Evening star., 1936-12-15
Headline Folk
and What
They Do
Ex-King's Hostess at
Vienna Former Phila.
delphia Girl.
BY LEMUEL r. PARTON.


TINE Duke Of Windsor's hostess at
Enzesfeld Castle Is Philadel-
phia girl, twice divorced and
living happily with her third
husband for the last II years. She has
proved that third marriage venture
may be successful. No doubt she could
reassure Windsor against murmurs
and forebodings about his future hap
piness.
The Baroness Eugene de Rothschild
was one Of "the four beautiful Wolf
girls" Of Philadelphia, as they used to
call them. Her father was Baron Won
Wulf of an aristocratic Austrian fam
| lily. The baroness also could tell
Windsor something about exile. Her
father scorned court opinion, was vir-
tually banished,' fought in the Civil
War, became an American citizen and
a wealthy industrialist. Her mother
was beautiful and clever Scottish
woman, and the bonnie blond baroness
is said greatly to resemble her.
Her parents died when she was in
her teens, and she lived with her aunt
in Munich. Her family antecedents
| advanced her socially and her fragile
beauty captivated the continent. There
she met handsome Virginian named
Spottswood, with an impressive Old
and New World family crest. They
were married and she queened 1t over
the New York younger set, but Mr..
Spottswood, so it turned out, was just
a plodding dentist and their social
career strained his resources.
Her marriage with Count Edwin
5choenborn at Paris came of famous
ly. but did not last long. The divorce
proceedings dragged six years and it
was not until 1924 that she married
Baron Rothschild. third son of Baron
Albert Rothschild Of the great Vienna
banking house She was the first non.
Jewish bride Of the Rothschild line
who did not adopt the Jewish religion.
Her uncle, DR.. Carl Wolff, lived for
many years at $50 Park avenue, New
York. The name appears to have been
spelled Wulf, Wolf and Wolf.
In Paris, Biaritz, Monte Carlo and
on the French and Italian Riviera
the baroness is known as woman Of
extraordinary beauty and grace.
Gen. Feng Yu-Hsiang knocks of
fighting every once in while to lnger
by solitary roadsides and paint plum
blossoms-wearing an old padded coat.
with a thermos bottle full of paint
brushes slung from his waist Just
now. with the seizure of Chang Kai.
Shek crowding David Windsor to the
back page. the old general is back in
the thick of things. with great power
in Marking and much conjecture as
to what he will do with the army he
is recruiting. He has savagely opposed
Chang In the past, and he has been
clamoring for drastic action against
Japan.
Mary Morrill,, girl missionary from
Maine, converted him to Christianity.
A big. hulking soldier. on watch at a
compound. he asked her to interpret
! his dream about snake under his bed.
She didn't know about that. but so
inspired him with Christian zeal that
he began preaching to his army. paying
the officers $40 and the men IS each
for listening to the sermons.
In between wars he has been in his
secluded mountain retreat, where in
his Hall Of the Five Sages," he Ia the
sole pupil Of seven philosophers. BY
the light of kerosene lamp. with a
| brown wrapping paper shade, he reads
the classics. LAo-TSe impressed him:
Beauty is the solace of WEAKNESS and
pain"
CCopyright. 1851