The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-06-04


 tom boy" She has all the reserve of q foreign girl reared in seclusion. She has never felt at home since she came back to America, which she left as child, and has longed to return to her beloved Switzerland.
 Hasn't Met Oser
 Mathilde's father has never met the man his daughter has chosen for her husband, but her mother, with whom she lived in Switzerland. knows him, and knows about him. And what she doesn't know about him she suspects. She regards him as seasoned fortune hunter with a record of unsuccessfully pursued heiresses to his creditor discredit. Her lawyers intimated as much while the injunction proceedings brought to prevent her former husband giv- ing his consent to the match were pending here this week. She had no definite proof to give the court, but much has been whispered into the private ear of Mccormick and his lawyers at the legal family confer ence which preceded withdrawal of Mrs. McCormick's suit.
 In her opposition to Oser as a son tn-iaw, Mrs. Mccormick has had the strongest backing of her wise and venerable father, John D. Rookefel- Ter who is determined that no part Of the Rockefeller millions shall be inherited by foreigner If he can prevent it. But it Is something more than consideration for money that prompts the mothers heart to cry out In protest against this union. She wants her daughter to have the free dom and equality that is the heritage Of every American- girl.
 Why, under the common law of Switzerland" she said, through Charles $. Cutting, one of her attor- neys, "a husband may even lock his Wife up in room and keep her there fl she does not do his bidding"
 It was because she had these things in mind that Mrs. Mccormick had her lawyers lay such stress on the loss of American citizenship that marriage would involve.
 Will Get Over Affair
 Mrs. Mccormick believes that Ma thilde will ''get over her infatuation for Oser if her former husband will withhold his consent at least until she Is older. To the sinister influence Of Julia Mangold, former secretary to oser' and later companion to Ma thiide, Mrs. Mccormick attributes Mathilde's now apparently undying devotion to the Swiss riding master. IL Is her honest conviction that Miss Mangold accompanied Mathilde to America as oser's emissary for the express purpose of keeping him ever in the young girls mind.
 Tt was a bitter disappointment to Miss Mangoid that she was unable to take Mathilde back to Switzerland and Max when she sailed the other day" said the friend of the family" For years she was associated with Osers riding stables and was once en- gagged to Oser's brother, now in South America"
 The McCormicks have been very much in the public eye since Mrs. Mccormick returned from Europe last fall after living the life of an expatriate for nearly eight years. While her daughter was becoming interested in Max Oser, her mother was devoting herself to what she called synthetic psychology" on her return home.
 Obtained Divorce
 At any rate, she was no longer in- terested in her husband, because she soon obtained 8 divorce from him on the ground of desertion. There was no contest. She took up her resi- dence in the beautiful Lake Forest home and Mir. Mccormick remained at the town house on Lake Shore Drive. Later he gave or sold this fine prop erty to his former wife.
 All three children, Muriel, Mathilde and Fowler, chose to make their home with their father in the old family residence at 675 Rush street and not once since the divorce has Mathilde spoken to her mother. Mir. Mccormick had always been a kind and indulgent father and the children could not forgive their mother di- VOrCfnR him x1yfnf much at the opera. usually occupy y- ing the box of Mary Garden when she was not singing. Gossip contin- ually linked his name with hers as the two figures in a possible matri- monial alliance. Later Ganna Walska, the Polish singer. was often men tioned as his probable next wife, once she had obtained her divorce from Alexander Cochran, which may explain why he has not been more opposed to his daughter contracting an international alliance.
 
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