the great attraction of the piece, consisting, as it did, of three

POSES PLASTIQUES, each of which represented the same dumb and

puissant fairy. Then one fine morning amid his grand success, when

Bordenave, who was mad after advertisement, kept firing the Parisian

imagination with colossal posters, it became known that she must

have started for Cairo the previous day. She had simply had a few

words with her manager. Something had been said which did not

please her; the whole thing was the caprice of a woman who is too