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American magazine Section of fiearst’s Sunday American, Atlanta, August 17, m Copyright, 1913, by the 7. Star Cempnriy. Qrcat Britain Rights Resent a 44 Every year the wicked extrava gance grows! Fortunes are thrown to Folly t and all for—a bubble!** ff 0°M* & xtim “The Sky’s the Limit,’’ the Slogan of Society ’s Frivolous Summer Capital, Which Aims to Break This Year in Waste ful Foolish Frolics All Its Fortune-Squandering Records. flOLLY flying on the wings of the west wind" is the New port season as seen by a prominent diplomat spending the Summer in the heart of the Circus Set. The season may have been late in getting into its accustomed stride, but since Mrs. Stuyvesant Fish’s Fairy Ball ushered in August, Folly and Ex travagance have been rampant. In the words of one of Folly’s band, "We are out to break all records in foolishness, extravagance and scandal. We are limited only by the sky above.” Newport, of course, has a reputation to keep up. Each season the limit for extravagance and hilarity has been raised until at last the "no-limit” stage has been reached. And each year the pace has been set by a different group of young matrons. At one time It was Mrs. Oliver Belmont, Mrs. Bish and Mrs. Hermann Oelrichs who started the ball and kept it rolling. East year Mrs. "Neely” Vanderbilt and Mrs. Belmont rivalled each other until it seemed that- either one or the other would become bankrupt in ideas if not wealth. This Summer the social reins are firmly held in the hands of Mrs. Robert Goelet, Mrs. Craig Biddle and Mrs. Dick Stevens, and the wealth of Midas is at their back. Money is no object with these young matrons when It is a question of putting the entertainments of other years in the shade. Mrs. Fish’s bidding for Folly’s favor started the extravagant entertainments of the year. The Circus Set is still talking of the Fairy Ball. Naturally Mrs. Fish wanted something that mere money alone could not produce. Oriental effects were ta booed, for Mrs. Xapderbilt reached the summit last year in that field. No one has ever tried a fairy ball before in Newport. The everyday lives led by the members of the Circus Set are more like fairy tales than real truth any way. Jewels whose total value would have put the diamond mines of Kimberley to shame were gathered in th6 new ballroom at Crossways the night the Fairies held sway. Their value was so great that Mrs. Fish had a dozen plain-clothes detectives on guard to protect her guests. There was the Queen of the Fairies in crown and robe of jewels. Diamonds hung from her gown and draped her figure so that she scintillated with every move. "Two million dollars could not du plicate those jewels,” said one man whose father made a fortune in the diamond business. In keeping with the extravagance of the costumes the favors were costly beyond anything ever given in New port. Fairies cannot be treated as common mortals. The beautiful ball room and the other rooms on the lower floor - re free formed into veritable fairy bowers at a cost that only an ex- 'pert accountant could compute. The day after this triumph Ihenew Triple Alliance, as Mesdames Biddle, Stevens and Goelet call themselves, met in solemn conclave, Urged by Folly, they decided that they must go Mrs. Fish one better. "And this will be hard,” said Mrs. Biddle. The Andrew Morelands of Pittsburgh and the Charlie Welshes of Philadel phia had made bids which had to be carefully considered. With all this extravagance and with so much originality to outdo, Is it any wonder the Triple Alliance looks wor ried? And what is the result? Mrs. Goelet will wind up her series of dances with a Living Picture dance, at which every member of the Circus Set is to repre sent some famous picture. As any thing is proper where Art is concerned, any picture but the "September Morn” will be voted eligible for reproduction. Folly whispers as she waits for higher ***** A •pHOX® By CAMPBELL STUDIO. MRS. ROBERT GOELET. Who Proposes a “Living Picture” Dance. PHOTO . BY CAMPBELL STUDIO MRS. CRAIG BIDDLE. Whose Extravagance Makes Even Folly Gasp bids for her favor that this will be one of the most stupendous hits of the year and one that will be most difficult to rival in extravagance and excitement. Mrs. Stevens, who has all the wealth of the Stevens family of Hoboken at her command, places before Folly her scheme to take over Easton's Beach for two nights, going Mrs. Belmont one bet ter. For two nights at a cost of from $50,000 to $100,000 the new Coney Isl and will belong to Folly's band. Dia monds will flash and pearls glimmer up and down the roller coaster and round and round the merry-go-round. What is there left for Folly to wait for? Has she not been given every bid that human can think of? With the close of the season she will have re ceived at her feet more than one mill ion dollars, more than one ruined repu tation, more than one broken home. There are dozens of balls and routs not listed here, more than one can count. There will be nights when the Circus Set will go from one dance to another, and then on to a third—times when it will be staggering home in broad day light, with priceless jewels hanging crookedly on haggard figures and fram ing haggard faces. But what would you? Folly flies high when there is no limit but the sky. is * A MRS. DICK STEVEMg, Who Tells “Folly” She Will Take Over Newport’s , Coney Island for a Two Nights’ Run.