Evening star., 1939-12-10
Miss Herrick Wants
To Be Left Alone
To Decide Future
DecIores Parents Agree
To Meeting Romeo
, Whenever She Wishes

~ the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Dec. 9-Eileen Her
rick, O confused Juliet, cried to-
night, II want to be left alone-to
lead a peaceful, quiet life-to think
things over!" - before deciding
whether she'll marry her Romeo,
George Lowther, Sd.
But, said the black-eyed. raven
haired 20-year-old post-deb, if 1t
hadn't been for parental influence
she'd probably" be married to
George right now.
She voiced her desire to be cleft
alone" at press conference she said
she called on her own initiative
mass interview in which she first
parried questions with evasive re-
plies and insisted she wanted to
think the whole thing over-that's
all I'll say"
Her side of the story in the Mixed
up romance came shortly after Mr..
Lowther had declared he was tired
Of pursuing happiness through the
courts and that the next move was
UP to her.
Denies Being Imprisoned.
It looked like George might get
his implied wish, too-because Ell
leen, at the end of an hour and a
half of questioning, hesitantly ad-
rhitted she probably" would call
him tonight.
Accompanied by a private detec-
tive and dressed in rose-colored
gown, Eileen came to the confer
ence at prearranged rendezvous
in the Greenwich Village home of a
friend.
She explained nervously that the
purpose Of the conference was to
"get people to leave me alone"
She denied she ever had been i'm
prisoned-as Mr.. Lowther asserted
in two appeals to the courts for writs
of habeas corpus-and declared, Its
all over-I'm perfectly free"
What about the letters she wrote
70 Mr.. Lowther-one declaring her
love for hin-the other Just the
opposite?
II was excited and hysterical when
I wrote them-now all I want is
time to think it over. Maybe a
month-maybe two months-maybe
more"
Family Friend Intervenes.
Time after time she parried ques-
lions with this answer-until the
family friend intervened, chiding her
and explaining, "She realizes now
that in a way she had been dis
loyal to her family" And Eileen
agreed that was right.
Does Mr.. Lowther know of your
decision to think it over?" she was
asked.
She toyed nervously with her
purse.
No" she answered slowly, II
don't think he does"
Gradually, out of monsyllabic re-
plies, the picture of what she in
tends to do emerged something like
this:
She's going to stay at home-or
maybe go away-but she's going to
see George as often as she likes
and go out with him as often as
she cares to.
Her parents, the social-registered
Walter P. Herricks, agree, she said.
Both George and she have dis
eussed marriage, she said, but never
considered themselves formally en-
gagged" and now, Eileen explained
she doesn't know" what the
status is.
Reveals Movie Offers.
But If she finally makes up her
mind to marry George 1t won't make
any difference to her whether he
has any money or not, she stoutly
declared, although her mother pre-
viously had cited this as one of the
reasons for her objections to Mr..
Lowther.
I'D like to get a job," she ex-
planned. "this last month has been
trying"
I'm perfectly free to live my own
ife-Ive had two offers to go into
motion pictures, but mother doesn't
want me to-
She previously had modelled.
1t was at the end of the conference
that she said she might now be
married to Mr.. Lowther had 1t not
been for her parents.
: The parental influence" first be-
came known month ago, when
Mr.. Lowther filed the first of his
actions to obtain a writ of habeas
corpus, contending her parents we're
keeping her from him by "duress."
4 State Supreme Court Judge ruled
Eileen could marry as she willed.