The evening world. Newspaper, May 2, 1922, Page 18

' ————— cevece cenennecmmameeeesats tia ee eee ene eee oO a ener a nemeoeennnnrs ss: © a Happy Ending + The Dream of the Flapper About the Stage, the Footlights and the Tinsel Being the Royal Road to the Prince and the Castle Rarely Fulfilled. By Marguerite Mooers Marshall. * Copyright, 1922 (New York venting World) by Press Publishing Ce. HIS is a story for every little flapper—a story of fact, contrasted with fancy. In olden days and lands, the blue- eyed, yellow-curied, romantic young thing used to dream of marrying a prince, Ho was to come upon her tending father’s sheep, to fall a vio- tim, {nstantly, of her simple, girlish beauty, to carry her away to love in a .paince and—as Daisy Ashford would say—‘‘a small but costly crown.” In modern, democratic America many a girl has dreamed the same dream—set in different scenery. For “prince” she substitutes “rich young man.” For sheep-tending, as a pre- matrimonial vocation, she would take to chorus-girling. But the end !s ever the same—marriage to a youth who can give her luxury, as well as love, with whom she can live happy ever after. If she should voice her deep- est ambition, many a pretty American girl would phrase it thus: “I want to get a job in the Ziegfeld Follies—and marry @ millionaire!"’ Now, then, young woman, and everybody else, read this veracious chronicle of the matrimonial fate of eight Follies giris—the fact as op- posed to the fancy. These eight girls were all beautiful, charming, young, ambitious. How many of them have fulfilled the flapper'’s firm belief that ‘the Follies is a sort of finishing school for matrimonial happiness with a millionaire? Read and see. “Follies Girl Wins Divorce From Son of Asbestos King.” That was a ‘headline in the news the other day. This particular ‘girl’ was Mra. Thomas F, Manville—before her warrlage lovely Florence Huber of ie the “Follies of 1911.'" Apparently, hers was a sure-fire romance, Young “Tommy” Manville was seventeen when he fell im love with her, and their courtship began in New York's lobster palaces. They went through marriage ceremonies both in New York and in New Jersey. In the depths of his infatuation, the boy bridegroom declared he would go from State to State until the gasoline In his car ran out, in order to have his marriage iron-clad. His parents at first refused to have anything to do with their son, after the marriage. His wife stood by, and eventually Mrs. Manville sr., came to their assistance. They soon ran out of funds, however. Mrs, Manville took ® job and bezan a eeparation suit. That was patched up, and Manville was given a chance to work in father's factory. Again, Mrs. Manville left him, and in a subsequent suit accused him of cruelty and in- fidelity, Two years ago there was a report that Mrs. Manville wanted all action dropped. But at last the de- cree has been signed, in Pittsburgh, the romance is definitely shattered, and the husband makes the confes- sion: “I love Florence . . but I love the chickens, I have to run around with them, and I simply can't behave myself.’ Matrimonial Failure No. Follies Girl! Still, this union, such as it was, lasted eleven years. Twelve days is the record of another Follies girl's marriage. She was Geneva Mitchell, sixteen-year-old pogo girl in this year's edition of the Ziegfeld Mid- night Frolic. She eloped, early in March, with Robert 8. Savage, a Yale student, twenty years old, and 1, for a e Flapper. The Follies an “A Modern Fairy Tale Not Always With , wnire Photo —— Dairy : Virginia, youngest son of a family, prominent in the steel industry. “You can tell the world I'm crazy, about that girl," the proud bride- groom remarked to reporters, pqint- ing to a picture of his bride. Then he added, half-apologetically, ‘‘Most people, think you're crazy if you marry a Follies girl."’’ He seemed ap- prehensive, from the start, as to how his family would “‘take it.'’ But Geneva's family"'—her mother and grandfather—did not long leave the world in doubt as to how they, ‘‘took’’ the marriage. Nor did Geneva, for that matter. About ten days after the wedding she drew off her wedding ring and returned it to ler young husband. She told her grancfather: “I don't even like him. I would prefer to be rid of him.'’ She told a lawyer that Oe. gan are~, STIG, ke WHITE Phate \_ ol she wanted the marriage to be an- nulled “this very minute,” And steps were taken several weeks ago to annul it, Matrimonial Follies Girl. Then consider the case of Peggy Hopkins! You know Peggy—know about her, I mean—if you've been reading the papers during the last y Peggy was one of the dazzling creatures in the Follies of 1917, she got not only one, but three, rich hus- bands—but they didn’t seem permanent. No. 1 was Everett Archer of Den- ver, Col. Peggy and he ran away to- gether. Their marriage lasted all of vix months, Millionaire husband No. 2 was Sherburne G. Hopkins jr, of Washington, lawyer und representa- tive of most of the big oil and mining interests of Mexico, This marriage was annulled. At nineteen, Peggy—still, it may be presumed, heart-whole and fancy-free —eloped. Two years ago Peggy marricd James Stanley Joyce, multiinitiionsire jumber king, in Miam!, Fla, Alas! Failure No. 2 for a to be THE EVENING WORLD, YUESDAY, i The Fairy Kay; Laurell | MAY 2 In a little over a year Joyce brought suit in Chicago, naming numerous ¢0- marriage was part of a conspiracy to defraud him of nearly a million wanted back his freedom and the for- tune in jewels he had given his Pegsy remarked, at the Manville. Six years ago she married Winfleld Sheehan, Secretary to former Police Commissioner Rhinelander Waldo, and retired rrom the stage. later she returned to it again. well, there have been ‘‘wars and ru- mors of wars’’—meaning much Broad- way gossip of difficulties, and at least one separation suit actually filed by the Follies beauty. alleged that her husband treated her with such severe cruelty that she was forced to leave him, Later, the suit Still, the fact aa it wast filed seems to prove that this Vollies girl didn't “live happy, EVER was startled to hear of he: mercurial poisoning in the cdrner of Broadway and In 1916 @ suit for separation between the two was pending. Miss Lorraine obtained a di- ‘The next year usked the court to set alleging fraud and Perhaps his most recent appearance in the news was the announcement of his being held under the New York a fatality about ollies girls? Only thi] years later, according to the papers, Daisy Virginia Keith, adm istratrix of the estate of Ford brought suit in District Court""—éc. The story ended ith died on Oct. 6, 1917," This Follies girl, then “ved hap) ever after" for a little more than tw tho time investigated rumors of drug and champagne orgies. It was declared officially that Miss Thomas, or Mrs. Pickford, had taken an overdose of the poisonous solution But her story had a tragic terminatlon—however happily she may have lived with her young husband, she didn't live LONG Would any girl, reading of it, fait to shudder at the fate of this Follies 0 : considerably more before Joyce wis peringes of She also said, was that Joyce got a divorce, while got $80,000 and her jewels. sy, two months ago, to Eu- In this sult she by mistake. was discontinued, write @ book about millionaire hus- That's the story, in brief, of the marriage of another Follies Girl! Daisy Virginia, Finally, there was beautiful Hel Moyer, from the front row of thi The tale of her ro} mantic marriage to James Spear jr. of Philadelphia, head of a big si for several years before the war, was an ornament to In 1915, Daisy married a rich man, Ford H, Keith, born in Chicago, educated at Oxford and liv- ing in Bombay. This seemed a really- truly rich-man-chorus-girl romance, According to the story told on Broad~- , he had seen her several years earlier, her image had lingered in his memory, he ran across her in New York while here on a business trip, and after a whirlwind courtship of ten days they were married, Fallure No. 3 Follies of 1914. ‘Then there's Lillian Lorraine. lian has been a Follies beauty for more years than it would be chival- In 1918 she married reddie’’ Gresheimer, a Chicago real She herself told Hyvening World, happily, that he had “oodles and oodles of money. Within a few months she charged her dear husband, before the law, with tha theft of a $3,000 ring, There newspaper headlines when beat up Lillian’s manager seasons—Fio Zlegfeld—at “Of all the women 1 have engaged for my companies, and I have spo- clalized in beauty for many years, | belleve Miss Kay Laurell deserves t be called the most beautiful features are absolutely perfect.” what Flo Ziegfeld said, in 1914, of that exceedingly pop- ular Follies Girl, Kay Laurell, You'd think, wouldn't you, that such a pul- chritudinous young person ought to would satisty Another case fresh in memory |s that of pretty young Olive Thomas. She was in the ‘Follies of 1915," in 1916 she was hailed ag the prettiest Midnight Frolic, Afterward she went into the movies. rous to recall: printed the same year. Aguin, ‘Two years ago suits in the Phi phia courts revealed that the girl and the millionaire had se; after many difficulties, Q. FE. D.—That the road the Follies is certainly NOT @ road to happy and lasting married b in a home of u think so yourselves, girls ?¥ estate man, in “Zlegfeld’s Afterward she married a young man who, if not a millionaire, ia certainly in no danger of starving to death— younger her?