Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-03-19
Mrs. Morgan
Doing Rec
War Job
BY MAURY PAUL

NF.W YORK, March l9.-ln
All New York society capital
IS society," doubt if one
could find a more modest, I'M
assuming matron than Mrs. Jun
iuS Spencer Morgan
One Of Mayfair'S "conSerVa-
tivcS." she has always avoided
the limellght. and only because
She Is 50 deeply interested in
war work has she consented 10
come out of retirement
Early each morning this
daughter-in-law of J. Pierpont
Morgan is at her desk at the
East Thirty-siXth street head
quarters of the second regional
council Of the Citizens Commit
tee for Army and Navy Relief.
Inc. which happens 10 be Just
a few doors away from her own
beautiful town house.
AS VICE CHAIRMAN i'm
arge she is Immediately
plunged. on arrival, into a maze
Of telephone calls meetings. let
tcr-writing. etc.
And. unaccuStomcd as she has
been 10 public speaking, II IS
we'll nigh miraculous the man
ner in which Mrs. Morgan now
faces a microphone with poiSc
and assurance and the air Of an
expert.
Many expressed surprise, the
other night. when Mrs. Morcan'S
Citizen Song" was sung at
patriotic party Those express
ing surprise had forgotten Mrs.
Morgan'S father was Frederick
s. Converse Of Boston. well
known musician and composer
Of many operas
Mr.. CONVERSF,"S daughter
inheritS his love and talent for
muSic-but Louise Converse Nor
gan never attempted 10 do any
thing concrete IN the line Of
composing until impelled by the
patriotic urge.
II is also not generally known
that Mrs. Morgan is talented
painter who up until the war
made daily pllgrimagcS TO her
studio
She has certainly managed 10
hide her light under buShel
but that light is now shining
forth, illuminating the wonder
full work her committee is doing
and in which she is so in
tenSely interested
WHEN PRESTON STURGES
eloped with lovely blond Flea
nor Hutton some Is years ago
he was an unknown" and
decidedly unwelcome addition TO
his brides socially prominent
family.
So unwelcomc. in fact. his eX-
tremcly opulent mother-ln-law,
the present Mrs. Joseph T.. Dav-
les. handsome wife OF the author
Of the seasons best seller. mis-
sion TO Moscow, declined 10
extend forgiveness. Which left
the unknown Sturges very much
out in the cold on upper Fifth
avenue.
Today. long after a divorce
severed the ties that bound him
to Eleanor Preston Sturges Is
one Of the great successes Of
Hollywood, the motion pictures
he writes and directs are "wows'
at the box office and his name
is known TO millions Of cinema
gocrs throughout the land
while Eleanor has 10 all appear
anceS, dropped off the horizon.
WHEN LAST 7 heard Eleanor
was living quietly in her own
tiny house in Washington, d. G.,
with nary a thought for matri-
monV content. | believe, with
her record: three husbands be-
fore she was 30.
I've often wondered II her
career and Preston SturGcS' ca
rcer would have been different
had Marjorie Close Hutton
Davies extended her blessing
after their elopcmcnt,
Contrary 10 what many be-
lieve. Eleanor Hutton is not a
cousin of Barbara Hutton lIauG-
witz-ReVentlow. Fact IS. they're
not even remotely related
Eleanor is a daughter Of Mrs.
Davies by her first husband,
L'durard y Close vybO FORMERLY