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Show J yvette Guilbert s? Fete at Vauje J Yvette Guilbert has just given a fete at Vaux that was the most notable thing this quiet old town has seen since that other fete given there by Nicholas Fouguet, minister of finance to Louis XIV., and immortalized by Dumas in "The Vicomte de Brage-lonne." Brage-lonne." The festive Yvette's admirers In Paris were not aware that she was given to works of charity, were considerably con-siderably astonished when they got invitations in-vitations to come down to her country place at Vaux in aid of a sort of old folks' home she had established there. They went en masse to see what the singer of naughty songs was up to in this new role, says a London telegram to the New York Press. They found Yvette at her gayest in the midst of a great throng of villagers vil-lagers dressed in their Sunday best. There were booths and races and all that sort of thing, but "the Guilbert" herself was the chief show. She insisted in-sisted on making an address of wel-com wel-com she started the donkey races; she presided over a lottery for a meek-Jooking-calf; she awarded prizes; she played the hand organ; she got into all sorts of mischief and crowned the day by running her tongue out as far as it could be made to go just as the ohotographer was getting a snapshot YVETTE SHOWS HER CONTEMPT FOR THE PHOTOGRAPHER. at her. The resulting photograph shown herewith is probably unique. The Paris folk, who flocked to Vaux by train, automobile, carriage and boat, suspected that Yvette might have had a little advertising in view, but they found her so busy with her beloved country folk that she scarcely had time to look at the city gueswt They found also that she had a reputation repu-tation in the neighborhood, not for wicked songs, but for good works, j They learned, furthermore, that she la writing a play. |