Show f ROl D if I eM anil Pilu e Wye LR villi OfIN s CO 3 1 g r l test International llon l lK K Marriage linage rn Evokes 1 r s s s 1 Muck Much 1 Gossi Gossip F By y JOHN DICKINSON SHE SHERMAN MAt MAN IB Ii v AMERICANS NS are getting get ting Ung up Yip In the world If we we keep on on n well weB be among the some some day Why the United States of America even even gets a mention In Inthe Inthe Inthe the new 1024 de Gotha and Gotha-and and for the first that Ume time mind you since that Who's Who Inthe In Inthe Inthe the Nobility began beean pub put In 1703 1163 You see lee the United States Stater couldn't i be e mentioned before because It has Lad bad no no connection with the royal families tam tam- tiles of Europe So we we are aro progressing In our climb up the social ladder The de Gotha Is strictly a made wade product Maybe Its compilers come com pliers and publishers have not liked us of Gf late a but if It the Dawes commission plan goes through nicely perhaps they will wilt feel more kindly toward us It ItIs ItIs Itis is to to tobe be hoped six so For For Forthe the Berlin Slit Slit- tags edl editorially remarks It la ii true that war brought broucht about many divorce of Amerl American n women who had bad Joined Euro European princes prine and counts In ID order to embroider a coat of ot Arm anna upon their underwear or to have haveIt It U printed on their stationery but It ItI appear that lathe 10 long lone run titles Uti slid anel n I name are as a. attractive to to American women a a. a In former year years At least there are some lome new name names added re recently re- re to th the de Gotha list But Dut that has nothing to do with the story tOry of Prince and end the Romanoff Romanoff Ro Ro- manoff mane and Astor millions except that next years year's will probably mention the marriage of ot Miss Ava Alice Muriel Astor to Prince Serge Me Me- They are married all right fight and at this writing are honey honeymooning somewhere somewhere some some- where on the continent And back in London the gossips are still asking the question Wh Why did the great-great great granddaughter of John Jacob Astor 1 I 1848 1763 the possessor of t ten or fifteen her own right marry marry mar mar- ry the penniless member of ot czarist czarist- Russian family Was the prince cne cne of Gt those thoS wonderful European lovers like the Hollander r who swept MIl Ic Millicent nt Rogers of ot New v York off of her ber feet teet You see th there re Is a myth abro abroad d that the American Is good a husband husband- but a poor lover And It was whispered about fashionable London where the once American mostly do congregate con eon that Prince was was the best dancer In Eur Europe pe that he be was vas as strong as Hercules that he was a gifted composer of ot love songs And It Is possible that Mayfair lr raised an eyebrow over the Astor marriage for the reason that ItIs ItIs it itIs Is little more than seven months since Prince Catherine obtained d a divorce in London fr from m Prince Oho Obo lenski on the grounds ot of neglect Infidelity Infidelity infidelity In In- fidelity and nonsupport Heres Here's where the Romanoff millions come come Into the story story and and the tile story 01 of th these se millions shames fiction Here are the high lights of it Away back in 1880 1680 Alexander II of ot Russia liberator of the Serfs mar married mar mar- marred red ned Catherine ruki after lifter th the death of ot Czarina Marie There was a daughter by this second marriage Catherine Al AJ- On One flue fine day when Catherine Carh Cath- erine w was s still a babe Czar Alexander kissed her ber a and d set out for a drive in the streets of at St St. Petersburg Peters burg Petrograd Leningrad He set setout setout out In to perfect health lIe He was brought back a mass of ot bloody rags Bombs Dombs hurled burled by the Nihilists Nihilist had literally lit era torn him to pieces But Dut Alexander had bad amply provided tor for Catherine After his bis death she came cume Into a tort fortune ne o of f JJ r ii I If Gi l v n a. a r 1 al f Jp l gt n ti l' l 1 s y t fl tf Ii P l- l SS aJO aBOL something like which had bad been beeD invested end London tor b r her benefit All would have been well wen except for tor the fact tact that the widow shaken by the tragedy developed a n fear of ot poverty almost maniacal This monomania made her averse to any anI sort of ot expenditure 1 Finally Catherine denied dented any share in her Inheritance went on the concert stage She had hada a fine flue voice and the great Melba mad rad encouraged and trained her She made madea a success She married Prince Bert Barl- lIe He died Along camp came am th the tha World war warl warf The widowed Princess Catherine went to the Crimea to nurse the wounded Russian soldiers soldier s r Prince a dashing cavalry officer under Nicholas II was desperately desperately desperately desper desper- wounded and sent to to the great grat war hospital at at Yalta In the Crimea lIe He came back to consciousness to see seethe seethe seethe the lovely and sympathetic face of Princess bent over him Ills His royal nurse literally dragged him back from the grave Soon the pat patient patient pa pa- tient asked the hand of ot the nurse They were married In In- Inthe the Cathedral l lat of at St St. Chrysostom at Y Yalta and took up up their residence In Russia Then came the revolution revolution and and swept away everything So Fo they hurried off of to London where Prince a graduate of ot Oxford was well known and popular In fashionable circles Princess resumed her sing sing- ing lag Prince did nothing Moreover much of ot the earnings of his wife found to the furthering of ot his pleasures In December of 1023 1923 fashionable London was startled by bythe bythe bythe the divorce secured by And here here fate tote played a most amazing amazing ing Ini trick on Prince ce or or was It merely Justice Anyway the mother moth moth- er of princess died lea leaving leang ng the of ot Czar Alexander prate practically I untouched The divorced wife I became enormously wealthy But Dut the millions of ot he her royal father were beyond beyond be be- yond ond Prince reach So much for tor the Romanoff millions and Prince Now for tor the Astor millions and Prince John ohn Ja Jacob cob Astor I 1763 founder of the Astor family was born In Waldorf German Germany and arrived In New Y York rk at an early carly age He ne ped died musical instruments in In and then went Into the fur tur business business' He lIe mar mur- rued Mar Mary Todd in New York In 1785 1795 17 He lie was WIlS a Ii financial and commercial genius amassed a fortune In the fur trade and Invested It In New York real estate where the Astor holdings of ot this generation are worth untold millions William Witham Waldorf Astor born In New NewYork NewYork NewYork York In 1848 and now de dead d. d was was waa a gre of the founder He Be became an expatriate In England re re- eele ved a Tn th reward dona 1 Lions to royal charities and was the father of at the Husband of Lady Astor who was Nancy Langhorne of ot VI Virginia Virginia Vir Vir- ginia U U. U S S. S.- A A. and Is now In the British parliament Alice Astor now Princess is the daughter of John Jacob Astor IV 1012 1804 who went down In the Titanic He lIe was wp a of ot the founder He lie married In 1891 1801 Ava Ave Lodle LO Willing of Philadelphia T There ere are two children of ot this marriage Vincent and Alice Their parents were divorced In 1009 1909 Mr Ast Astor l married married married mar mar- ried Madeleine Talmage Force In to 1011 IDIL Her lIer son Is still another John Jacob Astor V born in 1012 Mrs Mra Ava Ave WillIng WillIng Will Will- Ing lag Astor married Thomas Lister fourth Baron Doran born in 1854 and the ow own owner r of 1800 acres Alice Allce was born In In 14 New v York Her lIer father created for her a trust frust fund of When she became of at age a a year year ago the five ve millions millIon's are said to have doubled or trebled them diem selves As the daughter of Lady RIbblesdale RIb RIb- bl sdale Alice Allce became a gracious expatriate ex- ex patriate of ot tone magnetism and charm more than usually tall and more more than usually b bobbed Alice and her prince met in London under Impe impeccable cable and ultra ultrafashionable ultra fashion able circumstances it It was a a. a case of ot true love iove running smooth until until she and her prince went went to a registrars registrar's office e. e In London for tor their license to to towed wed And then the poor poor little American rich girl had had- hada a a. a perfectly awful time By pY some some d dr a ad adful ful mistake they chos chose the D ost con con- office In all Lond London that London th n-th that t on Buckingham Palace road And And do do you know the poor iti- iti girl had hado o io o 10 through no less ess th than t three ree mar 1 e ceremonies I First there yea was the tha civil civiC c ceremony ceremony r mony Second the religious ceremony ceremony In Chapel Royal Roal where Prince Paul of ot Serbia was best man mall Third the final ceremony In In- Inthe the hue hue- sIan elan church of at St St St. Philip Buckingham DI Palace road here Prince Paul laul was again best man and Vincent Vincent Astor Astor her brother gave gave the bride away Dway Various friends at various times so the story goes have offered Prince Serge ski various arlous jobs Invariably he Ie Is greatly surprised and rather Indignant Indignant indignant In In- so so the story gOes goes and Invariably Invariably Invariably ably he answers Who me met Work Never Ne Why should work Sure enough Wh Why should he |