The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-06-25
Almost Legendary Fig
ure in Mythology
Of Journalism.
NAME FAMILIAR
FOR DOZEN YEARS
Popular Stories About Her Are
Purely Mythical, and She Is
Far From Heart Broken
|. Girl Often Pictured-Why
Is She, Still IN
married?
ny wILLIAM II. STEAD.

Especial Cable to The Times Dispatch
London. June 2i.-The most inter
estinS American woman in England
probably the most interesting Ameri-
can woman in Europe. is Miss Gladys
Deacon, at the present moment anus
ing herself IN a highly original way
In London. For a dozen years her
name has been familiar to the Ameri-
can public. Hardly a week passes
that the portrait Of this international
beauty" does not adorn the pages of
some American newspaper. Round her
name whole nimbus OF legends has
gathered until she has almost become
G legendary figure in the mythology
of Anglo-American journalism.
She has always been talked OF as
Just going TO be married. to a prince
one day. TO a duke the next. but still
In maiden meditation fancy free, she
fits from capital to capital. every
where the centre OF an adoring circle
OF worshipers. but everywhere evad-
ing her suit. M
Why is the most beautiful American
girl In Europe still unmarried? Who
can tell. 1t is one of the mysteries OF
modern society. Her sister has mar
ried Prince RadZiwill but Miss GLADYS
Deacon is Miss Gladys Deacon still
The stories popularity current are pure
ly mythical I saw a statement the
other day that she was the most
broken hearted little girl in all Paris
because OF her hopeless affection for
an English nobleman who was mar
ried and not divorced The absurdity
of the tale was evident to any one
who ever spent an hour in her com
pany. a merrier maid never looked
out OF more laughing pair of eyes
upon an amusing world.
Is Studying English Socicty
At present she IS finding an infinite
mine OF diversion IN the experimental
study OF the top and bottom Of Eng.
lish society. She threw herself with
characteristic vehemence into the vor-
tex of the general election The peo-
pie of her own social set were true
blue Tories. almost to a man. and
still more to a woman.
She went to hear that rising light
of the Unionist party, f. E. Smith, ad-
dress meeting of worEingmen
at Battersea. and sized him UP In q
moment as a self-conscious phraseur,
who could not even impress himself,
much less his audience. with his own
sincerity.
She watched the declaration of the
polls in the midst of the crowd at
Trafalgar Square. and disgusted her
unionist friends by her delight at
Radical victories. = lady. who. IN her
teens. set herself hero!cally 10 con-
vert tho Duke OF Marlborough to So
cialism and the Crown Prince of Prus-
sia to the duty of loving an enemy.
even tf 1t happened to be a Frenchman.
was not likely TO shrink from defend
ing Lloyd George and Winston Church
III in the heart of the Tory camp
Would Rot Suffer IN silence.
The rancor of the Unionists aston
ished and disguised her. The ferocity.
al ,ItI.
mobiles and plutocrets abused their
opponents exceeded anything she had
ever witnessed in the most exclusive
circles OF the Odd noblesse in the Eau
hourg st. German. It Is enough to
make any one Radical. she would