Show VI S ITO RS VIE IN SCANTY CANTY S ATTIRE BATHERS TAKEOFF TAKE OFF ff t COSTUMES Iff Disrobe on Beach Behind Sunshades Swimming Suits Very Brief By J. J MAC MORRISON GREGOR-MORRISON United Press Staff Correspondent Sept 1 United annual anatomIcal Press Thc congress is in full swing Never be before fore has there been such an attendance attendance attend attend- ance accord according Ins Ins- to the hotel proprietors proprietors pro pro- and the beach tenders and never before has there been such a display o of nature A few years ears ago the sight o of a comely comel woman ii in a tight fitting piece one bath bathing Ins Ins- suit would have have caused a panic Today the once traditional bathing robes and n a pair o of flapping bloomers would have hare the fame for Deauville has apparently decided to out Lido Lido and ami when It comes to nudity the tho italian primitives and the phrase Is used have havo nothing on the popular French rench re- re sort It Is even reported that the police poUce were asked to intervene during the first of the tho summer hot spells It was a group s-roup of Victorian mid tourIsts tourists tour tour- who caused the trouble Not Not accustomed to ways was and forms they protested violently when the bathers were seen talc talc- in ing off their clothes behind umbrellas on the beach sands instead in- in stead ot of using the more cramped Quarters of the bathing houses SOME FLED IN HORROR The average visitor took the Incident incident In- In as nothing extraordinary but buta a few decided that Deauville was a place o of vicious attraction and nd left the following da days accompanied by their flapper daughters They Informed Informed In- In formed the poll Police e that they would write to the papers about it it Had they stayed a little longer lonser they would have witnessed even elL elLmore more astonishing evidence o of DeaU- DeaU transition since the war It It Is not uncommon for the bathers tu to take off their costumes as soon as they are In three feet ot of water water- the beach authorities Insist upon this depth o of and propriety there have even been cases ot of the discarded dis carded s-armen s garments s being lost Jost and couples spending hours awaiting sundown so that they could enter their hotels without causing a scan scan- dal the first hot spell came an unusual series o of novel beach amusements The Tho latest said to to have been brought from Poland or or perhaps It was by lola Negri consists ot of the human pyra- pyra mid COCKTAILS A LA NEPTUNE Someone Is always picked tor or the tho innocent victim and placed at the tho bottom o of the pile with a bevy o of the best looking girls o of the resort ready to mount upon his back Tue scene takes place In about a foot of water and when the Is high enough someone pulls the victims victim's vie vic tims tim's feet reet from under him and and- roars with laughter at Its latest splash It took the swimming however to provide the climax ot of the tho Deauville season Little raft raft- like trays tras carried Manhattans Manhattans Manhat- Manhat tans and Martinis to the bathers At each corner o of the tray was was was' placed a tOY balloon which provided provid- provid ed amazing stability and the trays were pulled across the ripples by cords tossed out by the waiters The innovation didn't last long Ions the walters waiters complaining o of loss o of time and a tendency on the part o of the bathers to forget their tips upon reaching the shore if Deauville styles are any criterion cri- cri tenon terion as to the tho trend of l French art wo we are to have a period o of on Instead o of like cube designs designs de- de signs the majority o of the feminine bathing garbs s-arbs bore stripes ot of dazzling daz- daz color and obliqueness Many were fitted with detachable capes used only when promenading on the sands The capes however were more or less a feminine bluff as they were so designed as as to leave just as much o of the wearers wearer's charms visible as did the abbreviated abbreviated costume |