New Britain Herald Newspaper, February 26, 1929, Page 19

When Her Second Husbands Lhi £ " Wife Took Her Third Husband Uhscrambling the_ (Phete Wy Brasdenburg) PATRICIAN Friends—Has Finally Found the Marital Bluebird, UST how ten marriages, di- rectly and collaterally, can contribute to the crowning of & “perfect society romance,” was proved recently at the ding of the fashionable, beautiful and wmthy Mrs. Miller Graves to Bemja- min Wood. It was Mrs, Graves's third effort to trap the marital bluebird of felicity. Likewise it was Mr. Wood's third effort. And behind these two personal strivings to attain domestic happiness stretched a list of other strivings de- clared to be, in their complexity, unique {n the annals of the mismated members of New Yok's “400.” Let's begin this tangled tale of un- ruly hearts and severing courts by scrutinisi the new Mrs. Wood's matrimonial background. ' As “Lovely wed- 10 Marriages That Led Up to Lorraine’s * New Society ' Mate S Lorraine” Miller, of & patri- cian Long Island family, she was first wooed and won by the aristocratic Kgnnley Swan. Divorced from him, she married Robert Graves. Legal separa- tion parted the pair, but for a consid- erable time it was whispered—and hoped—that the Graveses would be reconciled and remarry. Mrs, Graves's marriage to Mr. Wood effectually slew that rumor, at the same time focusing attention upon the bridegroom’s former marriages, the first to Grace Hutton, daughter of James Hutton, the second to El Sherin. The Wood-Hutton nuptia wers solemnized as far back as 1897; those uniting Mr. Wood and Miss Sherin in 1918. They eventually sep- arated and litigation ensued. Mra. Eloise Sherin Wood, by the way, Scrambled Marriages Leading to “Lovely Lorraine’s” Third Romance | Kingsley Bwln{ q ,' ' Robert Gnvu{ ( Mabe! | Lorraine Miller ' '| Benjamin Wood | j} Three Theories of What Lorraine Julia Murray { Swan Charlotte Catlin Margaret Loughman { H. B. Plant Lorraine | Graves Eloise Sherin {Onon Kilborn Wood Wood Grace Hutton Lorraine At Rights Benjamin Weod with Lorraine’s Predecessor, Second of the First Twe Mrs. Weods. - ~ w» = has yet another divorce chalked up on her tally—one dividing her from M&jm Orson Kilborn, of the U. S. Army, and & former vice-president of the National City Bank. Lorraine Miller's marriage to Kings- (Q Ewing Galleway.) Delphic Ruins on the Island of Mile, Where New and Missing Arme s Being Prossed. 6“6 E’LL recover Vepus's arms, or perish in the attempt!” With this bold statement, two Greek scientists have just an- nounced their unalterable intentions of solving for all time one of the art world’s most enigmatic mysteriea: the mutilated limbs of the famous Venus di Milo, now in the Paris Louvre. Controversy over what really did happen to the missing arms has raged since 1820, when seamen from the French frigate Estafette, violently snatched the beautiful statute from the Milo islanders, and made off with it. ‘The most popular theory of the miss- ing arms has always been that, in the scuffle, they were broken off and fell Vigorous Search for the into the little bay of Milo. Accepting this as & working basis, the Greek arche- ologists, Professors George Gaetanos and Dragiasis, now plan to drag the port. At its bottom they fervently hope to find the marble fragments. reely less puzzling than the miss- ing arms been the question of what Venus was doing with them before she lost them. The French ensign, Dumont Durville, has a description of it in his diary which at least sounds plausible. According to him, the statue was hold- ing an lm.rla in its left hand, while the right held a drapery fastened with a belt dropping to the feet. It has also been surmised that a baby was cradled in Venus's embrace, and that she was writing on a tablet. ley Swan was chronicled in the society colums of October, 1908. For about five years they lived in a state of seem- ingly perfect compati- bility. Then suddenly, in September, 1913, came tidings that all was not well with the Swans. Actual knowl. edge that she was con- templating divorce was gained through a Reno dispatch that the young matron had been thrown from her riding horse in the \Nevada colony of misfit mates. Records of the period indicate that Mrs. Swan was obliged to consume more time in winning her freedom than is customary today. But at last her liberty was granted her, and Graves could feel free to ask her to marry him. Graves had a prior bride, Charlotte de Grasse Catlin, the daughter of Gen- eral Catlin, from whom, after four- teen years, he was divorced in Decem- ber, 1900. Custody of their son, Robert, Jr., was awaded the father. Swan died with tragic unexpected- Some Archeologists Believe She Was Carrying a Baby. Cuwpyright, 1929, Internations) Pesturs Servies. (ne Grest Sritate Rignts Beserved ness, at the age of thirty-four, in the St. George Hotel, Brooklyn. He left a daughter, Alvah, and one son of seven years, also a widow, the former Julia Murray, surviving him. What, you ask, had been happening to Robert Graves prior to his marriage to and divorce from “lovely Lorraine” Miller Graves? At this point, another magnetic feminine figure enters the story. She was the former Miss Mar- garet J. P. Loughman, who at the age of twenty had married Henry B. Plant, sixty, a_widower and founder of the famous Plant system. Despite the remarkable discrepancy fn their ages, the match appears to have been an agreeable one; at all events, a durable one, for it lasted twenty-five years, the old magnate dying at the age of eighty-five—they had been wedded in 1884—and leaving a fortune estimated at $20,000,000. Of this huge sum the widow demanded $9,000,000—and got it! That same year Mrs. Plant and Graves were mar- ried in secret. Five years later Mrs. Plant-Graves died, bequeathing te the widower $8,000,000. This put Mr. Graves in the big money division, so that when he married Lor- raine Miller, to her r-rmul beauty, charm and great popularity was added the Missing Arms of Venus Were Doing But Others Claim She Was Inscribing & Motte on a Tablet. ART-INSPIRED Oil Portrait of the Wood, by the prestige of imposing wealth. But it was really her popularity more than her wealth that made her the unique figure she was and is in society. Even during her matrimonial compli- cations—she was legally severed from Graves in Paris—no one could be found to criticise her, and her sons, Kingsley Swan and Richard Graves, basked in the reflected light of her immense in- dividual vogue with men, women and children alike. Although usually a frequenter of Palm Beach, during “the season,” it was noted by society chroniclers in January, 1923, that she was missing from her familiar haunts; but, after a mysterious interval, she duly arrived at the Everglades Club with her inti- mate friend, Mrs. Jerome Napoleon Bonaparte. The report that ‘“‘Bob” Graves was eager to re-m her flitted about in company with another report: namely, that & cryptic “Mr. ." was ardently offering “Lovely Lorraine” his hand and heart. This mysterious person turned out, of course, to be no other than Ben- jamin Wood who, at the age of forty- nine and after two divorces, had met Lorraine while she was seeking her freedom. He is the son of Feranando Wood —three times Mayor of New York City—and a brother of the eminent Henry A. Wise Wood. While Still Others Say She Was Helding aa Apple in One Hand.