The San Francisco call., 1913-09-16
Th cir Married
Life
They Spend Evening The Magic City, the Coaey
Island of Paris.
By MABEL HERBERT URNER

town at home could put up better
amusement park than this"
That looks interesting" Helen
crowd sensational picture OF
hypnotized girl suspended in midair
Dear, I've never seen any one hyp-
Noticed. I'd love to go IN therer'
As this was a more pretentious
show the admission was one franc.
Inside were rows Of rough board
benches and gaudily painted stage
Hot and stuny," grumbIed war
rem And they'll not start this show
TIL they get a crowd. Think Won
want to wait?"
Oh, yes, now that we've come In.
Helen was thinking Of their two
francs admission.
TT BEGINS AT LAST
In spite of the loud exhortations OF
the man outside the crowd struggled
In slowly. After few moments
warren became impatient
on. come on We've got no time
70 waste here"
But just then the drumming and
exnorting outside ceased The bar
ker came in. went to the piano bv
Ihe stage and banged out a lively
march The place was darkened and
the curtain went up
instead OF the hypnotist scene there
was a group Of girls in flesh colored
tlghts posing as living pictures"
Then the lights flashed out a hIr-
ried scufae on the darkened : stage age
and the same models were again
shown in a different grouping
Venus apres le Balm
I should say Venus was slightly
Dow-legged." was Warren's irrelevant
comment.
When half dozen other groupings
had been shown the curtain was low
cred the banging at the piano ceased
ana tail, thin man In evening dress
stepped to the front of the stage.
It was the hypnotist Helen could
not understand his rapid French, but
plainly his remarks were to impress
the audience with the scene that was
to follow. Then he stepped back and
the curtain rose.
Beside him on the stage stood a girl
in gauzy blue tinseled gown It
was the same girl who had posed in
the living pictures as Venus.
She smiled and bowed 10 the au-
dience, then laid down at the back Of
the stage on a bench draped with blue
velvet The hypnOtist stood over her
and made mysterious passes with his
hands.
Slowly very slowly the girls
rigid form seemed to rise from the
bench. The man continued to make
the passages until her body was sus-
pended in the air about foot above
the bench. Then, taking a hoop. he
dramatically passed It over and
around the girl
Through the audience rippled a
murmur of amazement. With another
impressive bow the hypnotist resumed
the passes with his hands and slowly
the girls body sank back to the
bench.
He snapped his fingers. the girl
opened her eyes and sat up. The next
moment he led her smiling to the
front OF the stage, and the curtain
fell amid loud applause.
That WAS wonderful" whispered
Helen as they made their way out.
Huh, that tricks as old as the
hills scoffed Warren.
But, dear, how COULD 1t be a
trick? She must have been suspend
ed or he couldn't have passed that
hoop around her body
''Oh, she was held up there by sup
ports or wires. all right I read an
expose on that-but I forget how it's
done"
But Helen was unconvinced. To
her the act had seemed very genuine,
and she was 10th to think it merely
LfltktTF.
1t was almost II now. The crowd
had thinned out, some Of the lights
had been turned of. and several OF
the stands We're closing up.
Nothing more doing here" COM
planned Warren. Not in il with
Coney island, anyhow. Some enter
prislng American ought to come over
and show EN- how this sort OF thing
is done. If I had the time and the
capital, I'd want nothing better than
10 start q first class amusement park
right here near Paris. I'd make a
success of it, too
'oh, dear, I KNOW you would
murmured Helen. admiringly
But il Warren had said he thought
of reconstructing the Louvre or re
organizing the French army Helen
would have had the same firm BELIEF
in his success.