Show 2 THE SAL1 LAKE TRIBUNE SUNDAY MORNING FEBRUARY 23 193S Drab Finish the Fla mi no Lif MadcapAmerican if Brilliant Louise Bryant Princess of Expatriates Became a wm W' WF & 1 Legendary Figure Tha Lata Joh a Raad Only American Buried in tha Kremlin to his guns firing verbal broadsides in defense of his visionary g doctrines Louise found herself in sympathy with him There was a passionate courtship in the spirit of the gay circles world-changin- THREE LOVES Man ia High Place Succumbed to the Flaming Beauty of Looia Bryant Intellectual Girl of “the Lott Generation” There Were William Bullitt Now Soviet Ambatiador Who Became Her Second Huaband the Late John Reed (Right) Her Hutband No 1 and Myaterioui Enver Patha (Above) Turkish Agent Who Disappeared Bril-Ca- are vestiges still of in this tired woman her body up the stairs of a cheap hotel in Paris’ Left Bank Humor still lnrks deep in those limpid blue eyes But that is all What remains of the lustrous dynamic madcap girl whose sensitive hands once delved into European politics whose tinless feet danced in an orgy of forgetfulness to the nostalgic rhythms of post-wParis? Nothing but weariness mockery and aching memories The fifth step She is so tind Basically she has failed It seems life has been one long endeavor to drown out life throughout the madcap years It hasn’t worked Ahead then is nothing to receive her but cold stripped walls grinding poverty’ She is penniless The present is very real the future empty She elimbs upwards each step tearing a sharp gasp from her Tired tired! The eighth step She falters claws at the bannister A scarlet flame explodes in her bnln and she topples backward crashing down the Btairway A few minutes later at a free clinic nearby a doctor shakes his head It ia over Cerebral hemorrhage And Louise Bryant is gone — gone like a comet flaming through the black night apent by its own fierce friction Pretty witty wild Lohise — tall and supple as a bamboo shoot a girl whose strange life and loves gravitated between the pleasure-crazy of Greenwich Village Paris Montmartre and the highest chancellories of Europe Louise Bryant American girl her life seasoned with disillusion-r-sh- e who married two historand fired their imagine-- 1 y-makers tions — she whose fantastic doings over a period are firmly embedded in THERE they adorned and they were married Reed became the first Greenwich Village missionary to rank as a prophet among the Mexican revolutionists But this phase of his career was brief ’Is sailed suddenly from New York for Re sia to study the Bolsheviki in the act of breaking the chains of Tsarism And after the Revolution in 1917 Louise joined him there American newspapers had engaged her as a correspondent and she was soon the reigning Princess of the Moscow and Petrograd expatriate intelligentsia There are endless stories told about her She created a sensation with her k fuzzy hair worn in bangs and her gaudy dresses She would go to Paris and purchase a wardrobe of gay colorful creations appearing subsequently in the streets of Moscow to dazzle the Tabble with their ragged coverings made of old flour sacks A small army would follow her wherever she jent and she coal-blac- ar Ia Sack Uadergreuad re gin-der- is He contracted the deadly typhus and died a few days later They laid him to rest in the Kremlin the only American to this day to be so buried It is said that when Louise beheld his emaciated pale body she snatched off her emerald engagement ring and placed it upon his linger He was buried wearing that ring Then— From the moment of her husband’s death Louise’s life was changed She lost none of her journalistic brilliance but she tried to sink her despair and loneliness in a mad endless whirl of nightmarish play which never stopped up to the hour of her death Paris of the 1920’s was an ideal place for these pursuits and Louise became such a woman as Ernest Hemingway described in “The Sun Also Rises” Some say she was the actual original of Hemingway's famous heroine though others say an English girl is the preferred candidate Louise was much like “Bret”— disillusioned weary passionately seeking to escape from herself — and frequently waking u with a hangover But there were interludes of happiness and something resembling peace of mind along Louise’s path of riotous roses From aristocratic Rittenhouse Square in Philadelphia came young William C Bullitt heir to the Bullitt coal millions Bullitt frail with thinning hair and aristocratic features was captivated by the lovely widow figs 20-ye- ar Parislegend! V Qusso of "Lott Soul” She is gone and with her goes the final trace of the disenchanted "exgirls whom patriate" American boysasand “the lost genhistory will remember ir 'i Anti-Clim- eration" There’s a new crop of Americans in glitParis now few of those brilliantDead-most tering “expatriates” are left like PACE-SETTE- eeted Pothaasea as This Wax Figure Tableaa af a Moat-atart“Boite” Did Louise Bryant and Har “Lost Geaaratioa” Playmate Lava to Gambol Apache-Ia- f AMBASSADOR OF BOHEMIANI3M Portly Lucien Boyer Impromptu Poet and Singer Leading light In the e of Greenwich Village and Montmartr Gay Harry of them tragically and when she refused to have a Crosby who wrote paranoid poetryhome became at once a legend and sort of beauty and In Berlin she would adopt anything to do with him he determined killed himself Some of them are embroidin turn that no one else should have again respectable and placid their mad opposite tactics affecting the women access to her Russian ered smocks of peasant Paris nights forgotten For days the noble Turk picketed her Louise Bryant was the last of her and creating an equul sensation She hotel in Moscow literally beating his crowd She stayed with it to the end was something of a It amused her to foster an aura of breast and murmuring weird threats Her story begins on the campus of the Eventually he vanished and was never University of Michigan where Louise mystery She let it be understood that she was an international spy and she seen again Was he a victim of the was already noted by her professors for dreaded Russian Secret Police? Had he her bold original thought That was be- carried a rumor of intimate friendships taken his own life in despair? No one with men like Lenin Trotsky and Kam-inofore the World War John Her fellow American journalists knows It was natural that when youngaflame In 1919 Louise and John Reed were eventually grew afraid of her and would Reed tall handsome brilliant refuse to work on the same story But ordered to return to the United States with drastic and unconventional ideas met Louise he became immediately whether or not she really was a Soviet A committee in Washington investigatfascinated Irked by the conventions and Mata Hari has never been established ing Soviet propaganda wanted very much to question them Louise sideare it was just dramatics prejudices of average people the girl The chances But the reality was grotesque enough stepped the invitation although both she was already writing satirical newspaper and her husband by now freely declared and magazine articles with a biting acid Among the strangest of her many admirers was the sinister Enver Pasha their Bolshevik involvements They she inevitably Turkish agent who was sent to Russia were allowed to return to Petrogad Upon graduation Vilreceived were national as the been where had defeated after Turkey they by sought her own plane in Greenwich of every Central Powers He was at one time idols lage then the breeding-groun- d A John Turkish Minister of War Enver Pasha year later John Reed daring a trip on --standard school of thought Reed had preceded her there Reed stuck was nearly crazed by Louise’s fiery through the provinces ate some ripe Genial Demi-World- demi-godde- ff teewiist it)t hr xtu - reew R OF THE EXPATRIATES Louise Bryant of the Blue Ere and Flashing Wit Orosted a a Volga Peasant— the Madcap American Girl Affected This Costume in the Days She Posed a a Bolshevik Spy lap of her madcap life She set the pace for the strenuous eccentricities of the expatriates She frequented the darkest of the “boites” underground spots patronized by apaches and their girl? and found them amusing even thrilling She A Diplomat’s Mentor sat up all night drinking absinthe and Bullitt’s career culminated as the anisette to the rosy dawn rising over world knows in his appointment as the the Boulevards So the years passed first American Ambassador to the SoFar Away Bullitt sat in the embassy viet A graduate of Yale he studied law Moscow John Reed slumbered in tbh at at Harvard and drifted into journalism walls of the Kremlin One by one the This rich man’s son got a job at 115 a poets Journalist flaneurs of the Ameriweek as a cub reporter for a Philadelcan cult in PariB disappeared ' phia paper Before the United States en' tered the war he was sent to Europe as a It Couldn’t Last correspondent For Louise this life couldn’t go on inWhen he returned to America in 19111 Her beauty began to fade definitely he was by objective study convinced The flashing eyes were dim and shadowy deof the world importance of Russian She was reaching 40 — and she Had velopments and the opportunities for squandered what provision her husbands American trade No doubt Louise had had made for her Personal indignities ! quickened his interest in Muscovite afLouise now learned the meaning of that fairs But it was not for sixteen years phrasd that Bullitt was able to convince the She had been living for a decade and Russince that in Washington powers half in gimerack studios- - and badly- a sia was a tremendous market for Amheated fiats In 1934 she was evicted be should erican products it recognised she had been occupying in by the United States His long labors from a room The eviction notice was to this end were finally rewarded by his Montmartre publicly proclaimed This to a woman appointment to the ambassadorship had been the intimate of Prime Meanwhile his romance with Louise who and generals the wife of two Ministers divorced had crashed They were quietly international figures g in Philadelphia "Personal indignities” history-makinin journalism ! were mentioned and he was given the herself a power Death was merciful that recent day custody of their little daughter Alone again Louise plunged into the when she met him on the darkened stairfrenzied life of Montmartre on the last way of her obscure Paris abode Bullitt and his first wife Ernesta Drinker daughter of President Emeritus Henry S Drinker of Lehigh University were divorced Louise became Mrs Bullitt There was a small daughter Mea ha 1 |