The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-11-26
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SOCIAL WARFARE
RACES IN PARIS
Two Young Women Start Out
on Equal Terms for
Supremacy.
BOTH MARRY DIVORCED MEN
Curious Feature of Situation Is
That Their Children Play
Together.
BOTH MARRY DIVORCED MEN
Especial Cable to The T,mes-pIspatoh.I

Especial Cable to The Times Dispatoh.I
l'aris. November 35.-The arrival In
Paris OF the California beauty. the
former Miss Ethel Cook. later Mrs.
Sterling Postley. and now Mrs. Rosa
lbler Cur :. synchronizcs with q
declaration of open suuIat warfare be-
tween tnat lazy ana nor ioriher sis.
ter-lh-ihM, I,iiSe Postley, now MRS.
Guernsey Currun.
Mrs. Guernsey Curran. who Is the
only daughter OF the wealthy Mrs
Clarence i-vstiey. of sew forn, mas Inc
two brolners Curran. tluolug mat
Ross AfnUler Currun. of new York,
was not SuitauIe soulinatc. sine
divorced h IN ana married has ulvorc.d
brother. Guernsey Curran. Inc toruivr
Ltnel coUk anu the former Elise POST
ley start out on ABOUT equal terms
on thcIr battic Tor 80 :Ial supremacy.
Both are OF tho same age. uoth are
dIvorcecs and Dotn have married
divorceu men. AS 10 accomplishments
they are also about equal. tor al
though Ethel Cook IL tns more viva
cious: Elise PostIey Guernsey Currun
has more money TO spend on her en-
tcrtainmcnts. Tor her mother Is said to
have an income oil se0o.uu0 year.
Mrs. Guernsey Currun lives In q
luxurious nat III the Place DIES Estuts
bh was Mrs. Ross .Amnler Currun.
Both haze their adherents. and tha
partisans are called the Cookies and
the GUARANTEES. respectfully. Pacific
coasters arc siding with Ethel Cook.
Wine Elise Poatlcy has strong New
York following. Mrs. Joe BEDDING
and Mrs. DR. Younger. both OF san
Posiicy contemplates diversion of
hosfilit:cs by ruling in Rome for part
OF the season. and a path has been
s,noothed for her In the Eternal City
by Madame La Draga. formerly Mrs.
Bartlett. OF New York. to whom Mrs.
Clarence Postley gave a dowry OF
S20v.oue. thus enabling Captain La
DraSa TO marry her.
Children PIny Together.
curious feature of the situation
is that the children OF both gocial
asp i may be seen playing to-
and Alra. Sterling Postlcy, who arrived
last week from New ork on the
ANronprlnzessin Ccciiie. will take Is a
matte. Of conjecture. Both Sterling
Buckley OF San Francisco and later
Mrs. John Sayre Martin, having passed
through the divorce mill will be no.
tcbio acquisitions to the growing
Jack Martin, divorced husband of Mrs
Sterling Postle:. Is Htill doing. Paris,
s,iWays IN company with his famous
surprised Of all when his former wife
married Posticy, as he always con-
teEde1 that the reports of tho intende ed
marriage were Just newspaper talk -
There are reports OF Jacks epproa CHI
'ag marriage. but no only laughs and
says, Paris is no place in which to
be serious"
4 constant, and most Interested
listener In the court OF tho Tribunal
or the Seine. presided over by President
!lonier. Is the young Countess Louise
Gontaut- BIron. widow Of we'll known
French nohieman, who was long mas
ter OF tho Biarritz foxhounds. and
daughter OF the American Amha ssador
ana MIS-. John G. Leishman Of Bcr-
lin. Her intense interest centres in
the fact that the honor of the great
FAMILY whose name she bears Is at
stake
The Gontaut-B iron family dates
mack to tho tenth century. and is link
cd by blood or marriage to half the
nobility Of France. Including the Dc
IiGnes. tho Tallyrand PeriGords, the
De PoliEnacS and the Troubetzkoys
Row an accomplished and well brought
MP woman. who is at present Madame
Fonbesi. brings suit to prove that she
Is the legitimate daughter OF Count
and Countess Armand De Gontnut-
Btron. Her birth register gives her
name as Helene Germaine Josephine
Claire Tombcsi. born of Napoleon