New-York tribune., 1922-09-14
Mime. Tartoue
Sues AnsOrlia
For 100000
Wife of French Artist Saws
SheWasInsllted; Ordered
TO Quit Hotel by William
Grace, Assistant Manager
Sees Hand of Husband
Persecution Began After
He Met Grace, She Says;
Climax When She Was I'LL

Claudia Windsor Tartoue, wife Of
Pierre Tartoue, the French portrait
painter, fled suit in the Supreme Court
yesterday against the Hotel Ansonia
Corporation for alleged indignities
suffered at the hands of the manage
ment Of the hotel, where she was a
guest in March of this year. She asks
100000 damages.
Through her attorneys, Berger &
Hartmann, Mme Tartoue charges
among other things that while suffer-
ing from influenza and under the care
Of the house physician and nurse,
William Grace. assistant manager of
the hotel. abused and insulted her in
the presence of guests and ordered her
out of the house without cause. A
summons in the action was served
upon Edward M. Tierney, vice-presi-
dent of the corporation.
Nine. Tartoue recently became the
Countess Claudia Windsor de Rampan
de Chanquetot through her adoption
as the legal daughter and heir of the
Nine La Comtesse Clerel de Tocque-
vile, member OF {; famous old family
of French nobility.
In the apartment of her foster
mother. at the Ritz Carlton Hotel last
night, Nine. Tartoue said:
Il have been a wreck for months
over the terrible prosecutions of Mr..
Grace. | suffered insults and humilia-
tions which | could not let pass by
without proper answer. They began
shortly after l was forced to leave my
husband, and sue for separation, and
was timid and afraid of every one.
Il found what / thought was an
ideal little home away from the world
in my studio on top of the Ansonia
with my wonderful birds. / studied
for long. My husband soon began
lowering about, made the acquaintance
of Grace, and so came fresh troubles
for me.
"The climax of these prosecutions
came when had been i'll with infu-
! enza for two weeks. I had private
nurse and was under the care Of the
house physician. On the evening of
my eviction three men called to inquire
after my health, and have a bite of
dinner. My nurse was always present
and | had told them to drop in. A
young man from the Yale Club and
another chap from the Spanish Con
sulate came in first. Later an English
man, well-known clubman, arrived
without being announced at the desk
and Joined the other two men in having
some coffee.
Suddenly the phone began to ring
furiously and it was Grace ordering
me in great excitement to get those
two men out of my room He had not
known of the third gentleman. l was
embarrassed beyond words. / per-
suaded the two who arrived first to
leave. They did not know what was
the matter. My nurse had left for the
moment. | didn't know what to do.
~ requested the third gentleman to
protect me, as l did not know what
would happen. In came Grace, very
excited. He uttered vile words and
epithets. The nurse arrived. There
were some other persons there. He
ordered me out of the hotel. | became
desperately i'll and tired to get doctor,
but the telephone service had been cut
off. The gentleman wrote q protest
to the management and demanded that
] be permitted to call physician The
house doctor and another summoned
DR.. Richard Hoffman, of 48 West Fifty
ninth Street, warned Grace that I
should not be moved, as it might en-
danger my life" .