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FEBBUABY 10, 1921 PAGE 7 ANNIE OAKLEY Rivals Coulon and the Georgia Magnet By E. A. Denham A number of years ago, before the -world had ever heard of Coulon the Un liftable Frenchman, and at the time the young lady known as The Georgia Mag net was appearing on the vaudeville stage and challenging all attempts on the part of members of the audience to lift her from the boards, Annie Oakley at that time the stellar attraction of Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show discovered that she also possessed the ability to set at naught many of the accepted rules of gravity. The famous markswoman ap peared for a short time in public in stunts of the Coulon variety but found nary billiard cue. She grasped the cue at the extreme end, with both hands, held it horizontally in front of her, and defied any two men in the audience to drag th cue down until the tin touched the floor. Taking the big leverage into account, it looked as though a child could push the free end down to the ground but the fact remains that two panting gentle men possessed of considerable, avoirdu pois abandoned their joint attempt in despair at the end of a struggle lasting nearly a full minute. Annie Oakley has lived too long in the limelight of publicity to be tempted into giving any explanation of her gift, ac complishment or whatever one chooses to call it. She believes in leaving the mat ter "wrop in a mystry" like the ante cedents of Jeames Yellowplush. And there, for the time being at any rate, it must remain. For the old Paris, as hundreds of thou sands of American tourists and students knew it and loved it, is gone, gone for a generation, at least. The war changed the people who made Taris Paris, and not imtil these people are gone and another generation has taken their place can the old pleasure capital be herself. Physically Paris has completed her re version to 1914. Menus are no longer stinted. The wine caves are full. The "guides of the night" are back on the Place de 1 'Opera with their "most inter esting show around the corner." The boulevards are fragrant with femininity. So far as the Cook's tourist knows, it's the same old city revived. But the "Old Timer" knows that the people he sees are different from his cronies of 1914, and frequently even a new type of Frenchman altogether. Hundreds of thousands wept in White Hall on Armistice Day. Paris crowds looked on in almost expressionless silence, as their unknown Poilu was escorted to the Arc. Among the multitudes who de posited wreaths I do not remember seeing one shedding tears. This new mentality has seized the en-; tire nation. It is reflected in all classes, for all were in the war. Behind the bright eyes that invite you so appealingly on the boulevards, often throbs a broken heart of a youthful widow or fiancee who lost her lover out there. A surprising number of the mer rymakers in the really Latin rendezvous of Montmartre wear mourning on their coatsleeves. Thus Paris could not, even if she would, be the old care-free effusive city of pre-war days not for a generation, at least. 4 l-r - - - Eighth Fairway. No. 3 Course THE PARIS OF 1921 First, the H. C. of L. has lifted the that the strain was too great for her nervous system and interfered with her shooting, and she decided to give up her interesting anti-gravity exhibitions. Some visitors at the Carolina Hotel, at Pinehurst, recalled the matter to Annie Oakley's mind today and Mrs. Butler (which is Miss Oakley's name in real life) promptly accepted their chal lenge to try the thing out on the spot, in the Carolina ball-room. The huskiest man in the audience made the first at tempt to lift the slight little woman from the floor and failed. He was joined by another man and then another until finally four life-sized men were tug (United Press Staff Correspondent) New York. When by government edict an engineer pressed a button New Year's Eve and flooded Paris for the first time since the war with her old pre war electrical brilliance, the orchestras on the boulevards and the Montmartre fairly burst themselves trying to do jus tice to the occasion and champagne corks popped as : they had never popped since 1914. Taxis honking on the streets outside ging and straining in a vain attempt to took up the refrain and students in thb lift her. The most they could do was Latin quarter went singing in serpen- to raise her on tip-toe and Annie Oakley around the lampposts just as they says that with a few days' practice they iVld before the war- won't be able to achieve even that. At that moment Paris from the stand- This lifting stunt has become so fa- point of surface appearance once more miliar to most people, through the film became the gay old city of tradition, productions of Coulon 's performance, But in the real sense, it was not the that it was perhaps not so impressive as pame Paris. It was a new Paris, going an apparently impossible feat performed through many of the habitual gestures of by Annie Oakley with the aid of an ordi- the old. First, the H. C. of L. has lifted the price scale between three and four hun dred per cent. Parisians, who in 1914, could afford to dine with their families in the cafe, no longer people the boule vard restaurants. Their places have been taken by newly-rich and- foreigners' with high exchange rates. Longchamps, where France's elite used to display its finest gowns, has been vir tually boycotted by the real aristocracy. The only fashion show there is at the races now is kept up by flashy "par venues," or women of easy fortune. The war worked a remarkable psycho logical change in the French people. It made them a nation of stoics. While the glamour of the crusade on foreign soil unlocked the emotions of the British and turned staid London into one of the most demonstrative cities in the world, the long years of trench war fare, midst the mud of their own coun try, among the ruins of their own homes, developed in the Frenchman a dogged self-restraint that he had never been thought capable of. AMATEUR CHAMPIONSHIP T. B. Boyd of the St. Louis Country Club, who is an annual visitor to Pine hurst and is now spending some time here, says the amateurs will -find his course in good condition for the amateui championship, which is to be played there in September. He says the weather is usually very good at that time of year, and declares the players will like the lay out. The course was built by Charles E. MacDonald, constructor of the National links, which, of itself, is sufficient guar antee of its championship calibre. The course is in Clayton, some eight miles from the city, and is of a rolling nature, most scientifically trapped. The fairways and greens are so placed that one must hit for position all the time. Straight down the course will not always do. One must play now a bit to the right, now a shade to the left, else the next shot will be a problem. In a London bird school parrots are taught to talk with phonographs.
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