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Liane Has Discovered That She Is an '
American Citizen After All, and Here She
Is as an American Girl Debutante
Photographed In Her "Made In America"
.Evening Gown.
LIANE CARRERA, the only daughter of Anna
Held, "who "was the reigning French beauty of
American stage history. Is back in P&ris at last!
And what a tiine she had ! , -
The beautiful offspring of the beautiful star, who
tvaa brought ly her mother to these shoretewhen she
was a child,, having retired from lier brief 'theatrical
activities to live luxuriously on the Competence left
h.er at Tier mother's death, got a longing for the dear
Did France of her birth. So she closed the llOacre
estate near Peekskill, N T where she lives, and ran
down to New york In the cute little roadster to shop
a passport.
Being a naive and wide-eyed young woman, she had
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The Identification Tag
Liane Wore During the
War as a Member of the
U. S. Navy Recruiting
Forces. On One Side
Is the Date of Her
Enlistment and Birth
and On Reverse Side
Her Thumbprint.'
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She Lived in America and Wasn't an American: She Had Been Born in Franco and Wasn't French; Her Father Had.
She Wasn't a Uruguayan. What Was She?"
a varue idea that-ehe would seep up to s
counter, pick out a passport that matched
her big brown eyes, and say,,SeJid It and
charge it" . -
But it turned out to 4 nothing like that.
She, found hersejffit a musty desk in a
flingy old office, "Where she was told to fill
out a questionnaire and pin $10 to it and
leave It-' Next day she received notifica
tion in a Government envelope by mail
that the passport was denied. She mo
tored down immediately and demanded to
know why. Well, for one thing, she wasn't
a citizen the rest, of the reasons dida't
matter.
The .clerk advised her that she was a
Citizen of France, since she was born there,,
and that she must apply at the French
consulate.
S4 she repaired there, and in most sibi
lant French she explained her dlfficulties.
A young official with a giddy little mus
tache bowed and said it would be a pleas
tire. What waa her father's name? Cr
rera? And iri what province of Franca
was he bom? Well, he wasn't born in
France? he was born in Uniguay--Monte-video,
to be exact. .
The bfficlal ,was sorry-h. he" was heart
broken. -.But. unfortunately, the French,
ruling is that a child is the citizen of her -fatner'sveountry
rather than of the conn
trjreHhe child's birth; It was a shame
jtt would the charming mamselle be
" seriously Inconvenienced if she were' In
formed that the Uruguayan consulate
would .undoubtedly be only too happy to
certify her?
She would not. The charming ma-m-4
teli motored t& the Uruguayan, consulate.
And She Stated!
Her Case at the !
Uruguayan j
Consulate. She!
Was the Daughter
of a Montevidean,
Therefore a !
Uruguayan.
Here She Is i
Looking the ! Fart.
Been a Uruguayan Citizen and
and there a darkish gentleman, in a diplo- v
matic and stately Prince .Ibert, inquired
solicitously Just what he could do to serve
her. And she stated her case. She was
the daughter X)f 'a Montevidean. therefore
a Uruguayan, and she would be . very
grateful If the darkish gentleman, would
kindly certify he? for a passport.
He would be delighted' He would be
overwhelmed with Joy. He reached for a
blank and poised a golden pencil, auto-
graphed by his club in Montevideo when
be left for foreign consular serviced Now,
thenand in what part of Uruguay was
the entrancing signorlta born? She
begged his indulgence, but she was not
born in any part of Uruguay she had
first seen the light Jin Paris, but her father
had 'been a Uruguayan, and
. Oh, that5 was too bad it was too inex-'.
pressibly distressing. But the Uruguayan
ruling was that a child was a citizen of
the country where the child wast born and
not the country of which her father waa a '
citizen.
Yes but the French ruling was- r
Yes. it was, but that was most distress--ingly
Inexpressible. The French ruling
was Quite opposed to the Uruguayan rul
ing, but ' France and Uruguay differed , on
so. many things oh, so very many things
it- really was too deplorable, but what
could the darkish gentleman do?
Little Anna Held, Jr., walked out into
the air dizzy.
She. lived In . America and .wasn't an !
American; she had been born in France
.and wasn't French; her father had been
a Uruguayan citizen and she . wasn't a
Uruguayan. ; What was she?
She returned to the American passport j
bureau, showed that she was a property !
owner and a taxpayer, - that she was an I
enlisted member . of the United States
.Navy, haying served through the war In
"Pish. tush., answered the saucy Liane. all of which was left to the daughter. Zieg
"In that. event, I may say that I have had feld had never been asked, to exercise any;
many opportunities .to avoid all this con- of the functions of a guardian. In truth
fusion. Bqt If I must marry In order u the status of a former step-parent is rather
have an identity, or be a citizen of some- nebulous, and it Just became a relation o
where .or anywhere at all. I am exceed
ingly provoked. ; Yes, I am quite put out."
"Put out?" answered the clerk. "You
can't even sneak out. I have offered you
the only" . ,
"No. I paid $10. and I think T have
done enough for the Government already."
"Well, then," suggested the clerk not
to rapidly, "get1 yourself adopted by an
American citizen. Then you will be his
child, according to the law, and as his
child you will be an American, sharing his
citizenship."
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It was an Idea. It was the first bright
line and the; first bit of encouraging in
telligence Anna Held's daughter bad heard
that day. And she went forth again. into
the air ' and navigated to her . lawyer's
office.
She explained it all to her lawyer. .The -lawyer
. shook his head. 'No, Liane was
neither a minor nor "a: pauper; such - an
adoption could not be bona fide and would
not be recognized as conferring citizen
ship, since -It was palpably accomplished
for the sole purpose of .speciously creating
such citizenship. There was one other
way put, however, whispered - the lawyer
(who was single), clearing, his throat-
Miss Held-Carrera stopped him with an
upturned palm. She had heard that be
fore. : No, she was not marrying. rWell, 1
then, her lawyer had no further advice to
extendi except, that she unpack her trunks k
and remain' here;. It was really very nice
here, and ' . - ' '
Ohr fiddlesticks! ' '' .
Liana wafted out and again found her
self in the' open. She-pursed her dainty
eyebrows,? Upped'her forehead for .inspira-
good friendship. Liane ; sometimes came
to him with her worries and problems; and
be was always kind and as helpful as pos
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So she drove to the. j New Amsterdam
building and, went up to the 'office where
the famous beauties are tabulated! and
card-Indexed and all that, and she passed
through without as much as asking leave
of the fierce . office boy who every 1 day
turns away hundreds of girls who I think
they are entrancing and want to prove It,
She burst in-on Ziegfeld, who looked up,
smiled, and asked her why she looked so
upset. And she flounced Into a chair and
explained that she had, plenty of reason
plenty of reasons which she explained
""Isn't that 's mess?" she exclaimed,
"No. It's s cinch," said -Ziegfeld. j A
"A ceench, Daddy Flo ? And what Is
ceeach, and If it' is, how is this Interna
tionai puss-in-tne-corner one of tnemr
"A cinch:" -said be. "is somethinar easy.
And this Is simple. You see. when youtt
mother came here, she was your mother
You.were a baby. '".'Jx:A
"When she married "me the became a4
American citizen. And fyou, as1 her mlnotf
child, ; became an - American ; citizen by
virtue of the fact that your mother &a4
become. an American citizen.'-. - : i .
Liane kissed' him' and ran back to fh4
passport bureau. The gentlemanly clerU
perked np and straightened his tie. 1 I
- "Don't worry over your tie "J she said.
"I fixed- it : another-, way.; - And she ex
plained.
Next day she retorned with sv copy o
ner mothers wedding certificate and iaa
active recruiting duty;, tbat she had never j tion. and decided to do the thing she al- affidavit from Ziegfeld. ; A.) Congretsnian
been naturalized because a gin cannot be- ways did when. she was' in difficulties go
naturalized ' unless well, could'' she ;-be ,j to see her dear old friend and adviser, who :
naturalized? Whatever Process were nec-r was almost a father to her. Flo Ziegfeld,
t essary. she: would go through It now t
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' The cleric blushed. : " ;
"Comei, come," she chirped. "How can
I become an American-citizen?" v
The clerk cleared, bis throat and ''sn-:
, swered, a; little unsteadily ' but quite
rapidly:
"By marrying an American citizen,"'
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Mr. Ziegfeld. who is now the husband of
Bmie Burke, was at. one time the husband
of Anna Held. After the death of Csrrera.
:wbxk - was a millionaire plaster who met:
and .married - Miss Held- in Paris, she had
coma" to America, and Ziegfeld had been
her manager and later her husband.:
After the division . of toe : estate, -almost
wired in Washington to push, it alone.
and she gov a' nice passport as an AmerU
can girl next day. ; So . now she -isn't sab
Ject to. even the quota of France or Uru
guay when she wants to return. ; ,.; 1 j
- - She sailed on ; the Rochambean andi Is
at present the guest of Count De La Hon.
ciere at his mansion in Paris. The Count
is an . old; friend . of - her mother's. , Ani
there is k Countess. So, maybe, Anna
, Held's fair daughter will return Jp Amea
icasuu as amencao. -
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