The New York herald., 1921-10-03
WALSKA MARRIAGE
MAY BE ATTACKED
Untermyer Accuses Malone of
Betraying Condolences on
Paris Meeting.
QUESTIONS OF ETHICS
Singers Lawyer Challenges
Cochran's Side to Publish
Anything 1t Pleases.

In a hot denunciation of Dudley Field
Malone, counsel for Nine. Gamma WAL
ska. singer and wife of Alexander Smith
Cochran, it apparently was intirnated
yesterday by Samuel Unter1nyer. ooun-
sci for Mr.. Cochran, that the litigation
may involve the legality Of the walska-
Cochran marriage.
Mr.. Untermyer refers to Nine. Wal
ska as this thrifty young woman whom
Mr.. Cochran is supposed to have mar
ried year ago." He accuses Mr.. Ma
lone. who arrived here on Saturday
aboard the liner Paris. Of trying the
case in the newspapers.
When asked If he cared to comment
on Mr.. Malone's interview Mr.. Unter-
myer said:
mot word except that Mr.. Malone
is at liberty to talk his head Off with
out interruption from me or my client
They may continue now and henceforth.
as they have from the beginning, to
occupy the centre OF the stage. Of which
his client Is so fond. insofar as they
care, to try their case in the news
papers.
Mr.. Cochran will try his case in the
courts when the time comes, and we
shall then see whether or not he was
overgcnerous in expressing his willing
ness to allow the $4,000 year to
which Mr.. Malone refers to this thrifty
young person whom he is supposed to
have married a year ago rather than
drag through q wretched public scandal
to get rid Of this much married lady.
Opens Way to Malone.
Meantime, Mr.. Malone may stand on
the street corners and, undisturbed,
shout across the sea at Mr.. Cochran
as many more names as he pleases so
long as he and his client enjoy that
kind of advertising or believe it will
boost her stage career or bring her
more Of Mr.. Cochran's money, or pos
sibly both.
by the way, it was, to put it mildly.
poor professional taste for Mr.. Malone
to refer to that confidential interview
with Mr.. Cochran's counsel in Paris.
Even the law protects such efforts at
compromise, but Mr.. Malone has been
80 engrossed these last years with poll
tics and other matters outside the law
that he must have forgotten the rules
Of the game.
"If were to yield to the temptation
to follow his lead by disclosing the bal
ance Of that interview and the reasons
l gave for Mr.. Cochran's willingness to
buy his peace at the stiff price Of s1o.-
900 a year. Mr.. Malone and his client
would not be nearly so well pleased with
themselves. But Mr. Malone is safe
with me provided he does not goad me
too far by repeating the offence OF re-
vealing confidential interviews.
This is the first word j have uttered
about this case. and 1t will be the last
except in court"
Says Untermyer Sought Meeting.
At the home of Boardman Robinson.
illustrator. at Croton on Hudson Mr..
Malone last night asserted he never had
confidential conference with Mr.. I'm
termyer In Paris. Tho conferences, he
declared. were not confidential, and were
sought by Mr.. Untermyer. He also
charged that Mr.. Untermyer, secretly
and by insinuation," had been placing
the Cochran side of the matter before
the public and that therefore the Walska
side ought to be published. He said
Mr.. Untermyer In free to state in
public anything he has stated to me,
with due regard to the laws relating to
libel and SANDER. We shall continue
to meet every subtle attack of Mr..
Cochran and his counsel by straight
talk on the facts of the case, and l am
sorry that Mr.. Untermyer Is so upset
over the fact that the game he and Mr..
Cochran have been trying to play has
been exposed"