The period in question, apart from the war and various internal crises, represented, for one section of society, the upper bourgeois class,

a period of euphoria, carelessness and eccentricity that coincided with the Belle Epoque of the turn of the century in the rest of Europe. Athens was receptive to this new trend. Social receptions, artistic performances, night rides in Phaliron - supplied with electric power by now - entertainment in seaside coffee shops or restaurants but also in other premises, walks with the music of the municipal orchestra in the background, vaudevilles with foreign artists, light-hearted revues (a genre in its heyday), made up the atmosphere of the Athenian Belle Epoque.