The Florence tribune., 1900-11-24
OF LOCAL INTEREST.
An Arizona Girl Marrles an English NobIs-
 man, who Dlvorees Her.

LONDON, November 7.-Sir George Henry Bowyer, Bart, was to-day granted an absolute divorce from his wife, formerly Miss Ethel Hawkins of San Francisco.
 Carey Johnston, formerly Secretary to the Duke of Manchester, was named as correspondent. No defense was made. It. was alleged that Lady Bowyer deserted her titled husband, prefering the attentions of Johnstone. But the inevitable quarrel followed and the couple separated in Paris some weeks ago.
 Last summer Lady Bowyer returned to San Francisco to visit her old home and renew girlhood scquant ances. About the same time Carey Johnstone arrived here, and when he was not devoting himself to my lady he mingled with the popular young men who are welcome visitors at homes from which ordinary tourists are rigidly excluded. But the Duke of Manches- ter's secretary was no ordinery clerk, so his daily invitations to swell dinners and receptions were numerous. Then, came the denouement. Lord Bowyer was displeased and his anger increased when he learned what was going on in San Francisco. He notified my lady by cable that he had decided to sue for i a divorce and that Mr. Johnstone's name would appear in the complaint as chief offender against his marital rights. There is only one ground for an absolute divorce in English law, and when the story leaked out here the secretary received fewer scented invitations. Johnstone cut his visit short and returned to England and my lady went to Europe.
 With her European experience, di- vorce, a recreant admirer, and her girl ish beauty unmarred, Lady Bowyer may now resume her theatrical career, which was interrupted when she mar ried several years ago. Before she ac- quired title and 8 wealthy husband, Ethel Hawkins had gone through sew eral ordeals, more or less interesting, in her efforts to achieve fame and fortune. First she tried the stage. With fresh, matchless beauty, figure that nature nodded most carefully and an unusual endowment of vivacity, she made 8 fairly successful start. All she lacked was talent to have won an immediate and permanent pedestal in the actress es' hall of fame. Of the stage she was the idol of the gilded youths, who spent with liberal hands their papa's dollars.
 Of course European tour was neces. sary, and while on the Continent, where the public demands more than beauty of actresses, the pretty San Francisco girl met with reversal of fortune and she could get no engage ments.
 Finally something had to de done. Ethel had face and form which artists needed to inspire masterpieces. She became model, posing as Trilby posed in the ateliers of painters whose canvasses are frequently hung in the Luxembourg and, ultimately, are given place in the Lo uvre.
 Then the pretty model met Sir George Bowyer, who was visiting the studios of Paris. He, too, admired the pretty Californienne, and in very short time he proposed and she be- came Lady Bowyer. Studios and the stage were forsalen and Ethel ap- peared in her new role, enjoying the privileges of being received at Dublin Castle and other places where only persons of high degree are permitted to enter.
 Ethel Hawkins made her stage de- but in San Francisco where she was reared. Her brother, Dal Hawkins, became famous as 8 prize-fghter, and her sister Eve became an actress. The sister is also a handsome young woman and is married to 8 prominent English brewer.
 Fortune was unkind to the Hawkins family when they were young. Their father, an Englishman, settled in Tombstone, Arizona, and after making 8 fortune, lost it again. His death left the family in sore straits, and Mrs. Hawkins was forced 10 earn liveli- hood for herself and children. Her only means of support was music, and as there was little demand for musical instruction in the frontier town the mother engaged as pianist in the only place of amusement in the camp. The frontier was not 6 desirable place to rear two pretty daughters, so Mrs. Hawkins removed to San Francisco where her girls grew up. Their home here was on the corner of Powell and
 Bush streets, and many, many youth fingered in the neighborhood of an afternoon or evening to catch smile from either of the handsome Hawkins girls.