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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 7, 1921)
ft. I ( y i r V V THE BEE: OMAHA, SUNDAY, AUGUST 7, 1921. O Hudson Summer Sale fill Beat Record for 1921 'Prince of Poets,'. Beloved 'Skylark' of Paris Latin Quarter Leaves Cafe Home of 20 Years for U. - g. Tour Wis. Sales Manage From Detroit, "in Utnana,ft Sees .oenerai Improvement, in Business Conditions " Summtr sales of Hudson and Es , tx automobiles, this year will beat last year's record, according tot O. H. McCornack, general sales mana ger of the Hudson Motor Car.cora Jiany, Detroit. He takes this to indicate that gen "tral business conditions are im- proving:. CLr;-!.:r-,T-r 5; r: T-,- Guy L. Smith, local dealer, is in 1 terested in the Essex anniversary of August 9. , ' Essex Sets Record. He calls attention to the fact that ; the fastest record for coast to coast motor travel was made by four Es ; sex cars last ?'ear. They were carry1 ing pouches-of hrstvxiass. mail by special pernnssion. pt the government. Two cars set out from "San Fran cisco, eastbound to New York, and tne other two from New York, west bound. : Car No. 1 reached New York in the wonderful time of 4 days, 14 hours and 43 minutes. The other three cars each established records of only a few hours longer all four of them toting the- best previous tecora Dy many hoursi Used Regular Gas. Driven by 25 different pilots, using whatever grade of gas .and oil was available, overcoming.1 road condi tions, in some cases terrible, .these Essex cars established a record, for reliability and,. endurance' hard to equal. No one has exceeded- this record in the year which elapsed since the nrst transcontinental run. . "n" '"""""' , ir- Golfers Presented Uf.i e n i vvun ocore Lards The above picture reDresents the latest fad in golf counters. These , little pasteboard checks presented to t it.. T T C. t U. ineretore, anything may By STERLING HEILIG. Pans, Aug. 6. Paul Fort, with his long hair tumbling negligently in graceful spit-curls over brow and ears, bid tcartul au revoir to the Latin quarter, and sailed for the United States on tour as Prince of Poets. Nobody told him about prohibi atf. DrtV9 Ti A GOOD CaR I y Approach I I DICK STEWART.) 1 ALIr I 2M FARNAM STMET wnip A putt J Vahupmobile . y " i.y.-gu.,. s are guaranteed to stop all arguments and eliminate the necessity of play ers keeping score. There is growing sentiment on the part of golf en- : thusiasts in favor of settling argu ments after each hole, and these little counters are a simple method of keeping count. happen were he other than Paul Fort but, being he, before he is half parched, and desiccated, all kinds of helping hands will surely reach out to the best-liked man of all the Latin quarter on his travels. He has the heart of a boy (or of a skylark) and the charity of a saint. One of his volumes is entitled simply "The Lark;" and you would swear, on reading its verses, that they nave been composed in the midst of wheat fields or in meadows dotted with bluebells. Yet it would be an error. He has scarcely seen a meadow or a wheat field: and to write his lark stuff requires less pious communion with ti For the prevention of automobile I nature than pious accumulation of ' thefts Michigan has enacted a law 'goblets. We Americans, who cherish . ... K ..U V n . . . .- a - fhnt ma i-.nl.. , J every car in the stMeAtje registered, t i but that a certificate of title must be t lW&M$!Zow??rJ&!. -the secrctary so dearly everything that is excep tional and rare, will be charmed by 'Paul Fort's singular distinction of having frequented the same Latin not be something beautiful to an nounce THE PRINCE OF POETS THE ONE AND ONLY FRENCH POET WHO HAS PASSED HIS LIFE AT THE CAFE! For 20 Years. 1 The establishment is poetically called "The Lilac Close." It is the most calm, correct and cultured cafe of the quarter. In it, PaulFort has led, for 20 years, an existence as regular as literary and adorned with gobiets. ' You should see the Prince of Poets in his home surroundings. He enters the cafe. He seats himself worthily at a marble-topped table. A deft garcon worshipfully fetches the swift goblet, caraffe of ice water and two lumps of sugar. Confidentially, he pours the divine ambrosia, green in color, with a fra grance of peregoric; and the water, mixing with it, turns it cloudy milky with opalescent glints, the dying glory of all the greens in the world. Whence the homely ex pression, "to strangle a parrot." The poet gravely sips. He pours in more water thought fully, replacing the displacement he has sipped. He sips ' again. He pours,, again. Ihe milky-green 'quarter cafe for 20 yearsl Will it clears and the opal fires glint brighter. His disciples, worshiping, draw around the Prince of Poets. Thus Paul Fort has written 15 vol umes. Turns to Bitters. When France was invaded in 1914 Absinthe was put against the wall and shot. Blameless and mild, our hero turned to simple bitters, amer picons, cremes de cacao and whatever, never doubting in his heart of a boy that the real thing would return in tfs good time, as it has done. With this same optimism he now risks the parched alkali sands of the Great American Desert to lecture happily and with emotion of his be loved France, with wit and intelli gence of French poetry and litera ture. And when you hear him, you will not need to understand his language. You will understand Paul Fort, and it is enough. Because, kindly ob serve that other men in France and elsewhere have entered a cafe, seated themselves at a marble-topped table, and instructed the garcon to bring one of them things; and the garcon's face did not light up with love, and no throng of disciples gathered round to vorship. it takes a raul tort to draw a Paul Fort crowd. Here is a man so silly, simple, kind and sweet of heart that he would rather help another man suc ceed no matter who! than make his own success! If this be poetry, make the most of it. Lives Poetry. Paul Fort lives poetry as well as writes it. And this lived stuff is so rich and rare in the world that real tough men are singularly touched by it. We Americans, who appreciate so highly everything that is exception al and rare, will find Paul Fort equally phenomenal in his written word. Continuing our announcements, one might make another poster, like this: "The Prince of Foets; the One and Only French Toet Who Writes His Foctry in Frose! In other words, he writes poetry without seeming to do so. The heart of it is poetry, but the form is sky larking. It is not what the pre tentious noodles call vers libre; no, no, for it is art, and has real verve, real freshness of sentiment, a frank and beautiful joy of living, and an ingenuous ardor to sing and laugh! Paul Fort is typographical. He starts a new line every two lines, then hides two rhymes in these two lines, very tricky. It is not verse. It is not prose. It is Paul Fort. Praises of France. One of his volumes is entitled, "What a Pleaseure It Is To Me To Be French!" His most beautiful things are praises of France. Yet, they say, he never quit Pans, all hi life, except to make a trip, once, to Senlis, and, another time, to spend three days at Marolles-on-Huropoix. To Paul Fort, the countryside is the Luxembourg garden, in the Latin quarter, by the Odeon. True, they say, also that it is the most beauti ful garden in the world. Before he sailed, I went to see the prince of poets. There he sat, intoning verses, with his crowd around him. in that Bo hemian cafe, the Closerie, which is so clean, calm, neat and motherly They were not his own verses. It is always 10 to one that they're some other fellow s verses or one-act play or song or essay on progress in art, Not to realize this is to miss the goodness of Paul Fort. Also "If we hold forth in a cafe," he says, "it is because most of us have no parlor." I have seen Paul Fort protect long-haired American boys and en courage soulful-eyed American girl students, tense, super-sensitive, self doubting yet all ardor, when they ask themselves: Am I a poet? Am I a painter? Am I a playwright Have I found something beautiful in art?" Low-Toned Golden Voice. Paul Fort tells them yes. Or, certainly, perhaps. For fear of discouraging one single obscure genius of tomorrow, the Prince of Poets is willing to drop every business of his own. to ex amine, read aloud, discuss, snow forth and stand by any fellow's ef fort. For sure he will read their stuff aloud and he is the most beautiful reader in the "world. His low-toned golden voice throws glamor. The lone lad, who feared that folks would laugh at him, hears his own work thus glorified, and thrills throughout his being! Elected by Acclamation. Why is he Prince of Poets? . He is Prince of Poets by election, aye, by acclamation! Ten years, successively, they have elected him unanimously. Who? Why, the poets, all the poets! Who's a poet? In France you are a poet when you have had a poem printed. There are hundreds of them, deft and graceful, putting into words the songs in their hearts. If poetry be a thing of pure im agination, wherein the soul may show itself rather as it is than as it might wish to be, then Paul Fort is Prince of Poets. 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