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8 Loa Angeles Times Sunday Magazine prominent (Descendants of Royalty ve an "Blood Will Tell" By Lannie Haynes Martin ill 1 iililf i1 Fairfax Crosby Vesey O'Daveron 111 jmrt: rnirm "Tliai' Madame Emma Loeffler de Zaruba fought so gallantly in the battle of Lexington and lost his life in the battle of Bunker Hill. She also traces her family back to the ninth century when the Grays of Normandy joined their fortunes with William the Conqueror and established the Gray line in England. A blending of English courage and French courtesy are traits so pronounced that on meeting people of either country each thinks she is of his own nationality: After a recent trip through the United States, Canada, England and Europe, Miss Gray declares that California affords the greatest inspiration to an artist, both from the scenic and human aspect, of any locality in the world. Fairfax Cosby, local attorney, is a direct descendant of Lord Fairfax of England, from whose vast land grant the i .4 county of Fairfax in Virginia gets its name. Thomas Fairfax, who settled in Virginia in 1720, was his famous American ancestor, and since that time the Fairfaxes of Virginia have been noted for their cavalier gallantry and hospitality.

Mr. Cosby, whose geniality reflects the qualities of his line, also traces ancestry back to Griffod, King of Wales in 1000 through the Griffiths of Virginia. These old southern families have so intermarried that he has collateral relationship with many other noted persons. Mme. Emma Loeffler de Zaruba, well--known musician, has an enviable American and European blending in her family tree.

Her mother's people were descended from Gen. William Babcock Hazen of New England and her father comes of the same Loeffler family which gave to Germany the famous scientist of that name, and also the celebrated musical composer, Charles Martin Loeffler of Boston. In her own successful musical career in grand opera, in Europe and America, and in the valiant fight she has made in Los Angeles for many worthy causes, she has demonstrated that both the musical and military strains are still in the blood. Her young son, Lionel, now thirteen years of age, inherits the musical talents of his mother's ancestral line as well as traits handed down from his father, Count Charles de Zaruba, in whose family the title has descended for several Count de Zaruba is proud to number Vascav Smilaeur, the famous Bohemian philosopher and novelist, as one of his forebears. Two of his great-grandfathers, on different lines, were knighted in 1630 when Bohemia fought so gallantly against Poland.

Young Lionel de Zaruba has not only a decided musical bent but a decided literary talent. as well and has written a number of stories and plays which have received considerable attention. -When he was but a small child and a visitor in his parents' home commented on his courtly manners, the precocious youngster began to recount the line of counts and barons from which he was descended. Miss Grace Lawrence, one of the most successful advertising women of Los Angeles, who could use the title of doctor if she chose, having had the degree of doctor of philosophy conferred on her by Radcliff College is the descendant of James Lawrence of naval fame, whose classic command "Don't give op the ship" is a phrase which helped to mould and make the history of the world. Her great-grandfather was John Tyler, tenth President of the United States, and the courage, poise and perspicacity of both her ancestral lines are noticeable characteristics of Miss Lawrence's bearing.

Although she specialized in literature in college, Miss Lawrence chose a business career and has been the advertising manager of one of the oldest and most substantial firms in Los Angeles for nearly twenty years. (Continued en Page Fifletn) II 7E SPEAK of a good road 11 Vy roadway Is continuously smooth and level, and not just merely passable every few miles. We refer to a tree as good if that tree bears excellent fruit year after year, and not just for a season or so; and we think of a good house or a good friend according to the permanent, durable qualities which either may have. And so we also recognize "good blood." It is the kind whose traits of courage, courtesy and integrity persist through generations. Los Angeles is rich in just that kind of lastingness, and because the human product of today does exemplify those intangible but permanent qualities, it is interesting to trace some of the lines back to their original sources.

America is a democratic country and Los Angeles an ultra cosmopolitan city, and yet one has but to take the census of a small cross section of most any part of the city to find that the overwhelming percentage of people who are in anyway conspicuous for achievement are of that strain which, all the world over, is known as "good blood." Virginia Stivers Bartlett, who has just launched a successful novel, a book which not only made a graceful literary bow but which has leapt into the movies, has an exceedingly interesting ancestral history because of the many lines which converge in her own immediate family. Tracing descent back to 900 AX. to the intrepid Irish kings on one side, she has Oliver Cromwell for an ancestor on another line, and the St. Cyrs of France on still another. Among her American ancestors are the Winstons, Fulkersons, and Woodsons of Virginia, who not only lead the list of RF.V.'s but are among the 177 families in the United States who are listed as eligible for Burke's Peerage.

The Stivers name, which was originally spelled Stuyvers, is of Dutch, origin and has many distinguished army and navy officers in its direct and collateral branches and that this fighting blood persists is demonstrated in the fact that since the beginnings of America there has been a Stivers in the United States Army in some important capacity. Many believe that adversity is the test of character, but in this day of promiscuous prosperity we are learning to judge people by the way. they take success, and probably in no other way does blood show up so well, and one of its' chief ingredients seems a sense cf humor. When after many hardships and disappointments Mrs. Bartlett's book finally made the screen her exclamation was "Now I can buy a new tooth brush!" and instead of taking a trip to Europe, buying a lot of Paris gowns or indulging in any spectacular extravagance she has run away to an inaccessible island, to write another book! The French sparkle and vivacity, the Dutch straightforwardness, the English cavalier courtesy and the Irish courage are traits which merely a casual observer could find in Mrs.

Bartlett's dynamic personality. Capt. Vesey O'Daveron, artist, sportsman, actor, who comes of a long line of distinguished Irish and English ancestry, is a direct descendant of the Duke of Wellington and has a profile so similar to that of the famous duke that silhouettes of them could be exchanged without any one recognizing the slightest difference. Capt. O'Daveron is an English landholder in Ireland, but because that status is not popular in the Emerald Isle he has never set foot on his own domain.

He has received but scant income from the vast acres over which his great-grandfathers once ruled but his inheritance of courtliness is something of which he has not been defrauded. The first kings of Ireland, who spelled their name CDaboreen, were his ancestors and the genealogical history of the line has been as accurately chronicled as that of the Kings of England, one of their descendants being the famous William Pitt, Earl of Chatham, one of England's foremost statesmen. Capt O'Daveron came to America about fifteen years ago and through many vicissitudes of fortune has retained those characteristics of intrepid courage, and unvarying courtesy which mark his line. The enthusiasm with which he paints, rides, or builds and sails a boat is a goodly thing to see, because it is a wholesome, normal, contagious quality' Her sixteen-foot yacht, The Elf, which he built with his own hands in his backyard in Hollywood, is now competing in the Topanga amateur yacht races. Lois Bradford Gray, landscape and portrait painter, traces direct descent to Gov.

'William Bradford, the famous colonial Governor of Massachusetts, and is just as proud of this early American ancestor and his notable achievements as she is of another line which leads back to the Duke of Suffolk, the father of the ill-fated Lady Jane Gray, Queen of England for ten days. Miss Gray's line also leads through Gen. Joseph Warren who Lois Bradford Gray.