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 the Treasury 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...

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