FRANCE: Tremors

Outwardly France was calm. Bitter winter was at hand, but so long as the soft autumn days lasted, people tried to forget. Madame Suzanne Schreiber, attending the annual Radical Party Congress in Nice, splashed like hundreds of others in the sea. As the Paris art season opened, Modernist Painter Man Ray's Le Beau Temps (Fair Weather) caused a mild buzz. A world congress of magicians bemused the Paris public in acts—one of which, said a wag, should be called the comrade and the fellow traveler. On Montmartre the celebration of the grape harvest turned into a fancy dress carnival.

But while...

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