Once again the illustrious name of the Comédio Frangaise appears; in the Paris law list as plaintiff, time against a charming golden aired actress with a pearly smile, ho is best known to playgoers as Maguette Duflos, but who now calls Herself Huguette ex-Duflos (which ix way of reminding the public that the does not like her husband any:
re) and whose real name is Hermando Meurs. Like Sarah Bern-Aardt, Coquelin, and other stage celebrities of the past, she is being Sued for breach of contract, she having not only refused to act any. mucro at the Comédie, but having deliberately appeared in a revue at the Porte Saint-Martin theatre, The rules and regulations ce nected with the Napoleonic tablishment of the Comédie Fran oise were very carefully framed to Prevent actors and actresses belonging to it from breaking away and competing with it, by playing Jat other Paris theatres, before they had completed at least 20 years, service. These rules always have been upheld by the law courts, an even Surah Bernhardt and Coquelin had to pay dearly for their liberty. /Huguette ex-Duflos "carried on" for 17 years and then decided it was [time to get out. She is being sued. for ¥. $00,000 damages, and ber counsel says that in those 17 years [her total earnings from the Comé- die were Fr. 74,000. No wonder she wanted a "rise."
The Hope Eternal Passing through the Autumn Sa-lion at the Grand Pal the extraordinary rent majority of the paintings to be een at this manifestation of modern fort, one sometimes is led to, con-Jeeture as to what kind of an oxhhibitfon could be made out of the works rejected. Tu addition to those Cly members of the society, who were entitled to be "hung," 4,800 canvases were submitted to the hanging committee, who accepted only 800. If the rejected ones were ily worse than those now being displayed on the walls for the edificaton of visitors, they must have been {terrible indeed. The vogue of cubism and other art fads must have encouraged thousands of otherwise harmless people to spread colour} upon canvas in the hope of being' ble to say that they "exhibited" at such and such a Salon.
One of the rejected is " hatter, [who began his experiment in art at the age of 79. He found his evenings long, and, just to fill up his time, he began to paint. He sells tome of his works. Others he gives The Pleasure of Being "Stung"
Mme, Dumaine, whose death has taken place at Fontainebleau, was. one of the few remaining old-fash-foned independent hotel-keepers. She refused to fall in with the modern methods of business, or to} tarn her concern into a limited com-any and modernise it, as she easily, might have done. She preferred to} carry on in the old way and pick and choose her customers. If they, did not like the way in which her hotel was run, they always were free to go elsewhere. She once was sent, for by a very well-known personage, who complained of the bill, and her: reply, delivered in excellent English, wasi—"My lord, I did not ask you to come to my establishment,"
Her hotel is anything but pala! as the word nowadays is applied to hotels, but has an air of bourgeois respectability rather reminding one of old prints of hotels in the time of Lousi Philippe. It always has provided good food in its own way, Dut the most remarkable thing about prices, which are simply [colossal and quite equal to anything the same kind perpetrated in a Paris restaurant, or oven at Deau- Cht ville. Mme. Dumaine wanted a lientéle of wealthy people only, and she obtained it. Distinguished per-fons touring in motor-ears used to to her establishment to show that wey "knew the ropes." The pro-cet of paying an exorbitant bill to some people is an attraction ther than the reverse.
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