Salt Lake Telegram | 1923-11-18 | Page 13 | Open Season on Duelists Grips France

OPEN SEASON 4 UN DUELISTS DUELIST'S t FRANCE Romance Lacking i in Sword Battles Amon Among g uC Cake ke Eaters Eaters' v and the L Lounge Lizard Types By JOHN JOHN OBRIEN O'BRIEN 1 U United Pre Press s Staff Correspondent l ARIS N Novi v 17 The The dueling sea- sea on ton Is open It practically coincided With Ith the beginning of ot the tho Paris theatrical theatrical the the- al season especially with the starting Of ot a a. n new w th theatre atre or rather of or oran an ah sit old one one tho tho Theatre tinder inder a nj w name It is now the Th Theatre atre Com Cora Laparcerie the the buxom and resplendent nd Cora being lessee and managing directress in collaboration with her husband the poet author dramatist Jacques son on of the tho poet an and Immortal Jean Riche Riche- pin Unkind critics have h hinted that advertising methods are rather out of date dateo In any case when th the Duke of Camastra ono one of the old school of ot aristocrats aristocrat presented pre- pre lI his free ticket at the tho door of the theatre tre and asked to be conducted to his seat Beat he h resented the intimation that he would have hae to to- pay the theatre theatre- t tax like Ilk every other ther person Verson SI lII Riche Riche- pin explained e to him hen that It was waa a I government tax whereupon e the e noble duke called caned him a a. goujat which is 15 somewhat stronger than the ordinary Expression of ot contempt used by drunken chauffeurs to recalcitrant customers who refuse to be held up NO NOBLE aLE CHEEK SLAMMED v The ducal cane lifted lilted to punctuate punctuate- e the succeeding patter was swept aside med and the the gloved noble cheek hand sit of That hat th the settled poet ds slammed slam slam- slammed that 1 t. t Exchange of cards Formal meeting of ot seconds Swords and champagne for two at 11 the next morning Place uncertain er E Everybody body concerned declared de declared declared de- de with his or her Iler hand on the heart that there must be no pubS pub- pub S Be that as it may there were tour fourS teen automobiles and half halt a a. hundred tAxicabs outside the home lh the next morning at 10 o'clock They were ere filled with newspaper men and photographers The 0 police pollee reserves were called caned to keep the crowd In order The automobile bearing Jacques Cora Laparcerie and several friends sped away in the direction of the Bois Bols de df Boulogne traversed the boil bols and dashed toward St. St Cloud redolent of ot Napoleon and Josephine s But th the pursuers closed In behind Sudden change of ot plans Another will wild Yide Ide 3 1 de through the tha Seine valley vaney and at last In a shady nook where Dubarry had her hr home in the olden olden days days the Duke of ot Camastra and Jacques fiche fiche- pin glared at each other over the points of ot their swords while their wives vI find and feminine acquaintances J Awaited waited nearby DUKE HURT HAND t It w v was s cs all aU ov over r In five seconds seconds just Just long Yong enough for tor the photographers and Inema cinema men to get good of ot ithe tho he masterly play of weapons by both Then tho the duke dropped his sword The doctors certified that he tad had been punctured in the hand The I. I wound according to the tho expert medical medical medical medi medi- cal opinion was 32 millimeters deep Naughtily he saluted n his Ids adversary r but refused to be PC reconciled M. M Riche niche pin was vu photographed again a n. few minutes later Tater when he was explaining Jo to his adoring spouse and admiring on how he had done the trick if t W why by dont don't they suppress all aU the needless incidentals the insult the blows the the seconds the swords pistols th the millimeter 32 wounds and andall andall andall all that asks G G. G de la fa one of our noted newspaper humorists J retaining only the photographer He HeIs HeIs Is II not tho the only on one expressing that Opinion in l Paris toda today The ho war I Killed Hll d off oU a 1 alot lot lot of Parisian