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THE BEE: OMAHA, SUNDAY, AUGUST 7, 1921.
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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. .
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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
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Vahupmobile
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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
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, 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.
And now he goes to America 1
' I had a flush of pride for Paul,
when wc were taking the flashlight
photograph that last evening at the
Closerie des Lilas.
The sheep scrabbled, yes; but th
shepherd was not deranged in his
mild calm, not a little bit!
"We were modesty and peace," h
said. "You have brought a disturb
ing element!"
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