The Washington times., 1925-04-13
BRIDES STORY
READS LIKE
DIME NOVEL
Countess Gizycka and Ell
mer Schlesinger Mar
riage Revives Tale

A PENCHANT for surprises
N seems to run in the Gizycka
I u family. Scarcely has the talk
anent Felicia Gizycka's marriage to
Young Drew Pearson died down, yet
now comes thee news that her moth
er, Countess Eleanor Gizycka, is
married to Elmer Schlesinger, for
merly general counsel of the United
States Shipping Board, and that the
two have sailed for Europe on their
honeymoon.
The wedding was on Saturday
in New York and in spite Of the
prominence of the bride and bride
GROOM, they managed to keep
secret the fact that it was contem-
plated until the ceremony was over
and their ship had sailed. l con-
Tess that the news came as q
surprise to me, for I had not even
heard that a romance was brew
ing. although from time to time
Mr.. SchIesinger's name appeared
as among the guests at Countess
Gizycka's parties.
The simple ceremony in the
chapel of the license bureau or the
Municipal Building was in striking
contrast to the pomp which marked
the marriage OF Eleanor Patterson
to Count Josef Gizycki, Polish
nobIeman, in Washington back in
1904. 1T il to be hoped, too, that
her present voyage upon the matri-
monial seas will be contrast to
the sormy passage which preceded
IL. The story, hashed and rehashed
in the newspapers of fifteen years
or so ago, reads like a dime novel.
All the ingredients of penny
thriller are in 1.-THE beautiful
American heiress, the dashing Pol
ish nobleman, the magnificent
feudaI CASTLE which turns out to
be a tumble-down building served
by unpaid servants instead OF by
liveried flunkeys, and the incessant
den1antIs for money. A new chap
ter starts with the birth of Count
ess Felicia, the only child or the
couple. Instead of drawing the
two together, as was hoped, the
child's presence widens the breach,
she is carried off to London by
her mother, Kidnapped by her
father and Is the center OF an
affair which creates an intcrna-
ttonal stir. The Car of all the
Russias is finally persuaded to in
tervene. the child is restored, d.
vorce is granted and little Felicia
takes up her life in her mothers
country.
The courtship had begun, with
all the glamor and romance, when
Eleanor Patterson, the daughter OF
Mrs. Robert w. Patterson and a
Rranddaugter of Joseph Medill, pi-
oneer newspaper publisher of Chi
cago. had gone a'visiting to her
uncle and aunt. Mr.. and Mrs. Rob-
ert Mccormick, when the former
was American ambassador at Vi.
emma. In spite OF some family OPP
nosition, Mrs. Mccormick an
nounced the engagement, eventually
Mrs. Patterson's consent was won
and the wedding took place In
washington with much pOmp and
ceremony to mark it.
Felicia Gizycka Born to
Romance; Ran Away From Home.
The romantic strain bred in. pretty
Felicia Gizycka has already broken
out. A slim, lovely child with
honey-coIored hair, SIZE found her
self at eighteen with everything her
heart could desire-except q job.
Plans were being made for her
coming out ball, but the prospect
held no charms for her and, when
her mother wouldn't consent to her
going to work, she ran away from
the Gizycka ranch, in the Jackson
Hole country of Wyoming, rode
thirty miles to the nearest railroad
station, sold her horse to pay her
railroad fare and set out for San
Diego, as the one place where she
had no friends or connections,
determined to make her own.
She started out as a waitress in
n railroad hash house. worked for
a time in a publishing company,
went back to waiting again and it
was in a sort of Y w. c. A. cafe
when he finally brought to sue
cessful close the wooing which had
begun months before when he was
visiting Countess Gizycka eon the
wyoming ranch. The young couple
were married without previous an
nouncement of an engagement. but
both families were delighted.
The marriage of Countess Eleanor
ESizycka and Mr.. Schlesinger also
seems to have met with the general
of her friends and his.
A Harvard graduate, he is a mem
Der of the law firm of Chadbourne,
StanchfieId and Levy. He was for
merly vice president Of the Elmer
gency Fleet Corporation. The new
Mrs. Schlesinger is a daughter of
the late Robert w. Patterson, sis.
ter of Joseph NJ. Patterson. pub
Usher of the Chicago Tribune;
niece of Robert Sanderson McCor-
mick, former ambassador to France,
Austria Hungary and Russia. and
a cousin of the late Senator Medill
Mccormick. Her home in Wash
ington is at. 10 Dupont circle.
Mr.. Schlesinger was divorced
three years ago.
X
ARGENTINE AMBASSADOR
TO RETURN SOON.