Show This Paris Paris' IS By HAZEL REAVIS PARIS Feb 23 AP lf the best of the dressmakers wanted to sell tickets to their style openings twice a year they would T make a pile of money no doubt But they dont eLLoris are the rae one way to see seethe the most important shows iowa of what Paris hopes Is going to be worn The Invitations are no longer cas- cas issued moreOVer They icy are U U h e h er t to ge get if U mUI not a goon gOOd reason for beIng oe- oe lug Ing invited Down on the corner of the engraved Invitation card which Is probably delivered by hand by a livened footman Is a little phrase which means men will please wear dinner jackets and ladles ladies dress themselves accordingly The spectacle is technically a rehearsal re- re what Paris calls a repetition repetition tion generale I It Is a glorified rehearsal rehearsal re- re how however ver with soft music flowers too many waiters waiters wait wait- ers and unreliable gilt chairs with spindle legs Now along comes Maggy the ti-ic di- di of a new nev house In the ti-ic Champs to make all former repetitions look boarding school high jinx Maggy 1 had three jazz bands where one has done before She had more guests more models more mannequins more celebrItIes and more compliments than have ever been assem assembled bled before for a repetition generals generale In her modernistic pale green salon sa- sa lon Ion with her m modern dern organization working smoothly under her capable capable- modern hands Maggy shattered all records s for fOl previous Ill the world of haute couture Maggy rang the bell such a smart crack with her hel modernistic mode de Paris that a lot lotof of her competitors went to the telephone the next morning and extended plans I d. d their shows That means bigger and better openings and a few more francs on the cost ot of dresses Y Your correspondent m as as th they y say sar at the fronts nan had tile ti-is best back backseat backseat seat at Maggy's bigger and better opening It was rIght eside the ti-ic three low lov steps backstage which the mannequins must mount before they take their taking breath dive Into the limelight There Is a a. smooth running velvet vel- vel vet curtain manipulated by a a. determined determined deter deter- mined girl with a watch Every minute half she yanks tile the curtain and another girl and another creation creation crea- crea tion steps into the yawning cavity of light Once In that glare of light under the greedy eyes of a hundred buyers buy buy- ers era a poor little style idea has as much chance ot of remaining exclusive as a butterfly has of keeping alive In a furnace Mannequins are temperamental creatures who get as scared on a a. first night On this particular night some of them had to be started oft off with a push when their turn came The nervousness soon wore off but the first few dives were like Ilke cold water wa- wa ter In the early morning The heckling from the stag line was bad that night Experienced mannequins do not mind the remarks remarks re- re marks from the herd that gangs up In one cornet corner to twirl Its mustaches mus- mus and polish polish-i its monocles But the beginners rs hats hate it Its It's i an old game but Frenchmen never seem to of 01 it t. t J J |