The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-03-15
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Dreams of Conquest Created
BY the First Priestesses When
Men Still Lived in Caves

VHE fact that the family OF
Thomas r. Williams, Jr., is
rent In twain because Thomas
r Williams, Jr, has married Nine.
De Beau. charming dancer OF
Valeska Surratt's company, gives
point to the psychologists sta tcment
that dancers are natural disturbers
OF the family peace. They make
more trouble in families than does
any other class OF women. The light
toe creates more trouble in the house
hold than the light purse or even
the light head.
When dancer isn't breaking up
someone's else family she kicks her
own into splinters," said a bitter old
cynic OF Broadway. When q man dis
puted his statement tho cynic re-
called Nance Gwynn OF the four
husbands and who lives in anticipa.
ton OF seven, because fortune tel
Ter told her she would have that
number OF spouses. Miss Gwynn was
named as correspondent in the divorce
suit Of Mrs. Charles Gilpin, Jr, so
being drawn for q painful time into
the vortex Of trouble in one Of the
oldest families in philadelphia. While
dancer Bessie Clayton has never
taken her troubles into the courts
she IS by no means reticent about
the part dancer Louise Alexander
has played in the SCATTERING Of her
domestic idols. Living apart from
her husband. Julian Mitchell, she
points to the brunette dancer as the
reason. Nor has Anna Held been
any less communicative anent dancer
Lillian Lorraine as the yillainess OF
her sad story of ties that were first
grievously tangled, then sundered.
Mrs. Conway Tearle told a SYM
pathetic judge the story OF how Ro-
berta Menges Hill, once known as
the belle OF Sheepshead Bay, had
danced her husband away from his
hearthside, had all but kidnapped
him, had indeed spirited him away,
albeit with his connivance, to Europ-
can shores. The judge was so sorry
for Mrs. Tearle and SO indignant with
Roberta Menges that he granted Mrs.
Tearle the divorce she craved.
Duse the compelling. the most mar
vellous OF living actresses, lost the
interest and II was believed the
heart OF Gabrielle d'Annunzio, great
est OF living Italian authors, to
Sinuous enchantress. Ida Rubinstein.
once premiere danseuse Of the Rus
sian ballet at the Grand Opera House
Of Paris.
The dancer Saharet proposes TO
marry her partner. Senior Florido. as
soon as the male dancer disadvantages
himself from previous matrimonial
bonds. Herr Frantzius, her husband.
not waiting for this tightening of
Florido's conjugal burden, named his
wife's dancing partner in a success.
full suit for divorce. Herr Frantzius
fell in love with the dancers portrait
and fell out OF love with her tempera-
ment, which he said was made up
OF one hundred parts OF volatility.
Dancer Bessie Mccoy was not
named in Mrs. Richard Harding
Davis's suit for divorce. But no one
mas denied that her friendship OF two
years for the novelist widened the
breach that existed between the
author and his artist-wife. When the
divorce was accomplished Miss Nc
Coy became the second Mrs. Davis.
Odette Valery. who stirred the ad
miration of Oscar Hammerstein, her
impresario, by the romantic record
OF twenty-eight love
affairs in one year.
was the bogie wo-
: man TO many I'M
A4 happy Parisiennes.
mo. Never did the dusky-
NAA8 haired charmer with
81 NNSNh the alluring black
eyes fail 10 inject
thorn into a matri-
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