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\1. t I- - mm ft mi The Most ,r Harold F. McCormick, \Harvester King\ and newly-we- d fourth husband of beautiful Ganna Walskn. - Their \Serial Romances' Told Chapter by Chapter, Keep Readers Guessing As to Just What Will Be \Continued in Our Next\ By Marguerite Mooers Marshall. fepyrfrht. 1921 (.Nw Vork Evening World) by rreia Publishing Company. HE most unexpected family In Amerlcu! That's the McCormick family Harold P. Mc- Cormick. 11 \ Harvester King,\ e, loader In Chicago's social and artistic circles, newly-we- d fourth husband of beautiful Gonna Walska; Edith Rockefeller McCor- mick, his vflrst wife, who recently divorced him and who Is tho daugh- ter of John D. Rockefeller; Muriel McCormick. his elder daughter. Mathllde McCormick, her sister Harold Fowler McCormick Jr., son of the house of McCormick, is tho only one of them all about whom one never hears anything strango or startling And even ho has been engaged, by Dame Rumor, to Miss Anne Stlllman, daughter of James and \Flfl\ Stlll- man, tho proponents In ono of New York's must sensational divorce suits, The engagement has been denied. The McCormick family motto ought to be: \You never can tell!\ For you never can about any one of 'em with the possible exception of Harold Jr. You never can tell which way they'lt Jump. You never can tell what they'll do next, -- onuequently, their names fill the Leadlines. Therefore, New York, San I'ranclsco, New Orleans reads the running story of the McCormick clan with almost as much Intel est ua Chi. cago Itself. It's like a serial, each Instalment of which stops at the most thrilling point and so leaves the reader guessing frantically ns to Just what will be \continued In our next \ There's pretty seventeen-year-ol- d Mathllde McCormick. Wli she wed Max Oser, her Swiss riding master of forty-eigh- t? Or won't she? It's a rood gamble, either way, to Judge by the published reports during the lost half-yea- r, which have had the en- gagement \off again, on again\ In the most approved Kinnegan fashion. Ma- thllde, according to tho latest news cabled, was packed off to Switzerland by her loving father and her new stepmother Just before the latter were wedded the other day In Paris. Per- haps she Is on the point of becom- - lnjf Mrs. Oser. Perhaps she Isn't. One doubts If Max himself feels any certainty on the point. One wonders If Mathllde herself knows. For she Is a member of the McCormick fam- ily, of whom nothing Is to be ex- pected except the unexpected. P. B. If she IS married between tho time this story goes to press and tho time you read :t, gentle reader, don't blame us! We're no seventh daughter of a seventh daughter to prophesy even an hour or two In advance what a McCormick will do next!) Just consider the record of this most talked-abo- ut American family during the past twelve months. It was not quite a year ago on Sept. 27. 1621. to be exact that Har- old McCormlck's first wife. Edith Rockefeller McCormick, roturnod to her native land after an absence of 3 eight years. No member of lior fam- ily accompanied her, although hor husband urrlvod a few days later on anothor steamer. She promptly uiul emphatically Aa-t- .j Mathilde McCormick and Max Oser, whose engage- ment has kept the kettle of speculation boiling and whose marriage any day may be announced. nled that she contemplated starting an action for divorce. \I can assuro you,\ she was quoted as saying, \that nothing is further from my mind.\ And Hhe spoke pleasantly of her hus. band, and said that she had seen him a fortnight ago in Zurich. She and Mr. McCormick both ar- rived In Chicago on Oct. 2. They arrived on separate trains. The noxt day Harold McCormick, through hi butler, gave out what Is surely one of the strangest public statements any man evnr dictated a bitter fact, couched In the sweetest of social for- mulae: This Is It: \Mr. Harold McCormick presents THE EVENING WORLD, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST Unexpected Family in America The McCbrmicks .whose Motto Ought to Be bu Never Canlell \ MSI Mrs. Harold F. McCormick his compliments and begs to announce that tho report that ho and his wife are living apart Is true.\ Still Mrs. McCormick denied ru- mors of separation. She talked, however. She talked with glowing enthusiasm of her new psychological' theories, which she had studied under tho great Jung himself, the noted European psychiatrist. She announced that she would es- tablish In Chicago a school of \syn- thetic psychology\ that she was pre-par- to devoto her life to It, and that she had had ninety pupils In Zurich \Synthetic psychology,\ she de- clared, \will solve all problems of i.uslness and domestic life. All per-- Etch Harold F. McCormick jr. is accomplishing the \unexpected\ by doing nnthmg strange or PHOTO - plexltles and worries of existence are dispelled by It.\ Maybo they are. But It was not synthetic psychology which dispelled one of the McCormick perplexities. It was something much more tangible the Chicago divorce courts. For. after all her denials, a Mc- Cormick, as usual, did the unexpected. She sued for and obtained a divorce from Harold McCormick In the lat- ter part of December on the ground of desertion. Tho grunting of the de- cree took exactly fifty-fiv- e minules. Mr. McCormick was not even in the court room. It was understood that the gigantic fortunes involved (vere divided on a llfty-flft- y basis. Then, while Chicago was still talk- ing about tho matrimonial smash-u- p, came tho bland announcement from one of the attorneys; \Not the slight- est ill feeling exists between Mrs McCormick and her husband.\ Mrs. McCormick herself expounded further her philosophy less than a month after her divorce to the eagerly listening members of a Chicago women's club. \Woman Is a negative force; man, a positive,\ she said. \To be passive Is woman's great forte. Through not asserting herself she Influences the positive male.\ But has Mrs. McCormick remained as meekly passive as her theory of life suggests? She has notl The next bit of extraordinary news from tho McCormlcks came along in February tho average has been a sensation a month. Then Harold Mc- Cormick announced, formally, tho en- gagement of his youngest daughter, Mathllde, to a Swiss riding master. Max Oser, whom the girl had met whllo staying with her mother In Zurich. Oser Is two years younger than fifty-year-o- ld Harold McCormick himself. Mathllde is now seventeen; Bhe was sixteen when the engagement Was announced. And mother didn't approve. Nor did mother as might have been ex. pected from her announced philosophy of life restrain her disapproval to \passive Influence.\ She went once more to the courts tho Probate Court, this time to nsk for an Injunction to rustraln Harold McCormick, Ma- - 16, 1922. Edith Rockefeller McCormick 1 Swi INr FILM J6RVICB thllde's guardian, from permitting the marriage. Sho cliurgtd, among other things: \That said Max Oser is with-o- ut certain or regular incomo or means of livelihood; that said Oser desires primarily to enter into said contemplated marriage because hi' be- lieves In so doing ho will secure largo sums of money and financial gain.\ Meanwhllo, In New York, Mathllde had been about to sail for Europe and Oser. Instead, sho rushed buck to Chicago to fight for her fiance. The next bit of news was that Mrs. McCormick had withdrawn her peti- tion for the restraining order to pre- vent the marriage. But It was in- dicated that father had determined to withhold his consent to tho marriago \for the present.\ Apparently, It was \all off.\ This was on June 3. About two months later Mathilda McCormick sailed for Europe Mux was at tho Cherbourg dock to meet her, according to ono rpnort. Max wasn't, according to another. Max and she were in Lucerne last Satur- day, according to still a. third busy cable. Step-mam- Ganna Walska McCormick helped Mathllde buy her trousseau In Paris before Bhe beciyno a a, If we may believe a fifth rumor. And there you are! Mathllde has said she was going to marry htm; Mathllde has pouted and remained silent at tho mention of his name; Mathllde had his picture on view in her stateroom; Mathllde had It tucked out of sight; Mathllde oh, well, what's the use? We might Just as well stop expecting what sho will do -- It's sure to bo something else! For the McCormlcks are like that. Ah for Harold McCormick, to hear him talk during tho last year ven during the last month marrying beauteous Ganna Walska, until recently 'he bride of New York's richest bachelor and his friend, Alexander Smith Cochran, was a thing furthest from his thoughts. To be sure, he gave her a wonder- ful house In Paris last May. To be sure, she divorced Cochran the de- cree became absolute a few days ago. To be sure, Harold McCormick was her champion with tho Chicago Opera Company where finnna DIDN'T make her debut In Zaza, owing to tho A objections of the conductor, the lead- ing male singer, and u few other ar- tistic experts. Nevertheless, Harold WcCormlck insisted that he merely sailed to Europe for \a rest\ three weeks ago. In Paris he maintained that he didn't even expect to see Ganna. And at that time correspondents reported that he was lunching and motoring with her. to their mutual .satisfac- tion. All tho members of his family In Chicago were not expecting th'j marriage, to Judge by tho Impulsive comments attributed to his elder daughter, Muriel. It's done, never- theless, and the multl-mllllonal- and th opera singer aro honey- mooning. Then there's Miss Muriel \poor little me,\ 'as sho described herself the other day. \No one shall r know how I feel about my futher's marriage,\ she added. No romantic complications In her young life have yet been made public. She suggested, with obvious sarcasm, In her latest Interview, that she bo reported .engaged either to the Prince of Wales or the Prince of Mesopo- tamia, so that she might no longer feel \slighted\ by the press. Nevertheless, In her case Chicago society first had to get used to tho unexpected not to say bizarre Idea ot Its prize debutante, the grand- daughter of \Old John D.,\ going on the stugo the professional stage and In men's clothes. Muriel made her debut last April with the French Modern Theatre Company as Zanetto, a boy who made love to a professional courtesan. She was voted a success by the critics as well as by her audi- ence. Apparently a future In the art of the theatre was open to her. Then, a month ago, along camo ' J! lERyy00 r DESMX5D Miss Muriel McCormick, who has thus far escaped romantic complications but who has already tried the diversion of the stage, and, it is announced, will next actively engage in business. news that Miss Muriel Is going Into business In New York next fall. She was said to have bought a half In a hat and gown shop In the Fifties and to be about to conduct the business actively with a woman partner. Just what she will do next who knows7 Site's a McCormick! There is no space In this chronicle to do more than mention huch oddities and surprises In the news of the fam- ily us that secret operation under- gone by Harold McCormick In a Chi- cago hospital Just before, boylshlv happy and healthy, he sailed to weil Walska: Mrs. Edith Rockefeller announcement of her Inter- est In a Chicago-Ne- York air line of passenger airplanes, carrying 200 persons apiece; the sixte- en-foot wall she has ordered erected nbout her Lake Forest estate, to pro. tect It from \Intruding\ bungalow dwellers; and most curiosity piquing of all the reports her rumored forth- coming second marriage to Edward Krenn, the plump, blond, youthful Swiss architect who accompanied her from Switzerland last autumn and, since then, has been living In a hotel across from her home and serving at her personal adviser. He Is twenty years younger than she but, once asaln, who knows? Bhe, too, .s a McCormick by marriage, tweaty-si- x years ago. Variety clearly Is the sphe of the McCormick life and thers's no short- age of splco. pi- -
