The San Francisco call., 1906-10-16
LANDFIELD GAINS
THE HEART OF 4
PRINCESS.
Professor, Society Leader
and Wit Will Marry
Beauty of Russian Court
LIUBA LOBANOV is
HIS PRETTY FIANCEF
American Persistency Sue
ceeds Over Autocratic
Statecraft of Peterhof


GERRY" Landfield, the Ned Greenway
of Berkeley and wit of the bohemian
Club, is to marry a Princess. .Landfield
Is In Russia, where he went to study
the revolution, and while lodging
bombs about the palace of the Czar
he was hit I'm the region of the heart
by n shaft directed with unerring skill
by the little blind god. When Landfield
returns to his home In the college
town, where he is professor OF history he
will be accompanied in the person of
Mrs. LandfieId by Princess Liuba Lo-
banov, demoiselIe d'honneur to the Ern-
press.
The young American has won one of
the famous beauties of the exclusive
court of the Czar of all the Russias
after a season of rare diplomacy, In
which native pcrsistency triumphed
over the autocratic statecraft of
Peterhof. So complete has been the
triumph of the Californian that the
adamantine "No!- of the Emperor has
softencd into "God bless you, Ezy ch.I-
drcn."
HIS SOCIETY MUCH SOUGHT.
Landfield has been regarded by fond
mammas as one of the most desir-
able of the eligible bachelors in society
about the bay. He is on the guest list
of all of San Francisco's leading hos
tesses who have marriageable daugh-
ters. But the professor always de-.
clared that he found his books and his
club too delightful to be cast lightly
aside
Professor Landheld has written to
his friends here announcing his en-
gagement, and not for many moons has
there been such excitement in univer-
sity and club circles and in society He
writes from ST. Petersburg, but the
plans are at present that the wedding
will take place at Cannes, where the
Princess mother and the Grand
Duchess Marie are located There is
much pretty romance back of it all
and the tale of the affair reads like
fiction.
Professor Landfield met the Princess
in st. Petersburg last summer, where
he went to study the Russian revolu-
ton. and promptly fell in love with
her. The courtship was full of trials
tribulations and rivalries," as is re-
ported by one of Landhelds intimate
friends, who watched the affair, but
the young professor had a powerful
ally in the Grand Duchess Marie, who
was his good friend and advocate
throughout and now rejoices in the
outcome of the romance. The Princess
is sister of Lady Egerton. wife of
the British ambassador at Rome
FRIENDS ARE REJOICING.
Jerome Landfield is one of the best
known and best liked men in ar near
San Francisco and the many friends of
the brilliant young professor are re-
joicing at his exceeding good fortune,
for, 1t Is said, his hancee is as charming
and attractive in every way as might
be desired. He comes of a New York
family and is graduate of Cornell,
where he was a student under Profess
sor Henry Morse Stephens, now of the
University Of California He was prom
inent in college life there, being a
member of the Delta Upsilon fraternity
and at one time editor of the Cornell
comic college paper. the Widow.
For time after his graduation he
went in for mining and travelled a great
deal, visiting Japan and the east coast
of Siberia. where he had all manner of
interesting and hazardous adventures.
secretary to Professor stephens and
was later appointed an instructor in
history. He soon came to be regarded
as an authority on Russian history and
so great was his interest in the subject
that he secured a years leave of ab
sence last year, and, going to st. Pc
tersburg, devoted himself to the study
of conditions and results of the revo-
luton, but also to the winning of
Princess. He is at present a guest at
the Grand Hotel d'Europe, Rue Michel.
st. Petersburg. He is prominent
member of the Faculty Club in Berke-
ley and of the Bohemian Club here.
He has always been sought after great
~ in a social way, both here and in the
college town, and much pleasure is ex-
pressed at the prospect of his bringing
his bride to California