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Show SHE WHO SETS WORLD'S STYLES ARRIVES IN IS. S. Like Fascinating Women, Their Charm Lies in Unexpectedness BY KALE. NEW YORK. Nov. 4. Don't expect any radical new styles to issue from Paris for the next two months I here aren't going to be any. Because Mademoiselle Cccile Sorol, star of tho Comedle Francais, and darling Of French theatre-goc r.s. w ho ha? set the styles not ony in clothe?, but in people and art as well for the past 20 years, will not be there to start them. She Is making a two months' tour of the 1'nited States and 'i,nada, and Prance must hold up lis sartorial activities until she returns. I have launched every new style for the past 20 years' she told me. "I give to Paris and Paris gives to the world. 1 am responsible tor the long skirts you arc struggling with today, and for the short ones you have just discarded. In I Paris, the dnnclng Crate is over and there is no reason for short skirts now." hri.ngs si (in.ooo ii vr. Asked to venture some Information Informa-tion about what is In the future for us, she refused. "St.vles arc like fascinating women." she replied, "their harm lies in th-ir unexpectedness, Clothes are never so Intriguing as when the are Illogical when they make you like them and wunt tlum. even though you disapprove disap-prove of them. "When I left Paris the finest artists, ar-tists, designers, jewelers and manufacturers manu-facturers submitted to mo their choicest materials to select from. All France took It upon herself to ee that the 31 costumes I brought lo thU country shout, i represent the very pir.nacle of French artistry in dress. "French people have great respei t for the taste of Americans. They know they want only the very best. And France does not want America to become Independent in the matter1 of fashion. 'The most startling thing I brought, with me is a hat of diamonds and pen lis. w orth $100,000." TJi gowns anil hat were .shippei lmnu'jlately to Canada In the care q two detective, and New York gets no glimpse of them until she returns! hi r for her month's engagement. When I :;uw hc-r at the Kits She was reclining on a chaise lounge, with the Knowing grace of a woman who reclines because it Is becoming, not, because she Is weary, attired in a mgligee of blue and silver brocade! and pink satin slippers outlined with pink swansdown About her throat were yards of pearls and on one hand she wore a' ring with an Vomcrald the size of a! plum on the other n pearl of similar; outline The only diamonds she wuroj were set in her pearl ear-rings Mr Till L BE U riFl L. Judged by our standards. nhu is not beautiful; bu. ehe has the vlvae-1 ity. i harm, assurance and the ready, wll thai characterise the women of her country "American women are beautiful.! stylish and distinguished.' she said. I They are so well groomed as well as well rowned. .New York Is won-, derful. The most vivid sensation of, beauty I ever experienced was when WS ame up the Mademoiselle Sorel Is tho first' visitor from Francs who has not com I Plained about our prohibition t '.' Why should you drink wine'.'" She asked. "There !s champagne in your air. j "Do not worry about stvles." she assured me in parting "I originated a number of things before I left, and when I return. I promise vou t'i most Startling inspirations of my career." |