The Bourbon news., 1921-12-09
CRAHAMS AGAIN
IN LIMELICHT
Former Paris Girl and Daughter
Have Varied Experiences
In Their Lives
FEATURED IN NEWSPAPERS

fortunes and status or former
Paris girl, who in Paris was pretty
Birdie Pollock, and is now Mrs.
william Miller Graham, OF Califor-
MIA, have formed the theme for end
less newspaper stories, all more or
less elaborate, but all telling OF the
Paris girls rise in the world from
comparative obscurity. In recent
issue of the Minneapolis, Mimi,
Daily Journal, feature writer pens
the following:
There comes the picture Of lit
tie town in Kentucky-Paris by
name. Its population is small. The
chief energies of the charming little
town find their ultimate way to the
regulation Main street. A deft lit
tie woman sits at table fashioning
a hat for some rural belle. It is the
typical place Of the small town mill
liner. And over in a neighboring
yard, a man merrily swings a ham,
mer, trying to lead an errant barn
door, which has protested it's hinges,
back into the straight and narrow
path-whistling as the hammer
falls.
1.-The woman making the hat is
the mother of Mrs. William Miller
Graham, a miiliner; the man is her
father, the town carpenter. Both
good folk and respected, but little
dreaming that one day their child
would charm and command royalty.
"As one keeps this picture in
mind, the unfolding of the remark
able story of the Grahams takes an
added flavor. 1t emphasizes the pow
er of beauty and of charm, the abso-
lutte capitulation of high birth,
blood, money and title to the force
of a woman's attractions-the artil-
lery of her eye. John the Baptist
was neither the first, nor the last,
man to lose his head because of a
woman's smile.
There came in time to the house
hold of the carpenter and the milli-
ner of Paris LITTLE girl. Thomas
Pollock, the father, and the little
mother of the monnets decided that
she should be called Birdie And
Birdie Pollock grew to the most
beautiful girl in all the town. In
that old-fashioned place beauty and
good as Bradstreet reference. No
body elbowed Birdie Pollock from
local society because of her humble
origin. She was beautiful; she was
welcome. They threw open the doors
to her as one throws open a window
to admit the first ray Of sunshine af-
ter a depressing rain.
"The townfolk were sorry when
Pollock went to Philadelphia, TAX
ing Birdie, then II, along with the
family. 1t was in the Quaker City
that she met William Miller Ora
ham. Graham was not wealthy. He
was as yet the fairy prince In dis
guise, and all the world knows that
poverty can disguise any sort Of q
prince so thoroughly that society, at
least, won't know him.
"They married. And then, along
in 1899, the California properties
that Graham had developed began to
send out an oily fortune. There was
once decline I'M the family fortunes.
Then the next queer trait of herit-
age developed, for it appeared that
Mrs. Graham was dramatist, who
might, on a pinch, write a play, and
8hS WCAl W OdflU D6ldSCO Will Il
view OF having the Old Master coach
her for the stage that she might aid
In recouping the temporarily halted
fortunes Of the household.
Whirr!' went the whirligig of
fate.
The oil wells behaved we'll again.
Soon the Graham fortune was esti-
mated at s60,000,000 and the people
In high places on both sides of the
Atlantic knew that a new and strik-
ing figure had come among them In
the person Of the wonderful woman
who was once the village belle in
Paris, Kentucky. Paris, France,
came also to show that names of cit
les, as well as tastes in beauty, may
be the same on both sides of the
ocean.
1T was Edward VII, King of Eng
land. and world-famous as a con-
noisseur of the fair, who picked
MRS. Graham as a worthy type to
adorn his already illustrious gallery:
and his grandson, the present Prince
OF Wales. who never heard of his
grandfather's comment on the moth
er, and travelling around the world.
Tar from his home, drawn by some
irresistible force to the side of Geral-
dine Graham, whispered as. they fin
ished a dance:
You are the most beautiful wo-
man In all America.
Mother and daughter, each in her
generation crowned Queen of Beauty
BY British royalty. saw; the collapse
OF their romances within the com
pass OF single moon. TODAY. In
one OF the most beautiful homes In
All OF the United States, surrounded
oy opulence and luxury, thew are
mindful only Of the fact that thew
are two women with two hearts
wrung. SN
April, the fearful Lady of the
months, brought to Mrs. William
Miller Graham, OF Los AngeIes
santa Barbara; New York and Ion.
don, divorce from the Fairv
Prince, who had come to her when
she was a Cinderella.
1T also brought to Geraldine Mil.
Ter Graham, her daughter. tht
breaking Of her engagement tS
Whitney Warren, Jr., the scion ot
one OF the most exclusive famflie,