The Washington times., 1921-10-30
Through the New York Whi
the Gay Lobster Palaces
for His Pretty Wife and His
Fifteen Battles with Her
Admirers---and Mrs. -
Ainslie's Version of It 9
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at an early hour In the morning In raths
keller lobster palace, the Moulin Rouge,
he saws. Hoping to catch the eye OF his
wife and persuade her to leave the gay
party without publicity or disturbance,
Ainslie slipped into q booth next to one
in which sat his wife and major OF the
American army. While the young husband
stood there trying to decide Just what to
do he hoard snatches Of conversation which
persuaded him to linger on and listen fur-
ther. For two hours the distracted hus'
band sat in the booth with his head upon
his hands listening to the merry flow OF
conversation in the enclosure just beyond
the thin partition.
At last Mrs. Ainslie and the major got
ND to 70. Ainslie stepped out from his
booth and stood before them.
do you know, sir. that this woman is my
wife?" he asked.
eyes What about TT" sneered the
major looking him boldly in the face.
'Well, ! advise you to make sure that
this is the last time you are seen with
her!" replied the aviator.
& is Inat 30! Sdlu tuc StiShih6 bio
face close to the face of young Ainslie,
and continuing: IF I did not have my uni
form on I'd knock your face through the
back of your neck"
Crash! Ainslie was not worried about
uniforms. One blow from the athletic
young husbands right hand and the major
measured his length on the restaurant hoor
Ainslie says. Reaching down for the fallen
army man, Ainslie picked him up In his
III sxotr nd tooaod hin,
into the street In heap, and when the
aviator looked about to lead Mrs. Atnslie
home she had disappeared.
And so, according to Lawyer Towns,
Ainslie ran through the various commits
sion grades of the army-lieutenant, cap
tain, major, possibly general or two
fighting for the possession OF his wife with
these various uniformed men. Perhaps the
army began to get unpopular with Mrs.
Ainslie, or Ainslie may have scared the
rest of them away, because, before long,
Ainslie began to find navy officers with
his wife.
One Of the greatest free-for-all battles
occurred at the Hotel Majestic, Afnslie
declares, when the theatrical corps of the
Palais Royal, Of which Mrs. Ainslie was
member, gave a ball to its friends and ad-
mirers All were in evening dress.
IL was standing on the side lines,' Aims
lie says, WuCu my WilO SonV oiOho, uohN
ing with a man whom had never seen
before. She must have pointed me out to
him, because as they drew almost abreast
of me he made some remark that didn't
quite hear. But I could tell from his tone
and manner that 1t was something insult
ing.
"I waited until they came around again
and then | waded in. / knocked him down
again and again, all the way across the
dance floor. He didn't show fight, but
hurried away. After a while a party OF
men asked me to come over and sit down
with them.
Zone Of them asked me II knew whom
/ had hit. I said No, and don't care who
it is The other man said, You must
think you're pretty good
"Tm not hiding anything replied He
said that II l would stand up he'd knock
me for a goal. We mixed and his friends
came to his assistance. Other fellows
Joined in, and then the girls began to pull
hair and tear clothes and the walters
helped out and there was free-for-all. ]
never saw such a mess in my life nor
heard such noise. Half the people fight
ing didn't know what It was all about or
who started 1t.
What ended It, so far as was con-
cerned, was getting hit over the head with
q champagne bottle. It was FIVE in the
morning before the walters and police had
cleared the room, and then the place was
a wreck-mirrors. and furniture smashed
and glass all over the floor" Ainslie de-
clares.
In brief this is the picture, or a small
part OF the picture. which George ]. Aims
lie and his intrepid attorney and counsel
Ior. Mr. Mirabeau L. Towns, draw OF his
domestic life. But Mrs. Ainslie paints a
quite different picture. And she tells 1t
rather well too, for Mrs. Ainslie, in addi-
tIon to being pretty, is very intelligent
and quick-witted young woman.
Mrs. Ainslie readily admits that there
were battles, lots and lots Of battles, be-
tween Airrslie and her escorts. But they
all occurred, she insists, at time when
she and her husband had separated by
mutual agreement and he had no claim
upon her time or society. She asserts that
when Ainslie entered the naval service he
left her penniless and the Government al
lotment was not adequate to her needs.
From the time we were married his
parents were very much Fifth avenue"
Mrs. Ainslie Gays, "and Il never occurred
to them to help me out So when he left