The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1922-01-15
WITH McCORMICKS DIVORCED, DUAL ROMANCE is HNTEl
OPERA SINGER AND YOUNG PSYCHO-ANALYST MENT
OPERA STAR
MAY MARRY
FIN ANCIER
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seeking Free q O iii
From AleXand er
Smith Cochran.
nIvIDED by q divorce decree
~ after twenty-six years Of
marriage Mr.. and Mrs.
Harold +. Mccormick remain to
day the cynosure of argus-eyed
American society. From coast to
coast every social gathering brings
forth the questions: ..
Whom toiH He marry
nosO?"
Whom .oiu She marry
1sosU?"
That both win re-marry is con-
sidered highly probable. and that
one Of the divorced couple will do
90 IL set down as q certainty by
close friends who have followed the
extraordinary romance between the
president Of the International Har.
vester Company and the daughter
Of John D. Rockefeller from its
budding to its blighting.
Else why, ask the wise ones, was
the divorce 30 amiably agreed to,
when q mere separation would have
seemed almost as suitable for two
persons, both past the prime Of life
and with three children? .
WILL BOTH REMARRY.
Else why was the whole proceed.
ing conducted 80 noiselessly from
the filing Of the original complaint
to the handing down Of the decree?
Else why was every effort exerted,
and with such success, to make the
action swift and painless, so that
Mr.. Mccormick did not even appear
in court. Mrs. Mccormick was not
even cross-examined. and the final
papers granting her q divorce were
signed forty-five minutes after the
opening Of the trial in Chicago?
That either Of the McCormicks
would have opposed to the ultimate
extreme any attempt Of the, other to
obtain freedom unless there was mu-
tuaI benefit Is conceded by those
who are in close touch with the
family. Since Mr.. Mccormick made
no settlement Of record on his wife
and permitted her to gain a divorce
with only the semblance of a con-
test, 1t is deduced generally that
both expected to gain considerable
by the decree in the future.
TWO ROMANTIC FIGURES.
Through the haze Of dubiety that
settled over the McCormicks' sepa-
rate sundered careers as the decree
was signed two romantic figures
were vaguely outlined-Ganna Wal
ska, the mysterious Polish soprano,
who was developed by Mr.. McCor-
mick for the Chicago Opera Com
pany, and Edwin Krenn, the young
Austrian architect and psychic
analyst. who has become Mrs. Nc
Cormick's personal secretary and
confidant. That these strange fig
ures will exert even a stronger in
f1uence in the future than they have
In the past on the lives of the Nc
Cornicks II looked on as a foregone
conclusion.
Gamma walska is in Paris now.
preparing for a divorce from Alex
ander Smith Cochran, "the carpet
King Of America" 1t would sur
mise no one familiar with French
marital methods II a divorce had
already been granted there. for it
has frequently happened in the last
decade that Americans have OBJ
tanned secret divorces in Paris and
have kept the fact from public no
tice for many months.
Co-incidentally, Nine. Walska's
counsel, Dudley Field Malone, and
his bride, Doris Stevens, are also in
Paris just now. Society expects that
this divorce will develop swiftly now
that the McCormicks are officially
freed Of their matrimonial letters
and society will be astonished II the
harvester, magngate does not lead the
fair, tsmperamental. exotic Pole to
the altar-or. at least, to a Justice Of
the peace.
NOT A BREATH OF SCANDAL.
Meantime there is seen in the
methods pursued in the Mccormick
divorce an object lesson for all other
hopelessiy mismated couples Of
prominence. The disorganization Of
the family was carried out on pneu-
matte tires 30 % speak. without the
honlring Of horn. without the glare
az publicity and without violating a
single traffic law or attracting a
crowd.
At 11:04 o'clock on Wednesday
morning, Mrs. Mccormick filed a