A group of well-known personalities holidaying at Monte Carlo on the fashionable French Riviera in August 1930. At the back on the left in the white hat is Mr Robert Garden, father of the famous operatic star, Miss Mary Garden. In front, left to right are: Mr Jack Wilson, Miss Doris Chapman, Mr Ian Smeterlin (the famous pianist), Mrs Smeterlin, Miss Helene Garden, Miss E. Garden (sisters of Miss Mary Garden) and Mr Noel Coward, 'whose new comedy is 'Private Lives''.