Fortunate Damsels

Women who measure off the scale of happiness in units of jewels, cash and fame were agog, last week, at the unprecedented good fortune of three international damsels:

The Dolly Sisters (2) set the pace of fortune by announcing that they had won a total of $820,000 during the present season of baccarat at Cannes, French Riviera. During the week King Christian X of Denmark, now at Cannes, deemed it worth, his royal while to stand for half an hour near Miss Rosie Dolly while she plunged at baccarat and won 4,000,000 francs ($160,000) in a single afternoon. Friends of the Dollys could only beam and recall a few of the piquant events which have transpired since they were born simultaneously, 35 years ago, in Hungary, to one Julius Deutsch & the onetime Margaret Weiss.

The twins, Roszicka & Janszieka Deutsch, migrated to the U. S., and transformed themselves into "Rosie & Jennie Dolly" when they made their joint debut at Keith's Union Square Theatre, Manhattan, in 1909. So instantaneous was their dancing hit that, within three years they had appeared in the Ziegfeld Follies of Manhattan and at the Moulin Rouge, famed Paris music hall.

Since then they have been international stars; but with advancing age their popularity has waned in the U. S. and waxed in Europe. Their recently built and extravagantly sumptuous home in Paris created a furore with its immense rooms so arranged that the colors of the walls & ceilings can be changed at will.

Although both twins continue damsels in the theatrical sense, Jennie has been married several times and Rosie once, last March, secretly, to Mortimer ("Morty") Davis Jr., Canadian tobacco tycoon's son.

Previously the public had been aware for some years that the friends of H. Gordon Selfridge, U. S.-born British department store pioneer, were habituated to his patronage of Rosie Dolly.

Miss Miller. Perhaps equally with the Dolly Sisters, fortune favored, last week, Miss Nancy Ann Miller, famed fiancee of the abdicated Maharaja of Indore, Sir Tukoji Rao Holkar.

She is the daughter of the late Seattle gold rusher "Jack" Miller, and is now in India, chaperoned, according to despatches, by her mother & grandmother.

Last week it was announced that Miss Miller was about to espouse Hinduism, and would marry Sir Tukoji during the present week. Thereupon untold quarts & gallons of jewels will be hers to wear, though his to retain. For more than a year the authorities of the British Raj and those of Indore have been in controversy over the possible future complications ensuing upon the marriage of a U. S. damsel to a Hindu who already has two wives.

Further complicating the nuptials is Sir Tukoji's notorious reputation as the ruler who sent agents to maim and attempt to kill his chief dancing girl Mumtaz Begum. Because of this deed he was deposed as Maharaja of Indore.