"VERY DISTINGUISHED."
Mary Garden, speaking of her reported betrothal to a prince, praised the plain, untitled American man. "I remember an American at a boll in Monte Carlo,'" she said. "His self-re-liant Americanism Mood out well amid the elegance of the counts and earls and grand dukes who were there. I overheard a •Russian princess talking to him on the moonlit terrace. 'Do you dance?' bh© said. No ;he didn't dance. 'Do you epeak French?' No; he only spoke American. 'Do you play bridge?' 'No.' The princess raised her aristocratic ey«brows. 'May 1 ask,' she said, 'wnat you do do?' 'I earn my own living,' t-aid the American. The princess laughed tjaily arid approvingly, lie was, uudflhe knew it, the only nuui ihjjie why did."
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Evening Post, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 71, 23 March 1912, Page 12
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