Evening star., 1923-02-11

American Jazz music doomed and
whanged its svncopation. So the
mannequins and marionettes of Eu-
rope tried to whirl themselves into
forGetfulness.
The Americans thought Giddy was
Il Frenchman. The French knew
| him for an American. dress as he
! would Dancing became with him
! profesSion-no. trade. He danced
| fawlessly. holding and guiding his
partner impersonal.y. firmly. expertly.
in spite of the weak right arm--it
served well enough. He stopped now
served we'll enough. He adopted now
fessional. Lower than Gideon Cory
OF Winnebago. Wis. had fallen could
no man fall.
Sometimes he danced in Paris. Dur
ing the high season he danced in
Nice. Afternoon and evening found
! him busy in the hot. perfumed. over
! crowded dance salons lie learned
/ to make his face perfect blank
! paI. cryptic. e-pre esSion,ess. Be-
/ tween h;ms.lf and the other boys Of
| his ilk there was little or no pro-
1 tessional conrradeship. \ weird lot
! they We're. All of them had been
! in the war Most o' them had been
! injured There was Aubiu the
t'rerchman. The left side of Aubn's
/ fac. had been deno over by an army
surgeon. who. though deft and sci
| cntific. had not had hand expert as
| tina. of the Original Sculptor. There
! was IaZZetti the Roman. He parted
! his hair on the wrong side and under
| the black wing Of ii was deep
! groove. into which you could lay a
! forefinrtr \ piece of shell had
! plowed il neatly. The Russian boy
who called himself Orloff had the
look in his eyes of one who had seen
! things upon which eyes never should
i have looked
! Sometimes Gedeon Gore made 10
| rrarcs a day. sometimes 20. some
times 30. inf equently hundred. He
! did not think at all. FIe felt nothing.
/ Sometime down deep. deep in q
/ iong-forgotten part of his being a
voice called feebly. plaintively to th=
man who had been Giddy Cory. But
he shut his ears and mind and con-
sciousness and would not listen.
X y y *
THE American girls were best, the
| i gigolos all agreed. and they paid
we'll though they talked too much
| Gedeon Gore was favorite among
them. They thought he was SO for.
eicn-looking and kind of sad and
stern and everything. His FRENCH
fluent. colloquial and bewildering
awed them. They would enunciate
painfully.
"Jc pense uue-um-que Nice est
ie plus beIIe-uh-ville de France
Gddy. listening courteously, his
head inclined as though unwilling to
miss one conversational pearl falling
from the pretty Americans lips
would appear to consider this grave
iy. Then. sometimes he would
answer:
You said something. Some burg
I'm telling the world
| The girl startled would almost
leap back from the confines of his
arms only to find his face stern. i'm.
mobile. his eyes somber and re-
Elective.
"why: Where did you pick that
up"
His eyebrows would so up. His
face would express complete lack oi
comprehension. 'Pardon"'
Aftcrward, at home, in Toledo OIL
Kansas City or Los Angeles. the
girl would tell about it, 81 suppose
some American girl taught ii tt
him. just for fun. 1t sounded toe
queer--because his French was sc
wonderful"
Mary Hubbell of the Winnebagt
Hubbells, with her father, Orson ]
Hubbell, and her mother. Bee Hub
bell, came to Europe early in 1922.
The three Hubbells were thorough
lily nice people. Mary Hubbell hat