Evening journal., 1921-01-05
RUMMAGE SALE FOR CHARITY.
MODEL Wins
ANOTHER CHANCE
~ n A cIon cnocialY


SYRACUSE, n. Y, Jan. 5.-Audrey
Munson Is again on the way to fame
and fortune
This after osiracism, poverty, hun
ger.
She has obtained an opportunity to
star in mOving-picture production
that, ID Is promised, Will Outshine
Purity" and Inspiration In which
she won Worldwide celebrity.
Audrey Munson famous as the
worlds perfect model-was the victim
Of a murder and public opinion. Com
bined. they dragged her from the
heights OF fame to the depths OF de-
spair.
She had posed for much Of the
wonderful art at the panama-Pacitlc
Exposition in san Francisco. includ-
ing the Konu Column Of Progress
and descending Night" She was the
original Of Daniel Chester Frcnch's
"Evangeline' in Central Park, New
York, aud suffering Humanity in
the Booth memorial In LOndOnA
Artists and sculptors WED for her
services: mOVing-picture producers
competed for her; theatrical managers
pursued her.
The night OF February q, 1919, the
police received a call from the Long
island summer home OF Or. Walter
Keene wilkins, a physician Of 6l.
His wife had been beaten to death
with a hammer
At FIRST the authorities accepted
Doctor wilkins statement that bur
glars had attacked himself and his
wife.
Then came the discovery Of Mrs.
wilkins will, bequeathing $4,000 to
her husband Also the discovery that
Audrey Munson and her mother, who
had lived In the wilkins winter home
In New York, had disappeared.
10 was said the Muns0ns had left
wilkins place several days before
the murder because Doctor wilkins
had annoyed the young woman lie
was reported as having said TO her,
Don't ever get married. II you do
You Will lose your symmetrical
ilgure."
Doctor wilkins was tried convicted,
sentenced -- and committed suicide,
protesting his innocence in death
note.
But Audrey Munson had become
known 90 the world as "the woman
In the case She had been found in
Canada. where she had taken refuge,
but had refused TO return to testify
In the trial.
1t availed nothing that Doctor VII
klns in his cell had branded reports
that he was Interested in the beau
tiful model as a "cruel lie.'
10 availed nothing that she issued
a statement in Canada that she was
there In connection with her motion
picture work, and that the doctor S
attitude toward her had been proper
one.
When Audrey Munson returned Ia
America, she found every door closed
against her.
'The wilkins case has ruined my
| life" she mOaned "rhe public used
| 10 love and admire me. Now all
| find everywhere is hate"
she sought employment In New
/ York, Detroit, Chicago. Her fund;
gave out. Finally. virtually penniless
I she returned with her mother TO hel
/ girlhood home In Syracuse.
With her mother she went 10 Syra
cuse merchants and begged work as
clerk: 10 restaurants. where sh
sought a job as waitress; finally q
the public library, where she sOugh
employment as an apprentice at
cents an hour.
None would hire her
Meanwhile, mother and daughte
lived in one furnished room, cOokin
their meager meals on a tiny gas plat
attached 10 a jet.
Finally, after five weeks OF tramT
ing the streets in search OF a 10
while her mother sold Atchenwar
from door TO door Audrey Munso
, disappeared from Syracuse.
But finally she has been foun
again-back in the furnished room
which the Munson's soon Will lesN
forever.
The look OF suffering and emacis
tion is gone. She's happy and h0pefu
81 finally found an influentii
friend" she says. 1T was a cOmpan
that couldn't offer me employment &
J self. but interceded in my behalf wit
film concern-what one / mustn
tell.
+, i've been given an advantageot
cOntracl-and an opportunity 10 con
back. I'm only 27-think OF titan
have time TO build a new caree
Wen succeed, too, won't W
mother2"
And Audrey Munson's one tru
! friend IN trial and trouble smiled bacl
i Wen try real hard !"
I The question is: VIII public opiI
ion let heyf