The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-06-06
ANNA HELD WANTS
TO GET A DIVORCE
Actress Denies Taking Action
in Any Way
WOMAN IN THE CASE
Actress Is Said to BE One of
the Causes for Miss Anna Held
Seeking Separation From
Her Husband
by VANCE THOMPSON

Paris, June ESPECIALLY Paris was
stirred today by the report that Anna
Held had made up her mind that she
had enough of married life and had
sought divorce from Florence Zieg-
field.
The correspondent found her in the
fiat in the Fauborg Saint Honore, which
she has kept during the Is years of
her career in America and to which
she now returns for m indefinite pc
Rod Madame Held said:
Il am not applying for divorce and
I have not heard that Mr.. ziegfeld is.
OF course i do not know what the fu-
'ture will bring. l have had several Of
fers of marriage, two from men of title.
since my return. When they heard
that I had millions of dollars all wanted
to marry me; they made me feel like
a real American heiress who was want
ed for her money and not for herself.
IT have heard Miss Lorraines name
mentioned in connection with Ziegfeld.
She plays in the Revue for my husband
indeed. advised him to engage her,
because she has talent. Mr.. Shubert
told me that ziegfeld wanted to marry
make me Jealous. II Ziegfeld wants
to marry Miss Lorraine I will say so
sorry but he can have his divorce
"Ziegfeld says he loves me. but
French novelists like Bourget say that
a man can love two women at the same
time-I don't know. Ziegfeld and my
self have been practically living apart
only me, and we were always togeth err;
then he took on other shows and we
were apart. 1t was l who taught Zieg
field how to run a French revue; 1 gave
him the Paris idea. When he left me
alone 1 was too proud to ask him not
to stay so much away from me. Now
I have given him the idea of starting
Les Follies Bergeres' In New York. If
he does that will return whether am
divorced or not.
IT like the idea advanced by Mrs
Herbert Parsons of experimental mar
riages.' This would be better than
having sudden marriage followed by
a hasty divorce. In the United States
girls marry for business: by this mean
they marry in order to get a divorce
and alimony. 1t is the allmony they
are after; it is mere matter of BUSH
ness"
Anna Held wished it understood that
she did not dislike ziegfeld. although
he gambled a good deal. When she left
New York he sent her flowers, fruit
and champagne and said he would
come to Paris to visit her and her little
daughter. At the close of the inter
view Madame Held said:
Whatever happens, I do not want to
buy nobleman. / should feel like
those American widows who buy for
eign title with the money of their
dead American husbands"
ZeigfeId Denies Report
New York, June Especial IL am
glad of a chance to thrash out this d.
vorce talk. and l hope to do 1t once and
for ALL" said Florence Ziegfeld tonight.
Ever since Miss Held and l have been
forced to live some of the time apart
there have been reports that she and
were to be legally separated. Most
of these stories were started by my
business enemies.
There is no basis for any of this
idle prattle. Miss Held does not want
a divorce any more than /. Each has
helped make the other. Our separations
have been the result of business en-
gagements."