The Woman Who Married Kerensky

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20042, 14 September 1939, Page 13

The Woman Who Married Kerensky

iii 1917, in the office of the Sydney . Morning Herald, I remember filling in the “cable flimsies" about the Russian I Revolution and a man named Kerensky—Alexander Feodorovitch Kerensky, lawyer and statesman, picturesque and fiery figure, whose revolutionary speeches, first as leader of the Socialists and then as Premier, were providing a sensation for all the vyorld, writes W.F.W. in the Sydney Morning Herald. In 1919, in the office of the Daily Mail in Brisbane, a very beautiful young girl named Nolle Tritton, daughter of a well-known business man in that city, was bringing poems to me and asking me to print them; and, as there was beauty in these poems as well as in the writer of them, she rarely called in vain. Whether, as a girl fresh from school, she dreamed of dancing with the Prince of Wales one does not know; but. if she did, then the dream came true. When the Prince, who was afterwards to become King Edward VIII. visited Brisbane, a magnificent Shakespearian ball was held in his honour, and Nelle Trittcn was in one of the gorgeous sets. The Prince of Wales singled her out, captivated by her flashing beauty, and asked her for the favour of a dance. All eyes were fastened on them, and all the girls envied Nelle. That was Nelle Trittoh’s first big thrill. The next was when her book of poems was published. After that . . travelling to see the world, and finally marrying a Russian baritone and “settling down.” But she couldn’t settle down—she must be down to the seas again, and up to the heights again, with glamour and romance all the way. In 1936 she was divorced from her husband in London, and became M. Kerensky’s secretary. Russia and Russians called her in some strange way.

A little while ago she returned to Australia for a visit.

Marriage to Kerensky

On August 21 she was married to M. Kerensky in the little town of Martin’s Creek, Pennsylvania, U.S.A., by one Harry A. Stein, estate agent and justice of the peace. M. Kerensky was divorced in Paris on June 29 from the wife whom he married 30 years ago. A member of the Socialist Revolutionary Party (“Group of Toil") and

its leader in the Duma, Kerensky acted as counsel for various victims of reactionary governments, and had himself some experience of imprisonment. With the revolution of March, 1917, he became a member of the Duma Committee and Minister for Justice in the provisional government which it set up. Later he became Minister for War, and then Premier; blit as a result of his policy of compromise with the bourgeois parties he earned the enmity of the uncompromising Bolsheviki, and on the Bolshevik Revolution of November, 1917, he was driven from office. Valuing his head, he fled the country.

The cables give nis age as 58, and that of his new wife as 33, but it looks as if a printer’s error has crept into the latter figure, for 19 years have gone by since Nelle Tritton published her book of poems in Brisbane as a girl of 18 or 19.

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Women’s National Reserve There was a good attendance oi members at the monthly meeting o! the Gisborne branch of the Women’s National Reserve, held in the Parish Hall, Derby street, on Tuesday afternoon, Mrs. W. E. Gofl'e presiding. Mrs. Porter, organising secretary, wrote enclosing a copy of the following resolution passed at a special meeting of the council of the Women’s National Reserve and forwarded to the Government:—“That in this time of national emergency the Women's National Reserve, is desirous of offering co-operation with any organisations established to help the British Empire and our New Zealand forces.” The letter also intimated that further information about war work would bt forwarded shortly. The president reported that the annual conference of the National Council of Women, which was to have been held in Christchurch at the end of this month, had been postponed for six months.

A paper from the bulletin of the International Council of Women, entitled “Women Workers of the World," was read and appreciated.

A short business discussion in regard to the proposed Women’s Rest room brought the meeting to a close. Afternoon tea was served informally.

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