Evening star., 1924-04-27

4 Paris by story -tellers and re-
turned tourists, but now and
men things happen which could only
happen in Paris, truly. The tragic
doings OF the Princesse de Wary at
me hapln Agile in these present days
are such exactly.
one Is the eat-great- grand daugh-
ter OF Benjamin Franklin. She de-
Seends straight from our illustrious
old philosopher and statesman. who
1lrst brought electricity from the
CLOUDS; who founded the Saturday
Evening Post IN 112S; who was one
OF the five who drafted the DecIara-
uon of Independence, and who rem
resented the Continental Congress at
the Court of Versailles.
She is Madeleine Franklin. She is
graduate of oxford and has her
diploma in science from the Cniver-
s1ty of Paris. She is also a genuine
Russian princess
She met the prince when they were
students at the Sorbonne, he prepar-
ing to become d professor Of medical
practice at Saratoff. He is Boris de
"arypaew, Prince de Wary. descend
ant of old Tartar families whose no.
bility after the invasions rallied TO
the Russian crown
They were married with due pomp
at st. Petersburg on May IA. 1915 at
the romantic, patriotic and dramatic
moment when feudaI Tartar prince
was great parsonage in imperial
Russia, actually mobilizing; and a
professor of medicine, capable Of or
ganiZing an entire sanitary service.
was scarcely less. He was both.
The young couple. married in Rus
sian war time. We're rich. powerful.
happy. and enormously busy. The
princess became her husbands lab
oratory aide, and the rejoicing
mother of two boys. And when the
prince GDr. Boris de- Warypaew) was
appointed to the high post OF surgeon
general OF all Russian troops sent TO
fight on the western front. Madeleine
accompanied him TO France and
Frances battlefelds.
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A ND now tEis great lady 'sreat in
her university degrees. great in
the beauty and distinction Of her
person, great socially and politically,
ny marriage, title and war services
N France and Russia), Madeleine
Franklin. great great t-granddAushter
of Americas Poor Richard. recites
her own verses nightly at the Lively
Rabbit cabaret Of Montmartre, to
get bread for herself and her chill
dren-and the prince, her husband.
The Lively Rabbit ("Lapin Agile'D
is the most rude. but also the most
genuine and honest of the real Boz
hemian resorts of Paris-either of
the Latin Quarter or the Butte-not
tough but rough. the old style nat
ural. not dolled up for tourists in the
slightest.
Tourists go to the Lively Rabbit
10 see n fight, perhaps, but not TO
see a lot of things they see in other
cabarets.
But, butts very honesty is art
lessly crude and brusque..
Could such a romantic shaking
down of a great lady's high position
happen elsewhere than in Paris and
Ut any other time in our crazy world
history?
The Lively Rabbit, in the romantic
rue des Sau1es, is the historic wine
shop where CASTOR Leroux staged
the last chapter of lie Rof Mystere,"
king of the Catecombs. Perched on
the very summit of the Butte, or hill.
it's ramshackle old building rambles,
with its additions, along the last
country village street remaining in
the City of Light.
At the Lively Rabbit there took
place the historic assassination Cor
execution or mysterious killing, as
men choose to put it, of Frede's son
The year before the war.
That same year Madeleine Frank
lin, engaged girl in Paris society, was
buying a hat every afternoon and
new frocks every week or so. If she
read about the mystery of Danillo
and the despair of Frede it was as
OF something tough and far away
from her, which could not imagina-
bly, touch her own life, ever:
VET old Frede. still today pro-
prietor of the Lively Rabbit, is
the good Samaritan who protects the
princess after having saved the
prince-not once, but fifty times.
The prince is terrible.
Old Frede. with his double beaver,
artists models long hair and guitar
fthey say he cannot talk without a
guitar to fumble) is own brother to
that other Neapolitan in brigand's
hat over brigand'S red handkerchief