The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-05-08
DENTIST
WINS HE|RESS
California Woman Rejects
Russian Dancer and Mar
ries the Tooth Fuller.

Paris, May s.--Tae sensation of
the city is the arrival here of the
clippers. Gladys .Ashe Gouraud Hoop
or of san Francisco. and Il Swiss dem
list named bstcrlog. who until last
fall piled his useful trade in the Ave-
IL McMahon.
In this affair the heroine is the
daughter of Mrs. Amy Crocker Gour-
aud by her former husband. r. For
ter Ashc. of San Francisco. The hero
of the idyllic romance is a penniless
dentist who passed more of his time
In an anacsthctic bar on the heights
of Mont %liartrc than in studying
painlcss dentistry.
men who Mrs. Amy Crockcr Gouraud
took with her from Paris to New
' DIRK last fall in the capacity of court
testers. She sal dhsc wanted them to
enhance the artistic atmosphere of
her entertainments. The secon ies-
ter at the court of Mrs. Gouraud
was a Russian singer from the
Palmyra bar i'm Mont Martre. This
bar is as we'll known AS even the Rat
Mort and is popular with many
Americans such as Roberta Corwin
Hill. Theodore Gerard. Mrs. Dorothy
kchoc. Mrs. "Tommy'' Pierce and
many other lovers of Bohemia from
New York.
When Mrs. Gouraud first took over
the two testers the Swiss dentist stood
no higher in favor than the Russian
singer, but in the course of the cold
winter her daughter. Mrs. Gladys
Asle Powers Gouraud Hooper, ceased
10 see any amusement in the song
and dance Russian. although her adj
mlration for the society accomplish
mcnts of the dentist became bound
less. The climax came one fine morn
ing when they eloped to Egypt. leav-
ing the Russian singer and the moth
er to bemoan their departure.
Experienced in Matrimony.
After fishing a season in the land
of h Nile, the clippers are back in
Paris. the scene of Osterlog's earlier
triumphs, driving around in a new
motor car. They seem very happy
while awaiting the arrival of Mrs.
jackson Gouraud, who was delayed
in sailing from New York by a
sprained ankle. but who is now OH
the sea on her way to Paris.
The question of forgiveness for the
clippers is one that does not seem to
worry the sprightly Mrs. GLADYS
Gouraud Hooper. who has the advan-
tage over most children of not only
being a daughter. hui a sister-in-laW
TO her mother.
Mrs. Jackson Gouraud's first mar
ria e was with Porter Ashe and after
they had been divorced. the mother
was given custody of their only child,
a little daughter. who had beer
christened Grace Gladys. Mrs. Gour-
aud's second marriage was to Henry
Gillig, commodore of the Larchmont
Yacht club. Mr.. Gillig was divorced
as had been Mr.. Ashe. The little girl,
growing up in this mixed matrimo-
nail atmosphere, adopted her moth
er's name and was known as Gladys
Croker.
After the second divorce the moth
er, who had inherited between s5,-
0O0.OO and 100000 900 from the es-
tate of her father, came to Paris
where she met and married jackson
Gouraud. a son Of Colonel Gouraud,
a French-Amcrican citizen. who had
a spectacular career in finance.
The daughter of Mrs. Gouraud was
then IS and jackson had a brother
Powers GOuraud, who was IS. Soon
Powers Gouraud and the self-styled
Gladys Croker We're married. the
daughter thus becoming her mothers
sister-in-law
But her first venture in matrimon,
was as profitless as that Of her moth.
err. After a few years spent in Eng.
land. where Powers Gouraud hunted
and golfed. Lewis Hooper, whom
young Mrs. Gouraud had known ir
New York, appeared on the scene
and was a guest at weekend partie!
| given by the young Gourauds.
Gladys Gouraud fell in low Will