The evening world. Newspaper, May 30, 1922, Page 10

[sae tS Lae RENE eee a a NT EE { In Political Brilliant LADY COUNTESS OF GRANARD ASTOR MP: NEE MARY GOELET Now Holds Leading Place and Social Life of Europe’s Most Society. In Many Instances American Born 2 Women Are Mothers of the Next a) Generation of English Peers. 2 By Marguerite Mooers Marshall, F course, we've always known O that the American girl can do ANYTHING! But how many cf us real- ize that, among her achieve- ments during the last half century, is the conquest of the only aristocracy in this democratic world which Is still @ “going concern'’—the great families f Great Britain, with the soclal pre- rogatives and political power which still are theirs? ‘The recent visit of Lady Astor, M. P., once lovely Nancy Langhorne of Virginia and the very first woman to take a seat in the Mother of Parlia- ments, but emphasizes the fact that, fn England to-day, it is the American woman who “rules the roost.” And i she continues to capture positions of fmportance—in Washington, for ex- emple, it ‘has just been announced that the capital's social leoder, Mrs. James McDonald, will become Pre- miler Scottish Marchioness through her forthcoming marriage to Charles Gordon, Marquis of Huntly, of Aboyne Castle, Aberdeenshire, Scot- land. Mrs. McDonald ts tne widow @f James McDonald, former Standard Ofl magnate. ‘The title of her flance dates back to the early fifteenth cen- ¢ury, and he is Premier Marquis of ~ Scotland. hus the fair, feminine invasion goes on, During recent years there has been a steady permeation of the of English aristocracy by fiebrican “dollar pyfyesses.” ‘ Copyright, 1922 (New York Evening World) by Press Publishing not, perhaps, generally appreciated on this side of the water that Amert- can girls have wedded many of the best “catches” at the Court of St. James's, As a result, American born women are holding @ leading place in the political and social life of the most brilliant society in Europe, And American-born women are in many Instances the mothers of the next generation of English peers! We hear about the international marriages that have failed; this is a story of those that—so far as the public knows, at any rate—have suc- ceeded. It is a partial roll-call of the American girls who fill important roles In the Old World drama. Lady Astor herself is a charming example of the splendid position in public and private esteem which the American girl may win in England. After the unhappy ending of her first marriage to Robert Gould Shaw, she went abroad to visit. There she met young Waldorf Astor, as he was at thut time, Lhey were married in 1906, and have four sons and a daughter. The triumphs of Lady Astor's public life, as the first woman M, P., have beca followed by admiring Americans for several years. But since her visit to us, every one who has met her and Lord Astor understands that theirs is & marriage of the truest and fines sort, Lord Astor himself says that in the two greatest decisions that ever it ls confronted tim he choge rightly— DUCHESS OF ROXBURGHE FORMERLY MRS- ROBT G: SHAW Nee LADY GEO DES N ISABELLA_ ROSS first, when he chose Lady Astor for his wife; second, when he chose her to succeed him in the House of Com- mons as the member for Plymouth when his father’s death automatically sent him up to the House of Lords, Less than a year ago there died another tremendously successful American wife of an English hus. band, Lady Randolph Churchill, born Jenny Jerome of New York, she was not only the wife of a famous British statesman but the mother of one—the present Winston Churchill, In her long life she was always per. sona grata in royal circles and was the intimate friend and confidante of political leaders of both parties, Hor Position for years, both socially ang Politically speaking, was command. ing, as was that of her friend, Lady Paget, wife of Sir Arthur Paget daughter of Paran Stevens of New York, Another American woman known as one of London's most charming hog. tesses and as an admired member of its most exclusive society, 43 the present Lady Ribblesdale, born ava Willing of Philadelphia, and later Mrs, John Jacob Astor, She went abroad after divorcing the late o!, John Jacob Astor, and such books as the intimate diaries of Col, Repington are full of descriptions of her beauty and popularity, The first wife of her present husband, incidentally, was a sister of Margot Asquith, LADY LADY PAGET DAUGHTER OF PARA STEVENS WM RM” RIBBLESDALE Both of the wives of an English statesman who has been much in the Public eye have been Americans. He is Earl Curzon of Kedleston, He first married Mary Leiter of Chicago in 1895, two years before being appoint- ed Viceroy of India, She died in 1906, In 1917 he married again, his second wife being Mrs, Alfred Dug- gan, a widow. But she was born im America — Grace’ Blvina Hinds, daughter of the late J, Monroe Hinds United States Minister to Brazil, Quite aside from the social preroga- tives attaching to the wife of Earl Curzon, her political knowledge and influence must appeal to the tmagi- nation, The first Lady Curzon's “) FORMERLY MRSWJJ. ASTOR NEE AVA WILLING Marguerite Leiter, also made ® N0- table marriage, She wed the Earl of Suffolk, one of England's oldest earl- doms, and her son succeeded his father in 1917, There is, it may be pointed out, a. strong suffusion of American blood In many of the young title-holders and heirs to titles in Great Britain, Two other highly placed ladles in London society, against whose inter- national marriages no breath of scan- dal has been raised, were well known figures in New York society during their girlhood, One of these two is the Duchess of Roxburghe, born May Goelet, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Og- den Goelet. The other is the Coun- tess of Granard, born Beatrice May wre LADY CURZON NEE MARY LEITERY Mills, daughter of» Mr. Ogden Mills, The son of the onetime Cornelia Martin, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Bradley Martin, succeeded last year to his father's earldom of Craven, In- cidentally, this youngster showed his democratic American blood by wed- ding no title, but, instead, Miss Mary Wilhelmina George, daughter of the Town Clerk of Invergordon. No Englishman during the Great War was more popular with his American allies than Admiral Beatty of the Grand Fleet—Admiral Lord Beatty, with his cap forever cocked jauntily to one’ side. It was whis- pered that the reason he knew ow to get along so well with Americans was because he had married one—Ethel Field, the oldest daughter of Marshall Field of Chicago. Lady Beatty ac- companied the Admiral when he vis- ited this country not long ago. Thoy haye two sons. Another ditingulshed Englishmen whose American-born wife undoubt- erly “helps him in his business,” 1s Sir Auckland Geddes, British Ambas- sador at Washington. Lady Geddes was Isabella, daughter of W. A, Ross of New York. They have four sons and Mrs. LADY CAMOYS NEE MILORED SHERMAN and a daughter. Viscount Harcourt, a busy English administrator, Secretary of State for the Colonies from 1910 to 1915 and First Commissioner of Works from 1915 to 1917, found a loyal and help- ful partner in Miss Mary Ethel Buri.s, an American girl, who was the niece of the late J. P. Morgan. The Earl of Ancaster, Parllamen- tary Secretary to the Ministry of Agriculture since 1921 and one who has served his country in many other capacities, also married a New York girl, Eloise Breese, daughter of W. i. Breese, They have two sons and two daughters—another earldom ‘“Amer- icanized’"* for the future. ‘Then, there is the Countess of Don- oughmore, 1n her American days Elena Grace, daughter of the late M. P, Grace of New York; Lady Chey- lesmore, daughter of the late Francis ©, French of New York; the dowager Countess of Essex, who was Adele, daughter of Beach Grant of New York, 'The onetime Mildred Carter, daugh- ter of John Ridgely Carter, Baltimore banker, became Countess of Gosford just the other day, through her fa- “ther-in-law’s death. Many apparently happy and suc- cessfulsmarriages of American girls to English.men of title and position VISCOUNTESS OF MAIDSTONE Nee MARGARETTA OREXEL LADY DECIES nee VIVIEN GOULD ES have taken place in the last ten or fifteen years. New York remembers well the wedding of Vivien Gould, second daughter of George Gould, to Lord Decies, In 1911 Mildred Sher- man, daughter of the late W. Watts Sherman, became Lady Camoys. The son and heir of Lord Camoys bears the good American name of “Sher: man."" Pretty Margaretta Drexel of Philadelphia was married a year earlier to Viscount Maidstone. Even the war did not stop the Anglo-American matrimonial entente, In 1916 Patricia Burke, who won i beauty, prize in Los Angeles, Cal., became the wife of the fourth Eart of Cottenham, Miss Alice Eyre, eldest daughter of Mr, and Mrs. Bdwara Eyre of New York, wedded in the same year Viscount Camden, helr of the Earl of Gainsborough, Not long ago Miss Eleanor May Guggenheim, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. 8, R, Gug- genhelm of this city, became the wife of Viscount Stewart, heir of Earl Castlestewart. i And this is only a part of the long list of American girls who have mude good in English publi¢ and private Mfe, When you consider how few English girls get the chance to marry, American men—well, do you believe the English girls think the “balance of trade” ts fair? ®