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Title: The real Latin quarter
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: Smith, Frank Berkeley, 1869-
Subjects: Artists
Publisher: New York, Funk & Wagnalls Co.
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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g andromping and dancing along down the Boul Miche to the taverne, for a bockand some ecrivisse. With youth, good hu-mor, and a louis, all the world seems gay !69 CHAPTER IVBAL DES QUATZ ARTS Of all the balls in Paris, the annual Baldes QuatV Arts stands unique. Thiscostume ball is given every year, in thespring, by the students of the different ate-liers, each atelier vying with the others increation of the various floats and corteges,and in the artistic effect and historical cor-rectness of the costumes. The first QuatV Arts ball was givenin 1892. It was a primitive affair, comparedwith the later ones, but it was a success,and immediately the Quatz Arts Ballwas put into the hands of clever organizers,and became a studied event in all its ar-tistic sense. Months are spent in the cre-ation of spectacles and in the costuming ofstudents and models. Prizes are given forthe most successful organizations, and ajury composed of painters and sculptorspasses upon your costume as you enter the
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ball, and ifyou do notcome up totheir artisticstandard you are un-ceremoniously turned ~*away. Students whohave been successfulin getting into theQuatV Arts for yearsoften fail to pass into thisbewildering display of beauty andbrains, owing to their costumenot possessing enough artistic or-iginality or merit to pass the jury. It is, of course, a difficult matter for onewho is not an enrolled member of one of thegreat ateliers of painting, architecture, orsculpture to get into the QuatV Arts,and even after ones ticket is assured, youmay fail to pass the jury. Imagine this ball, with its procession ofmoving tableaux. A huge float comesalong, depicting the stone age and theprimitive man, every detail carefully stud-ied from the museums. Another repre-71 sents the last day of Babylon. One seesa nude captive, her golden hair and whiteflesh in contrast with the black velvet litteron which she is bound, being carried by adozen stalwart blackamoors, followed bycamels bearing nude slaves and t

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