The sun., 1919-04-05
MARJORIE RAMBEAU
DIVORCES FIXIN'S
Sells Myriad Of Weird and
Other Furnishings in Her
Ex-Husband's Den.
ACTORS ATTEND AUCTION
Snake Skins, Poker Table,
Pictures, Shoehorns and
Everything Goes.

Marjorie Rambeau. actress and movie
star. having divorced Willard Mack.
actor and playwright, and remarked. Is
now seeking a legal separation from all
the furniture and household fixins they
once shared in common. She 10 now
having sold at auction in Smiths knick-
erbocker Salesrooms, Forty-ninth street
and Seventh avenue. collection OF fur
nishlngs which for magnifcence and
weirdness is-well. it's like those start
ling tumbles that directors put into
some of these swell vampire establish
ments in the movies.
The vendue is not due to the fact
that her new husband. Hugh Dillman
McGaughy. who married her on March
after having started run as her
stage son in THE Fortune Teller at
the Republic Theatre. objects to having
any oleographs Of his predecessor in
office staring at him fxedly from the
walls, causing cold chills to chase them
selves UP and down his temperament
No; according to information obtained
from Traffic Cop Babe Macdonald. the
champion weight thrower. who throws
the traffic around Broadway at Forty
third street. the reason current along
New York's Appian Way is that Miss
Rambeau wishes to cut herself of en-
tirely from her former husbands shay
ing mug.
So the sale of practically everything
but the carpet lacks that fitted up her
apartment, the Turrets, on Riverside
Drive at Eighty-fourth street, as well
as her country residence at Pelham
Manor, has been going on for the last
three days, while theatrical managers.
players and proprietors of Broadway's
purple palaces have been mussing UP
one another's makeup in the effort to
get possession of Miss Rambeaus bril-
liant thermos bottles and other rare OBJ
jects Of art. Up till yesterday the sales
aggregated Sli,425. which indicates
that the theatre folk aren't offering
passes in exchange-or at least that the
clever Miss Rambeau isn't taking any.
BED Room Suite Bring. s47o.
Yesterday the highest price offered
was $470. which brought a Louis XIV
bedroom suite to a lucky chap who was
able to indulge his weakness for sleeping
entirely surrounded by Circassian wal
nut. But that wasn't the real outstand-
ing feature of the days bidding-not by
ESQ pounds. The big thud on Broad
ways consciousness occurred when Billy
the Oysterman. who looks as though he
carries a large part of the stock of his
restaurant OH Twentieth street con-
cealed on his person. bought n huge
mahogany chair, formerly thu property
OF Grover Cleveland, with compart-
ments that might be useful before pro-
hibition sets in. 1t was whis 3ered that
Billy went to the chair-or vice versa
not because he bid s23, but because he
was the only one present who could At
its dimensions. Billy breaking the scales
at something like 800 pounds.
Even more OF a sensation was caused
when Auctioneer c. E. Smith offered a
oelluloId foot brace and leg rest. What
can this mean?" murmured the embar-
raised actors, using the discreet muir
muir of delicacy. 1t was explained that
Miss Rambeau has used this for support
after she fractured her-well, what she
was skating with at the time-and
hadn't bought it for a parlor ornament
Some lucky dog got that. too,
Half the spectators weren't bidding,
however, being too absorbed by the fas-
c.nating items listed in that bit of light
summer reading, the catalogue. There
were acres of pictures, some of them
even described as "colored"-by hand
doubtless A lot of the pictures deal,
with Napoleon. though any charge that
Miss Rambeau is a worshipper of mill.
tarism is easily refuted by the fact tina,
they depicted Nap in his worst moments
such as that time when he left Moscow
fiat.
Lunch Boxes, but No Motors.
Then there were two sets of automo.
bile lunch boxes, which had lost some
of their value. however. by not being
attached to either an automobile or q
lunch. Mixed up with lace curtains
alcohol stoves and punch bowls was "a
headache pillow of pine leaves" Some
reason for its use seemed to be indicated
in long list OF wines.
But 1t was pointed out that this stool
OF Moselle, Haut Sauterne and Burgund,
which was offering some honest soul 6
chance to forget amendments. the fig
ure IS and everything, had meant moth
ing to Miss RambeaI's complexion. BE
cause" said Helen j. Peroxide one O
her most ardent and elegant defenders
among the blonde or acting set, ain
she selling them?"
But what can be meant by this item
fourteen ladies' cocktail glasses ?" de
manded her escort, Hector ]. Bullion.
We'll, amt she selling them, too?"
Then they turned to the canto In tn,
catalogue which numbered an electric hal
dryer, went on 10 describe various bit
of military hardware, curious or his
toric, and finally. growing tired of THU
task. Jumped the remainder as "lot o
assorted guns" Next. among Loui
kahns suites. was the item "curled hal
mattress" followed by dresser [,
match"
Also exposed TO the public gaze in tn
saesrOoms were a couple of day beds,
which seemingly arc necessary In tn
night haunting theatrical profession
Mixed up with a Chinese Doctors ha
and cluster lights was an article llste,
as female oil painting" and not fa
off were eight odd framed pictures
though the exact nature OF the oddit,
wasn't touched upon.
Poker Table Good for Dining.
A piece de resistance was described a
~ mahogany poker table with reversi
BILE top: can be also used as a dninl
table"-obviously convenient wheneve
good game had TO be interrupted b,
meals. "a mounted moose head-super
specimen" said the catalogue In one O
its rare poetic fiights-looked down O.
''candle holder and pair of moccasins,
not far from n shoehorn. buttonhool
and nail cutter with ivory handles whicl
indicated to what lengths the star wa
willing to carry the sale. But whe
Daguerreoty they wondered audibl
" Miss Rambeau was cutting hersel
OF from her ancestors too.
Two human hair wigs were offere
as a counter attraction to Lmoge
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