New-York tribune., 1921-03-23
.Aquitania Sails
With Gibbs and
Record Cabin
War Correspondent Going
Home to Work for Irish
Problem Solution and
Will Come Back i'm Fall
Rumsey,P oloStar, Aboard
Helleu to Draw Americas
Most Beautiful Woman, a
New Yorker, on Return

The Cunard liner Aquitania left port
yesterday for Cherbourg and South
ampton with the biggest first cabin
the Atlantic since her return to the
merchant service. She carried $50 sa-
loon, 270 secoLd and SIS steerage trav-
elers.
Prominent among the Aquitania's
passengers was Sir Philip Gibbs, the
British war correspondent. who has
been lecturing in this country. Sir
Philip expressed much satisfaction
with the reception of his discourses
here and said he would return in the
fall
"My visit was great success" he
said. Fully e5 per cent Of my audi
ences were with noe. shall return TO
England and work as hard as | can TO
bring about a lasting and satisfactory
peace in Ireland Also I shall work
increasingly to establish closer
Anglo merican unity of thought and
understanding"
Earl "f Granard Returns
The Earl of Granard, accompanied
by the countess, who was Miss Beatrice
Mills, returned after q winter spent
n California. The earl said he looked
for an early and satisfactory settle
ment of the Irish question, and eX-
pressed surprise over the deep inter-
est taken in Ireland by the American
people.
Captain Charles Cary Rumsey, the
sculptor, who is to head the All-Ameri-
can polo team that viii meet the Brit
ish this summer, went away on the
Aqutania to help school the American
ponies, which were shipped from New
Y ork to Tdworth several months ago
Paul Helleu, the dry point etcher,
sailed to spend the spring and summer
| in France. On his return to America
| he said he would create 3 group OF
twenty American beauties which would
make 81 book An etching Of the face
which he regarded as that of the most
beautiful woman in America would
adorn the cover.
Mr.. Helleu said he had found the
face he had been looking for and its
owner was the wife of a prominent
New York lawyer. He said he had for
gotten her name.
Assaiis Women Smokers
The French artist complained of the
habit of promscuous smoking amone
"American women. He described The
practice as terrible and said that ii
/ detracted greatly from the beauty Of
the users of cigarettes.
"Women smoke indiscriminately ant
too much in New York" he said
"Wherever | went in dining rooms
Hobbies of the big hotels and lounginl
rooms | observed American women
smoking cigarettes. 1t is sorrowful tx
observe
Asked where and when he though
women might smoke with propriety, ne
replied:
IA woman should never smoke
Colonel William Hayward, who lee
the old 18th New York Regiment o.
negro troops in France, went abroad tc
Join his wife, who before her marriage
was Mrs. Morton f. Plant.
While abroad he said he would GO te
the French battiefelds with a FrencF
commission to see the rayes of the
negro troops who fought with Genera
Gouraud's Fourth French Army.
Among others on the Aquitania were
Mrs. William K. Vanderbilt ST., Gen.
eral and Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt, II
Gordon Selfridge, Louis Tracy, Aristlde
Blank, Miss Julia Marlowe, Edward II
Sothern, the Count and Countess
Szechenyi, W. S. Woodin, Joseph David
SON, Adolph Ochs ard Mrs. Marcus
DalV