The Washington times., 1922-05-15
400 SHORN
Of FORMER
EM|NENCE.
All Poor Little Rich Girl Can
Do Is to Get Into
l Scandal.
BY Cosmopolitan News Service.

NEW YORK, May 13.-
Society, shorn of it's glory
and desperate for attention,
is becoming silly" says Andre
Tridon, m in ent French
author and modernist. "The
American cake eaters wise
to this, are fast turning into
fortune hunters - factory
boys dreaming of marrying
rich old frumps, cash girls
aspiring to dapper moneyed
Divorces"
At Studio.
1t was at Tridon's studio on
Madison avenue that he gave his
opinion of the influence the late
love angles of society people will
have on the lower classes, emu
lators of the wealthy. The fact
that Mathilde Mccormick, grand
daughter Of John D. Rockefeller,
has chosen a riding master for a
husband, and that the $40,000,-
600 heiress, Mrs. Marian Ste
phens, married a laborer in the
Baldwin Locomotive plants, is
going to make fortune hunters
out of many a good bricklayer,
thinks the author.
Ancient History.
"The deified four hundreds are
ancient history now" Tridon ex
plains. "A society woman is no
longer mobbed by the bourgeoisie
simply because she 10 q Vanderbilt
or a Morgan. She has to do some
thing to be noticed, and she wants
to be noticed more than anything
else in the world. To get attention,
she must either do something big
or something silly. It is very hard
TO do anything big-therefore, she
marries beneath her, or entangles
herself in a love affair which will
promote sure publicity"
Fear Lower Classes"
With the reported engagement Of
Harold F. Mccormick, father of Ma
thilde and head of the Harvester
trust, to the twice widowed Polish
opera singer, Gamma Walska, the
Etillman and Stokes scandals, the
Notorious Peggy Hopkins Joyce af-
fairs, sociologists have expressed
some fear of the influence upon the
so-called lower social classes. How
ever, Andre Tridon, who has lived
In America several years, dispels all
such fear by stating that high
society" no longer sets standards OF
conduct, except to excite the am
bitions for money, when undue pub
iicity Is given theirlove matches.
Achievement is what counts
Twenty years ago, Mrs. Wander
bilt was rated a page story just
because she gave a tea. Today no
one cares a darn how much enter
tanning she does. What they want
TO know Is what is being accom-
plished. The people they want to
see are Edison, Douglas Fairbanks,
Eugene O'Neill and others who are
doing things. America Is more
sure of herself today and possesses
n national development she did not
have then. She is interested today
in what somebody is giving to the
world, not in q tea to twenty
bejewelled ladies.
"The secret behind these lowly
marriages contracted by persons or
Wealth lies in the instinct to DOM
inate." Tridon said. THE rich man
finds himself unnoticed in his own
.et, so he mixes with the chorus
girls who fawn about him for his
money and he marries one of them
no that he can dominate her with
his silver.
THE wealthy girl may flnd her
self lust one among many slightly
attractive girls, so she takes unto
herself a man from a lower social
nlane. sans pocketbook, and she has
q great time bossing him for the rest
Of her days, or until another society
scandal breaks up her little mon
archy."
Only Four Choices.
Its cheaper and simpler to marry
n foolish rich old woman than TO