Show t f rf s 1 f f 1 Shows Them the Door and Slams and Locks It Behind lip I II II I Em b Omitting Their I Social I Flo Marjorie w r N Broad Names From the I Stillman Il Phili Paul F Elizabeth N J h I I Stillman Ml James arah Dm UINta po Latest Official Stillman Jame 1 its I Stillman a N James I Rf rm t 1 Stillman Pad List of New Yorks York's c It t e Stillman ti Mildred Lisa E f k i 1 I D Al 1 r Smart Set t j I II I Above Above- t a R y I I Ithe the page pageN N A qs f wn r r I l 1 in the w s I 1922 Stillman York s ocI R I I I n of the St p lorenCe 1423 rk r a 1 New tilman A r Y e jr VS e t 0 t I Social J JA n Y k y yF F ti d y I Register Sarah R r Sit N o i i where Jos r will Ell rt r l a 4 w R rr tR Me D Alfred Uth fi fiCh see 4 key Ch q rs an I James A Mus Anne and o 6 I 3 young James appeared 1 d F for what now proves to have been II F 11 T the last time the Below coores gyp Page from the 1923 Social Register with the a a t a names of the four Stillman mussing Il vl i has dropped the tho whole Still Stillman Still Still- Stillman SOCIETY man father family family lather and mother II son and daughter Figuratively I I speaking peaking it has haa kId ed cd them out of Its its i fashionable drawing rooms and locked the t e doors against their return ft It has served formal notice that there Ji is no 10 longer room in I the charmed cIrcle circle of the smart set for either James A t I Stillman the former president of the thet thel t i i National City Bank Dank or for Mrs Anne 1 l 11 Potter Stillman the wife from It whom horn he heIS heI I Ift IS separated under such sensational cir cir- 1 jl I Vi cu 1 ff 1 11 Even Iven young oung Miss Anno Anna Stillman and andI I I Ill ll her ner brother James have to suffer for Cor Corthe forthe torI I II ff the scandalous marital mantal troubles of their and are placed along with Ith them under society's ban In their case the Biblical admonition regarding the sins sms l r F Fr 1 Pe f r I r Ya P r 1 l f 4 f I ft 1 15 f J t IVAri t tt t i fi 11 H I t k l i k W it 4 t I Jf N i WI r kiv oJ 1111 t A j t I i I iJ y J receives 00 a very mod modern h 1 hon ik 1 Th The New Nw York k Social RegIster York published pub pub- iO or MI i tuY Y p m every twI twelve r L months wy is h the um- um 1 1 J clot 1 dO doomsday mybO book of f N New York so so- so society i LIt r c clet In n its neatly L- L printed printed pages pIts ages are w wi wI i listed al alphabetically i ithe I nam the namos of all It tb the themen men and women who IZ aren are R recognized as having hg hd the entree to the cIty sty's om most fasli fash- F i Ion able most m exclusive sive most jealously Ii circles I i guarded i i Nott Not to have on ones one's w I m name appear PP in i this hi a roster to toPP is proof P tie M that tf so far es as I If r Ii 8 f fr the N New York smart r 41 t tord f i t set goes one just t t lII l doesn't belong el elone ong Th The 1 a R av S Social j word ord is h law w and ond every y l lr 11 r l i 11 Y year sees a it regarded d as more and ond more of infallible ble 1 7 For more than twenty years ears the names of James A Stillman and his wife liP liP- geared regularly in Tho Social Regis Register ter along with the tho the Actors the Goulds tho Rockefellers and andI all the other rich fashionable and so- so so so-r so 1 dally powerful po ones who maintain townhouses townhouses town townhouses houses In New York I And more recently when the Stillman Still Still- Stillmans mans man only daughter Anne Anno and their 3 eldest son James became old enough to togo toI 1 i J go about in society their names Mere ere I 1 also duly listed just below those of theIr 11 ll parents i i ll But Dut in ID the 1923 edition of The New Maw I I 1 York Social Register recently off the I I ll presses you will look in n vain for the I I gradI 1 j name of Mr James Alex Stillman graduate graduate grad- grad gradi Ii I 1 I II ll I il i of Harvard in the class of ft 1896 18 6 and andI an i i I i member of a bakers baker's dozen of New Yorks York's Yorks York's smartest clubs fl Neither will you find the name of his Wt wife Mrs Anne U Potter Stillman nor that of the daughter Anne nor that of the son James The space where you could expect to find these four tour names names- names the space where here they were to be found found in the 1922 edition of The Social Reg Reg- II s I Is inter ister is given to the names of others others others- I j The omission of the names of the four fourr j II members of the Stillman family was as duo due to no oversight on the part of the edItors of The Register but to deliberate in in- in intent tent There is no slip sheet bound into the back of the volume at the last min mm- minute minute ute apologizing for the omission of the tho I names from their proper place and print print- i ing them there And there certainly would pave have been I N it 3 dP II I I Ij j- j something of this kind if the omission had been unintentional for Tho The Social Register is a most carefully edited work and receives the close scrutiny of a great many pairs of watchful eyes before It Itis itis itIs is finally sent to press No this is thought to be society's way ay of telling the Stillmans Stillman that it is dis- dis disgusted dis disgusted gusted with the nauseating lengths to which their charges and counter charges ha hale hae e been carried and also that It has given up trying to decide whether eIther the husband or the wife is deserving of any sympathy from minded decent peo peo- people people pie Society feels that It has suffered enough from th thc thi extraordinary quarrel In which the Stillmans Stillman arc are involved d and It wants to be rid of them It prefers their room to their company and so It brusquely shows them the tho t e door by leav leav- leaving leaving leaving ing their names out of The Social Reg Reg- Register Register ister inter Many who will think that there is no Injustice in m this tins so far as Mr and Mrs StIllman aro concerned ail will III be inclined to feel that it lt is not quite fair to the partIcularly children particularly to pretty MIss Anne It is certainly a cruel blow for a young woman to be Le thrust out of the very cir cir- circle cir circle cle do in which she made her debut debut- debut and Just at the time when she sho is most eager to enjoy the thrills of society life and most moat hopeful of making a II brilliant marriage But Dut there seemed to be no way of avoiding the tho ostracism of Anne and her brother along with their parents Ac Ac- Ac if as a r 1 r a l f R Ri i r 4 i R Rr x I r Mrs Anne Potter StilL nan engrossed in her plans for n 11 wholesale business white fashionable society a closing its doors on her and the rest of her family r Flo Leeds the plumbers plumber's daugh James A Stillman the central ter and former chores girl male figure in the mo most t who is alleged to have extraordinary love of mod mod- modem NIr tangle em ant times ms heart K z r 3 r r I IY Y y y v t 1 z rh ju p X R f Y Yi S SY Sr l 4 1 Y i e t sl a to r ra a J t kR I f a 1 iA Pretty j I young Anne Stillman whose future is ia so cruel cruel- cruelly cruelly 1 ly clouded by the ban has placed 0 oa 1 her cording to a 11 long established rulo rule of The Social Register the names of young men and young women omen appear only with Ith those of their parents pro pro- provided vided bided the latter are arc living So Anne and James had to suffer suITer for forthe forthe the ugly scandals that center about theIr father and mother and an 3 make them no longer acceptable to the smart set Just who compiles this official list 1st of New York society's members just lust who authorizes the very limited number of additions that arc are made to it from year to Year 1 ear just who ho wields tho ruthless blue pencil and cuts out tho the names of those who for some reason or other have haae be- be become be become come all undesirable undesirable all this isa is a secret which is most carefully guarded and which it is thought perhaps no moro more than half a dozen poisons share shale e The general belief is Ig that the hon tion of tho the social sheep from the goats which Tho Register achieves every r r b d year is done under the direction of a lIttle group of powerful social leaders whose bose identity is kno known knon n only to one an- an another an another other and to the publisher of the volume Whoever these POIsons persons are they exert a more autocratic over socIety than the late Ward McAllister did when hen be he compiled the invitation list for Mrs Astor's Asters ball and thereby created cre- cre created cre created the famous Tour Perhaps their rulings arc not ys just but at any rato they have succeed succeed- succeeded succeeded succeeded ed in making society accept them with wIth- wIthout without without out question The rho New York SocIal RegIster has bas become the court of last resort the the one from which there is no appeal roe For fourteen years after the marriage of James A Stillman and Anne hart Urquhart hart brt Potter there thero was every out outward ard in- in indication in m indication of their complete happiness Much alike alke in m their tastes they seemed a couple exceptionally well suited to live lve A tO together ether forever in I harmony lie He was a Harvard man vho who had often pitched the varsIty nine to victory and had also been an oarsman of note nole From his banker father he had inherited a re- re remarkable re remarkable talent for financial affairs and to become the was as de destined some day head of the great grent National City Bank an institution backed by the Rockefeller billions Mrs Stillman was an haired nuburn-haired haired auburn auburn beauty with the blood of an impetuous mother ous mother actress active in her veins and making her scornful of conventional ways of life She Sha was a noted eques eques- equestrienne equestrienne equestrienne trienne tennis player and swimmer LIke Liko her husband she was fond of hunt hunt- hunting sag ing and of children Three babies had been born bom to them by the tho time tune the lear ear 1915 1815 rolled around and Mr Stillman began to desert his home and family more and aud more fre- fre frequently frequently fre frequently for one of his clubs This was as the beginning of the end of his power in inthe inthe the social and financial worlds A few months later he became a fa- fa familiar fa familiar figure in m the gay night life of Broadway and his constant companion was as Flo ria Leeds a n plumbers plumber's daughter Y 1 j I I II I I II d I s rye 1 Y Ya YC C t w a re 4 t whose viva viva- ad dons clous goo g o o d dv v t looks had won I a i it t her a place in ina ine ina Ina cornI I a musical comedy corns corn corn- s k e edy chorus Soon after it this thia Flo Leeds suddenly deserted her place placey y in the chorus to become t d mistress of a luxuriously furnished New York apartment She wore the most expensive crea crew creations creations of modiste milliner and furrier and glistened like a Christmas tree with diamonds When she went shopping or calling she rode roda in a limousine limousine sine of her own with a liveried chauffeur chauffeur fear In this apartment in September 1918 rIo Flo Leeds gave ga birth to a n son The bIrth j certificate listed the child as Jay Leeds son of Harold and Florence Leeds But Buts s JI later on many different persons have sworn in court that the man known about the apartment house as Harold Leeds was as none other than James A Stillman r Two T 0 months later at the Stillman cIty home Mrs 1 Stillman gave birth to toa toa toa a son The child was as christened GUY StIllman f fIn In the summer of 1920 Mr StIllman secretly an action for dIvorce II denying the paternity of little Guy and naming reed Fred Beauvais a good looking Canadian Indian Canadian guide as respondent co-respondent co I Beauvais had been in Mrs StIllmans StIllman's employ in the Canadian woods and had visited her and the children at her ber homo home JD in Pocantico Hills The banker asserted that this intimacy had been going on for three years vears ears In spite of his efforts to stop it Anonymous Anonymous Anonymous letters which Mr Mrs Stillman admit admIt- admItted admitted i ted had been stolen from her home were published They contained many affee- affee affectionate ll J terms of endearment as IS well al a many phrases well known to the Cana Cana- Canadian j than dian trails i 1 Mrs Stillman replied to her husbands husband SUIt by charging that Flo ria Leeds had won I his heart and that he was the father of her son Ever Iver since then the case has been dragging its weary henry way ay through the courts making at every step more and f i I Irole serious inroads into the Stillman fortune Pending the final decision Mrs III I Stillman was granted liberal alimony I I IOnly Only Oly a few w w weeks k ago FJ Flo Leeds d wh who had been keeping her whereabouts care care- carefully carefully carefully fully hidden ever over since the storm broke I sailed for Europe Europa with a woman oman friend There are that she and Mr Still Still- Stillman man are no longer on good that terms terms they may soon be parted forever 1 |