Evening Star Newspaper, October 11, 1931, Page 14

_A—14 "DIVORCE GRANTED TOH.F. MCORMICK Ganna Walska Agrees to, Decree on Charge of Desertion. By the Assceiated Press. | October 10.—Harold F CHICAGO, McCormick and the glamorous Ganna Walska parted ways amicably today. ‘The 10-year, opera-born romance of the millionaire head of the harvester company and the Polish prima donna was severed after a 10-minute divorce hearing before Judge Daniel P. Trude. | The charge was desertion. | McCormick was the only principal in | Mme. Walska, who always pre- | court ferred the continent to Chicago, was at her Chateau Galluis, cn the edge of Rambouillet Forest, near Versailles. McCormick’s Rockefeller McCors John D. Rockefclk vorced in 1921, Returned to Paris in 1929, hey were di- ‘Today's decree was the climax of a | decade of incompatibility. Mme. Walska shook off the rigors of a Chicago Winter in March, 1929, and retuned to Parls. McCormick has not | been abroad since. Last January & separation was agreed | upon and today saw its consummation. Mme. Walska received’ no property settlement ‘or alimony. Several thou- sand dollars in mutually-owned’ per- ronal property was divided last January. At his Rush street mansion McCor- mick made this statement: “I am very sorry this all had to hap- | pen. Our lives were along essentially separate paths. Mme. Walska has my sincere admiration and respect. I wish her every happiness.” The divorce was the third marital event of the year for the McCormick family. Fowler McCormick, 32, son of the harvester millionaire and Mrs. Rocke- feller McCormick, married Mrs. Anna U. “Fifi” Stillman, 53, former wife of James A. Stilimar, New York banker, soon after the famed beauty of New Orleans obtained a secret divorce in White Plains, N. Y. Muriel McCormick, after futilely nursing a dramatic career, was married a month ago today to Ma. Elisha D. Hubbard of Middleton, Conn., many years her senior. Sought Career in Opera. ‘The other daughter was married sev- | eral years ago to Max Oser, a Swiss riding master. Mme. Walska, who often tried and | was often denied fame as an opera singer, came to the United States in | 1915. ' Her beauty and chances for an | operatic career were widely heralded. | She was a Polish war refugee, divorced | in Paris two years previously from Aradie D'Eingorn, Russian cavalry cap- | tain. McCormick was then the patron saint of the Chicago Civic Opera. They met in New York during one of her try-| outs. Soon after the refugee was mar- | ried to one of New York's best known physicians, Dr. Julius Fraenkle, & lover of arts and opera. He died in 1919. Two years later McCormick was di- | vorced from the oil king's daughter. Mrs. land for several years and the separa- tion was agreed upon before her unex- pected return to Chicago. She returned to her Lake Shore drive Paint Wit McCormick had lived in Switzer- | | | | THE SUNDAY Separate as Friends STAR, WASHINGTON, SEA BARES PARTS OF HUMAN BODIES & Organs Are Believed Those ol Woman and Man—Police See Hint.of Double Slaying. By the Assoclated Press. HULL, Mass, October 10.—Parts of the two human bodies which apparently drifted onto Natasket Beach on the ‘tide last night remained- a puzzling problem to the police and Medical Ex- aminer John Smney today. Dr. Sweeney sald death' apparently had resulted from violence. He decided the bodies probably -m those of a man and a woman, although D. C., OCTOBER 11, have “&cnlned about three weeks 8go, Henry Stevens, commissioner of ublic ulety. enruud the hnpe v,hn mm‘xnd llht b: al'lxlll’de pos- fll. limbs or Rlllmy‘l oflahlt Britain are adver- tising only one passenger was killed in train accidents in Britain he was not certain. The deaths might ' last Positively ' train Relieved Scientific Examination By DR. A. S. 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It recalled too frequently her failure in the Chicago opera debut afforded by McCormick. It was in Leon Cavello’s “Zaza,” with the Diva in the title role. The house was sold out. Critics were ready to | give the prima donna another chance. But on the day of the premiere, Mme. Walska braved a Winter's sloppy storm to shop. She caught cold, the per- | formance was cancelled. Then a hur- | ried trip to Paris. McCormick followed, |and for several years the ocean was | frequently crossed. But after the 1929 | voyage, they never saw each other again. Frequent news of Mme. Walska sped | across the Atlantt, though. She opened | a perfume shop; a scion of Russian | Toyalty was her doorman. But the shop failed in the early months of the depression. Of late, Mme. Walska has tried concert anew, and sings frequent- | 1y for friends in her salon. B oSl B 1 Haircuts Offered Free BROKEN BOW, Nebr, October 10 (#).—Inability to pay need not deprive any one in tkis town of a haircut. 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