The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1913-01-18
GRAND DUCHESSES ARE
MOTHS FOR HIS FLAME

| LONDON, Jan. 18.-"Where Tony
Drexel is, there are the grand Ouch
esses gathered together" was the cpl
gram in which London diplomat re-
Gently enshrined the attraction exer-
cised by the American millionaire over
Russian rOyalists. Whether at Monte
| Carlo, Venice, Paris or London, or
whenever you see Mr.. Drexel, it is a
! certainty that two or three grand
duchesses are lowering in the offing.
| During the last few months he has
gone round the continent followed by
train of these highly exclusive and
intensely aristocratic ladies. 1t is not
a question of one grand duchess or
even brace of them, but a whole
covey-a different grand duchess or
two for every pleasure resort.
| There was time, when he was COM
paratively new to Europe, when he was
content to cultivate friendship of the
late King Edward. He was then styled
"the kings shadow" owing to the
regularity with which he turned up
wherever the king happened to go.
But things have changed since then.
Nowadays the grand duchesses shadow
Mr.. Drexel.
The Grand Duchess Vladimir, whose
elder son is possible future car, has
just left London, having been enter
tanned several times at the Ritz by Mr..
Drexel.
"Cheek of MilliOnaires" Denounced.
1t is only a couple of weeks since he
returned from Venice, where the pic
ture of Mr.. Drexel sitting outside La
veno's smoking cigar, his foot on a
chair and two grand duchesses by his
side, so excited an Italian journalists |
ire that he published violent diatribe |
about the cheek of American million |
aires. 1t is said that Mr.. Drexel swore |
he would never go to Venice again
after this wanton attack, and as his
absence would mean also the with
drawal of the Russian grand duchess
es, the hotel keepers of Venice have
boycotted the paper in which the arti-
Gle was published.
The Grand Duchess Vladimir, the
handsomest and stateliest of them, the
mother of the Grand Duke Cyril and
Boris, was the first and firmest of Mr..
oropd dual
Her daughter, the Princess Nicholas
If Greece. and her daughter-in-law,
he Grand Duchess of Cyril first cou-
lin to King George, are Drexel's con-
slant companions on the Riviera, as
veil as the Grand Duchess Anastasia
he mother of the crown princess of
Germany.
1t was a gorgeous scene the other
vening at the Ritz, when the Grand .
Duchess Vladimir was Mr.. Drexel's
,uest,. to see him leading the royal
ady, magnificently attired, and every
nch an aristocrat, along the corridor
0 the special dining room, between
'ows of open-eyed English swells,
|
rendering how the deuce these Ameri
ans manage it. The procession also
1cluded the Grand Duke Michael and
COUNTESS Torby, the Grand Duke Cyr- :
/. the Russian ambassador, Count
and three or four English
arls and countesses who paled their
aeffectual fires beside the Muscovite
1agnates.
eing one of the best judges of din
er on this side of the herring pond.
IN these occasions there is nothing
Dared that money can buy, not only on
hese isles, but the whole continent
!, laid under toll to provide the daint-
est and most luxurious delicacies,
ooked in a style worthy of Lucullus.
He Serves Sultan's Rarest Wine.
Among the gastronomic rarities pro-
ided for this feast was some imperial
,kay, straight from the choicest bin of
lie sultan's choicest cellar, which, it is
aid. the offer of very extravagant
I'M procured 1t is wine that the
nperor of Austria drinks on feast
ays and holidays out of tiny goblet,
nd that is never offered to any but
Qualities of the highest grade by the
Titan.
"The difference between William
raldorf Astor and Anthony Drexel,"
lid a friend of both a short time ago, =