The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1920-10-10

TSHE Grand Duke Dmitri Pavlovitch is
perhaps the most romantic and the
most tragic figure among the many
Russians who have experienced unspeak-
able sufferings in recent days.
The young Grand Duke was the only son
of the Gre "a Duke Paul. the late Cars
uncle, and, therefore, was the Cars first
cousin. He vas for time mentioned as
probable successor to the Car, in view
OF the Czarey't ch Alexiss feeble health,
and this proposal was greatly favored by
conservative Russians. To help this pro-
ject 1t was planned that Dmitri should
marry his cousin, Grand Duchess Olga,
oldest daughte of the Gar
The Grant Duke has had many escapes
from death-and many unhappy love az
fairs. Nearly all his adventures have been
tragic or unhappy, so much so that the
London newspapers-he is now in London
--have called him "Russia's unhappiest
! prince" and "the melancholy prince"
! He took leading part in the plot to kill
the scoundrel Rasputin, in order to rid the
Gear of the dark forces" that were ruin
I Ing HlIi. 1ut bCOuuuItl uicui Jul II Wdo
too late to avert disaster for Russia. The
! revolution sent Dmitri abroad, ruined and
an exile. His father, Grand Duke Paul,
/ was one of the first princes to be killed
by the Bolsheviki, while his stepmother,
Princess Olga Palley, barely escaped
with her life, and his relations and
friends fell by the score almost daily.
Then came the dreadful tragedy Of the
assassination of his cousin the Car, with
the Czarina and her FIVE children.
The British royal family has shown
much kindness to their cousin. Grand Duke
Dmitri, in London, but he is an erratic
prince not to be comforted by conventional
attentions. The latest information about
I him is that he is intensely interested in
the beautiful and dashing American dancer,
Theodore Gerard, commonly known as
Teddy" But even this affair does not
seem likely to bring happiness to the un-
happy prince.
A large part of London and a part OF
New YorF believe that the Prince Is in
love with the black-eyed dancer. They say
that he fell in love with her not for her
personal charms, her brilliant eyes, her
nashtng smile, her light and slender inquire,
the swift grace OF her movements. He
yielded his heart to her, the gossips say
for far different reason. He loves her
because she listens tenderly to his stories
OF the horrors of the Russian revolution.
II would be hard to find two persons cf
careers and characters more widely diff
ferent than Teddy" Gerard, the dancer
and Dmitri Pavlovitch, who may become
Emperor of Russia.
Miss Gerard is from the light.hearted
South. Dmitri, son OF royalty is OF the
sad North, She is an Argentinian, born in
Buenos Aires. Her parents are French.
Her true name is Theodore Gerard Cabre.
Her parents brought her from the gayest
country in South America. She finished
her growing up In prosaic Hoboken, N. J.
There an impressionable young man wooed
her. She married him when she was six
teen because he promised to put her on the
stage. She left him directly after the
ceremony She went TO Reno to secure a
divorce but youth is impatient To six
feen the six months required for a resi-.
dence seemed an intolerable time She
returned and sang and laughed and danced
In the chorus at the Casino. II was in