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Photo courtesy of Diana Marsh
Alice Glass After her divorce from Marsh,
Glass kept Longlea.
name. They called it ‘Alice’s Place.’
The focus of life at Longlea was not its magnificent interior but the terrace behind it. Breakfast would be served on that broad, long expanse of flagstone, as the morning sun slowly burned away the mist from the great meadow and the mountains behind it. In the evenings, after dinner, it was on the terrace that guests would sit, watching the mist form and the mountain turn purple in the twilight. Life at Longlea was as elegant as its designer.”
Kopper’s book describes Alice Glass’s entertainment style at Longlea as follows. “Here she held a salon of sorts, entertaining lavishly on weekends. Champagne was her preferred beverage. She employed a gourmet kitchen staff, served the finest wines, and discussed recent books with a parade of governmental official, journalist, Texas politicians, and an occasional celebrity. These were people Marsh favored.”
The love affair between Alice and Lyndon may have reached a peak in 1939-1940. LBJ was willing to throw over his political ambitions, become a lobbyist, obtain a divorce, and marry Alice Glass. But when he started campaigning for a 1941 Senate race, Alice saw that LIU’S first love was politics. She finally married Charles Marsh in 1940 (he had divorced Leona, his first wife, in 1938). This did not last, as Alice divorced Charles in 1946, received Longlea as part of the settlement, and she went on to five more marriages.
Her second was to Palmer Weber, but it was brief. She
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