New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-02-04

that he would not be permitted TO con-
tinue. In the street there was a ire
mendous scramble for the green things.
Some Of those who got them found
that they had 81 bills, for there had
been about eighty in the bundles
thrown down. The remainder found
themselves in possession Of neat green
slips the size Of bill, which called
their attention 20 the fact that "The
Million" would open in Boston the
following evening.
Not the least interesting part OF this
story is that Mr.. Heath encountered
the once mysterious millionaire on
Broadway the other day, and that he
the mysterious one, Of course-tried
20 borrow a dollar.
Z. A. We'll, row conspiring 70 keep
the Longacre and William Collier in
the limelight, planned and executed
hardly less elaborate scheme. The
woman in the case has since become
the wife Of well known man. which
IS the reason why Mr.. We'll declines
TO yield her name. While appearing
on Broadway in a musical show she
received series Of fervent notes.
which began by requesting a photo
graph and then asked for an appoint
ment The actress sent the photo
graph, but denied the appointment.
Several letters followed the refusal
OF the appointment, and in these the
man protested his undying affection
and limited that the present condition
Of affairs could not long be tolerated.
None Of these letters was answered.
A few days later a man boarded the
Fall River boat at New York, acquired
a stateroom and wrote two letters. One
was 70 his mother, the other 10 the
actress. lie left the letters. his suit
case and his hat in the stateroom,
locked the door and walked off the
boat In the morning, when he failed
20 respond, the door was broken open.
Il was quite evidently case of sui
eide. The Associated Press picked up
the story and sent it across the coun-
try. The name of the actress and the
attraction appeared in hundreds of
newspapers, and gradually the case
was forgotten. II is here cleared up"
for the first time.
When seen by reporters the actress
was able to play her part perfectly, for
the simple reason that she had not
been let in on the scheme. Probably
she believes It genuine 70 this day
The letters, Of course, were written by
the press agent. he had several con-
federates-a hotel clerk, who received
the mans mail; the man who went
down 70 the boat and q woman who
posed as the dead mans mother.
The case Of Jue Quon Tai Is quit.
recent, She arrived at the Hotel Aston
last fall and demanded the royal suite
A room clerk, duly posted, .elephoned
20 the newspapers. He didn't know
anything about her, he said, but &c
looked TO him az though there might
be story in her. They could do a.
they pleased about it. The result:
Thirty-fve reporters and photogra-
piers at the hotel to see Miss Jue
Quon Tai. She told them her story.
She was Chinese princess and she
had run away from home because her
father, proud Manchu, wanted her 70
marry a certain prince. She had come
over TO study American womanhood,
she said, and several thousand other
words 70 that effect. They we're good
words. They were written for her BIZ
Walter J. Kingsley, press agent for the
Keith vaudeville interests and nearly
everything else. Subsequently Miss
Tai made her appearance at the Pal
ace, and she is making the vaudeville
rounds to-day. The nearest that she
ever came 10 China, incidentally, is
the Celestial quarter Of San Francisco.
It was Mr.. Kingsley also who engi-
neersd the disappearance of Leopold
Godowsky not long ago. !: was eI-
pected at the time tina. the pianist
would consider a vaudeville offer, but
the plan fell through. It was Mr..
Kingsley who persuaded the Morgan
dancers 10 dance in the snow at Cen
trail Park, thus sliding numerous large
group photographs into the newspapers
before the announcement was made
that they were about 20 appear at the
Palace. Il was Mr.. Kingsley who es-
tablished a high tension electricity
room at the Palace, where performers
we're supposed 20 battle themselve. in
high voltage electricity and thus be
come fully popped" for the perform
snce. This little venture. incidentally.
cost 81, 500.
II was Mr.. Kingsley, together with
Harry D. Kline, now of the Globe Z
who tied up the Great Lakes wireless
service ten years sgo for the sake OF :
A press story. The scene WAS Cleye-
land. where Msdgs Carr Cooke, mother
Of Eleanor Robson Belmont, was sp- /