St. Louis Post-Dispatch
July 21, 1912

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— * * * * * F — —— — ae — Fd * — — ———— —— — RRS gtk Fy — rst the J — — — — * As —— A Stay aS — — — Le, et Mats Re ke Seer me Pe faa — NY: — — oe 3 “3 —J aa ee a * — * | rid ae “4 x | ; . ; * —4 * 4 } : E 7 Pe ' — * — % — So ne —* — — — — — — — — Raussian Prince, Touring Ameri- = ca, Sharply Critical of Femi- nine Acquaintances, but He Notes Some Good Points. By MAZIE E. CLEMENS A. Special Correspondent of the Post-Dispatch. NEW YORK, July 29. “"F"HE hero of “Three Weeks” has been in this é city for a fortnight. ‘ A Of course there are and have been Pauls and Pauls. The name figures prominently in history and Wterature. There was a Czar Paul in Russia, there have been numerous Popes so designated, and then there were Paul Dombey ; and the Paul who loved Virginia, and Paul Pry, — and Paul Clifford and good St. Paul and a lot of others. But the Paul I have just interviewed is not in the same category with the ones recalled: The Paul I talked with declares he is the Paul of that rather fervid, widely read Eleanor Glyn product, “Three Weeks.” “It’s bally embarrassing, don’t you know, to talk about one’s self,” he said when I asked him about. his connection with the novel. “I really must ask you to say nothing about that tiger- skin business and other novel stuff. Mrs. Glyn and I have been friends for.a long time—charm- ¢ ing woman and very talented, you know. I also am well acquainted with Marie Corelli. “How did Mrs. Glyn get the story?” “Why, very simply, tndeed. She was on the scene. when it all took place, and. besides, she knew the family of the woman concerned as well as my own. Then she knew us both intimately. But I say, Miss, I cawn’t give away all the secrets of the book and—well, hang it all, I dislike to talk about- it. “Is the story true?’ I insisted on knowing. “Yes, more or less true to life,” he made reply. “There is a far greater amount of truth in it than fiction. The woman was very beautiful. Perfectly wonderful! She was more; she was in- téllectual. Her hair was a handsome shade of red, just bordering on the Titian, and she pos- sessed a milk-white complexion. Her features were small and well chiseled. Her eyes were of A peculiar shade of green, and the long green patrings she. wore, and which were mostly meralds or jade, were particularly becoming and Ought out the green of the eye more promin- "Yes, she was distinctly Russian, but she was not the wife of a King, but the spouse of a Crown Prince, and the place where the romance took S lace is correctly narrated, as well as the tragic pa te which the noble woman met. * a j bare Ae, es — * — — — * ‘ * 5 Sette 4 Saag ee ; 2 One of Court Secrets. is i is impossible to find out who they : were. Of course, you know, there are 2 many tragic happenings in court circles, 4 and.in some countries some that are never Known. People disappear and are never heard of, and things like that. Remember, because the World does not hear of them it does not mean that such things do not occur. Quite absurd to @ven think that all court scandals become Known. Rather difficult and serious, I should say, to Ware even mention some things that one knows to be true. ’ “It was about 7 o'clock on a very delightful @vening when the Princess and myself first saw One another. She looked so beautiful sitting alone 4 at her table in the dining room and she was : dressed 80 wonderfully I could not keep my ®yes from looking in her direction. But it was her eyes that held my attention. Nowhere have I seen eyes anything like them. Really, I try t» make up my,mind to forget the past, but While memory lasts I know I shall never be Able to forget those wonderful eyes. “Brit there is one little secret that I will tell you: it was a jolly good idea of Miss Glyn’s t6 name her work “Three Weeks,” but in reality the acquaintance was a little over three months. “The tiger-skin episode was greatly exagger- = ated, and I did not purchase the rug; it was a pert of the furnishings in the room which she tN tN tN ON —,sê — — —— — — ö—— — —— — — tit si, pied.” 7 pe ell me the lady's name,” I insinuated. “You 4 Know Blinor does not give us her Christian hame.” , “It would be quite impossible for me to tell you all of them. My word! That would upset things a bit. No, her name is a secret. *But I can tel] you one of the names, and that fie the name which I called her; it was Marie. ‘Call me Marie,’ she said to me after we became ‘@0quainted. ‘I like it, and no one else calls me by that name. Besides, I want you to have ® name for me that no one else uses.’ Then I éaded to it ‘Queen,’ because she was worthy of the name. ‘My Queen Marie’ was the manner | ih which I addressed her. There was no such — racter as ‘Isabella.’ She was put in to make is narrative more readable. “I positively refuse to mention the death of Princess, further than to say it occurred the fact of my long illness is true also. * was my faithful dog ‘Bullieboy,’ and it is Magee only” a few months ago that he died.” a ae —— anything like the truth about ae ul is some lover, And now we have beg word for it that he is; also that his blood een Re a ARMIES SS pe 6h Aaa Pa RNC a AS AR _ very, very blue from an aristocratic view- point. ‘He Is a Russian Prince. "HIS Paul says he. is Prince Paul de Clair- mount in Russia. He hes an English name, Preston Arnott, as well. But he is Khown to most people by his nom de plume, “Paul Allien.” He declares he is a second cousin _ omee removed of the Duke of Norfolk, the rela- aie coming through his mother, who was _. +Pfincess Blanche de Clairmont. On his father’s. ⸗ he says he is related to the Arnott family fan-Trish fame, his father having served 2 time in the Indian navy, after which he — ST —— —— — — —— — —— — — — — — — —— x " dn | FACT — FICTION OF “THREE WEEKS” HE reputed “Paul” of Mrs. Elinor a Glyn’s “Three Weeks” says that part of the story is truth and part fiction and he thus separates them: TRUE. FICTION, Description the )No such character as. meeting. Isabella. Scenes of the story. (Tiger skin episode ex- She was very beau- aggerated. tiful. Heroine not of the wife ero — ‘Three Weeks” Discusses American ' * ox ee r > 8% ee ail re — —»—⏑—äü ⏑ ü — The dog and his of a king and her collar. hair and eyes were The child. not black. Her death.. Paul was not English. Paul's long illness. The time’ was more Dimitry and Vasill. than “three weeks.” Paul an -only son. | just like the hero. pictures by Mrs. Clayton Glyn of Durrington House and Sherring, Harlow, Essex, England. He has a pronounced English accent, carries'a gold-headed cane, wears a monocle,, and is altogether the modern, well- groomed man. . To these facts must be added the important item of age.. He was born in St. Petersburg, where his parents lived for some time, Nov. 17, 1886. So he is 26 years old. Elinor told us, you know. that Paul was young. Now, I am going to tell you something of this young Romeo's career as he told it to me: While quite young his parents died and he became a ward in chancery and was brought up in England. After graduating from Christ's College, Cambridge, he took up his favorite pas- time, “traveling. He can speak six ‘lan- guages (French, Spanish, Russian, Portuguese, German and, of course, English), and he is a little of an author, too, having written “Crimson Cross” a sketch; “Love’s Lyrics,” and a book called “Forgotten,” which was a frank criticism of Australian women and provoked some censure. Being a great lover of music, he has also ‘made a specialty of classical dancing some months ago he appeared in London with the Princess of Pless, Duchess of Westminster, Marchioness of Townsend and Mrs. Willie James in a play called “His Wife” which they performed for charity. Severe on Our Women. EMEMBER, I am narrating all this on the —* Prince’s authority, Prince de Clairmont intends to remain in America for 18 months, during which time he will study the people with a view to writing his impressions. They all do, ‘] want to find out what the Sour Hundred thinks of the other people, what the middle classes think of the society folk and to. form my own opinions of both,” he said. “Another thing, I am so fond of music that.I should. very much like to get together a Cossack orchestra or band and make a specialty of Russian music and old waltzes.” “and what do you think de American women?” I asked, =o "Tw ff pi foe — f ‘ST. > aaa 2 . Pelt 32 * —* ri * Sina es ae — pera : ¢ ’ “tape 34 2 > a % ee pe : 3 * — — = attr east aay te. ait os — die pe 2 J 8 — bas Ges — Cj — Re eS ats 2 Rea PL ON’ in Pee SS * PS * ~ TGS a ea ae + OOK YOOX eee eee QO > te. + ee — 2 Sea — rete ok. SEE ¥" that, but t think the American girl is entirely want the man at too exacting. By Jove! They home all the time that he is not downtown mak- ing dollars. _That is horribly unfair, have his nights with his friends and at the club. Oh, dear, no! There should not be any stipulated evenings. treats one’s servants. Should Not Ask Questions. x CLEVER woman never asks questions of husband. Half the divorces-and sevara- tions are because the women are not clever. After all, it is rawther tough on a fellow, you know, to hustle all day making money and then not to be permitted to do this, that and the other thing when he is finished without explanations and without having his wife tacked onto his coattails. Women should smoke, too. How ridiculously funny not to al- low women to smoke if they wish to in public! It is beneficial as well as a comfort. She can be more of a companion to her husband, and certainly it is no more harmful a habit for a woman than it is for a man. Perfect rot to be Puritanical in this matter. “Secondly, , they desire to-rule everything. It is man’s place to be the master. In every other country except America the men are the rulers of the home. Here the women dictate to their husbands, scrt of thing. LOUIS, SUNDAY MORNING, SULY 21, a ee He should I very much disapprove of all that\\Proeress. The’man’s word should be law))jback and let evolution take its course. No set rules should be made like one(((@Stablishing her equality with man. 0 ly CLUB NEEDED ADV 7 CE; THA IT — ae WHY IT GAVE A LUNCHEON TO WOMEN | 3 — — —— ee Monastic Portals Open When Ser- The Guests, — Wore Placed at ao vices of a Real Expert Are Need- Separate Tables Behind Screens and — ed, and Miss Charlotte Rumbold the Hosts Did Not Wait to Hear Spreads Some Light in the Dark — u Places. —— ee — — — — > aa ’ fw ™y TiOn : aa BS an . a — Taek | J ——— J a. WV £ . pr ae — € 3 — es UAB Dyer \ > a ee — a —J4 a 2 ul! 1 PALS y 5 AS it Af! [ om ‘sy By MARGUERITE MARTYN X al “oS ° 0 /; —X Ue * — T is ever my pleasant duty to record a step in A. — woman’s advancement, and right here in /St. : — a Louis, within this very week, quite a step— SKOITHED AT THE | \ ™ oi, better still, a boost, was given woman toward ITY CluB > * ee —— : Woman’s worthiness to eat and think and speak ’ 4 beside her lords and rulers'is established as it ee ; has not been before. On Friday the City Club, | 3 7 x that admirable, exemplary masculine organiza- “The weather,” said Mark Twain once, “is some- — tion—I, almost in bitterness, said that monopoly , thing everybody complains of, but nobody DOSS : of reforms and reformers—let down their barriers anything about it.” | —3 As I was saying, I don’t pretend to analyze the « and invited their women friends to dine with them, listen to one of their experts in reform and hinted that they might let the women in on one of their crusades, or visions of a crusade. CONCERNING THE PLACE WHERE WOMAN REALLY BELONGS OW ‘don't scoff and belittle this achieve- N ment, you overly ambitious women. I hear you aggressive, invading women of the Joan of Arc and militant. suffragette type express discouragement and impatience at the slow, almost imperceptible, degrees of woman’s But the wiser ones are those who sit Why, in the home and he should also hold the purse((just think how little time it has been right here strings and thereby curb. the extravagance of)}i, america since woman was expected to.sit on the wife. continually, while Mr. So-and So is’ constantly granting. those wishes, or otherwise his’ life is liable to be rawther unpleasant. Again, a man should have ‘a say in the social affairs of the hcusehold; in fact; the husband and wife should have equal shares in everything. Rawther raw. may be his. bitterest enemy. None Does Family Mending. Domestieity is dreadfully { as HIRDLY, : They. leave in America: lacking among. the wives. their homes in the,hands of others for attention while they go gadding about town on shopping expeditions, .to stroll, to look at the fashions various: little details which need attention every home... “Fourth, they chew gum.. Oh, IT know perfectly -well. that they all. do not do this. sort of thing. | but so many girls are fond of gum. that one cannot fail to notice it. It. is. shockingly and horribly vulgar. My word! How one can chew and chew for hours without becoming aware that they are disgustingly rude and very likely tc upset the nerves of those who see them, is rawther beyond my comprehension, Oh, I should certainly decline to accompany anyoné who chews gum, whether it were a male or a female person. Eeating itself.is not exactly a beautiful habit, but then how. awfully disgusting is this -beastly habit of chewing gum! “Rifth, the last flaw that I wee in the American girl is her disposition to go about to decollete in the daytime. It’s bally bad taste: and be- “One hears here the wishes of Mrs, So and So the opposite side of the aisle from man in church! What a short time it is since a gracious Sultan removed the veil, the last symbol of the opinion that once prevailed against woman’s showing her face in public. And now, getting a good deal nearer home, we you know, on a chap to come heme to find some remind you how it is only a year, aye, less than a cne in his home whom he disapproves of or who year, since this same City Club, inviting women to attend a luncheon and listen to a lecture, placed the women at separate tables and hedged there is very little home life them from view with tall screens! | Don’t ask me how this sudden. change of heart came about. Perhaps experience had something Uto do with it. The City Club is not such an old club, you know. Four times, to my knowledge or.to attend a matinee. One scarcely ever tinds Uin their ineatiable search after. the new and the wife at home mending or leoking after —* strange in the way of reform they have had to fall back on women lecturers. The only way to acquire expert information about militant suffragé movement in England was from -Sylvia. Pankhurst, the first real live None of her species to come to town. The only way to get. at the very root and foundation of settlement work was, of course, from Jane Addams herself. An authority on education whom they couldn't let. escape was Ellen Flagg .Young. And then they must needs learn of the other branch of the English suffrage movement from Beatrice Forbes- Robertson. RECREATION EXPERT FOUND RIGHT IN THEIR VERY MIDST HEN it came to seeking an expert in the W subject of public recreation, and the City Club was referred by New’ York and Kansas City authorities to Miss Charlotte Rumbold as THE expert in this country, and when they found that this widély known expert who could teach them so much lived right here in their own midst, and when the expert turned out to be a woman at that, perhaps they were rather put to shame about their exclusiveness. Mr. Tuckerman, secretary of the club, impressed upon me how the invitation to woman was no es- pecially. unusual departure for them. And, of course, it‘wasn’t. The City Club is nothing if not engaged in departures.- That is, no departure from the old order of thinking, governing, read- ing, eating, teaching, ho change is too radical, no revolution too sweeping for the consideration of the City Club. Every new specimen of reformer who comes to town is seized upon with avidity and all the time within its ranks ideas for reform are bursting out in every direction.. When was ever Mr. Roger Baldwin, or Mr. Will Chauvenet, o: Senator Krone, or Mr. Frank Crunden, or Mr. & M. Grossman, or Dr. Emil Simon, for example, found without a brand-new reform idea hot off the luncheon plate? Just last week Mr. Luther Ely Smith broke all records, or exceeded. the speed limit, among. re- formers when he tackled the problem of the weather, having in mind, no doubt, what Mark Twain said about it. m—— — — — —— — — — —— — tt GO GT — —— ——— ——————— IN I NN — — — reason for the sudden wholesale —— of A women to the monastic seclusion of a City a luncheon. It may be we're a new specimen for the reformers, and the City Club, with all their ? preparatory work, is now ready to undertake the ae job. It may be we are called in as experts all. a We'd like to think that, wouldn’t we? And, — judging by the good work I heard women getting 4 at tables near mine, some of them are willing ~ concede our qualifications for the task. | MEN DID NOT WAIT TO . .. HEAR GUESTS’ POLITICAL VIEWS be HAT most of the women couldn't te W about the political situation from all — its angles and social conditions im every out-of-the-way walk of life the men didn’t have time to spare from their business offices — to hear. a It may be that women, as participants fn the men’s dreams of reform, are only up for consid- eration like most of their other problems, and they will continue to bolt their luncheons, —— ing a word now and then as expert follows in addressing them, and take no more a& this subject than has been taken *—* their discussion. And this is the outcome of the women’s presence luncheon. Indeed, in conversation with Mr. Snitth: ward, he informed me that inviting the ladies to be present was just an experiment. He coulda tell how it would turn out. : Mr. Smith was noncommittal, for all the: ions he undoubtedly entertains. So ¢on't: hopes get too far ahead-of who share with men thé idea that —— * how everyhing and everybody de to be reformed a : ; and covet the men's City Club as just ‘the finest ee field for airing your ideas. : ‘a Pe eg es 4 * = roe girls that I Mke. They are very chawming. Please state these nice things. or I should feel that I have not. been fair. “First, their feet. Perfectly lovely; so dainty, neat and small. They know how to pick their footwear to sult their particular shape of foot. And those ravishing, stunning stockings and pumps which reveal the dainty ankle, Really, they are a delight to observe. hour in the company of an American girl; it ix impossible. Their personality is chawming and individual... “Fourth. I admire their perfect poise and their athletic tendencies. They ride well, walk with the appearance of health and strength, and have adorable backs. “Fifth, their wonderful, well preserved are a.great attraction. It is such a pleasure to teeth other feature of the Irish girl is her Ne matter what color it may. be, it and fine, In Dublin, I think, there looking, the best spoken and the most wenien in the world. “But, by Jove, Miss! I've than I intended to do in the is the way it is with the When one is finished to his estate in Ireland, where he died. “Oh, bawther!” he exclaimed. “I dislike to) Sides. one scarcely knows. whether it ds after- “Secondly, their halr. My word, how superb!) watch them. talk and to. observe the whitnesa( that he has been the Blanche | de Clairmont's antecedents become horribly unpopular, which I. know my ("°° °F evening by glancing at the attire of the It is so alive. In England the hair of the women({and regularity of the teeth. Nowhere that I | feminine ingenulty. ~*~ or ; French. In her husband there) frank criticism will cause me to be. First of (2veragse woman. I like to. see the-collar low and /t, dead-looking in contrast. Perhaps it is be- {have traveled have 1 néticed: such —— white eo oe et) Ee ee ee J an sce mish ancestry. So Paul is of ) all, remember, I am not seeking a. wife—please comfortable looking, but there is a limit, you cause of the sunshine here. Austrian, Russian } teeth or such lovely mouths.” — 14 Re stn n-Trish- French-English-Spanish extrac- { put the NOT in capital letters—and what is more, | *"°: and what might otherwise be common and American women have the finest hair ifn Now, girls, see how many of — the? — ‘Highianderis cm ; tion, but his mannerisms and tastes are decided- (1 am not looking for an hetress. Oh,. dear, no, ) 5¢™5¢ and comfort becomes shockingly bizarre} tne world. Their.style of dressing it 1s distine-} cembined attributes which this, Paul considers{ PARIS, July . * * iy In fact, I do not know whether [fa marry an? ®"4 out of place. tive. No two heads seem to be exactly alike. { hia ideal girl must possess. | : show | in Paris F —* my word! he is certainiy a g00d looking American girl or not if I were in search’ of a Some Things He Likes. A curl here or one there. Oftentimes its very “| have been fn nearly every country * ‘the —ã————— 7 4 *. 2 vat gg know? Six feet two and three- ) wife. Why? Well, because I think they ought mussed appearance makes a piquant picture. world and have seen all typés of women, but T policeman. | } 2. ‘ter inches tall, topped pi * ot —** not to go around every place with their hus- | ¢¢ UT,” continued Prince de Clairmont “Third, by Jove! What smart’ conversation- }) consider the Trish girl the peer of them all. She * p hatr, » manly in nds. B Preston Arnott Paul Allen, ' #there are | alists they are. 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