Times Signal from Zanesville, Ohio • Page 30

I I jfTzree Foremost By EILEEN PARIS. VERYBODY here is asking everybody else how fare the battles of the beauties for the dashing Hugh Richard Arthur Grosvenor, Duke of Westminster! "Which of the three pets of Paris.do they say lie's engaged to to-day--if any?" ask. "And have they figured out how- he can be engaged at all with a wife, still on his hands? And what's the final news of the Duchess and her divorce suit--if any?" Then Paris smiles and shrugs and settles down to enjoy its daily gossip about Westminster's trio of reputed fiances, i. The charming Gabrielle Chanel, famous modiste. The charming Baroness de Styrcea.

twice-wed beauty. A charming Spanish dancer--name not disclosed. And, as M. Georges d'Airoy-, noted young man about Paris and leader of Boulevard sentiment, remarked the other day, it doesn't in the least detract from the general enjoyment of the situation to know that while the French capital laughs. London hunches its shoulders and gasps! "Oh!" moans London, according to M.

d'Airoy, "hasn't that bad boy of the Britr ish- nobility kicked over the traces often enough in the past without launching on this new excursion--or trio of excursions --on the red-rose path of romance After everybody's tried so hard to make him And they remember how King Edward forced the Duke into marriage in the first place as a penance for his gallantries, and how King George made him. stay married --until the war came along and upset the royal influence. TL'at, however, was' two divorces back in his career. "What," London inquires, "is at Buckingham Palace of the Duke's fat- est exploits, and what will the sovereign rulers of Great Britain, do about it if the richest peer in England and head of its most illustrious house marries a modiste, an Austrian baroness, or a Spanish dancer? debonair Duke appeared in iParis shortly after the Duchess flounced over to America and among- the gayeties of the Charmers of Europe Have Created a NeW International Scandal by Their Rivalry Over Westminster, "Bad Boy" of thi British Nobility. The First Duchess of Westminster, Formerly Constance Curmvallis.

West. At Left, the Beautiful Baroness Mariette Styrcea, Reported Engaged to the Duke of Westminster, Is a Lutheran Minister's Daughter, Whose Romantic Affairs Have Involved Three Marriages. "And Paris, With an Amused Twinkle, Watches the Three- Cornered Skirmish of the Austrian Baroness, ths Spanish Dancer and the Parisian Modiste for the Debonair Duke." the pres- Prince of Wales's polo part; then raging on Long Island, and. forgetfulness her domestic disturbances. Society learned that -the dove of peace no longer roosted over the Westminster regime when the Duchess asked the courts for an injunction to restrain her husband from locking her out of Bourdon House; 1 one- of his London mansions.

"Dear, dear! How history repeats itself!" the gossips said then. And they recalled the story the first Duchess of Westminster--she that was Connie Corn- ivallis West--told of how her noble husband locked the gates of the historic Grosvenor House against her because she had gone to a party at Buckingham Palace to Tv'hlch he was not invited. "It's a bad habit he has of shutting his Duchesses out of his ancestral habitations," clacked the tabbies, "and the King: and Queen don't like it a bit--however much they may not approve of ent she having been a divorcee when she married the Within twenty hours after the Duke reached Paris, tongues began to wag, though it may have been a mere coincidence that a fierv little Spanish dancer suddenly ap- peared'on the Boulevards and for several weeks was wholly in evidence wherever Westminster happened to be. "A charming renewal of friendship!" everybody said. "One recalls the story of the yachting trip last winter when the present Duchess, formerly Mrs.

Violet Rowley, a popular and pretty young society woman, and the dancer unfortunately met That incident they say, not long ago the Duke, with the Duchess and a party of friends was cruising about the Mediterranean. Some of guests were not at all to the The Present Duchess of Westminster. Fornerly Mrs. Violet Rowley, Photographed with the Duke, from ijbc Seeking a Divorce. noblewoman's liking.

Indeed" it 53 maintained that it was a slrar.gdv mot-lev crowd to which she was expected to act as not at al! like the society in which she was accustomed to circulate. One of the most striking of her the beautiful Spanish dancer. And her conversation, habits and costumes were so extreme that they kept even ii mixed crowd thai was 0:1 the iti i i i Ijvtintujiiiy tin 1 iifc.vfiV: with husband's atlf'Olifim; to the dancer, ami iie- niandc'l thai; she be spared humiliation woman put ashore. When Westminster refused, so the story runs. th Duches- invaded the dancer's stateroom and stripped it of dresses, lingerie, and even jewels, all of which she.

threw overboard! After this the yacht did put ashore hut it was the Duchess party. And it cost the Duke a pretty penny to replace- all the things that had gone out of the a oom While all of Paris was giggling over the Duke's engagement to this unconventional charmer, he suddenly packed his grips and moved his residence to a sedate corner of the city, and for a time nobody saw him about the gay haunts where he was wont to while away the hours of night. Then it was none other than the breezy Georges d'Airoy himself who spied the handsome Englishman motoring in the Bois at the sunset hour, while on the cushions at his side reposed that lovely and aloof woman of mystery, Madame Gabriclle Chanel! The whole world knows the daring and r-artori- ally dangerous creations in gowns, wraps and hats that emanate from the dressmaking shop of Chanel. But almost no one knows the lady herself, although she long has been the center of this capital's curiosity. Few people see her outside hours, and even in her own establishment she occupies a remote office, the door of which is strictly guarded.

Visitors reach her only after running a gauntlet of secretaries. Indeed, it is said that the President of France is more accessible than Chanel! And although her home life is so retired as to h'e considered mysterious, all Pa vis knows the outside of her stately mansion, with its walled garden and the white-haired butler in coral livery who opens the door. So it was with a distinct jolt that everybody suddenly realized Westminster's new residence was almost across the street from Chanel's! "Good srracious," chattered the gossips, "can it be?" Then they heard that Madame Chanel had broken her engagement to the Grand Duke Dmitri of Russia, sending him packing back to his native land about the time she became friendly with the Englishman. And that seemed to settle the matter; those who claimed to be "in the know" went around saying it was only a matter of time before Chanel would give up dressmaking to be a Duchess. But while speculation was at its height there appeared on the scene the third of the reputed fiancees, the Baroness Mariette Styrcea, whose career and marital adventures have been the talk of Vienna for years, and who is noted internationally as a beauty! The Baroness began life as Marietta Johanny, daughter of a Saxon Lutheran minister.

When she fourteen she ran away from home to go on the stage. She was still in her 'teens when she married Alfred Piccaver, the opera singer, born in Philadelphia, and the idol of the European musical world. As the wife of Piccaver, Marietta was a flame around whom admirers circled like moths. One of her diversions nearly ended in disaster when the wife, of an admirer attempted to destroy her beauty by throwing acid. She.

still bears visible memory of that episode in scars on her back and left shoulder. Not long afterward she was divorced from Pic- caver. Following this episode it was said, that 3 Alfred J'iccaver, American Born Tenor. tne f-irst Husband of the Present Baroness de Slyrcea. she malicious dolight in engaging a front box at the opera and confronting him face to laco wiKMiovcr xang! iext married Ralph de JakabfTy of Butla- pcrt, but, was divorced.

She then married locn-t a rich Roumanian aris- A -it 1 lioness is the woman ll-orrp" S0(m h(: ca et thr. n.mor that wont around? 10 thn gossips said. lll i i 1 lan 1 n'ra fhiallyf to of the trio but, of "-i" 1 lore lh one-- not at a do that ilEWS.PAPE.Rr.