Show I t I I t Th tr I Jr r rA A n r Jerg Ridiculous Splurge Over the Grand Grandi i Grand Duchess Cyril Cyril of R Russia sailing for for home after ter tera s J a ten days stay In in erica during which her i Im m penal hand was humbly hissed by scores of rich richand and Duchess e Cyril and How It F Failed aJ I e d fashionable citizens of this democracy to t Replace the Old With Witha a Still More Moret Morer r t r t n i r N Nr 1 l 7 I gyp AY t r a aM ary M ry ryu ryr u r a I f S Certain tF t d y tN r n a x c ge V Y t Social d q n At e r r i fi Leaders r In w Ay 5 w t C 4 Lv 4 CrY f ds vy Hoped q J y s tY i 4 0 P 0 A n a N n I s f 7 eC A j i by Ar y n k aN k h he e 2 w Y 4 a f w F pf a fir t ts Y s a z cp e es s cs iy y 1 F y r m Ay i r y h d dt t ti t aCa a r hy as 7 sS use J t r 1 My A e r v r l a r v r 1 a 9 w aC ws es i It l e r eM 5 31 s a o e wt rs s km s Below Her ln peg I IA Iwi G 1 with Mrs ta s s Y Sa a s Henry P Loomis A wi I one of the 1 1 y r A iy In the p ans for her hire yV w M 9 el i iA linn h Lw I 1 Y v rr a l I r t ax S V Va I II A Ar r WG I Y Miss Natalie Hays Hammond and Fulton Lewis jr in the Argentine tango they danced before the Grand Duchess when she visited Washington g g f not Mt at all beautiful loman woman woman- P nr THAT R who styles herself Her ller Imperial Imperiali Highness Grand Duchess Cyril of Russia hat has ha come and gone and in her herH to this country the United States has been heated to n a most amazing C cx j ex-j of fashionable society's snob s nob-H nob g berg bery ber Exactly what hilt prompted the Grand GrandB Duchess to accept an invitation to visit us under such ill III chosen conditions isa is a II good deal of a mystery M Some say she came here to spread subtle political propaganda Others arc are I sire S that her purpose was as to dispose e H of several millions of dollars woith of levels lew e eels els and collect stillmore still more millions de deposited de- de deposited posited here bere long ago by a C ar of j Russia B Another story has bas it that she melce- melce B B i any lent her cr name and prestige to tB B B certain ambitious society matrons in ex- ex exchange JJ el-JJ E JJ change for the of gaining from wealthy Americans the money mono 3 needed to back bad her husbands husband's effort to t tg g restore CzarIsm in Russia and put hIm hIm- hImself himself self on the tin one Whatever er the purpose the Grand Gran H Duchess haji in m deigning to bestow her heB pre presence ence upon the United States for ten tenda days das da s it gave American society the op- op opportunity opportunity for what hat is probably the most ridiculous e exhibition of koss ow to lo l tossing mg to t loyalty it has ever gl glen gisen en Fashionable women stood in line Ime to tomake tomake t make their curtseys to Her lIer Imperial 1 highness Many of them humbly bent t- t their knees to Her lIer Imperial highness a and kissed her hand They apologized 1 for the crudities and vulgarities of t American life and expressed the earnest t hope that she would not be too m much i discommoded by lack of the refinements refinement i to which she was as accustomed in m Europe Europ Yet with Ith all this servile fa fawning nil the o Grand Duchess leCel ed no formal HI wel come from flom elthel the nation itself or any an V rf of the cities which she The of welcoming committee of the city of New York did not sail down the bay to I meet her Official Washington let her stay in that city pass quite unheeded And the Grand Duchess's visit to tins this country has not been followed by the tl-l tl evolutionary revolutionary I readjustment of fashion fashion- fashionable able society which a numbes of ambitious matrons hoped and expected All this was an au almost heart breaking disappointment to prominent members of the Monday Opera Club the 10 01 under whose hose auspices the Gland Giand Duchess Dudleys had been Invited to America They had counted on the visit of Her Imperial Highness to make the tho clubs club's season a brilliant one and to the thc organization as the most ex- ex ex e j dUI c circle in III American society society-a a society i circle d that would Id take lh the pi place of lh the t t old Tour Hundred and flown fl frown 0 n more se severely erdy then than tho those e ever eser dIdon didon did didion ion on the aspirations of social fj climbers and everybody e else whose blood lacks the t he proper blue tinge 4 In place of the Four Hun Hun- Hundred Hun Hundred dred it a was wai planned to have hae has ha haa e eh ea h a Five Hundred composed p of the 1 five c bundled hundl ed members g sf k of the Monday Opera Club V Besides this little circle of of super-aristocrats super there would t ty Ir Irbe be a larger elide circle consisting v of those not rich or blue blue blue- g blooded enough nough to get into the mote mOle exclusive e e circle but still considered ed worthy orthy of being be- be being ing mg set apart from the como com common mon herd This large Ill I'll cle would consist of 2500 members the total being fixed fi ed by allow ing mg each member of the Five Hundred to select foi membership in m the caste casti lust Just below five file persons person and no more Tin The members of the 2500 would be Le invited I now and then to meetings of the Monday Opera Club and honored cd with occasIOnal I mutations invitations to the homes of the rise rl C Hundred Cut But only when lien hen some of the latter died die would any of the larger Ill I'll cle be lifted to men in m the smaller and more mon exclusive e group and group and then only if they the had been very good good children during dunn Je je ie probationary period This is the plan which some of lh th e leading spirits in the Monday Opera Club Clu a are believed belIe ed to have hate ha I mad Hid iad in mind when hul who they engineered the visit of the Russian Grand Duchess to this countr country Ostensibly she came to inaugurate the th season of the Monday Mon ay Opera Club ani and make it the most brilliant in the history For this purpose the tho officers of the club let it be Le known they the thought no other woman o so well fitted Mrs Coolidge the first lady of the tho tholand theland land tome some minded high leader of phil phil- philanthropIc philanthropic or educational work the cul- cul cultured cu wife rule of an honored captain of c f industry try one of the many women who can trace their ancestry back to Amerl Ameri- America's cas ca's earliest colonial dav dat none s-none s none of these was as quite good enough to suit the leader s of the Opera Club If It then claims were con considered at all they were promptly thrown thron n into the discard Only loyalty royalty would satisfy the clubs club's a ambitions It wanted anted for Its guest of honor on the occasion that was to be made so momentous in Americas America's social history some seine woman whose hand would have to be kissed and who ho would d blinK bling to vulgarly democratic America an a uplifting and ond refining whiff of the an ans- ans atmosphere of foreign courts court y t v d yS S m mI I- I IY Y R J t 2 vAi i rf J r t x I 1 tI J l Y 4 fi J v f li k ZI f m Ai C wc I 1 he only woman oman of loyal loal pretensions pI there seemed any likelihood of getting to t this country in m season foi the inauguration tion of the clubs club's season wa was the Grand Gram Duchess who ho claims that if she an and her husband had their lights tights they would b be sharing the impei tat throne of Russia Not Kot being in actual possession of the thi throne she bhe has more leisure than queens queen and empresses who ho are 1 leally eally on the lob Job jol jolof of cro crowns crons ns and she could easily casil slip across the Atlantic on sliest notIce notIce- notice if an anybody body v oud kindly supply the price of a round till tap tIcket The club would ba have hase e been much bet tar ter satisfied with an to honest-to goodness queen but it hoped to have such a one oneas oneas as its guest later on in III the person o of Queen Mane Marie of Rumania In the tho mean meantime meantime time it decided that the Grand Duchess Duches Cyril was d a sufficiently imposing dIg dIg- dig dignitary to impress society on both sIdes of the ocean with the commanding pos pos- sll on the new Five Hundred was going go- go goIn going In ing to assume So a formal mutation invitation was extended to her lier and the alacrity with which it was wa accepted makes many suspect that her Imperial Highness was fully full aware of the way she and her hu husband band might profit through establishing coi tact with some of Americas America's mIllionaire society swells The Monday Opera Club was delight delight- delighted cd ed From its officers came glowing an- an announcements announcements of the wonderful things Its entertainment of the Grand Duchess Cyril C nl Ill were expected to accomplish Society in Europe looks across the tho sea h hope to the social life of out vigorous new nal nation nalon on read one of the th clubs club's prideful boasts The Monday t e a Opera Club must up s hold standards A AIt It was freely said by y vincus officers and m- m iny b P y l members that the tho visit of the Grand Duchess Cyril was as the first mo move mole e in III II a S sweeping campaign of social selection and readjustment in New York that would I replace the famous old Four Hundred ltha with a slightly larger but far famore more exclusive powerful and Jealously guarded circle But the visit of the tho Grand Duchess has dl mally failed to accomplish what It iwas was as fondly expected to It has da dashed hed the h hopes pes of the ambitious Opera Club who planned it and It if f there IS ISto isto ito to be any re revamping of social lines nes in III i New York it certainly will ull not be done under their direction This dose of loyalty an oser- oser over overdose dose It killed the patient it was ex- ex expected expected ex expected to revive reeve and make mOl mote e rigorous Certain socially PO powerful erful members of the Monday J Opera Club men Club men and wom wom- women women women en whom the proposed rive Five Hundred could not possibly do without without more morp sensible and discerning than some of their fellow members Although they had quietly v acquiesced in III the plans for entertaining the Giand Gland Duchess they had taken no active part in III them and when they saw what a ridiculous exhibition ot of snobbery was being started they prompt prompt- promptly ly Iy stepped out of tho the picture These members were not Impressed either with Ith the Grand Duchess's per per per- personality tonality per or good looks They were dIS- dIS dISgusted disgusted gusted with the of her ap- ap appeals ap appeals peals for money And it revolted then them to see citizens of democratic America g getting down on their knees to kiss the hand of this o e of royalty Their denunciation of tho whole busi busl business business ness and their refusal to lend their sup sup sup- support port to any further such affairs make e eIt it certain that the establishment of a Fiso FI 0 Hundred will havo have to be indefinitely indefinitely postponed t tIn In fact the Grand Duchess ss seems to have been tho the i ionly only tW f only one to any profit from her astonishing visit VIlt to this country When she sh saIled for home her pocketbook was filled with lal laige ge contrIbutions she sho had obtained from wealthy Americans to the Russian ro royal al- al f fist 1St cause and the relief of RusSian Rus Rus- Rus j Sian refugees s This very tery fact has lies added to f the the bittel dissensions that are rending the Mon day d a y Opera Club as a result of of the coming of lIel HIghness Highness I It is charged by some of the members who ho think the whole a ridiculous e exhibition I fol of snobbery that the thee If e cl club's clubs fund funds were ere Improperly im im- im properly do dl diverted to paye pay e foi tor the guests guest's transportatIon trans trans- j 1 from flom Europa Europe J I and her hotel Dills bills all ail ail- j road road faro fare and t other expenses while in III t this his yi country country j jIn In denying de n y i 1 n g gt c this t h 18 charge it iwas was as hinted that y t the h hc c steamship company n y had h a d car carried r I I d and M leading hotels here had enter- enter entertained tamed the Grand Duchess free of all charge But the hotel and steamship people vigorously denied havIng done anything of the kind And there you are The whole hole affair IS 13 made all the more ridiculous by the reports from Pans Parrs de- de de declaring Glaring claring that influential Russian RUlan aristo aristo- aristocrats aristocrats aristocrats there insist that Grand Duchess Cyril and her husband have no legitimate claIm whatever to Rus Russia's s 's throne They f e ew r l w Y I t hy m Aa 1 v A I ty air airty b e f y rr f ifs e I K f l i l a as j r s 9 i i ii 1 i i f 1 i it t 54 ti 9 r rr rr r r Mrs J H Kidder one of the mem berg bers of the very smart Monday I Opera Club who took a prominent t part in bringing to this country the claimant of the Czarinas Czarina crown were greatly amused to see how she W wasi was 1 I I f lionized in 11 America as a possible s 1 I |