The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-03-04
GOTHAM GOSSIP

GUIHAM GUSSIP tBy Francis Phillips, Copyright 1910. by the National News Service. N. Y.)
 New York, March 3,-Mistaking an impressionable reporter with flowing red whiskers for a stewardess, Mrs. Pat Campbell, the actress came near causing a panic the other morning on one of the big ocean liners by her shrieks of horror, which percolated through the ship when she discovered her error. Mrs. Pat had gone aboard the vessel the night before It was booked to sail and was still hugging the pillows in her stateroOm bed when the scribe knocked on the door. Con- cluding that 1t could only be stew ardess at that early hour, the actress called out in her softest tone, come in.'' Unabashed, the bewhiskered one strode in as he was bidden. What he saw is not for publication. Under cross-examination subsequently by his fellows ship news reporters, all he would admit was that Mrs. Pat is partial to blue silk and lace and never looked so radiantly fair in all her life Once the scribbler of screeds crossed the threshold of the stateroom.
 
 ship, as the actress, shocked by sight of the red whiskers, securely wound the bed coverings about her attractive form and flashed the c. D. o. sign of distress. Flabigastered, the owner of the whiskers beat a nasty retreat in- to the saloon, where he was quickly surrounded by a crowd of passengers, who took him for an anarchist and threatened to duck him.
 T thought he was stewardess. explained the actress excitedly to one of the latter class who had responded to the scream for succor "Oh Lord! but it was an awful mistake. I do hope he will say nothing about it. I wouldn't have him breath a word about it for the world, for you know it would be terribly embarrassing if he even hinted it."
 Like a true cavalier, the knight of the pen has kept the actress confi- dence all to himself and parries all questions anent the delicate secret of which he was so unwittingly made the custodian. His mistake was chiefly illuminating so far as the public rec ords go as indicating that Mrs. Pat and Mrs. Leslie Carter, her American prototype, have a decided divergence in taste for colors. At the recent sheriffs sale of the lingerie of the lat ter. sold by the management of a To- cal hotel to satisfy an unpaid board y can actress is predisposed to pink and French lace in scontradistinctfon to Mrs. Pats preference for blue and Irish point lace.
 Emilio de Gogorza, the baritone who, while travelling about the west on con- cert tour with Emma Flames, fell madly in love with her, will be mar ried in the spring to the beautiful and talented American prima donna. It leaked out this week that Gogorza has agreed to pay his former wife $500 month as long as she lives, in con- sideration of her dropping the suit she instituted against Mime. Flames for the alienation of her husbands affec- tions. and the action brought against him for desertion. Papers cementing this arrangement were quietly execut- ed in Paris last fall. Another inter esting bit of gossip in connection with the romance of the baritone and Mime. Flames Is the disclosure that Gogorza has become a citizen of the republic of France and as such was granted divorce from his first wife on the ground that she had refused to go to Paris to live with him. This action was not defended by the wife, al- though it is claimed she was served. with a copy of the complaint at her home in this city. As the action of the French courts will not interfere
 
 viously for her benefit by de Gogorza. she concluded that a defence would be of no value to- her since she long since reconciled herself to the convic- tion that she could not longer retain the love of her husband, who she once publicly declared had become the psychic affinity of the famous diva. Until the details of the secret Pari- sian divorce became known the other day. the musical world placed little credence in the oft emphasized report that the two singers would be married in the spring. In their opinion, the resolute refusal of the baritone's wife to free her husband would forever stand in the way of such a union. Now that this has been disposed of the only barrier to their marriage has been removed and the friends of the couple look for their wedding in June.
 Deeply perturbed over the almost morbid sense of curiosity shown by Gothemites in the marriage of weal- thy girls to noblemen from across the seas, several of the ministers of the local churches have been scoring the increasing tendency toward snobbish- ness in the republic. The two leading commentators on this predisposition have been Rev. Dr. Charles H. Park hurst and Rev. George w. Grinton HI a CutlAu6 ISO0hc Ol tACSO WiAO -1OSC their heads" over marriages of this sort, this week Dr. Grinton directed attention to the folly of lowing to the fetich of foreign titles.
 sThe snobbishness that permits Americans to sacrifice their dignity and clothing to obtain one glimpse of a wedding between a titled foreigner and a rich American girl is disgrace full" exclaimed Dr. Grinton.
 "It Is snobbish to marry for a title 1t is snobbish to marry for money. It is snobbish to strive, by any means, to enter social circle above your own. On the other hand, it is snob- bish to be abnormally interested in the people who do these things and it is snobbish to worship money or per- sons above you socially. And, finally, M Is un-American to be snobbish and yet the snobs are steadily on the in crease in this country.
 "A snob, as I use the word, means one who courts favor by flattery and attention. A snob is also one who by initiating another attempts to prove he moves in the same social circle. Snobs are those who worship royalty, wealth or position, thus sur rendering their Americanism for a mess of pottage. Liberty endowed cit izens who attempt to gain an entrance into royal circles by fawning upon royalty for favor are not only snobs. but are simple and silly as we'll.
 Democracy is the foundation of this nation. Unfortunately. though, mon-