Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-08-03
Famed in New York. Paris
and Newport for Tran
scendant Beauty, She Is
> Now Baroness d'Erlanger
BY MARGUERITE M. MARSHALL

BY MARGUERITE nj. MARSHALL
She had seventeen chances to
share the Peacock throne of Per-
STA!
Instead, she prefers to be a
mere baroness-does Marion An
drews Bruguiere Denning Hew-
! it'd Erlanger, the all-conquering
! American beauty, whose fourth and
latest marriage in Paris to Baron
Robert d'Erlanger, just announced,
crowns a career resembling a
movie
In twenty years the new Bar
oness dErlanger has had four
husbands-two of them million
aires; one, a great scientist, in
ventor and descendant of a noted
New York family; one, a British
nobleman. She has had q Reno d.
vorce-and, because she thought it
hadn't "taken," an annulment of
marriage. She has had two chill
dren-one of them boy of eight
cen. Through her charm, her wit
above all, her remarkable beau.
ty--she has been equally a success
in Newport and Paris. She has, ac-
cording to report, refused the Boy
Shah of Persia no less than seven
teen times-him and his Peacock
throne, and all his other wonder.
full treasures. In short, she has
had the romantic career of a scena-
rio or best-seller heroine-the sort
of thing which thrills every girl,
and which every girls mother
brands as perfectly preposterous
and impossible" But sometimes, you
see, life manages to be almost as
thrilling and amazing as fiction!
The Baroness d'Erlanger was
born Marion Andrews, daughter of
Tunstall T. Andrews, of Virginia,
and, obviously, she was born with
all the southern girls traditional
heritage of beauty, grace, wit and
heart-breaking charm.
Her first husband, Pedar Bru-
guiere, was a descendant of Span
ish dons, son Of Emil Bruguiere,
of California and Newport, a mil
lionaire and an exceedingly hand
some man. Marion Andrews mar
ried him just twenty years ago, in
1902. He had been married before
to Madeleine McKissick, of Oak
land, Cal, whom he had divorced
ten months later.
The lovely Mrs. Bruguiere pre-.
scented her husband with a son,
Pedar, Jr., who is now a youth of
eighteen. Nevertheless, when she
was abroad, in 1909, her husband
went to Reno and got divorce
his second.
Then his former wife married for
the second time-Stewart Denning,
of New York. But these Reno di-
| vorces are not always what they
seem. Mrs. Denning had not been
| Mrs. Denning for long when she de-
cided that her husbands "Reno-va-
ton" had been imperfect. In short,
she asked to have her second mar
riage annulled, on the ground that
| her first was still valid and hat not
been affected by the Reno decree.
| She won her suit, too. But when
she went to the Coast o obtain, by
| court action, maintenance as DR..
Pedar Brugiere's wife, she lost the
| action.
Columns have been printed about
| the lovely Mrs. Bruguiefe's-she
continued to call herself by this
name-success as heart breaker
in Newport and New York. 1t
was rumored that she would marry
William P. Burden, anon others.
Jimmie" Van Allen was supposed
to be one Of her admirers, and
! other pr -inent members of the
-Four Hundred were listed among
the worshippers of her shrine.
| But the next reel in the scenario
| Of her lie came with the announce.
ment of her marriage to Peter Coop
er Hewitt, the famous scientist and
| inventor and the grandson of old
! Peter Cooper himself.
New York was astounded by the
news for several reasons. In the
first place, until the announcement
| of the marriage-it took place in
Paterson, n. J.-nobody knew that
| Peter Cooper Hewitt and his first
| wife had been divorced. She was
Lucy Work, daughter of the multi
millionaire, Frank Work, and Peter
Cooper Hewitt married her in 1887
White-haired gracious charming
she was q well known figure in New
York society.
Three weeks after the Hewitt di.
vorce, three days after the first Mrs
Hewitt sailed for Europe to do war
work, Mr.. Hewitt and Mrs. Bru
| guiere were married. The bride
groom was said TO be just twice the
brides age.
The next time New York heard