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Show Tfriday evening; December THE OGDEN STNDARD.EXAMINER 9, 1921V i7 n J??. 1 in " 1 'i r "3 JLIL The Millionaire Gr Wid.ow s Spite War Y v n orainst in.' ,evey. .er Successor, s - ft Jt - . I ' 1 . v .- - -- 4 I r lime d Afoiib d it Her 1 5 1 V 1 The Gallant Major CUudo and HU Wife, Ethel I! i Formerly Mr. George It M. Cohan,; in Fancy Dreii. 3k .. , - 1. J. t lrV:r L v Miss Dorothy C. Taylor, Whose 'Matrimonial Plans Have Suffered a Dreadful Setback. -- It Was a HE moral of this story, society says, is not to bother about your husband after you have divorced him so long as the alimony. Is prompt. Let him Woo "where he wills. Let him wed whom he wishes. Pon't he Jealous of his second wife. Above all, don't loss splinters $t her they might become boomerangs, hurtling home to smaqh your own little dream- house as they Are reported to have amashed Miss Dorothy Cadwell Taylor's. Miss Taylor's husband was Major Claude , the dapper English avia-toWhen she divorced him she returned to her maiden name and the home of her father, Bertram L. Taylor, the lumber millionaire. But when Major Grahame-Whitturned ' right around and married Ethel levey, the comedy star and former wife of George M. Cohan, Miss Taylor didn't like it a bit. v Had she stopped with simply "not liking It," jno oeans might have been spilled. But, though her own engagement ta Count Carlo Dentice di Frasso had been announced, Miss Taylor couldn't be happj thinking about the new Mrs. Qrahame- White sailing right into the social harbors , he herself once occupied. Bo she drew her arm back and the y boomerang came hurtling home. ' society s saying: "Poor Dorothy! Her wedding date has been postponed again, .the Tope won't annul hex fiance's former marriage. And do you know why, my I; Grahame-White- r. e ; ( Siegel, of St. Louis, became the Countess di Frasso. Her husband was and still la a haughty member of the Italian nobility. The American Countess, with her elabprate functions at Rome, her hunting meets and her service on the Carso front during the war, when she disguised herself as an officer and dashed as a dispatcher along the firing line, won a high niche In continental society. Both the Grahame-Whit- e marriage and the DI Frasso alliance eventually blew up In the divorce courts. The Grahame-White- s obtained a separation which left them free to marry again, but the DI Frassos, being devout Roman Catholics, could not have complete freedom unless the Pope sanctioned an annulment of their marriage. For same years, however, neither the Count nor the Countess cared particularly whether there was an annulment or not. Then the Count met Dorothy Caawell Taylor. Just divorced from Major Grahame-White- , and the Countess met Pletro Alfredo Quazzone. first secretary of the Italian - - ,. ' , ' : ' ' . y':v- . Vrl fir. Bitter Pill for Miss Taylor Jbrj. r When Her Former Husband'a Second Wife Posed with Queen Alexandra of England at the , Aerial Derby. ' j - " A ; j 4 : - ; I , .- . v To-da- t 'f J? - : dear? Listen- "- I The story the gossips tell Is this story of ; marriages, divorces, engagements, titles, international matchmaking, Venetian draw ns rooms, Riviera motor trips, midocean amours and PapaS displeasure, with the Grahame-Whites,Miss Taylor, the Count and the Countess in the leading roles. Miss Taylor was on Even as a sub-dethe front pages of the newspapers. She was arrested for speeding, she lost a $85,000 bracelet of diamonds and sapphires given her by the Grand Duchess of Jlussia, she publicly defended the "grlzaly bear" when Maurice Introduced the to America. She was a beautiful, rich, typical American girl when she married her aviator the celebrated v a ' ' -- 4 : - J - ?'.: v ;v. v.v' ' v. v Ley V ' . ' '"A " " ' ' 'a, V - f ' i ' 3 5 The .Former f w v 1:-,- , Novr Divorced from e. A few years .before this event, another glittering international match occurred." Georglne Wilde, daughter of Mrs.' Henry Count Carlo Dentice di Frmaso. a Li (O . ...... Wilde, of St. Louis, " high-tempere- d, Grahame-Whit- Georgino lltl. . International Feature Brrrlc. di Frasso, Oreat Urttaln Rlgtita TUmu tvX Tno. " . tm Count ' - What amaxing elTront-erwas this considered from the standpoint of the first Mrs. Grahame-Whit-e, Dreadful enough when her successor was feted y In London, tut infi- herself, A word here and a shrug there. "Claudia's wife T Impossible, my dear. A mere music-hall singer. Why, she had been married to that dreadful person, Cohan, a 'dancing actor. What London could ha?e been thinking of to take her op. But of course, in Italy All this before Major and Mrs, Grahame-Whit-e arrived on tha scene. Long bf fore were due In Venice, enough seeds had they been sown In Venetian social gardens to sprout a healthy crop of snubs for the mere music-hal- l singer." At least, so the sower presumed. The - friends of Mlts Dorothy Cadwell Taylor observed her smile. Some attributed It to her engagement to the Count and the prospect of early and favorable word from the ' con-tente- , But others, who knew what happened In London and got an earful of her comments concerning tha new Mrs. Orahame-Whltcame to dlffererit. conclusions. They waited, eagerly, for the antral of the Graharoe-Whltt- s and the chilly reception somebody was going to get. Terhsps If Miss Dorothy Cadwell Taylor had waited, too, no hitch would hare happened In her well-laipirns. Tcrhaps If the Due di Banrro hadn't been about, the splinters would never have turned Into boomerangs. Perhaps If a motor tour to Vienna hadn't sounded so attractive, nothing wtmld haTe happened d to hold up that decree from Rome. Awny they went, a jrty company, and no one of them cared that the Due dl Eanrro left his bride of a year behind. But others In Venice did care. Twu a shane, Indeed, about-thdestrted and tearful Duchett! Disgraceful that her young hustand should go tearing off after an American girl! Expectln to tnarry U JTnio, was she? Certain of that annulment decree from the Pope, what? Weil, there were friends of the Duchess DI Eangro in Venice power-e, d long-deferre- e Grahamo-Whit- e. ful friends, influential friends who woulS not so easily see that pretty little thoroof put upon and flouted! The motor party from. Vienna and the boomerangs came back at about the same time. In the absents of the Due, the friends of the Duchess bad done their work h-br- ed well. d Vatican-- g - Mjor Claude 1 good-lookin- it "f ' ' .' y- ' , . ' Z nitely worse that she should Invade the hsut ton of Italy, social stronghold of the man Mlis Taylor was to marry. It was too much. Mia Taylor decided to take a little flyer to Venice m M " b, new-danc- : - Embassy at Toklo. Two engagements were announced the Count to Miss Taylor and the Countess to her diplomat the marriages to take place "when the decree of annulment Is handed down from the Vatican. The DI Frasso ' family was Influential. The annulment seemed assured. Indeed, gossip had It that everything was ready for action, when clouds gathered In an unexpected quarter. married Ethel Major Grab am Levey. There was nothing In that to Interfere with the annulment of the DI Frasso marriage. But there was something In It to ruffle the Count's fiancee. Miss Taylor. She was In London, There Major Grahame-Whit- e brought his bride. And Immediately society sniffed gunpowder. Miss Taylor was as good a shot In the drawing-rooai she was In the hunting field, and she did not spare ammunition. Mayfalr hostesses quickly learned that, If embarrassing situations were to be averted. It were better not to include Miss Taylor tnd her succeisor"1n, the Grahame-Whit- e household in the same house party. Then the theatre of war shifted across Inthe Channel. The Orahftine-Whitcontemformed their friends they weTe plating a trip to Italy. . In romantic nd excluslTe Venice the. former Ethel expected to add to the social conquests she had achieved, despite Mils Taylor, in London, where Queen Alexandra had reeeiTed fcer and the young Prince of Wales was a frequent guest at her 8unday salons. , - A certain lady, wnitper the Ven-ccos noscenti, was In none too good a temper when she learned that Mrs. Claude had been given the entree to the Innermost circles of Italian society! even repeating her triumph with British royalty by winning the favcr of Italy's King and Queen, A certain ldy. they declared, was gTlevously shoxed when she learned that ..the price cf her tour with the Due Dl Sangro andprankUa his gay companions not only was an acid Kreetlna from her whilom friends in Venice, but a sinister silence from sources even higher ord of annulments hid coma up. No from the Vatican. In r&rtleulsr no word had come or was expected to corse cf annulment cf the Count Di Frsiso's marriage. 80 Mlis Taylor heard with deOra-heme-Wh- ite spair. And so, while all may be dit sppointtnfly' quiet along the Tiber, it is cot wfcert the tittle-tattl- e of society keeps up a steady ! clack. Poor Dorotny! Her wedding diy ' Is off again. Poor Criunt! he simply can't let that annulment. Poor CounteM? she's as dUappoInted as they are. Est It all goes to prove that motor tours, deserted brides and spite wars arsisst one's former huiband's wife are-w- ell, not the twt weapons with which to fiiht a winning: battle. 60 wag the goiilys tongues, at any rata. fcarum-ecarun- i |