Marshal & Will

Toying with a pistol, General Alexander Dimitriejevitch sat in his home in Belgrade last week. He had been cashiered as Marshal of the Court for failing to save the life of King Alexander. All the army expected him to commit suicide. While fascinated correspondents waited. General Dimitriejevitch put his pistol away, called rumors that he had already committed suicide ''ridiculous."

All Jugoslavia, all the U. S. was much more interested in the new Marshal of the Court appointed last week, Dr. Slavko Y. F. Grouitch, longtime Minister to Washington. In 1901 handsome Dr. Grouitch was Serbian Secretary at the Legation in Athens. Thither went the Gibson-Girlish Miss Mabel G. Dunlop of Clarksburg, W. Va. to study archeology. She met and married Dr. Grouitch.

Mabel Grouitch is today the best known hostess in Jugoslavia. During the Balkan wars she toured the U. S. drumming up funds for the Serbian Red Cross. She maintained a military hospital in Belgrade, importing British nurses to staff it. During the World War she toured the U. S. again, raised $100,000 for Serbian relief. The Grouitches were intimate friends of assassinated King Alexander and of Queen Marie. Often they played bridge at the palace. When Their Majesties traveled abroad they often parked the present King Peter II and his brothers with the Grouitches. instead of leaving them in the intrigue-poisoned Royal Palace.

"Jugoslavia's problems," said gracious Mabel Grouitch last week "are similar to those which confronted the United States after the Civil War.''

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