As a preliminary to next month's brief but hectic season at Deauville, the organizers of that celebrated seaside resort treated their patrons the other day to a bathing-dress parade. Moving gracefully. along a raised plank walk, manner }quins displayed all sorts of abbreviated costumes, some covered with. spangles to suggest the scales of fish, and others in the pale pink and blue tints associated in the French mind with sugared almonds of British manufacture. The bathing dresses of course were bone-dry. No one had any idea of what their appearance would be after they come cut of the sea, but again Jof course they were never design-fed for such a purpose. Nowadays, Jo woman "bather" at Deauville takes sun-baths and not sea-baths.
'There is nothing new in this. 'The woman who spends hours in reclining on the sands of the seashore was known to Baudelaire, who rather unkindly compared her to "pensive cattle with their eyes turn ed towards the horizon of the sea' but this kind of sun-bathing is appropriate to a style of dress which allows a well-turned leg to be displayed at any hour of the and it must be a great satisfaction to be able to "bathe" with 1 pink feather parasol and a long jerystal necklace. One of the most, assiduous attendants on the beach is a film-producer, Mf. Diamant-Berger. Ho is convinced that among the men and women of French sojeiety there must be some who, in youth, and grace, and beauty, are quite the equals' of professional actors and actresses and who would have the advantage of being fresh! and original. Accordingly, he will take films of all who, offer themselves. The films will be shown in the evening, and the public will be. asked to vote for the "revelations"
[they prefer. Good contracts await the winners,
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