All are
here, crooks and crusaders. daGoes
end deadheads, princes, poets and
Americans.
: And in Paris YOU may see many
beautiful young women from England
and the Americas, and you may see
the ghosts of many beautiful young
women from England and the Amer
icas. and you may hear tell OF them
thus and thus, the wa they lived
with laughing eyes and swift feet,
the way they died within the tremor
Of an eYelash. which is a way women
bave. But not of death this tale. but
of life, telling of Consuelo. the dancer;
for who in this world was ever more
vividly, more magnificently alive than
that golden lady. she who was called
the dancer of Paris? A notable COM
pliment. you understand. in q city
shat has : many dancers as there
were jewels in the caskets of the
queen of Sheba, or so they say.
: Now of ConSuelo Cox il was said
that she was a 100 per cent American,
that she was 4 credit to America and
an ornament TO France, that she was
as lovely girl as YOU could wish to
see anywhere. that she had pep. that
T. 3l,.A ii
eyer stood at attention when speaking
70 her, that she wore clothes so that
French women looked like English
women beside her, that she had the
fnest collection of chinchila> coats Of
any woman outside of Los Angeles
that her ankles were so slim that, she
appeared TO have no visible means of
support. that her teleSra phic address
was per ardua ad astrakhan, that men
were as minutes in her life and that
she danced as no one had tver danced
before.
..nd so she danced, the Dancer of
l'aris with the enchanted feet, every
night at the Sale Mandra CORA which
Is IN the Rue Caumartin. a street
InIch IN favor among these who are
INJURED TO the pursuit of pleasure.
! \ girl of quality was Consuelo 1.-the
and fleet and laughing; a girl like
tall flower in q wind that respects
the poise of a tall flower, for what is
hfe but wind, and did mortal eye
ever see shaken the poise of that girl?
golden girl she was, to be sure, as
Slim as fairy: and of her enchanted
feet great poet has written that
they were as the gold dust that lies
on the floors of the dungeons of gay
ETY..
And so. classicauy, romanticallv.
with hair like the mimosa in an
Italian garden, which Is yellow,
sprinkled with fresh gold, she danced
at the Sale Mandragora, with honor
And without very much reproach:. for
Was there ever an age OF a country
In which beauty could not break
promises the more lavishly because of
the lances that were broken in quest
Of it?
But, say, that girl is hard"' some
of her countrymen said. She's as
bard as a diamond"
! And what, dear heaven do men
know of women?" would cry Consuelo
with extraordinary contempt, and her
voice would float and flutter round a
room like a bird with silver wings,
for it was the voice that belonged to
the enchanted feet, the voice of a
syncopating dancer, with a cry and a
Hlt and a wave and a laugh in it.
4. Consuelo. Oh. Consuelo.
Now it came to pass. as things will,
that Noel Anson, a young English
plan. who had spent his time since
the war in acquiring an international
reputation for buying horses that
only won races when he had sold
them again for next TO nothing-that
Young Arson, in his wanderings
about Paris, one day came upon what
he called a very superior flash of
charity that had lit a very dark hole
back of Mont-Parnasse.
AN almost blind artist, by Cad,
with an incredibly lavish quantity of