The evening world. Newspaper, August 13, 1920, Page 15

~y oncure Robinson’s End mphasizes Passing of The Four Hundred eos. Wee Social Dictatorship Cotillon Leaders Copyright, 1920, by The Press Publishing Co. (The New York Evening World), ‘ HERE are the society leaders of yesteryear? And where is the “so- W clety” they led? The questions are suggested by the Jeath in Paris of Mon- cure Robinson, famous for a decade in New York sociéty as one of a triumviate of cotillion leaders and social organizers who aspired to the purple of Ward MoAllister, after the death of that uncrowned king of the Four Hundred. The names of Elisha Dyer jr and of Worthington White- house are those most closely associated with Moncure Robinso They were the Three Graces of the oo pogial world, in a day when its limits Rhode Island, he was a descendant : of Roger Williams. When the lata ere narrower, its functions more Of Col. Jack Astor was married to Miss formal, its rules far stricter than in Ava Willing, bia first wife, Dyer wis theee free-and-jazzy times, Messrs. called the handsomest of the eight \ SMONCORE ROSES THE THREE GRACES OF THE SOCIAL WORLD. Robinson, Dyer and Whitehouse were ushers, and he led the cotillons at invaluable first aids to haraased host. her famous annual balls, eases. They could do anything—fromf In the jatter part of his life he de- acting os best man at a wedding to voted himself to his banking interests Dlanning an absolutely new and ¢ and died in Newport in 1917 ‘after nal set of cotillon favors. It years of ill health, His wife was a Moncure Robinson, for examp! Southern beauty, Mrs. Sydney Turner helped Mrs. George Gould tn ¢ Swan Aha elaborate wedding of Vi Worthington Whitehouse is the only Geuld and Lord Decie one of the cotillon triumvirate still invarinbly, alive. He continues to divide his time . Worthington Whitehous led the cotiliona, An es) ly elabo- between New York and Newport and rate and beautiful aff was that H¢ is always a welcome guest in the given at the debul of Gladys Vander- Soeial world. But the days are ¢ btlt; who Is now Countess Szechenyi, When “Worthy” Whitehouse led cot Hiiaha Dyer was a favorite with Mrs 6 Mrs, Ogden Mills, Mrs, Har Astor, Mrs. Stuyve nt Fi M Whitney and the Patriarchs, Pembroke Jones and Mrs, W. Watts n for that uny more,” he Sharman. inself adinitted ety rs ago. He ) and leading a s the head of a rea firm which aration of jass a as over many important deals dancers, hardly recogn name “nd ds a bachelor. satas Tw) little tux on tact, inventty It is generally admitted that the nves and terpsichcrenn wbtlity sotillon went decisively “out” in 190 er—or not yet : to return, Dancing self ameng men, at any re the war, when no und sgotition leader’ —leader Taveontemporary nt © 10s don—“‘inust spend hours each day for according to languished until just b: weeks beforehand with the he Koon a suc heette Ii + Who has bidden guests to the introduction of the tu Music, flowers, dances, fave trot, the maxixe, the grizzly bear, claim his attention. He must bunny hug and tho other dances. touch with the leader of the orches explanation of thelr tra; he mustjeven stand in with the yearance Hes in the disappear- footmen, because to them, 1 rule, ance of “society” Itself, In the sense falls the duty of making the central of a rigid body su s Ward Mc- it success, Allster's Four Hundred, The change figure of the evening a gr Bosidos ootition leading, Robinson had to dine out, wos summed tp for me ten y by Moneure it Is sud, ws “go Prederick Townsend Martin, him- oftonor than any man in New York. Seif balled us Ward McAllister's sucr But ho went road in 114. “and cessor, when he said since that date spent most of his t ‘There is no ‘Four Hundre no 1H Paris, where he plunged wt on set’, no ‘social dictator or tite war work activities. He not only "in New York society any mor f.gave personal time and atten re are only sets—an infinity of such activities as the Lafayete them. oclety in ew York is the Fynd, but he wrote much on a trnest democracy in the world. There ' onyns war for Amefican and fo: re hundreds, thousands of small { pofilcat'ons. He was a real estate cliques, each on an equality with the | broker and a bachelo: other, | Th not even a central —Blisha Dyer, Moncure Robinson's figure about which these gather, friend «and contemporary, There has not been such figure dead. ‘The son of since the death of Mra, Astor.” * Rubles For BY MoOnuerIte | by The Pres Publ S™ has hair the color of a priz collie’s, E s almost as beautiful, And dimples in her elbows. She wears & And not too many at once! She tells a funny story And laughs at one. She shimmies, Can train a dress tle should go, Never overdraws her \dé?an adorable hostess, 4 first ald to memory, ‘A competent cook, A wise and affec Jorable clothes, in the way | allowance. tlonate mother And YET she ts a Deserted Wife! (every Saturday afternoon in summer She listens hopefully for the return- . ing footstep of her Beloved, , And listens—and listens— Like Mariana in the moated grange— And just as fruitiessly, Money turday is pay day); ttle hildren ask ea ‘s Daddie ping hom She cannot answer ‘their natural question; dite does not know when she will see their father and her husband again— ,.N@ woman living can fortell the hour for dinner Saturday night— she is married to a Golf Husband. o She 's Without (Bor simple, hen there is the woman who gets up at 4 A, M. Sunday morning to make hot coffes. To watch her man put on unspeakable trousers and a hat of the vintage a" of 1906, To send him away for all day with a smile his is the open season for Deserted Wive: sand the best little thing any one of them can do isto PREXTEND she enjoys her quiet house When her Busband runs away from her—to play. “he's the Fiehing Husband! + Have the Russian Crown Jewels Been Smuggled Into London After Many Mysterious Disappearances? They Were Valued at $100,000,000 and Were Handed Down Through Several Reigns. me EORms eR UNA WITH PEARLS By Marguerite Mooers Marshall. Cope iit A world’s Jewel 1 more fortunate than the late C: A despatch just received from Lon- don says that, despite the vigilance of tue authorities, certain of these price- leas gems have been smuggled into the city, London jewel merchants are warned that Sov emissaries in- tend selling the precious ornaments to fill up the almost empty purses that finance Soviet propaganda, Thus ts written the latest chapter in th it pioturesque and thril romance of crown Jewels since crowns themselves same into fashion. Love and hate, biood and treasure, treach- ery and’ intrigue—these are’ chapter <adings in the romance, which, un- i} now, has ended in a big black question mark. For in three years there has been no authentic announc ment of the whereabouts of the most valuable ction of jewels in Europe estimated as worth $100,000,000. First, what are they? ‘The most costly single gem in the collection, and the one around which most traditions cluster, is the Orloff diamond. It is also called the Koh-!-tur, and, with the Koh-i-ne belonging to the British crown, once formed the eyes of the golden lion in front of the throne of the Great Mogul, at Dell, India. It was stolen by a neh soldier, stolen from him ‘by Be captain and, after much bloodshea and various adventures, was bought by the Rus: n Count Grigori Orloff, favorite of Catherine the Great, and presented by him to that ruler, He pald $450,000 for It, it weighs 194% car- ats, formed the ond of the imperial aceptre and was called the sceptre diamond. It was supposed to hav A curse resting upon it, and to bring bad luck to its possess: The largest pigeon-blood ruby in Hurope also was among the Russian crown jewels, It is called the Bye of Tamarlane and s said to haye cost the lives of hundreds. An American woman onoe offered $100,000 for just two pearls in the Czarina’s collection, She had altogether more than forty strings of the finest pearis, amon them the largest outside Asia. ‘The crown of Catherine the Great ts xet with 2,536 diamonds and an enormous ruby. The crown of Mikhail, founder of the Romanoff dynasty, ‘a sur rounded by 190 precious stones and surmounted by a big emerald. ‘The Orb of Mikhail, the sceptre of Peter the Great, the Imperial regaitn, Jeweled thrones, idols, cups, plates, swords, added to the magnificence of the collection, in addition to the per sonal Jewels of Alexandra, who wus passionately devoted to precious stones and for whom the doting Czar had brought together many magnifi- cent specimens. Was the Czarina’s fondness for the contents of her unrivalled jewel cof- fers responsible for the next chapter {in their history? me knows, Rut it is a fact that, several weeks after the revolution in Russia, the Kerenaky government decided to take an inventory of the crown jewels. The Hermitage, the palace-museum where they were kept in a spectal safe, was visited by a committee of the hew powers, former guardians of the gems, and safe experts, The safe was opened. Apparently the Jewels lay Wntact within. But close examination #howed that for every ruby and pearl and emerald and diamond had been substituted paste imitations, It is said that the most prominent members of the old regime—even the Czar and Czarina—were quese 1920, by ‘The Presa Publishing Co, RE the splendid Russian crown jewels, mysteriously lost since the over- throw of the Romanoff dynasty in 191 ts, to be wdrn by other women ag beautiful and fur rina? , about to reappear (The New York Evening World) in the Belief That Soviet Government Plans to Sell Them to Replenish Impoverished Treasury. ROWN ANG JEWELS mlpintey Jarre Family TROY Ibo MI* Cardelle Anna Fitziu, Elwell Neighbor, Receives Message From Ouija, Says Slayer Is Known Spirit Board Seances at Home of Grand Opera Singer Say Murderer Has Been Examined ¢ * AAA AAR AA AAAAAAAAANARARANAARANAAANARARAAA Miss Fitziu Claims Jewels Were Returned to Her in Six Months, Just as Ouija Had Predicted. By Fay Stevenson. Conrteht, 1920, by ‘The Prem Publishing Co. (The New York Brening World) é HE Elwell murder will never be solved. The murderer is known and has been examined, but nobody suspeote him. If Elwell hadn't been murdered two other peorle would have died. It ts best not to stir things up.” , SRB a ‘This is the message that Miss Anna@ he and [ also received the same mes- Fiteiu, prima donna soprano and the sage, next door neighbor to the Biwell home, "Oy; at No, M4 Weat 70th Street, received tell ‘the faite Of tee treo, wel ‘s ata oulja party she gave a few nights Known but not suapected, but oulfa ago. insisted and spetted over and ove: “Thad been a neighbor of the jate agnin that it was better to let the Mr. Blwell's for a year and a half," whole matter drop. Miss Fitziu told me, “and, strange to 3ut T am not altogether certian say, during that time @ never set eyes that I agree with ouija.” declared on him, He could walk ip this room Mise Fitziu, “and I am going to keep Ouija Seances Form an Interesting Diversion at Her Home. to-day and I wouldn't know him, [ right after oulje. Although T say [ couldn't identify his picture, and yet hold these oulfa parties more or leas he was my neighbor, The terrivie for amusement | really have had tragedy occurred, much has been ead some very intercating experiences and written wbout him, but nothing with the board. For insjance, five definite soived. Now, I have always been {ntorested In otlja boards, Of course fam not really serious “w r' but I frequently give parties and hold writiags just amuse my friends. “The other evening my friends were all talking about Blwell and they all whispered, "Who killed Elwell, any~ way? Ask your oulja, Anna.’ years ago in Chicago I lost two dia- mond earrings and a ring to matoh, frown any jowei came, Io aehed oulgee about it and was told that in six months I would get them back and) they would be found under a waina- coating. In seven months they were returned and they were found under the wainscoating in a bellboy’s room. So, you see, I havea little faith in ouija,” concluded Miss Fitziu. “Then, too, I am very much interested in { automatic writing. A few years £40 ie to “L promptly brought out my board, and my niece and f mediately tried it, Im- oulja responded and said — = Copyright, 1920, by ‘The Frese Publishing Co. (The New York bvouing World ‘Tay’ was here. Tt may have been I had frleod in Parts, Mine Ma’y 4 RS. JARR got home with Master to drape it she could change the Raymond Lodge or some other me- McKverly, who has since written a tioned as to the substitution, but re- Wille A trom shopping just Ukeadth'— dium, but it would give no other book on spiritualiem and we derived mained mute, Then to Ji upper's ready, dear," Interrupt- name than just Ray, Then tt gave ® great deal from this. In fact, it whispered, especially by the Cz in time to be tate for sw Pri eps ls the message that Flwell’s mur- was through Miss McEverly that T ina’e enemies, a circumstantial story ‘qinner’ the evening meal was called W for goodness’ aake, let me der would nover be solved. first became interested In the oulja owen Khe, iad stolen wher own when the Jarra had company, but Ket my breath!” replied Mra. Jarr, | “Tid any of the other members of board. And now since L have had thia Jewels, According to this tale, at they had ne compuny at the present “! Wish we could afford to live In an your party try ouijat” T asked message from ‘Ray’ concerning the very beginning of the war y had ne company e pr elevator apartment how By the "Yes, Mr, Titta Ruffo, the baritone, Elwell murder, I shall certainly keep put into trunks, the trunks time, tum slim these three fiights of " gaid Miss Witziu, “and right after ouija.” We er aia ae the country DY Mr. Jarr never said a word to Mrs. stairs fom 9 exhausted [can't a — — tination — the Czarina'’s girlhood Jarr for betng Mie, Jar Gtieaye speek: fon ten-miinutee! 2 sveliy Maine home in ¢ ANY, the Duehy of sald a few when Mr. Jarr was, and jane what it used to be, at all, and Hesse-Darmatadt, where her brother yet, and this ia another strange now that mma ia growing as she is was then living. Meanwhile, paste thing, Mr. Jarr was go often late to and is aimow old enough to take Then, a bit later, there wna another #upper, one would have thought Mru, fino jessone and that will bo Ae story about the mysterious disuppear- Jarr would have run out of words money is to come from, I can't soe biieey Hse ig SNA a ep ide WAS pon the subject. and Willie, really, makes associnces Meicin “creealng Russia acmencdoes, Helo, dearie!” ‘sald Mr, Jacr, USE one cannot he proud of, and the fguble crossing Russia somebody greeting her with « smile and a kise— {Ireadful way he speaks from the the Cgarina. In other words, that Ad, in these days the husband must We heard in the atreeta, T could the court functionaries, who’ must u&@ all his wiles to endear the home } dropped through the floor to- the fu aries, Who to wif! day in the store 7 ow He have “connived “i and aie sk athe Wai adodnems sake Don't get ms Mr. Fiona, the floorwatker, al- Russia to Germany, sent trunks filled S!l rumpled tM 1 get a drink of cold , take iii Oe s ag oiled with Junk inatend of with pearls and replied Mre. Jarr. “The time io iion to so many bafeaina, and, diamonds along the underground ratl- 1% had this day! Whoever sty anyway, Mr. Floss Is moat, refined, way across the frontier, and them- hat women are crazy about shopping i oe people say he has an in- selves pocketed the pr t 8 in the must be thinking about somebody els finest collection in Europe. This tale but me. 1 hope I won't have to go went on to declare that the paluce downtown to the stores for anothe: intriguers were driven out of Russta Mmonth—and that reminds hat f hy the Bolsheviki, and ever since Must go to-morrow, for thare la a wale have been trying safely to dispose of Of ttle girls’ whit mmer frocks their spoils. It even’ was reported and I promised little Emuna I would two years ago that an attempt had get her one! And I forgot to exchange been made to smuggle some of the those short length white gloves they Russian crown jewela into New York, ent me by mistake for arm length Now it ts asserted in London that ones! And I dida't get a ohy the Bolsheviki have them after ajl. match that rhadow lace tor Ub But who can toll? If they ever do dreas [ am having made come to light and the true story or remember that old taffeta costume I their dfsappearance whereabouts in the last fe unrayelled, we shall sce knows how melodramas. and three to write her own of ye that their ate movie have had for year wag a stain upon one and any other woman } have thrown It away, but maker said if I got some ure ? of the shadow > There breadth F THE dreams of Mrs, P, E. McCoy of San Francisco come true we may one day hear canaries warbling the tune Metropolitan. of the lal t opera at the Mra, McCoy is here shown with one of her roller canaries which she trained to sing “Over There” and “La Marseillaise” to perfection. These birds of Mrs, McCoy are the only ones in America able to sing a complete tune. They carry heavy insurance—another novelty in birdland: taken care of with all the tender solicitude given @ prima denna. and are terest In th himself he in the interest must be the firm" “What did that shocked men to of Burope the Interest he Wille say | you?" asked Mr. firm haa tn th A concern, and he told mo the store Jarr, in hope of checking the verbal shower bath “What was fit you asked Mra. “T said 1 didn’t 1's dress. Por k Slavinsky we monkey Jure en @ want It was 14, Willie, when mamma wanted to buy you the beau Uful little highlander Seotch comume?" sane AW a monkey, Willie.” corrected his mother, “And that reminds me of awful word Willle used, or rather the word wasn't so awful, but the way ronounced it—‘skoits'! ‘Think of Mr. Jarr laughed. “It'a no wonder | can't do anything with the ehi'dren when you only mak fun of my eff corr them!" whimpered Mra, Jarr. —_ new garadg house Many a man January wos a hard time now from the cellar de The Eure Mong wit Lightning — str hou: t wreck plano’ Netghbers act of Providence, who thought vident keeping only agree ck New | Evening Worldlings. Ww ther r not Habe ta in Who's Who Guere ie tie questicr n the hi It hasn't dropped any other way in a long time And stil) eome folks call them green” grocers! More Joy for the joy-riders. Now York City has issued permits for [1 es and only one apartment laat ving wolf ean situation cannot get t its Wrangel Jersey the player it was an pene By Marie, Queen of Roumania. Pern pleasurable sensations were not yet at an end, in epite of her manifold emotions, Her old friend led her back to the temple. The table had beem taken away, and there in the middle of the floor was an open trapdoor with @ stall stalr leading down into mysterious depths, Have you ever slept under the ground?” asked the wise woman “No!” gasped Pansy =F = = “Well you shall to-night; come sighed Pansy, sinking down upon the aioe? couch and staring about her. ‘ it's too much for o1 . Pinky-Panky was already on the j1ttle girl; so to bed you must go one arrow, steep stairs, and was making off with you, Pinky-Panky; to-mor- sxoltad igiatiten ‘ob anccimeenment row carly you'll come to Wake up our paid sth eke ‘ome little friend, but this evening you Thin Ia grand!” he orted. "Come anhalt teave her to me. Be off, busy ale Pansy my heart, you badly body, and look after the animal need roast.” friends." Pinky-Panky ski down the | “But might I ask one thing?* 2 , regged Pansy ‘Could Tim come stairs like a fleeting red ligt vansy gee ¥ ‘ht. Pansy down here? He would be so unhappy followed, hurdly knowing what #he to sleep without me.” Was doing, and her legs Were a little “Hurry off and get Tim!" ordered shaky with the excitement of it all, [he OP the caine ie tbe Shee " leo > the stairs © the will-o'-the- The stairs led to small, found always renunded one of, ble roor white, as though alone together, the old dame snow ‘had fr fatlen ny e most motherly with Pansy liow iteee were Been he she almost seemed to turn Acalnet { the walls was into a kindly, g handed, rough Ar ttle couch, covered with a toncued old ‘nu She undressed } ddered over Pansy, put her into her warm bath, ox pi dried her afterward, then tucked her wiih! a up among the fragrant sheets of the md hardly had P ps Inading y put had the her head upon the pillow than her eanis’ ih eyes closed and she was fast ep. awe Fonaatwverd Heating t Pansy heard nothing of Tim's ex- A gett te cited arrival, nor did his glad antics Somat a awake her, nor did she feel the kiss eae the strange old woman very tenderly foot the couch lay a S4V0, her before leaving the room Valvet dressing, gown Which she did not do without having draws lok, yellow curtain over yee fa ane, Bown drawn a thiok, yellow curtain over ri fur, 8 the window to shut out the rippliz nightgown and a Uny ‘pair of ailver light” that’ cast dancing reflscuona apes over the floor, ally, really, Tam dreaming!” °“ther there was allence. Pea ried Pan Oh, T cannot under- " Wen Pansy lay peacefully sleeping in the wonderful white roam after a day #o stand why 1 am to have eo much joy and such 4 beautiful room!" full of adventawes\ that they could In the wall opposite the couch was well have filled a whole week a long window, and when Pansy ‘Tim had ourled himself up upon tie guzed through it she noticed that white fur carpet at his miatreas’s there was no view, nor was It dark, bedside, but I cannot be eure that but a strange rippling Iiht moved Tim did not astoniah the white wails against the pase. and the orange roses with strange "What is it?" asked Pansy sounds much resembling snores. ‘You are under the water,” cried It was Pinky-Panky, according to Pinky-Panky gleefully, “and that sort Dame Dammydimmydoo'a promise, of ight moving the window ls who awoke Pansy next morning, and the golden water you saw outside.” awoke her In a way quite his own. “It's all too much, teo much!" rwrright, Bell Syndicat. Ina) j