Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-06-08

way from $17,000,000 to 100000,
and though he has spent many mil
lions seeking pleasure, his fortune
is unimpaired.
He has bought rare books and pic
lures, dabbled in aviation and dogs,
made tremendous gifts to charity;
he has owned a dozen steam yachts.
including the Vanitie, defender OF
Americas cup, and the 100000 Sea
Gull which flivvered and was scrap
ped; he has bought strings of race
horses, paying 100000 for the 3-year'
old His Majesty; he owns Duncrag
gen estate, north of Yonkers; in
1916 he bought Mrs. o. H. P. Bel
mont's Brookholt estate near Hemp
stead and $50 acres adjoining for
two polo fields, but his interest flag
ged, as it did also in an estate in
Virginia, and the million-dollar Glen
eyrie estate he bought in 1917 near
Colorado Springs; he planned mil
lion-dollar apartment hotel in New
York, and abandoned the plans that
cost a small fortune.
..- CHAPTER 8
Cochran's pockets are bottomless.
Love provides a new outlet for his
millions. He is hopelessly in love
with beautiful Gamma Walska. Evel
Mccormick, the "angeP' of grand
opera-the opera that is her amb1'
tion-is outshone by, Cochran.
The. millionaire bachelor follows
her over the continent. In Zurich
he outgenerals another sutton. On
two successive days costly automo
biles are delivered at her door.
And in mid-September, in Paris
they are married. 1t is whispered
that Gamma has had spirit mes.
sages" from her dead husband-No
2-and the doctors ghost has coun
seled her to marry Cochran.
CHAPTER
Winter in Chicago, 1920. Nine
Gamma Walska (Cochran) is a new
which everybody knows would have
died long ago if Harold Mccormick
hadn't supported it.
And on the eve of her premiere in
Zaza there is an uproar. Conductor
Marinuzzi throws up his baton in
disgust and quits the orchestra. Nc
Cormick demands that Walska be
permitted to sing. In the excite
ment WalSka disappears.
CHAPTER 5
Winter in Paris finds Gamma and
Cochran there-and happy.
But summer brings thunderclouds
In July there is a report they have
| separated-arld the whisper of new
ghost story, that spirit messages
from Husband No. 2 tell Gamma she
did wrong in marrying Cochran.
September in Dieppe; Gamma is the
guest of Mccormick and his daugh.
ter. She returns to her home in
Paris and locks out Cochran. Nc.
Cormick also is in Paris. Cochran
is in Paris-at the Ritz. And Gan.
mas lawyer, Dudley Field Malone,
is in Paris.
And September brings Mrs. Nc.
Cormick to America, saying: II do
not know that woman"
CHAPTER 6
Now it is October, and Cochran
has a lawyer, too-Samuel Inter
myer. Malone and Untermyer shoot
hot typewriter statements at each
other. They had met in Paris. I'm,
termyer offers Gamma $4,000 a year
for Cochran's freedom.
Malone says: Cochran can't get
a divorce; he has no grounds. She
can and will-if he acts like a man
with $17,000,00O should act"
Untermyer says: "They are trying
to boost her stage career"
Financial statement: $4,000 bid
100000 asked; deadlock.
CHAPTER
Curtain falls on 1921-sensation.
ally. For Mrs. Mccormick goes into
court and gets a divorce from Har.
old Mccormick.
CHAPTER 8
Cochran lawyers commute be-
tween America and Europe. Gamma
| is in Paris, rehearsfng, it is said, for
a triumphal re-entry into grand
opera when she has her freedom
! C-0sa1san comes back to New York
to sign papers in his divorce suit
He will sue, says Untermyer.
Gamma has said: eff he wants tt
get rid of me he must pay until il
hurts-for his own good. He must
be made to realize that a woman
is not a toy to crafty a whim ant
then to be cast aside like a house, {
yacht or a race horse"
| So ponds divorce. 1t is whispered
| that all that Gamma wants is hal
| Of the great Cochran fortune-jus
half!