The evening world., 1911-03-10
KINGS FAVOR|TE
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A PICTURE SHOW
Baroness Blanc, Who Burned
Up Many Fortunes, Eagerly
Grabs Public's Nickels.
FOUR N A BRIDE.
Marriage a Failure for Once
Famous Beauty-Took Trip
With Grand Duke Alexis.
FOUR TIMES A BRIDE.


talked about woman IN New York, the
hostess and entertainer. f%ascinator and
charmer OF the most famous dandles
and hlgh-livers in America, the
Baroness" Blanc. has settled down into
the unromanttic business OF running n
N~,chesodeon. From l r. NJ 10 II 2. NJ.
she may be found In charge Of her
bicsraph theatre or Sixty-ifth street.
just west OF Broadway.
From the little glass Widowed niche
where She sits In craven calm, phleg-
m~atically reaching out for the nickels
with a hand that once flashed with n
fortune of gems. this m~iddle-aged
sedate-looking woman can look back
through 0 vista Of realities hat would
try the Imagination OF our greatest ro-
msnticists 10 invent. -"
Spent Younslins's Fort0Fie.
For fifteen years she was tho most
conspicuous queen of hearts in Amer
lea. She was four times married 10
men OF great wealth. and there were
forty others IN her train who sought her
hand and poured their fortunes In n
golden stream at her feet. She taught
Fred d. Youngllng. son of the million
aire brewer. the art Of going some"
when he was still a boy. Both Young
linEs died penniless. the son IN the
prison ware OF Bellevue two years ago
last September. his death being du to
ACUTE alcoholism.
The Baroness Blanc's several nus
bands were Alfred Lawrence Riegel. a
rich and highly connected young Phila-
dslphian; Baron Frederick N. Blanc
tthe Baron" being merely a given
name), also rich n q sensational
spender; Leeds Vaughan Waters. the
son of a New York piano manufactures.
and Shirley Onderdonk. son OF Andrew
Onderdonk, the millionaire Chicago con-
tractor. Divorce severed all these mar
itsl ties, and many famous men and
women were named as correspondents
IN the suits which gave the baroness
her freedom.
Tour With Grand Duke Alexis.
II was not only In America that the
Baroness" was famous for her beau
ty. her clothes, her splendid ~equipages
and her thrilling escapades. twenty
years ago the newspapers OF Europe
rave her more space than any crowned
head, publishing and republishing
thrilling accounts OF her 'hfce n'o"'"s
journey TO Nice, Cannes. faris ana
London with the Grand Duke Alexis
of Russia an1 Prince George of
Greece In her train. Her chaperon
was the Princess Skobelloff, and the
two beauties journey through Europe Ia
tr,,y regal s~piendor.
The Baroness returned TO Amer
lea with some memorable souvenir :
OF this journey, among mem q royal
decoration studded wlun uiainohus shu
emeralds that the Grahd Duke mac
conferred upon her.
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