The Washington times., 1922-08-12
NINE. WALSKA
IS MYSTERIOUS
! AND0R|ENTAL
Age Battling. Appearance Ex-
: otto, She Demands That
Husband Be Slave.
ny CosmepelitAn News Service.


NEW YORK. Aug. 12.-"Exotic
and mysterious" are the words gen.
orally applied to Mr.. Mccormick s
bride. All that New York knew
Of her before she appeared In a
French sketch. Mile. Nitouche," at
the Century Theater In 1915, was
what she told-and. Nine. Walska
was recticent.
She was to have made her debut
In Hammerstein's old Victoria music
hall In that year, but II was an.
nounced that a cablegram telling Of
the death In battle of her first nus
band, Capt. Archadie d'EinBorn, an
officer in the service of the late
Gar Of Russia, had prostrated her.
The woman, who In her fifth mar,
riage has won the powerful niillior.
aire head OF the harvester trust.
and whose former conquest made
Alexander Smith Cochran. Yonkers'
carpet manufacturer. confirmed
bachelor ard heir of a fortune esti-
mated at from s25.0o0.0 900 to $780,.
,000. 900. her slave, is tall. She
stands apparently five feet, ten
inches.
She is slender but strongly built
and probably weighs 1856 pounds.
Ivory and rose, like the tinted
statues Of the ancient Greeks,
mark her complexion. Her features
are almost pure Grecian, except
her lips, which are a trifle full.
and her slightly curved and ,sen.
sitive nose, which hints at a dash
Of Oriental blood. Her large eyes
are blue and cold as glacial ice.
Thick light chestnut hair seems to
spring from her head In 'luxuris nj
folds.
Age Is Question.
Her age presents a battling prob
lem to the observer. She seems "a
have all the shrewdness OF ma
youth. Walska affects the exotic
In apDarel. She Is fond OF y.ar.lins
gowns and barharic jewsirv.
She came from Poland, and wher
she first appeared in New York ir
1915. she bore a ietter of introduc
ton from Anna Held, whom she
had met In Paris, to Diamond
Jim" Brady. Her birthplace wa,
Warsaw and her family name wa,
Leszcynska. She stated that hel
family had disowned her because ol
her elopemsn with the czar's cap
tain and that she later separated
from him.
Soon after she appeared in Mile
Nitouche" at the Century Theater
announcement was made Of her en-
gagement to Lowell NJ. Palmer, jr.
president Of the Palmer Lime and
Cement Company. q member Of one
OF the Oldest families in the city
He had met her after seeing the
play.
Six months later the engagement,
was broken without assigned cause
Nine. walska In an interview later
revealed what she expects In a hus
band as follows:
Demands Slave.
American men fall short OF the
ideal as lover or husband. My
husband must be my slave. II Il
hard to find men in America who
are willing to be slaves. Husband!
Never again. He is a hindrance to
art. He gets in the way. Even
a fiapce is bad"
x few months later she was wed
to DR.. Joseph Fraenkel, OF New
York, one Of the foremost nerve
anu
who was twenty years her senior.
One of her admirers, q wealthy
banker, 10 said to have introduced
her to DIR. Fraenkal. For a time
she dropped from public notice ano
then DIR. Fraenkel died. leaving her
the heiress to s36O,000. News OF
The marriage did not become public
until announcement Of DIR. Fraen
kel's death.
1t Is said the singer met Harold
F. Mccormick when crossing the
Atlantic on the Aquitania- Her en-
gagement to sing with the Chicago
opera. which ended unfortunately
ab rehearsal Of ::Zaza" was cred
tied to McCormick's influence.
Alexander Smith Cochran was q
fellow passenger of Mccormick or
the Aquitania. Her sudden mar
riage to Cochran made her the
wife Of one Of: the wealthiest mer
in America. She recently obtained