Evening star., 1923-02-17
Clare Sheridan Leaves America
Convinced She Has Failed Here

man or woman-fails TO reach them
the American disappointment takes
Ihe lorm OF actual resentment They
! teel that their cherished illusions
nave been destroyed, and the visitors
| welcome suffers in consequence. For
eIgners sometimes run away with tho
idea that the United States is 50 free
from conventionality that they can
permit themselves any license ia
dress. manner and speech
They do not realize that they find no
more severe critics than among the
Americans. 1t is a criticism that j.
based-not on any prejudice or aver
sion for things and people foreign hu'
on nigh conceptions of the standard VI
TO which they expect and require then
, guests from abroad to live
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Count Hugo Lerchenfeld koefferiug
who has recently arrived in the United
States, and who was entertained with
his American wife at large dinner
given in his honor on Friday last at the
Hotel Astor, New York, was for a con-
siderable time prime minister of
Bavaria, and was virtually driven TO
resign by reason of the insults offered
and hostility displayed in reactionary
circles at Munich and elsewhere in Ger
many against his wife. on account Of
her American birth. The countess, who
was Miss Ethel Wynau of Detroit, ana
talented Violinist, is very we'll known
indeed in New York, where her mar
riage took place in September 1902, in
St. PatrickS Cathedral
The Lerchenfelds have been for gcn-
eratlons prominent in the diplomatic
service of Bavaria. an uncle of the
same name having been for more than
a quarter of a century Bavarian plenl-
potentlary at Berlin, and present there
in the days of the ex-kaiser's sensational
quarrel with Bismarck, which ended in
the latter's removal from the office OF
chancellor
The Lerchenfelds were also in high
favor at the court OF Munich, and the
late Gen. Count Lerchenfeld was
throughout more than two decades. tho
most trusted confidant and chief of the
military household of the late King
Louis of Bavaria.
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The American Countess Lerchen-
miership of her husband were not
enjoyable. For life in those days
following the great war was held
cheaply in southern Germany. Politi-
cal assassinations, or so-called ''ex-
ecutions,' were frequent among those
in authority, and who we're supposed
to stand in the way of the realization
of all the various plots and CON
spiracies. Letters used to reach
Count Lerchenfeld every day threaten
ing his life, and his American wife.
bereft of all sympathy on the part of
the people Of the land OF her adoption,
never knew when her husband left the
house, whether he would return alive
or dead. Before the count took Office.
at the instance of his friends, for the
purpose Of restoring some kind of
semblance of law and order In Bavaria,
both he and his wife witnessed all the
horrors of mob rule in the Bavarian
capital, and scenes of ruthless destruc-
tion and of savage bloodshed.
Their visit to America, which is to
be of some duration, will afford the
countess some relief from the terrible
strain of anxiety and worry which she
has been called upon to endure ever
since the revolution broke out in south
ern Germany, after the flight of the eX-
kaiser into Holland. Count Hugo Lerch-
enfield has always shown sympathetic
understanding of the United States, and
after his marriage remained in this
country for eight months or moro In
order to become thoroughly acquainted,
and to get into close touch with his
wife's people, about whom he has
written a most appreciatiye hook Il