MONACO: Reorganized

“Going to Monte? Really? You know it is FRIGHTFULLY passé.”Such has been the comment of smart folk, for several seasons, to anyone who proposed a visit to once smart Monte Carlo. Of course the crowds at the Casino tables have been as large as ever—but unfashionable. What to do? The families of Blanc, Radziwill, Bonaparte, chief stockholders in the Casino, have been puzzling for some time. They are now trying an experiment: Miss Elsa Maxwell. Miss Maxwell is very large, very mirthful, very well known in the U. S. colony at Paris. There must, naturally, be a number of ladies thereabouts, who, for a consideration,will secure for traveling families of U. S. babbitts an entrée of sorts in Paris. Whether Miss Maxwell actually frowns upon this practice would be hard to say. Her entrée, at least, is still tolerably smart. She is just the woman, decided the Blancs, the Radziwills, the Bonapartes, to freshen up “Monte,” to get the right people going there again. Despatches told last week that Miss Maxwell is now in Monte Carlo, at a salary of $50,000 per year, and possessed of a bonus of 400 shares of Casino stock. Officially, it is announced, she will “reorganize Monte Carlo.”