FRANCE: La Russe

As anyone who has had one around knows, a Russian princess is apt to prove a handful. Last week Lady Moira Forbes, beauteous niece of onetime U. S. Secretary of theTreasury Ogden Mills, was indeed vexed by a Russian friend of her fiancé, Count Louis de Brantes. La Russe, the Princess Nadejda Scherbatoff, instead of suing the Count for breach of promise, sued him in Paris last week for $65,000 damages, which she claimed he had inflicted upon her by making her the mother of his daughter. “I am the daughter of Prince Paul Scherbatoff. aide to Grand Duke Michael of Russia!” exclaimed La Russe with blazing eyes to reporters. “I have letters from the Count acknowledging his paternity. The day he announced his engagement to Lady Forbes what do you think he did? He sent me white lilies. To me—white lilies! I put them straight back into the box and sent them to Lady Forbes.”