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O She ze he M Married a Greek God Nearly i N Jr Years Fears Than Her Her- Herand Forty Younger Ir h s Self lj and Then Wasn Wasn't t I Really R ally h 34 I r k I ai iv 4 v f Happy appy y After All 1 f ic t y ae a m 4 k si w- w f x nd 3 fC Lr a Y iw f oj i i I iV y r yz Y I t a 4 s Y R sT rL v y r a i 1 r 7 C a Ay arc t 3 r cy ar i kr 5 c M t T i i 4 f tr e y 1 Miss N Natalie Barney Who Denied Posing for the Ute Sleeping B 1 Stone Figure Displayed on the Barney Front Lawn ji 1 1 I A ri v fill Qi 4 zw vy m 9 1 9 x x r S s sr fo f- f I A 5 o Christian Dominic Hemmick Has Been Granted a Divorce on the Grounds of Desertion from the Society Leader Who Was Characterized by Wu Ting Fang as the Cleverest Woman in Washington j I By Frank Dallam i SWEATED f TED or ar standing around the stage in littie lit lit- tie groups were the actors and actresses while the playwright and producer from a aWe ab able i b ble We in the centre gave centre-gave gave directions You win please understand first of all aU she with easy tones yet with the firm and au au- tathra manner peculiar to all stage directors mat that at this play is an allegory It is entitled The Soye Sove ve of ot Echo I have distributed the parts mong ong you accordingly as I think you are best besta bested a fitted ed to play them i HIn In the big scene of the third act I who shall shallI I playing the leading part of Echo shall shaIl be discovered dis dig covered vered lying chained in a cave I shall shan be wear wear- rig i only a Simple gimple drapery of vestal white Ac- Ac fording ding ding to the story I am sin to lie in shackles in iny IY y cave for life to be released only when a youth ho never before has kissed a woman shall bend yer ver me and press his lips upon mine Then as he takes me in his arms aims and half haH ts is me from the floor holding me close to his eart the spell is broken the fetters fall fan aWay away y arms encircle his neck and the curtain goes own own upon a darkening stage with love tri tri 1 This was ten years ago The stage was the theny theny ny stage in the theatre de of the splendid 5 me e of Mrs Alice Natalie Barney in Sheridan Circle ircle Washington The speaker was Mrs l Bary Bar Bar- ey y leader of the smart set in the nations nation's capi capi- al aI widow of a millionaire banker from Ohio nd the one of whom Wu Ting Fang the most diplomat ever sent to this country from laina hina said She is the cleverest woman in all aU V The play in rehearsal at the moment was one f f several which Mrs Barney had written and IThe reduced with society amateurs for the diversion fiber friends whom she was perpetually enter enter- Lining fining lavishly Invitations for tor one of Mrs f arneys arney's eys ey's performances were avidly sought A Anest nest riest knew ew in advance that he was going to get gett brill t Hemmick Was Youth 1 Mrs Barney had trouble finding a young man sufficiently talented and f h b hc r c acquaintance looking looking to play the part of Narcissus the glossed whose embraces were to melt meU the iron of Echo Some one one of her friends sug BUg ested young Christian Dominic Hemmick son f a former United States consul in Geneva He Heas Heis is as 25 years old and Mrs Barney was GO 60 and It Joked 25 years less Mr Hemmick was sent for fored ed introduced to the playwright widow He is ia young Greek god she confided to the friend Mr Hemmick threw himself heart and nd soul soul to the role of the youth H He invested is IV interpretation of Narcissus with such t of spirit that he not only struck off th the ckles from the prostrate prisoner Echo but the same time with the acetylene flame flae of his hise e e he sawed through the gyves of widowhood loch ii h held Mrs Barney They were married in Iris ris ris less than a a. a year from the night of the ul production of The liThe Love of Echo Or was it successful An echo reverberating just now from Chicago indicates that it was not Mr Hemmick has just obtained a decree of di die di vorce He charges his elderly wife with the most juvenile complaint known to the divorce calendar He says she dese deserted him He told Circuit Judge J Johnson of Chicago that in the language of the theatre she had left him flat and was now in Paris a city for which she had expressed much preference for the last two years The divorce hearing in Chicago was brief Mr Hemmick who had served the notice on his wife both by publication and through her French lawyers law underwent merely a perfunctory examination examination examina tion at the hands of his attorney Michael F. F Ryan We uWe had many differences Mr Hemmick Hemmick Hemwick Hem Hem- mick wick said My wife did not approve of many things I did While she herself was greatly in interested interested interested in- in in the stage she did not like it when I Imade Imade Imade made several business ventures in the theatre Finally one morning without my knowledge or consent she packed up and went to Paris where she Ehe has b been n ever since The news has caused no no end of a commotion in Washington s society even accustomed as it was to Mrs Barneys Barney's dashing ways and her boundless capacity for madcap whims and surprises It had not been entirely unexpected Every one who knew Mrs Barney felt that a volcano was somewhere yet none Bone one could have been found to predict that if divorce was contemplated contemplated contemplated con con- it would be with any other than t the thet e t d f t b r Y 7 h n s 's 4 Y MI Y a 7 y t y yx fE x Jb 7 n. n Y Sq A C 44 4 The Life Size Life Size Stone Statue Credited to Miss bliss f Alice Barney Which Was Found Reposing Reposing on the Front Lawn of the Barney Residence at Washington D. D C. C 1 wL 2 0 o ft lf p c i S r rM M V f 1 v T ry x r t k r t wife as complainant It was an open secret that tha Mrs Barney had made her last trip to Europe alone which seemed rather to back the theory that if there was to be a divorce she would make maka the application I V ell 2 1920 1110 I. I t Unmistakable evidence that the ladys lady's twilight romance had slipped a cog or two came to light within two years after the picturesque marriage In P Paris ris For Forthe Forthe Forthe the two years after the a ceremony ceremony the thel l were happy leastways they here yere quiet and their friends back in the United States heard from them only in in- frequently Suddenly one day they appeared appeared ap ap- in Washington establishing themselves in the Barney Barne family home ome All AH of Mrs Hemmick's friends speedily called to welcome her That Mr Hemmick Hem Hem- mick trick was not visible on these occasions occasion was was not a matter for comment Then came the noise of the explosion reported reported reported re re- ported In highly original fashion m. m Richly engraved invitations were Issued Is sued to a party arty to be not given given not by Mrs Hemn Hemmick ck but by Mrs Barney arney There was no mistaking th the real p purpose of the party or the real significance of the invite Invitations themselves It was was In effect official an an- announcement that the fai fairy godmother of Washington Wash ington society as she had been called h had d discarded discarded dis- dis carded the name of Hemmick and once once more was to be known as Mrs B Barney ri ey The party was a glittering success Among the guests guests' were Mrs Mars Marshall Field Sr Mrs John rohn Hays Hammond Mrs Perry Belmont Mrs Robert Roosevelt Mrs E. E T. T Stotesbury ry Mrs Richard Townsend and scores of others prominent in capital society Among those not present was WM Mr Mt Christian Dominic Hemmick the well known husband That night Mrs Barney for Barney for such sh she J must be called now since she has never resumed the name of her second husband told husband told a close friend When I was married I really did not expect ex ex- expect much attention from Christian and I was not disappointed Toward the last I got none at all aU He became angry because I would not sign any more large checks chew for him and he left Washington He took up the society of actors and was never jat at t home I urged him to follow in inthe inthe inthe the footsteps of his father who is in the diplomatic diplomatic diplomatic diplo diplo- matic service and offered to pay all his his' ex ex- Mrs Alice Clifford Barney Hemmick F Finds ds Life in Paris More Attractive Than a Mere Existence in America as the Wife of a Greek God N y Sw a aT T C NOI CV G. G v. v if he would do so But diplomaCY requires rae re- would not quires concentration and Christian This is the tho end concentrate other f famous a v ho host host- i. i the with many case As was of Washington the war caused a curtailment esses cases no nohe and she gave 5 social Barneys Barney's program of Mrs Dors affair entertainment after t the he other extensive Hemmick figured as such a conspicuous where Absentee Mr On account of this social eclipse 25 ous she Ss absentee waS enabled to leave the city to return to tL comparative o obscurity Paris Pans two years year ago in in friends knew she was few of her closest Only Ony a back to Europe with a view viewS going S c considering taking her residence However the fact to taking up the last two Sat that she ha has has remained in Paris for surrounded by all the expensive comforts years ears ever accustomed gives Washington Washington Wash Wash- which she was t to o opportunity to revive a rumor of wide wida ington at the time of the Hemmick marriage cu currency rencY Mrs Mrs Barney Barney has two daughters Misses Alice and Natalie Barney each of them near the age of cd their new step stepfather The young ladies were outspoken in their opposition to their mothers mother's second marriage To their particular chums they bluntly said they believed financial considerations considerations con con- had something to do With the ardor of Mr Hemmick's wooing The bridal pair indignantly indignantly in in- resented such insinuations and to disprove dig die prove proy possible belic belief in them the bride made assignment ent of practically all her millions to the f f daughters Much publicity attended this s s sand and then gossip countered with the flat assertion as that if Mrs Barney had transferred tran any part oi of oiher her large fortune fortun there was a stout e cord rd tied to the money What did we tell you they ear cay now It costs much for an American to live in Paris nowadays Now that she has stepped into the spotlight again Washington gossip Is wondering wandering h how M Mrs Barney will be heard from next but confident that she will be heard from in some spectacular connection That was always Mrs Ba Barn Barney way As a woman noted in the diplomatic set for her smart dinners and delightful receptions expressed the sentiment I 1 dont don t think Ali Alin AJi Barney arney ever deliberately sought notoriety ator ba batt bad it tt Is no more possible for her to k keep out of tb calcium than it Is for a pet cat to keep off tb the softest cushions in the house She Is not mi ati ordinary w woman and she can do nothing ia in aa 0 ordinary mann manner r. r Jilted Explorer Stanley Stamey t H Hastily Earthy skimming some of the earlier chap chapter of Mrs Barneys Barney's polyhedrons career one is cod cop strained to accept this estimate as an accurate appraisal of an unusual and charming personage She comes from Dayton Ohio the girlhood home torn of an another ther singularly sing gifted woman Louise Dud Dudley nod Dull ley Icy who achieved celebrity on the stage as Mrs Leslie Carter Her maiden name nama was Pike me and u there is a story in Dayton that her first serious love affair was with Henry M. M Stanley tho the fri l can explorer Stanleys Stanley's hair har so the Dayt runs came not from his ha haon harrowing vic on the Dark Continent but from sorrow Lorrow II learned that Alice Pike ike had 1 him m. m She married instead ad Albert Albeit Clifford S Dayton banker Inheriting at J his s 3 death tb 5 S his bis s vt fortune Soon after becoming a widow moved to Washington where she at once onee rao leadership in the most exclusive circles es of eap tal society Her home in Sheridan Circle t tra s s reproduction of a house of ancient Rome Borne On tb the taj lawn was a sarcophagus which once Daco contained the mummy mummy of an Egyptian princess Her studios were famous In one apartment o 01 her home were the famous tapestries s of th the Count t de d depicting the t e wanderings of Ulysses Ulyssee 1 One of the most exploited feats which h gained for Mrs Barney the reputation r tation of thriller was j pushed about a dozen years ago ii I zens zees of Washington passing by the Barney Bar BatI- ney home one morning were amazed t tot to behold behold- on the lawn a reclining statue ot O t size life-size done in the nude A policeman policeman- was so scandalized that before h he phoned to headquarters about it he ha nar scaled the iron fence and covered tha they offending art work with some jute bagging bag bag- ging confiscated from a delivery track To make matters worse it was that the subject of the statue status was Miss Natalie Barney the younger daughter daugh daugh- ter tar and that the sculptress was her aister eta ads ter Miss Alice These rumors rumor were In 1 denied by Mrs Irs B Barney and th the girls In the meantime there was Wa a mighty pother around Washington perlice por r I Ilice lice hea headquarters quarters over the thing The The- e commissioners commissioners' who govern the tho city talked it over on the strength of the reports report made by the police chief but they did not feel that they had jurisdiction although they were agreed that a dark corner in the Corcoran Corcoran Cor Cor- coran art galleries was wasa tB a better place for th the recumbent Venus Hebe Juno or whoever the mythological goddess was intended to be be than a lawn fronting on one ona of the tho city's most faa fashionable fashionable fashion fashion- on able streets The newspapers were full of the sensation to all aU of which the Barneys paid no noti the slightest attention In time when it had bad ceased to be a p topic the statue was removed from the lawn to one of the several rooms In to th the th Barney Bargey mansion used as studios Will Mrs Barney remain in Paris to e enjoy the freedom which apparently is welcomed by her herl Or will she come back to the United States to her loved Washington to show her friends that age after all is a detail of the heart and that it is possible for a to defy the years Z None of her friends can answer One never knows what Alice Barneys Barney's caprices will lead her herto herto herto to do they say As for Mr Hemmick business win will claim him he says When he got his divorce In m Chicago his legal residence ho said he was to to New Near NewYork NewYork York for a few days to rest and take things easy He owns the Pitts Thea Theatre re in Pittsburgh and ani has other c interests in that city where he ho says he will make his lis home f |
