Evening Star Newspaper, December 17, 1924, Page 13

MILLERAND OPENS FIGHT ON HERRIOT Former President Bitterly Attacks Liberals in Cam- paign Speech. By the Associsted Press. PARIS, December 17.—Former Pres- fdent Millerand has opened his cam- paign against the IHerriot govern- ment in carnest. At a banquet of | 1.200 rs attended by members of | the National Republican League last | evening the former president and pre. | mier delivered a fighting speech, | which was cheered to the echo, in which he outlined his pians and in- vited all Republicans to join him in forming er bloc with the ob- fect of controlling the French Par- liament M Mill-rand defended the policies which had been pursued upder his | administration, maintaining that, un- | til the advent of Premier Herriot, GRAND DUCHESS’ VISIT ARRANGED SIMPLY AS PUBLICITY STUNT Sponsor Admits Everything Was Free and Climbers Contributed $10 Each to Be Included Among ““Socially Elect” to Meet Cyril. Special Dispatch to The Star, NEW YORK, December 17.—One of the most ambitious puBlicity stunts in the history of advertising was completed yesterday when the French liner France safled awav with the Grand Duchess Cyril of Russia. She, granddaughter of Queen Vie- torta of England, granddaughter of Czar Alexander of Russia, sister of cen of Rumania and wife of roclaimed “Czar of all the was invited to ride free by tels—all for the sake of advertising. This was admitted vesterday - by Mrs. Henry P. Loomis, president of the Colonial Dames of America, prime mover in organizing the Mon- day Opera Club and conveyer of the offer of an American trip to the grand duchess in Paris last Summer. Equipped with the acceptance of the grand duchess, Mrs. Loomis mar- shaled the Monday Opera Club into line with the promise of social dis- vided ths passage to and fro. The Waldorf-Astorla Hotel very.ecourte- ously offered their royal suite and so did the Bellevue-Stratford in Phila- deiphia and the New Willard Hotel in Washingfon. The Rolls-Royce Co. placed cars at the disposal of.the grand duchess and her party.” The grand duchess was accom- panied everywhere by Mrs. Loomis. Hundreds of persons, after being approved by the membership commit- tee of the Monday Opera Club, were permitted to pay $10 apiece for the benefit of Russian rellef work, and they received In turn the privilege of meeting her imperial highness social- ly. Thousands of dollars earmarked for Russian charity by courtesy of the Monday Opera Club, will foliow the Grand Duchess Cyril to Eurepe. The grand duchess was amazed at it all. In a public interview on the eve of sailing, she sald, “I have learned a lot since I have been here.” She added aul'mt(ully. *“Much more worst season of the i f ten days’ entertain- ment in America. h d about advertis! The Grand Duch“- Cyril will have something to say to “The Czar of All the Russians” when she gets home to Coburg about the power of publicity. It extracts homage in countries that armies could not have conquered. It may modify the Russian monarchist plans and change the future of Russia and the world in general. Hopes to Come Back. “I hope to return,” rand duch- ess said in her cabin y rday on the France, to which she come in a Rolls-Royce from the royal suite at the Waldorf-Astoria. “I hope thll is only my first visit to Ameri “Unusual and Attractive Gifts for Christmas Most attractive Ifll and enmes mot I. be e in and leok found clsewhere. Why mot com arousd? Most reasonable prices. CORNELL WALL PAPER CO. V14 13th St. NW. Main 5373-5974 The welcome she has received in America has encouraged her so much that she announced e belief that'the y t s | Into a suggestion of imperial dignity and aloofness as & result of hey 10- day American visit. She made the four members of the police bomb squad who have guarded her happy with large cabinet photo- \ Sraphs of herself, autographed “Vic- toria, 1934." Mrs. Loomis stayed at the side of the grand duchess to the last call for the gangplank, loglzing first ), who insisted | t “It {8 a custom to which one sub- mits,” Mrs. Loomis sald with a depre- o Hikowise apologized for the presence of reporters. And when four onthufiullo 'lrl- flung colered con- fett] ori and Mrs. Rudolph Blat- ter on a\honeymoen trip from La Crosse, Wis., Mrs. Loomis apalogized 'on a8 much of the confetti as red the imperial party. just a pecullar American cus- she said. From the pler. Mrs. Loomlis, with her sécretary and her aid, Georges Djamgaroff, waved farewell to the Grand Duchess. S0 -did sbout half a dozen Russians with whom Mrs. Loomis was not acquainted. The members and guests of the Monday Opera Club apparently were tatis- fled “with their farewells the night before at Sherry's. M BRODKS & | G STREET BETWEEN The peddler whe sells silk flags et the entrance te the pler had rum. | maged inte his sterehouse and'! brought out a stock of imperial Rus- § sian standards which he had care- fully lald away when the Czar abdi cated in 1917. He sold four at 5B cents and offered another at 40 cents but did nok to a souvenir hunter, make the sale. . = It may be better te be happy than to be rich, but no poor man ever derived any satisfactlen from the | thought. tinction to come through being among the “fastidiously selected” Five Hun- dred who would be permitted to meet her imperial highness. And then with the patronage of the club and the prestige of the grand duchess combined as selling arguments, she get such results as are displayed in the following admis- sions which she made vesterday “The French line cour New York RETURN 35 SUNDAY, DEC. 21 SPECIAL TRAIN Lv. 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