Maxim Gorky Exposed.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XXXVI, Issue 23, 9 June 1906, Page 2

Maxim Gorky Exposed.

Maxim Gorky’s much-heralded tour on behalf of his "suffering, poverty-stricken, enslaved countrymen in Russia,” has come to an untimely end. engulfed in ridicule (writes the New York eorrespon-

dent of the London "Express”). When Gorky arrived in New York last week, he was accompanied by a lady who posed as his wife. She now proves to be Mme. Andreiva. a Russian actress, and the newspapers state that the real Mme. Gorky, with her two children, remains in Russia unsupported by her husband. The exposure has completely upset the Revolutionary Committee. As soon as it became known that the woman with Gorky was not his wife the manager of the ho‘el where they were staying gave them notice to quit at once. They went to another hotel, where they were also turned out after their iden* ity became known.

Mr. John Mitchell, the leader of the coal miners, who was to have stood sponsor for Gorky at a great mass meeting, has publicly repudiated him. Mr. H. G. Wilshire, who was Gorky’s host in New York, has forgot en his daily call. Mr. Wilshire states that he paid the Russian’s hotel bill, and Gorky says it is not true —he paid it himself. This has created much amusement.

The wine bill of the champion of pov-erty-stricken Russia was £25 daily. In the meantime Gorky is beginning to abuse the American people, and the newspapers are retaliating by calling him a humbug. Mme. Andreiva will possibly lie deported under the Fraudulent Immigrant Act as an undesirable alien.

The public dinner to Gorky has been •ancelled. The couple have taken refuge in lodgings.

whose marriage to King Alfonso XIII. cements the friendship of t«o great nations.

the most wealthy hostess of the British Peerage. She was Miss Shiela Cor wallis West, and her beautiful elder sister is Princess Henry of Pless.