Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-06-27
: The Most Popular Model
IL, America, Explains
Why No Husband Ought to
Object to His Wife Being
Sculptured, Painted and
Photographed All Over
the World.

a CDREY MUNSON is going to be
~ married. She is the girl who posed
for Mrs. Harry Payne Whitney's
angels, and for Furio Piccirilli's Autumn
and Winter, and whose face appears
above the Little Theatre and on the walls
OF the Aston Hotel in New York; whose
head is seen on all the medals, and whose
figure is reproduced in most of the statu-
airy Of the Panama-Pacilic Exposition in
all kinds Of dress and undress. Yes,
that's the girl. Of course everyone who
has a scrap of sentiment LETT in her or
him will want to know all about it.
The bridegroom? Yes, he is more or
less important. 1t has been noted that
although kept considerably in the back
ground ana generally overlooked and ig-
norcd, you can't have n wedding without
one. He is in this case Guiseppi Dinelh.
The Marquis Guiseppi Dinelli, if you
please. His father is a Chcvalier. The
family is an old and noble one, OF
name reVered in Italy.
But the Marquis Dinelli was not Of
the languid blood that would permit him
to remain in Italy and on the old estates
and beneath the blue skies and amid the
blue lakes of his native country, dream.
ing of the greatness Of his ancestors.
No the blood of the Dinellis is rather
that OF a Columbus than Of one of the
ndolent Doges of Venice. He came to
the country discovered by his country
man. Because he played so we'll the
piano and the violoncelo he opened a
studio in New York First for his own
amusement, afterwards because those
who admired the feathery touches of his
fingers upon the piano and the human
tones he drew from the violin asked him
for lessons on those instruments.
Where did they meet? 4 vital part of
every romance is that meeting. Every
one wants 10 know how and when Cupid
manouvered the first glance Of the eye
and first throb of the heart that told
is OF soul romantic but It may possess a
prosaic semblencc. The meeting Of the
Marquis Dnelli and of Audrey Munson,
the most reproduced girl In the world, oc
Cured outside a millinery shop.
Cupid had II that both were moved at
the same instant to stop before a show
window in which reposed hat butterfly
like in It's lightness. Both looked at the
Gauzy creation. Both admired the pose
Of the crisp blue ribbon bow on the crown
OF the hat. as though bird had alighted
upon drift of snow From the hat they
glanced at each other.
Fame brushes away stupid Conven-
tons. especially if that fame has been
won in upper Bohemia. The Marquis's
hat came off in sweeping bow.
Pardon me" The tone Of polite Ital-
ian is like caress. you are Miss Au-
drey Munson. the famous model. ] could
but know you since your pictures are in
all the papers. May introduce myself?
|, too, am disciple Of art"
The girl with the clear, childlike gray
eyes, the innocent smile and the Madonna
aspect, further emphasized by hair parted
in the middle and waving smoothly ava!
from her temples and covering her ears
read the card extended, looked up ingen
uously and exclaimed:
"Yon are the first nobleman I eve
saw. Is it not wonderful to have a
titlc?"
You think so? am glad. But carr
much more for art. VIII you permit mt
10 make some photographs of you??"
Miss Audrey Munson, who is eighteeI
and q mothers girl. took her Marquis
straight home TO the simple little fiat a
the corner of West End avenue and Sew
entieth street, and presented him to he