New-York tribune., 1921-03-12
Heiress Reads
Marries Poet
Winifred Ellerman, Daugh-
ter Of English Baronet,
Finds II. Nj. McAlmon
i'll Greenwich Village
All Her $Egos in Debacle'
Both ON Way to Visit and
Emancipate Wealthy Dad
i'll His Palatial Homes

Winifred Ellerman, daughter Of
multimilionaire British baronet. who
was married in this city last month to
Robert Menzies McAlmon, former
football star and aviator who turned
Greenwich Village poet, came TO Green
wich Village to be free and ended by
proposing to the poet.
After she had read one of his poems
she decided to temper her freedom with
marriage. AS she knew Greenwich
Village poet who specialized in free
verse never would condescen1 to pro-
pose marriage to the heiress to couple
of hundred million dollars or 90, whose
only real claim to fame lay in a mere
novel. she up and popped the question
herself.
The secret was given away yesterday
by the bridegroom's sister, Victoria
McAlmon. of Minneapolis. MISS Eler-
man confided it to her in letter.
Read Poem, Popped Question
"Robert had nothing but his talent"
she wrote, "but l loved him for that |
did the proposing after reading one of
his poems. l knew he never would do
the asking because of his incompetent
fortune"
Miss Ellerman. having sought free
dom from the Atlantic. coast to the Pa
cifc and trailed it to it's lair in Green
wich Village, where she wrote "Revela-
tion," q psychological novel to which
Amy Lowell wrote preface, was about
to go home and emancipate her father,
Sir John Ellerman, lord high admiral
of half a dozen merchant fleets and pro-
prietor Of mines, magazines and news
papers.
Then she happened to pick up a copy
of Poetry" Greenwich Village publ
cation, in which her eye lighted on
"Flyng," poem by McAlmon.
Inpale spaciousness
1 blend with subtle infinity
The wing wires OF my plane
Whistle OF monotone
That iulls my earthly unrest
To sleep.
The schromatis1n OF the sky
Alters the adagio tempo of my conscious
ness
The avalanche Of air inundating mo and
Goes out again from me in coruscating
graciousness:
Makes devout before spaciousness.
There is a debacle OF various egos within
That refractory memory thruste before me
Knowing they will return to with
earth.
But for the now in HIGH all the crevices
Long filed by glutted life, are cleansed
And l know conservation in ethereal ether.
Egos in Debacle
Miss Ellerman felt consecrated in
ethereal ether as soon as she had de-
voured the poem. The adagio tempo Of
her consciousness was altered and all
her inside egos were in debacle. She
decided that the emancipation of dad
must wait. The thing to do now was to
find this man who blended with subtle
ntinity and exhaled an avalanche Of
air in coruscating graciousness.
She found him. He was right there
in the village all the time. AS soon as
his war-deferred graduation from Los
Angeles University was accomplaished
/ he had cast aside such childish things
as airplanes and football and hied him
to the village TO be free.
He was free when Miss Ellerman
found him, which was fortunate, for
she had decided to marry him. After a
brief courtship she informed him of
her plans and he accepted on the con-
dition that she retain her maiden name.
He was willing to violate the traditions
of the Village even to the extent Of
marrying an heiress, but he insisted
that she remain Winifred Ellerman.
So Winifred Ellerman and Robert
Menzies McAlmon, man and wife, are
on their way to 1 South Audley Street
London; Dukes Drive, Eastbourne,
or Slams Castle, Cruden, Aberdeen
shire, according to which residence
Sir Robert happens to be occupying,
resolved to break the news to dad and
then emancipate him.