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Show SHE'S MRS. JOHN ASTOR NOW Althdugh Ava. Willing Astor has proclaimed herself a resident of England, Eng-land, and has announced her intention of rearing her daughter Muriel abroad, no intimation has come as to when she will start back to London. Society ,is waiting impatiently for this announcement, as from it a fairly fair-ly definite answer may be gleaned to the one big question which is agitating agi-tating the four hundred now: Will Mrs. Ava Willing Astor try to resume her place in society here and become the recognized feminine head of the Astor family? Public discussion of this phase of the complicated Astor family situation la considered out of the question during dur-ing the present period of mourning, but private speculation upon it is rife in all circles of society. The fact that Mrs. Astor, immediately immedi-ately upon her arrival here, took pains to identify herself to interviewers as w"' iV ' -. f-;f f i V-:- V--... JV ?.- : - - M J - M Mrs. John Astor is taken by many to indicate that she aspires for reception here as THE Mrs. Astor. That her experience in society would give her a considerable advantage over the youth- ful Mrs. Madeline Force Astor is conceded. Doubts, however, exist at pres- ' I ent as to whether either of the Mrs. Astors will ever be able to grasp the J scepter held by Mrs. William Astor, the colonel's mother. Had Colonel Astor lived, it is probable that his bride eventually would have been accepted in his set as a leader. But as the colonel died before j she could be established in that position, and as before her marriage she J Btarred on tennis courts, rather than in ball rooms, it is considered doubt- ful whether she can ever become the social celebrity that she surely would have become had her husband lived. |