March 27 Sunday - Easter —- Clara Clemens Gabrilowitsch and Ossip Gabrilowitsch spent the day in Rome, Italy, having arrived there the previous Thursday, Mar. 24. The New York Times reported, p. C3, Apr. 3, dateline Rome Apr. 2, with sub-headline “Mark Twain’s Daughter Has Unsatisfactory Experience and Leaves Town.”
One happy couple still on their honeymoon have not had a very pleasant experience in Rome at Easter. M. and Mme. Ossip Gabrilowitsch, perhaps better recognized as the musical son-in-law and the daughter of Mark Twain, were at Monte Carlo, perfectly happy in the sun and open air and sea, when the idea came that they would like to see Rome at Easter, and if possible to assist at the Easter mass of the Holy Father.
They arrived the Thursday before Easter. The train, of course, was late, and they went about to seventeen different hotels before they could get a place to lay their weary heads. At last they got in at a little hotel near the Plazza di Spagna, kept by some American ladies.../They spent Easter Sunday morning at St. Peter’s, but did not get to the Pope’s mass, as only Catholics are now admitted. This is a hard and fast rule, or Mark Twain’s daughter would certainly have been admitted.
They drove in the afternoon, but Monday morning inquiring friends found that they had disappeared, It was discovered later that they had removed to another hotel in which they could have sun and air. They are now off to Florence and Venice, winding up in Paris, but will spend the Summer at home with Mark Twain, and next Winter will settle in Berlin as their permanent abiding place.