The Washington times., 1923-07-19
NEWPORT BUDS
FOOLED BY
Society Leaders Royalty Enter
tain Youth lmpersonating
Harvard Athlete.
BY JULIA MCCARTHY.
written for Cosmopolitan News
SePvlce.)

written for Cosmopolitan News
Service.)
NEW YORK, July 19.-Whoops-
goes another social fake!
This time the person Of no rank,
but that of rank outsider, is Otto
Hartman, who penetrated the in
most sarcophagus of Newport so
ciety. Otto took off the wrappings.
And inspected the mummy while
It's component parts dined and-why
not?-wined him.
The tabbies and the debbies
thought he was Morris Duane, and
they thought Norris Duane to oe
one Of the most stylish mental cases
at Harvard, and q Yale-Harvard
intercollegiate tennis captain.
Anguish Was Awful.
But when they found out that
Morris wasn't Morris, but only Otto,
1t was something awful-their an
guish!
This is no tragedy to be passed
over lightly. To have some one
that you felt was Morris running
around from crag to clay court, and
from Bailey's Beach to oudoirs. in
ana out, and acting just as If it was
his own hone-and then to find
out that you have to go into second
speed and call him Otto-welI, sit
ain't right, darn it ALL" as a ter.
ribly rich dowager, with whom /
had soda the other day, said to
me when she was in her cups.
They even lionized him. my
correspondents wire me. One of
the very incest women at the IA
NOUS resort, Mrs. Arthur James, had
Morris at yachting party It was
when he retired, as nice people say,
at night to park bench, that it
came out about his being Otto.
Very likely the crowd he fooled
enjoy the contretemps what do 1
suppose that means, anyway as
much as Otto. did. AS you can per-
ceive, this department is inclined to
take q wall.motto view Of the situa.
ton, and believe that there Is some
good in the best Of us.
Other Pretenders Named.
Lots Of other men and some
women have pretended to be Nor.
rises when they were really nothing
in the world but Ottos. Here and
there was Harold Schwarm, who
went about the New England States
hoping that people would believe, he
was Don Luis De Bourbon.
Harold, as they put it in the
papers, worked in a restaurant
where his manager arranged bouts
with the dishes for him after each
meal. And he got mixed up with
several young women who weren't
yet familiar with the Hapburg lip,
but were quite willing to be.
Don Luis is so much, like the
king of Spain. as this alleged writer
recalls Alfonso at Deauville, that
any one with imagination enough
to study the Kings photographs In
the daily papers could hardly be
fooled.
A few months ago a woman who
looks somewhat like Nine. Mar
guerite d'Alvarez. the famous con-
tralto, impersonated the singer and
called upon several society leaders.
She tried to obtain money by selling
them dress goods. She mentioned
Mary Garden and other unsteady
inclined celebrities, ever so casually,
to give point to her story. About
eight women are definitely known
as her victims and probably a num-
Der are yet unidentified.
Lord" Gray Knew Newport.
Lord" Douglas Gray was an
| other impostor who knew Newport
as we'll as Fuller and MCGEE know
Ludlow street Jail. In his syndicated
memories, he remarked, after his
career of interallied deception on
| several continents, that
Nothing impresses me more
strongly than the gullibility Of the
American public. AS the bogus
| Lord Gray found all doors opened
to me and American men and
women quite eager to take me at
my face value.
! II have often said that Of all
places in the world the United
States Is the easiest for a swindler
with bogus title. And yet nobil.
1ty, and. indeed, royalty itself, may
be imposed uDon fairly ga aiIv -