The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1921-12-25
400 TURN EYES
ON COMEBACK
Of MRS. ST.CYR
Restoration OF Social Prestige
Said to Depend Somewhat on
Princess Daughter.

SAID 10 depend somewhat on
Princess Daughter.
NEW YORK, Dec. 24.-All of the
millionaire society set of New York.
Philadelphia. Washington and New
port, to say nothing of way sta
tions north and south. is watching
with the keenest interest the plans
of Mrs. Jean st. Cyr for making
a social comeback" if one may
use the sporting term in such
gilded circumstances.
The very wealthy woman who WIS
first the wife Of William Rhinelander
Stewart and then of James Henry ISL
ienU Smith, before her third matri-
monial venture brought to her side
the spectacular young man whose
name she now bears. has taken an
apartment at the Ambassador for the
winter and has allowed her friends to
understand she intends making a fight
for the place that was hers before her
latest match sent her into retirement
IRON the old social hunting grounds.
Princess Attitude In Doubt.
In the plans for the new entrance,
the attitude which the elect will as.
sumo toward st. Cyr has a much more
important place than all of the other
considerations together, and Just what
can be done to assuage the Princess
Miguel de BraRanza forms, in turn,
leading angle Of the question of the ST.
Cyr reception. For the princess has
never acknowledged her new papa by
marriage, and has frowned all the
while upon his coming into the family
To make the complexity of the case
still more apparent, Mrs. st. Cyr has
taken house at Newport for her
daughter. and the prince. now relieved
by the state of peace between this
country and Germany from any gov
crnmental ban, has just come over to
join his wife. after long absence.
In the long list of complicated ea
adjustments Of this town, none has
had more strange or difficult angles
for the prince has just arrived with
William Rhinelander Stewart, 5r.,
whose father. from whom Mrs. st. Cyr
was divorced, has taken the Johnstorf.
Livingston mansion in Madison ave-
nue.. and is expected to entertain the
prince and princess during their own
campaign for position.
Embassies May Get Miffed.
1t will be seen quite readily that
one must be the solver of a social
puzzle to guess what will be the
outcome of the tangle. And IL Ii
made all the more strange by the
fact that Prince de Braganza served
in the German army during the war,
some say as chauffeur to the Kaiser
himself, and the new place to which
n will NJ q. L. -
neighborhood of the British, French
and other allied summer embassies.
which may not be altogether pleased
with the prospect Of having the
X aiser's soldier-or chauffeur-among
those present and participating
But the coming of the Prince, with
the brother to the Princess, and the
explanation that he was merely wait
ing for peace between this country
and Germany b<(ore making his ad-
vent, is taken as setting at rest the
gossip that the pair might seek sep
aration, and thus an additional COM
rlication is avoided.
Goodness knows that no additional
mixing up of persons and events IL
needed in the story. During the
time when Mrs. st. Cyr was Mrs.
William Rhinelander Stewart, she
was recognized on all sides as one
of the real four hundred.
Inherits Smith Estate.
Her marriage to Silent" Smith
Cid not, in least, disturb that stand
ing, and when Smith died In Japan,
leaving al enormous estate, there
was no reason why she might not
have continued her social fling to her
hearts content.
Fate. and the oddly Of things
marital, provided a reason, however.
st. Cyr, very much her Junior, had
staged his own career among the
elect by pretending to be a French
man Of high place.
Hardly had he married Mrs.
Silent" Smith when the papers d.
vulged the fact that he was a young
Texas clerk before coming to New
York, and the peculiar romance of
his life in New York, and his mar
riage to an elderly widow who had
| twice his years and a large estate
brought storm from the old social
friends for his latest wife.
There did not seem to be any
, particular onus attached to st. Cyr.
aside from the fact that he was mas.
querading under an assumed name
and had developed penchant for
the society of widows Of years and
money, but there was no possible
chance that he would be received
until such time as the scandal of
newspaper exposure had blown over.
Seven years, the time set apart by
the ancient Hebrew law for curing
almost anything, from the fertility
of field to debt haze now elapsed
since the match and the publication
of his record. The couple passed
much of the time in the South, and
more in California.
Discrepancy Of Age Overcome.
Whatever the discrepancy in age
the match has undoubtedly survived
! the years with much less difficulty
on the surface than has come to
, many younger and less harassed folk
There is no possible indication that
Mrs. st. Cyr has any idea OF a diff
ference arising, and 1t is, therefore
the main question in her new cam
| paign as to what reception her own
wealth and tact can procure for her
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