The evening world., 1922-05-02
Peggy, Tired Of MiIliOnaires,
Left Here Seeking Simple Lille
After Experience With Three Rich Husbands
& She Wanted to Bury Herself in
"A Southern France.

when Peggy Joyce sailed foi
Europe last February she declared
for "the' simple life," announcing hei
attention to bury herself somewhere
and let life slip by her in peace and
quiet. She said she had had enough
Of rich husbands, having had three
who were millionaires, and sh'
wasn't at all sure that she'd eve
marry again.
~ Her determination was to seek out
quiet backwater, somewhere in th'
south of France by preference, be-
eause she felt she needed seclusion
Accounts Of her career published from
time to time in the newspapers woulC
indicate she had earned a rest.
Peggy Hopkins began life quito
nnmble as the daughter OF Samuel
Upton. barber who had little shop
n Farmville, Va, $50 miles west OF
Norfolk. Her name was Marguerite
Upton then and she was born in Berk.
lay. now n part OF Norfolk, twenty.
eight years ago.
Her romnnces began when she wal
} o schoolgirl at Chevy Chase. She fell
n love at seventeen with Everett
Archer. who was then twenty five
According 10 Peggy. she was full oi
romance and "he was tall, dark and
handsome" incidentally, he had O
fortune in oil out West somewhere
Al any rate, Peggy eloped with him
and they were married in 1910. But
this arrangement didn't last very
happily and Archer divorced hlf
pretty wife two years later.
~ When she was nineteen she wal
married to her second millionaire
Sherburne Hopkins jr. Of Washington
o lawyer and representative of large
Mexican oil and mining interests. She
eioped with Hopkins, too. But this
romance went the way OF the firs'
one and Peggy became the wife oi
Philbrick Hopkins. At least that !:
the name OF the husband as given In
the legal papers drawn up by a thirt
millionaire, who sued her for divorce
James Stanley Joyce, the lumber king
In March, 1915, Peggy ran ava,
from Hopkins to seek a career on thu
stage in New York. She was tired o.
millionaires, she said, declaring tina
they were SO wrapped UP in theii
money making that they had no tint
10 devote to sweet girl wife. Pegg,
was quite successful ON the stage be
cause she is possessed Of beauty anC
charm.
And then. In May. 1918, she ant
Joyce met. Joyce afterward charged
that she induced Philbricl Hopidn,
TO bring suit for divorce against hel
ID Texas. However that may have
heen, Peggy and Joyce were married
and from that day until he, In turn
brought a divorce action against her
Joyce lavished money upon her TO tn
Anne of more than a million dollars
He gave her jewelry such as queen
wear, and furs and gowns and enter
fainments that set people gasping q
their magnificence.
But this romance had too man!
bad examples before It TO permit
&c survive. Joyce tired OF his beauti
ftil wife and also of spending none,
ON her and he also sued her for di
vorce. naming several correspondence
among then men whose names wer
well known socially in this countr
and Europe. including n Prince an
. dancer, & member of the 400 an
. distinguished Frenchman.
Joyce at last got his freedom fror
Che uncannily captivating Peggy
Feb, 1891, and IL was stated by hir
At the time that in the six month
they were man and wife he sper
1850. 900 When they were separate
by the court, Peggy took with ht
$4,000 in cash and 500. 900 in jewelr
Joyce had given her. to say nothing (
motor cars and the lavish furnishing
OF her apartment at No. 423 Pai
Avenue.
When all her affairs were settle
Feggy went off to Europe to write
book about husbands. she said, threa
efing TO write some things that one
the millionaires wouldn't care much
soc In print.
In his divorce action Joyce declar
thai Peggy drove an American Arm
of1cer TO suicide. running him so dee
~ into debt that he found no way o
At his troubles save by death. II
ofncer was not named, by Joyce,
twas stated by the millionaire that
had killed himself In the Murray Il
Baths In the fall of 1918. The or
ruicide at the baths In 1918 was 81
70 have been that Of Lieut.. Alexand
McClintock Of Lexington. KY, W
shot himself. He was penniless at I
time and had overstayed his lea
from Camp Dix.