The Washington times., 1920-07-18
She Was in Most Distressing Ir'

r. the extraordinary adventures told
= in the Arabian Nights, but Made
moiselle Georgette de la Plante, a very
pretty and vivacious New York modiste.
with a shop just off Fifth Avenue, has
had. she says, just such an amazing ex-
perience as it would seem could only
have happened to one Of those enchanted
heroines Of the Oriental legends.
For a week she was lifted out OF the
work-a-day world into a gorgeous luxury
not excelled by any Of the capricious
caliphs of the Nights.
Alas-it usually happened in the an
Gent tales that the wondering favorites OF
fortune suddenly fell from their luxury
,ai porfumed ease with an awful bump!
And so it was with Mile de la Plante.
For a week she reigned as chatelaine
in the magnificent home OF Daniel G. Reid,
lie internationally known fnancier, multi
millionaire and so-called Tin Plate King;
leigIed there in the stead Of Mrs. Reid
herself and at Mrs. Reid's own request,
Mile. de la Plante bitterly observes. Then
all of a sudden she found she had been
brought by Mrs. Reid against her very
rich husband, which divorc1 proceedings
have just been formally ended in favor Of
me said Mrs. Reid, who has had her de-
cree granted her.
It was a tremendous and unpleasant
surprise for Mile. de la Plante, who had
been buying things in Paris while the
divorce proceedings Of Mrs. Reid we're on.
Too busy to read the newspapers, it was
not until she returned to New York that
she learned that the servants whom she
had directed during the weeks stay as
chatelaine had gone upon the stand and
told very distressing stories about her and
Mr.. Reid
And right there Mile de la Plante de.
parted from her role Of Arabian Nights
heroine. Back in those times when the
awakened former favorite Of fortune
bumped, she usually stayed that way. At
least there the story closed and no one
knew what happened to the unfortunate
maiden afterwards. But not so Mile de la
Plante. She went Immediately to a most
capable New York attorney, Edward ]. Nc
Crossin, and started proceedings at once
to open up the case.
In legal verbiage, she made deposition
covering eleven pages and employing
thirty-three hundred words and every
word to the point. Mile. de la Plante is
now on the high seas again on her way
to France. but she filed this deposition
with the Supreme Court before she went
and that tribunal has issued an order d.
recting Mrs. Reid the divorced wife, TO
show cause why the case should not be
opened. The matter will be tried late this
Summer.
Mile de la Plante insisted upon filing
her story before she sailed instead OF wait
ing until she returned so that IL she should
be lost at sea her deposition would still
speak for her.
In her attorneys office Mile. de la
Plante prefaced her story OF her astonsh
ing experiences with this formal state
ment:
"The first knew that bad been so
shamefully aspersed was when I read in
the newspapers of February S that Mrs
Reid's servants had testified against me-
was never named as correspondent in the
divorce suit, and so, OF course, had no
notice that | had any interest in 1t. Other.
wire, you may be sure l would have been
represented In court.
II am absolutely innocent OF any wrong
doing, and ] want the court to give me a
chance to set myself right before the
world"
And then going back to the first mo-
ment that the enchanted glamour OF the
Arabian tales was cast about her, Mile.
de la Plante began her story:
"One OF my richest and most charming
customers had left the shop after making