A Fair American.

Manawatu Herald, 18 January 1902, Page 3

A Fair American.

Few stage debuts of recent years have created wider interest than that of Miss Maude Roosevelt, who is a cousin of the President of the U.S. Owing to her brilliancy and rare beauty she was a very prominent figure in society, and the announcement that she bad taken to the stage created somewhat of a sensation. She has made her debute in New York as the Queen in James Hackett’s production of “ Don Caesar’s Return.” Miss Roosevelt was born in Paris, and spent her childhood in the Gay City. Some time ago she was quietly married to Baron von Schwartzenstein, who was appointed German Ambassador to China in succession to the murdered Baron von Kottelar. The couple set sail for Paris after their marriage. Then a curious thing happened, for leaving his beautiful bride with her mother and friends, the baron went to Germany to look after bis estates and to acquaint his family with the fact of his marriage. On his return to Paris after a few dajs|tO claim bis baroness and takoher home he was met by a flat refusal. The baroness would not budge. Not only did the baroness decline to visit her new home, but she shortly made it known thatshe declined longer to remain a baroness. And some seven months later society was amazed to learn that Maude Roosevelt bad received a decree of divorce by a spacial dispensation of the French courts, and that she was going back to America, having resumed her former name. Of her brief matrimonial experience Miss Roosevelt has offered little explanation, except to insist that the baron was irreproachable.