The evening world. Newspaper, July 18, 1922, Page 16

“lic’s gaze just when she Just at the Point Where Romance Had Led Her to the ‘Engagement Ring’’-- Now Her Third Romeo, Young Chicago Artist, Awaits Return of His “Vanished Fiancee’’ By Ruth Snyder Gopyright, 1 by Press Pub HAT has become ¢ Dellora Angell, 4 twenty-year-old Chi Has the ‘poor. littlp-rich"” girl of Chicago run away from love? Or perhaps somewhere in this city unknown and unrecognized. a tall, slender girl with lauehing hazel eyes fé \enjoying tho situation which she has created out in Chicago when th announcement was suddenly made $38,000,000 John W heiress of thy ed 10 that Gates was enga late be married and then mysteriously disappe Or is Romance red once more playing its elusive game? There is a saying that Romance is never a passenger on the same ship we®are travelling on, That it is always in the ship ahead, just disappearing over the horizon, beckoning us on, luring us with its chameleon colors This is the third time gell has disappeared from Dellora An- the pub- was t cynosure of every romantic eye. And this is the season for romance. The summer breezes are wafting it thelr The brooks are singing song ‘The trees are whispering of The love tales of Hero and Leander, of Romeo and Juliet, and Elains @go are ringing exes. Romance is not for all of us all of the time, but for some of us some of sides."" the time. Suddenly Fortune smiled—in fact— To Dellora Angell, Romance has grinned—showed « mouthful of teeth been very partial, Lied Now, while every, one a interested All of the millions gathered by “'Bet-a-Milliot Gate und bBo in the latest romance of this roman- RD GAs” $08, ee quently distributed to his son, Charles tc girl—she suddenly disappears, love of Launcelot all the love tales of long Some say she has Qulled to parts unknown. Some say she js hiding in- enito in New York Others City. say she is off in search of adyentures new The boy from whom she as she? ishe Is he as wealthy Has He is fortune favored him as well? No, nothing more than a poor, atrugeling artist, the son of an under in St taker Charles, Ill, Dellora was born in Charles, in December, 1902, so you see, she really is not twenty years old yet. And Lester Norris was her playmate through many of these ye This spring, while visiting at Lake Geneva, where Dellora has a won derful summer Cupid darted and Dellora camp, out from behind a tree- suddenly di mighty fin fine overed that Lester was a chap. The path of yoth as a bed of re Everything was love seemed as s when—sud- denly—Dellora vanished. Perhaps her parents have other plans for her? Perhaps Dellora has gone in search of that elusive Ro mance which seems to her? But it is true that twice before Dellora has completely vanished when Dame Rumor was busily circulating st of the budding romance of Chicago's richest debutante. tuck in 1916, Dellora was but a school girl, with no idea under hor brown locks that a vast fortune wus accumulating for her. play around She was a stu- denly seemed to eon her about the sixteen more wealth centrate and ga yeur-old Lake Morest student a fund of $38,000,000 yme day have full Now there | fo which she will There Is a $900,000 trust fund from her uncle, a $100,000 trust fund from her cousin, Charles W. Gates, a $200,000 trust fund from her aun jewelry worth $90,000 and several houses in the East and West, as well ax the wonderful summer camp Lake Geneva. When she reaches th aze of thirty she will receive. outright one-fourth of the and at, thirty-five sh greater trust fund, will receive an When she other reaches (eee ha » dent in Ferry Hall Seminary, Lake Forest, lll, Here she played pranks just like any other school girl, They haq midnight suppers, picnic parties the age of forty the remaining one- and romped about the green terraces half will go to her. Deliora was in og every game, Her So far she has received seurcely large dimples, which are very Con- $1,500,000 from the Gates estate, She spicuous, were conUnuelly flushing. cume into possession of $800,000 when She was "Laughter W. Gates, hie wife and other relatives —and ull the time gatherlag to itself greatly attached. Soclety pricked up holding both its her guardian was dischar eighteenth birthday. | Thus Fortune has a right to smile on whom she favors Then while Fortune was still smil ing over its golden way with Dellora, romance softly treaded it Dellora met Dr. 8S. BH. Vantin, a Brazilian physician to whom she was d on her way to her. THE EVENING WORLD, TUESDAY, JULY its ears and flashed knowing glances. ‘Then while interest was the keenest— Deiiura suddenly disappeared, There is a story that she promised to marry uny physiciun give all his time who would work for the poor in an institution which she her- self would build. Perhaps Dr. Van- tini was given this chance—and failed At any Dellora continued on her romantic way Then she met C. to free rate, Wilson Campbell, a wealthy Los Angeles oll promoter. Friends watched with interest the growing romance. They gasped whem 1, POOR) ry Ap \ Hane BLAS e () \) WOGAKY OO Ce ONG VZV =GNis GX) Ay) they thought of the money which would be united when the twe for- tunes were gathered together. Camp- hell was a graduate of the Ohio Stato University. He owned extensive oil lands around Tulsa, Okla, The eu- gagement of Campbell and Dellora was announced and wedding plans un: der way—when Dellora again disap peared. Her parents salled away with her to the West Indies, At present there is a suit pending against her father, Robert E. Angell, for $10,000, brought against him by his former chauffeur, Frank S. Reid, who claims Angell caned him because he was acting as carrier between Del- lora and Dr, 8, E. Vantini, the Bra- zillan physician. And then came the spring of 1822 —Lake Geneva—and Lester Norris. They strolled through the woods they rode together; they gether; they enjoyed all the enjoys when it is young and in love. And Romance gathered them in her extensive wings. Up to a few weeks ago they would danced to- sailed together. They things which youth steal out in the afternoons and stroll through the streets of Lake Forest. One morning they were out, laughing and fooling away the time and plan ning to meet again in the eyening. Evening came—and Dellora never appeared, Lester waited in vain. ‘Then he heard that she had vanished —had been whisked away from Chi- cago. “She's a great girl,"” when questioned as to ahouts of his reported fiancee. “We've been friends for a long time. Of cgurse, I like her, She liked me. Money doesn't make any difference with a woman's heart.” he waits in vain for a word from her, despite the other that are circulating in Dellora‘s most he declared the where- intimate circle that she and young Lester are engage: This report continues to spread. are that Dellora sailed Before she sailed Her friends de for France on July 4. she proudly exh!vited a diamond en- gagement ring which the declares she received from Lester. Confirmation of this report comes from 4 North Sho *Bociety girl, a close friend of Dellora’ who states she was with Dellora in ew York at the of her reported sailing. “Lester gave me this ring,'’ Dellora “You know he is reported as saying. and I have been sweethearts fo! —ever since I was just a little girl But—oh! No wedding plans yet, none at all, I am en route for a four months’ tonr of Europe. 1 promised Daddy some time Time enough to think and talk about the other after return," When Dellora was 1919 she was described as a girl with go that I would go. interviewed in a lithe, muscular body. She has large hazel eyes, deeply fringed. Her hair is dark brown in coler. And she has very conspicuous dimples I am noted for my giggles," Del lora is quoted as saying. Their home at Lake t is a tai attractive t rooms and comfortable furnishings: There is nothing pretentious about the place. It is just the setting for the average well-to-do American family with simple tastes and simple habits. Dellora’s own mother died when she was but nine years old, After several years her father married again, Her stepmother has proved an excel+ lent mother, advising her step hughter ining her to be everything an should be. and t “Ange Somebody describing Dellora’s char- acter declared that once she mi le up her mind to do a thing she was pretty likely to sfick until it was ac- complished. If this is true, then it must be taken for granted that she has not really made up her mind to marry any man just yet, Thesé three men in her life have just been guiae posts on the road to romange. while the world little world of her So -at least the is watching and eagerly hoping to hear ot « thts own: ing romance—Dellora !s calmly own suing her free way Whether love has touched her ‘heart or not, it is but a matter of con care co ture. Whether she is running away or being led away from love—is still another mé Lester ter of conjecture. At any is watching and hoping to hear that Dellora is to come back to him, 2 rate, aa |: 3