New Britain Herald Newspaper, June 1, 1929, Page 13

REGAL The Portrait at Left of Mrs. Emery-Holmes Is Notable, for She Considers It the Most Characteristic Ever Made of Herself. She Has Been Painted and Photographed by Many Famous Artists. How Gossipy Matchmakers ‘“Wished” One Russian Nobleman on Rich . Mrs. Holmes; Then Discovered Another One “Available” Lty GRAIN KING'S DAUGHTER The First Princess Engalitche! ormerly e, of a Prominent Chicago Who, g % After Divorcing Libig the Russian, Sent Out EXOTIC e Photo of Prince Nicholas Engalitcheff stinguished Foreign Appesrance. He's Shown “Cossack Greatcoat,” with His Pet Dog, “Polisch,” the Resumption of Her Maiden Name. This R Photo of the Western Beauty Is Netable for Its Depiction of Her Luminous on Lead. The Furry Animal, His Personal Mascot, Accompanies Him Everywhere. ECIPE for & modern romantic mystery story: Take one tremendously rich “8ilver Queen,” with an income com- 5uud at $1,000 a day, and two dis- n&uilhod princes of the blood; mix rumor, prediction and specula- tion; then salt with determined match- making. . The result—at least New York so- eiety found it so—forms one of the tastiest of conversational dishes, even if the matchmaking comes to nothing. The three princi| in tuation which set the amart set chattering are Mrs, Emery-Holmes, stately, distin- j white-haired window, of Utah; i Engalitcheff, scion of one of Russia’s most eminent ili and Prigce Dadiani, of Geor which country came also tl Princes Mdivani, husbands of Pola Negri and Mae Murray, nd the question to which some of Mrs. Holmes's friends demanded—with scant success—an answer was: “Which of these royal suitors, if suitors they be, will win out in the contest for beautiful Mrs. Holmes’s heart, hand— and fortune?” That you may better get the flavor of this stubborn attempt on the part of certain society acquaintances to marry off Mrs, Holmes to one or the other of the noblemen, let us consider the dramatic, but today half-forgotten, youth of the “Silver Queen.” Born and christened Susana Brans- ford, as & girl she met and was charmed by an impecunious, but ro- mantic, prospector, Richard Emery, in Salt Lake City. While “Dick” tramped the Western hills eagerly seeking *“pay dirt,” little Susanna sat in a modest millinery shop, fashioning bonnets for the Utah social leaders. At last “Dick” struck the rich vein of ore he had been seeking. The “Silver King Mine,” his :guoverv. poured forth riches upon im, Knowledge of his suiden wealth lent him the courage he had hitherto lacked to ask Susanna to marry him. Becoming Emery’s bride, she entered a new and glittering phase of her ex- istence. Travel, literature, music, art, the drama, gorgeous clothes and prominent frien these were the allurements which her husband’s fortune spread out before her, fan-wise. The timid, unpretentious milliner blossomed speedily into an imposing lady, witty, sggressive and full of personality, and people were beginning to talk, the country over, about “those astonishing Emerys,” when “Dick” died. For a while his widow was incon- solable. But with the fleet passage of time, she was importuned to wed by Colonel C. W. Holmes, Detroit mag- nate, with Utah holdings, and she eventually consented to become his bride. But to hallow the revered memory of her first mate, she sted that the surnames of both husbands be linked by a hyphen: hence her present-day cognomen. Colonel Holmes bought for his wife the famed Amelia palace in Salt Lake and with the expenditure of a fortune transformed it into one of the most ex- quisite show places on the continent. Y Mrs. Emery-Holmes caused some- thing of a sensation when, in 1902, she invaded the national capital, flanked by her money bags. News- papers of the lod saw in her visit an effort to eutshine socially the -was a greater one. The Thomas F. Walshes, who had been making a spectacular splurge in Wash- ington, Walsh was the owner of the “Camp Bird Mine,” in Colorado, and his enormous wealth was proverbial. In the years intervening, Mrs. Emery-Holmes, now a widow a second time, has had no cause to seek a bolstered-up social status, for her posi- tion in the “400” is Gibraltar-firm. Always much sought after, with many gallant cavaliers in her train, about a year ago it was noted that she was quite frequently seen in public with the mature, but still dashing, Prince Engalitcheff, The courtly, gray-haired Prince had gained some attention as a matri- monialist, since he had been twice married. He has long been a familiar figure in society from Paris to Chicago. His first wife was Mrs. Pardridge- Clayton, a distinguished figure of the Chicago “400,” once known as the most beautiful woman in the Middle West, while he later became the bus- band of the Baroness Melanie de Luyteuil, of Paris. DBecausse of the Prince’s importance in this narrative some facts about his background wiil be given. His m: e to lovely Evelyn Par- dridge wa; ensation, but the divorce which came a number of years later rince had n vice-consul in Chicago; Evellxn the daughter of Charles W. Pardridge, the grain king. o Two years after the Princess Evelyn obtained her divorce she startled snd been Ru Eyes. amused Ameri- can society by announcing that she no longgr cared to use the name and title that had come to her by marriage. She made the an- nouncement with engraved cards, which she sent to her friends and acquaintances, the cards read- ing as follows: “By author- ity of the de- cree of divorce of the Supreme Court of the State of New York granted to me, dated June the tenth, 1916, I have elect- ed to re- sume my maiden name and will hereafter be known as Madame Evelyn Florence Pardridge. ‘‘EVELYN ENGALITCHEFF, Hotel Netherland, City of New York, June 17th, 1918.” Far from being piqued by this ges- READY FOR A CANTER An Unusual Snapshot of Mrs. Susanna Emery-Holmes, Utah’s “Silver Queen,” in Masculine Togs. ture Prince Engalitcheff is said to have been gratified. He is said to have remarked that he was pleased when his first wife resumed her maiden name because by that time he had married the Baroness Melanie de Luyteuil and it was em- barrassing to have two ladies carrying his name and title. Curiously enough, it was the status of the second Princess Engalitcheff which caused the Prince some em- barrassment when his name was mentioned recently with that of the beautiful Mrs. Holmes. The sec- ond Princess is be- lieved to be in Cali- fornia and it was thought that she, too, had divorced the for- mer Russian diplomat. So, when the noble Engalitcheff was seen wquiring Mrs. Emery- Holmes about fashion- able drawing rooms, theatres and art galleries it was only natural that the society gossips should be interested. Immediately the whisper echoed up and down Park Avenue, “My dear, she’s going to marry that Prince!” This whisper became open talk when Billy Benedick, journalistic mentator on society doings, wrote of the possibility of the match becoming a fact under the heading, “Rich Pasadena Widow May Marry Prince of Russia.” At this stage the at- tempts of the gossips to wish a title on Mrs. Emery-Holmes took a new turn. Cholly Knicker- bocker, another expert chronicler of “400” ac- § tivities, had this to say in the New York Amer- ican: “Mrs. Holmes is NOT the betrothed of the white-haired and debonair Engalitcheff . . .” This statement lent new | interest to an_elaborate reception which Mrs. George Washington Kav- anaugh, noted New York society lead- er, was planning for the “Silver Queen.” Mr. Knickerbocker asserted that Prince Dadiani would be in the receiving line, but other observers who This Man Found a New Crystal World—in Snowflakes boy’s mother hadn’t diven him a microscope on his birthday, and his father had failed to present him with a camera when he was seventeen, the world might never have heard of Pro- fessor Wilson A. Bentley, the “snow- flake man.” Professor Bentley is, today, declared to be the greatest scientific authority on snow crystals, and the trail-blazing ioneer in snowflake photography. Five of his many photomicroscopes, re- produced on this_ page, testify to his delicate skill in immortalizing “frozen poetry.” He has been engaged In such work at his home in Jericho, Vermont, for forty-three years, and so great is lris devotion to his chosen calling that he has not hesitated to undergo actual hardship in order to perpetuate the scientific literature of congealed dew and icy formations. IF a little fifteen-year-old Vermont Star-Formed Crystal. Starting when a youth as a student of butterflies and flowers, Bentley, with his acquisition of the camera and microscope, turned his attention toward aqueous crystallography. < To further his work, the Professor rises early. In his workshop out-of-doors he labors in a freezing temperature, for snow- flakes are extremely coy and elusive, and one of the problems that tempo- rarily baffled Bentley was how to snare the tiny images of the fragile things before evaporation. Here is his method: He lets the flake fall on a black velvet-covered board, then holding his warm breath, lest it make the crystal meit, he takes a sharp-pointed splint, gently lifts the flake from its resting place and re- moves it to a glass slide. A hasty Elance through the microscope tells im whether it is a beautifully formed crystal or scientifically interesting. 1f 80, it is swiftly “‘shot” against a sky € The “Bobbin” Variety. background. Bentley’s camera microscope magnifies 3,600 times. Perhaps the greatest personal trag- edy in the Professor’s career was the time when the most beautiful of all the 4,600 snowflakes he had ever seen melted before he could snap the shut- ter on it. 1t is told that this disap- pointment made him shed bitter tears. There are two rough classifications of snow crystals, the superfine and the coarse. The artistic crystalline variety sometimes are bunched in flight by the trillion and at other times fly singly. The coarse variety takes the form of small snowballs about the size of granulated sugar. No two snowflakes are ever shaped or ornamented precisely alike. Some- times the patterns are similar, but there is always some subtle difference. Study these differences for yourself «in the accompanying photographs. The variety will surprise you. lens Copyright, 1929. Intemationsl Fuature Service, Inc. Grest Britain Rights Reserved. Fera Crystal Formation. Triangular Variety—eRare. com- § HIS SECOND WIFE Baroness Melanie Bertrand de Luyteuil, Whom Engalitcheff Married After Evelyn Pardridge Divorced Him. Noie the Lorgnon and Ornate Muff, attended the reception reported that he did not appear. If the society gossips up and down Park Avenue had been stirred before as they scented a romance between Engalitcheff and the “Silver Queen,” now they were both bewildered and moved to a deeper state of excite- ment. This appeared in the form of an- other article by Mr. Benedick, who discovered some evidence that he be- lieved pointed to the fact that Prince Engalitcheff was not divorced from his second wife and therefore could not be a suitor for the hand of Mrs. Emery-Hblmes. The publication of this bombshell threw the blueblood gossips out once more. Engalitcheff’s own version of his marital status, as given to & reporter from this paper, is highly interesting. He said he had never been formally divorced from his second wife, the former Baroness de Luyteuil, because it wasn't necessary. Asked to explain further, he said that as he and the Baroness were married by a civil cere- mony in Paris, and not a religious service in the Russian Orthodox Church (similiar to the ceremony per- formed at his first marriage) he had never been legally married. “Why try to annul a condition that does not exist?” was the Prince’s way of putting it. Leaving this legal tangle to other heads to interpret, the society gossips sat back and waited to see what would happen next in the efforts to make our $1,000-a-day “Silver Queen,” a princess. The denouement was: Mrs. Emery-Holmes left New York for her palace in Pasadena—still not engaged to any prince. But, her Georgian admirer, Prince Dadiani, was at the station to see her off,