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light of the occupants. They were even
in the servants quarters, the art galleries
of the "pubs" and in barber shops For
all he knew the kraals of the Kaffirs in
South Africa and the huts of savages in
New Guinea might boast photograph
or two.
Yes, Captain Cough, so it is said, grew
considerably "fed up" with seeing the pic
lures of his wife everywhere he went
And if she took an engagement on the
stage there would not only be more photo
graphs, but crowds would go to look at
her in the flesh. There would hardly be
any privacy left at all, doubtless he
argued.
Then something very curious happened
The Hon. Mrs. Sylvia Cough turned up
in New York as chorus girl in musical
comedy!
She had gone over to America, leaving
her two young children and her husband,
presumably on a social visit And sure
enough, as soon as she reached there, she
was entertained by the Vanderbilts and
the Belmonts in New York and, as beftted
her high birth and station, by the
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enormously exclusiv e
Biddles of Philadelphia,
the leaders of it's most

SeleCI IdSnlOHdDle oSt'
And then quite abruptly it was pub
lished that she had joined the cast of "The
Right Girl" as one merely of the chorus
Why had she done this? What had be-
come of those offers in England? Had
some influence been brought to withdraw
them? Was it possible that, finding
the opposition too great in England, she
thought that by appearing across the sea
and in such humble capacity Captain
Cough and her family would appeal to
her to come back to her own land and
accept a stage position more suited to her
station?
These were questions many asked in
England.
If that is what she thought, she was
wrong. Hardly had she tripped with the
other chorus girls for a week before she
left the show as unexpectedly as she had
entered it. And Captain Cough brought
her back to England. And she did not go
on the stage there!
But there was no bringing back that
old sweet simplicity shat had been her
chief charm until that fatal gift of beauty
of hers had been proclaimed.
Great Britain Rights Reserved.
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at first thought, many would consider that
man who has had his wife publicly pro-
claimed as the most beautiful woman in
this place or that-whether it be America
or New York, orr France or England,
would be mighty proud of that fact, be
mighty proud to be her husband.
Yet the husbands of prize beauties have
many times declared that this is not so
at all. After all, marriage does imply
certain amount of private possession on
the parts of the two contracting parties.
And to be a prize beauty carries with it
the penalty of being, in some respects,
about as private as gold fish-to use the
classic smile.
The incessant photographing of his wife
had been bad er Hugh. Thousands of her
pictures were everywhere. Captain
Cough saw them wherever he turned.
They were in scores of shop windows; he
would open a magazine and there one or
more were sure to be; he knew that from
countless walls and bureaus of homes
ranging from the humble cottage to the
stately mansion her pictured face smiled
and her faultless form posed for the de-
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The Wide,
Appealing Eyes
of the Hon. Mrs.
Sylvia Phyllis
Cough, Whose
Beauty Has
RRS
Been Her Real Misfortune.

kindness, as he supposed, and thinking
that the artist might be able to use it, he
sent back to Augustus John the part Of
the portrait from which the face had been
cut.
And when the great painter opened up
the package and saw what had been done
to his work he flew into terrific rage.
He wrote a red-hot letter to the peer,
who explained patiently about the place
on the wall and his ideas of thrift and in-
vited Mr.. Augustus John to come to din
ner with him and forget it.
Thereupon the painter sued the peer
for damages, bringing the action on the
claim of the art world that painting by
an artist shall not be altered, mutilated
or changed during his life.
But Lord Leverhulme merely answered
that the picture belonged to him, he had
paid for it and therefore had the right
to do anything he wanted with it. And
the courts agreed with him.
The friends of the Honorable Mrs.
Cough are hoping, and believing, of
course, that Captain Cough cannot sus-
tain his charges. But even so-the or
deal of the divorce court is most dis
tressing one, and there is no evading the
fact that the charges have besmirched
Mrs. Coughs reputation, innocent as her
friends declare her to be.
And so, far away from the sweet SIM
plicity of the old days, the quiet but happy
life before photographer Hoppe and artist
Augustus John thrust her out into the
limelight and made her conscious of her
beauty, she comes to the sordid, unpleas-
ant, gossiping and blackening way of the
divorce court.
Her face has been her misfortune, as
theirs have been the misfortune of other
conspicuous beauties. She has proven
once more the old adage that great beauty
does carry with it deadly curse.
The last to prove it was Nine. Lam
feline, proclaimed the most beautiful
woman in France. Lantelme's life was
tragic; men sought her and the world
would not let her be. At last she died
mysteriously, tragically, in the Seine,
where her body was picked up floating.
Nor did she rest in her tomb. Twice that
last resting place was opened and desc
Grated.
If Lantelme had been little less beau
tiful she would probably still be living
happily. If the Hon. Mrs. Cough had not
been "discovered" she still would be, no
doubt, the sweet and simple girl she was
when the English soldier married her, and
would be far. far happier than she is now.
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There never was greater or more reck-
less gayety in London before the war
than has become commonplace since the
war. Reaction from the long strain and
the anxiety and sorrow it may be, but for
all that it is none the less dangerous.
Naturally, one proclaimed as England's
most beautiful woman would not be miss
ing from this gay and reckless life. Nor
was she.
And now, just a few days ago, what
many feared would come about did come
about. Captain Cough fled papers in a
divorce suit against his wife. In them he
named three correspondents. Baron
Maurice de Rothschild, member of the
immensely rich family of European finan-
ciers and we'll known figure on the race
tracks of England; Bertrand Niedecker,
another immensely rich fnancier, and
Augustus John, the very painter who
helped to start all Captain Coughs
troubles by calling such attention to his
wife's looks.
1t is the naming of Mr.. John that has
created the most interest, perhaps. Au-
gustus John is a very brilliant painter.
indeed, and he is we'll into middle age.
Nor is this the first time that he has
appeared in a set-to with the aristocratic
classes. His controversy with Lord Lev
erhulme about picture he painted of that
eccentric peer is one of the causes cele-
bres of art.
Before Lord Leverhulme became a
peer he amassed great fortune in soap
and fish, After he had been ennobled he
commissioned Augustus John to paint his
portraits, as had many other English nota-
bles. He had intended the portrait for
a particular space on the wall of his
home, and getting it found it was too
large. Therefore Lord Leverhulme, fgur-
ing that after all the head was the only
out the head and framed it.
Of course, having spent his life with
soap and fish Lord Leverhulme could not
be expected to know anything about artis-
tic temperament. And having amassed
his fortune by thrift, he did not like to
see anything wasted. So, with thoughtful
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The Photographic fame of Mrs. Cough
attracted the attention of the portrait
painters of London, and the distinguished
artist Augustus John arranged to have her
come for sittings, and after painting her
portrait amended Mr.. Hopes estimate,
and proclaimed the Lord of Cawston's
daughter, not one of England's most
beautiful women, but the most beautiful
woman of all.
1t would indeed be strange if woman's
head was not turned by such batteries.
Mrs. Cough began to study herself in the
mirror, looked for her face wherever she
could find it, in mirrors rejecting it
ascending a stair case or turning the
corner of a hall. She became self-con-
scious and began to expect the adulations
which now always greeted her wherever
she went.
Her fame as a beauty arrested the at
tention of theatrical managers, and the
hand of the tempter now reached out for
her with offers to display her beauty on
the stage.
But quite naturally Captain Cough, who
is the son of General Sir Hugh Sutlej-
Cough of Gaer Rhun, Tally Cain, North
Wales, did not relish his young wife TAX
ing up the stage as profession.
He felt, without doubt, that it would be
too much like a prize beauty exhibition.
Pretty girls and women were picked out
now and then as prize beauties, he knew,
by this or that newspaper or artist chap
and so on and enterprising managers got
hold of them and showed them on the
stage for awhile. But such girls came
from different class than his wife. What
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was all right for a
manicure, or typist,
or model was certain
ly not all right for
the daughter of the
Lord of Cawston and
tn e daughter-in-law
of General Sir Hugh
Sutlej-Gough!
But beside all that,
another element en-
tered in. No doubt,
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A Popular Photograph Among
the Thousands of the Hon. !
Mrs. Cough Trifle Too
Thin for American Taste.
IONnnN MARCH IA


0ELDOM has the old adage that
great beauty is a fatal curse
been more wildly emphasized
than in the distressing revelations
which are promised in the divorce
action which has just been brought in
London by Captain Wilfrid Hugh
Julian Cough against his wife, Sybil
Phyllis, who is the daughter of the
Lord of Cawston.
There was no more charming young
bud in all British titled society than
Miss Sybil. And there was no pref
tier girl in her social circle. But Miss
Sybil seemed to display no realization
of her unusual beauty, and her sweet
simplicity and entire lack of self-con-
sciousness gave added charm to her
beauty.
And when Captain Cough finally
won her, and he was enthusiastically
greeted and congratulated, and the
happy couple settled down into a
charming domestic life-here indeed,
their friends commented, was the evil
dence of the utter nonsense of the old
maxim that great beauty was a curse.
But, unfortunately for the young
wife, the eye of Mr.. E. o. Hoppe,
England's well-known beauty expert,
fell upon the portrait of Lord Cav
ston's daughter, and he begged her
to come to his studio to be photo
graphed. The young woman gave
even greater opportunity for photo
graphic result than Mr.. Hoppe had
expected, and she was posed in a
thousand poses. Other photographers
begged sittings from Mrs. Cough, and
soon she became the most photo
graphed woman in all England. Mr..
Hoppe proclaimed her to be one of
the six most beautiful women in Great
Evening star., 1923-04-15
WESTERN HIGH PUPILS
|PLAN TO GIVE SPRIIaG PLAY

Western High School Students will
present as their spring paay Shake
speare's THE Winters Tale Perform
ances will be given in the:school au-
ditorium Thursday. Friday>4nd Satur-
day.
The winters Tale" wMs selected
by the committee in charge of the
spring play as being the s)ne which
could be best produced unser the un-
fortunate circumstances resulting
from the restriction of stake settings
by the fire department. The produc-
tion will not require the use of NOV
able scenery or of curtain. which
have been forbidden by the, fire mar
shal. 1t will be given unSer the di-
rection of Miss Margaret @Ierrill and
Miss Sue d. Gardner.
The cast Is as follows. William
Scott and oliver Gasch Portray the
characters of King Leontes and King
Polixenes, respectively; Orme Libbey
is seen as the royal prin:e Florizel,
while Rae Wilson takes .he part of
the beautiful Princess Pe.dita. The
following: Camille, Roger Robb;
Cleomenes. William Clopton; First
Gentleman Tom Wells; Second Gem
tleman, Ellwood Simpson; Archida-
mus. Tom Stephens: Old Shepherd.
Gordon Minnegerode: Clown. Oliver
AnueTSoil, AutoiS GUS DdFlu w nelCnel,
Father Time, Miles Flint: Hermione,
Louise Flint; Paulina. Mary Conrard;
Mopsa- Margaret Wilson: Dorcas,
Caroline Marsh; court ladies' Chris
tine Stewart, Sara Pick, Dorothy
Croissant and Irene Mead; shepherds.
James Douglas, Llewellyn Humphrey
Francis Stephens. David Burke, Allan
Foster and Arthur Griffith; shepherd
esses, Marie Suter, Mary Clark, AvriI
Stewart, Dorothy Reed. Jessie Booth
and Margaret Watts
Evening star., 1923-04-15
Better Be Careful
Than Crippled;
Traffic Slogan,

Better Pc Careful Than Grip
pied" is the admonition to be dis
played throughout the city, be-
ginning tomorrow, by the Wash
ington Safety Council. The sign
is in blue letters on yellow
ground.
One hundred large ones will be
used at important street inter-
sections. while smaller ones will
be placed in government build
lnSS. on street cars and on taxi
cabs and motor busses.
Secretary w. Graham Cole of
the council said last night that it
IS encouraging to note that dur
1rg the two months during which
safety posters have been display
ed there has been a reduction of
81 per cent in the total number
or accidental deaths here, as COM
pared with the average last year,
and reduction cf 43 per cent of
the total number of deaths due
10 traffic accidents.
We feel that the posters have
assisted in reducing this record"
he said.
Evening star., 1923-04-15
ILLINOIS REPUBLICANS
WILL MEET APRIL "a

old-time political campaign speeches
viii feature the special meeting of
'iiinols republicans residing in the
District of Columbia. to be held in the
W lizard room of the New Willard
Hotel, Tuesday night. April "a.
Thls meeting, which will be i'm the
form of political rally. will be held
under the auspices of the Republican
State Voters Association of the Dis
trict, and it is the third of a series of
state rallies held by the latter during
the past six weeks.
William Tyler Page. clerk of the
United States House of Representa-
yves. president of the association, will
open the meeting, and Senator Will
liam Mckinley of Illinois will preside
throughout the evening. Among those
VINO nave accepted Invitations to
make addresses are Representative
Martin b. Madden, chairman of the
appropriations committee, and Repre-
sentative Graham, both of Illinois.
Also there will be one prominent Illi-
nolS woman, who will address the
gathering. Henry NJ. Camp, treasurer
of the association. and in charge OF
club organization work in this sec
ton for the republican national com
mittee, will describe the objects of
the Republican State Voters Asso-
t''''H' anu VII lldrrdte some or its
Accomplishments in behalf of the
party. Fred Wilson, chairman Of the
membership committee. will tell of
the activities of his committee in
building. up the membership of the
aSSocia ton
lntermingled with the addresses
there will be music. both vocal and
instrumental. and at the conclusion
OF the meeting there will be an in
formal reception.
A special meeting of the executive
committee of the association will be
held at its headquarters, 734 18th
street, tomorrow night.
Evening star., 1923-04-15
ONE-WAY TRAFFIC
TEST PROPOSED
KIotz of Utilities Commission,
However, Doubts Success
Downtown.

Although not enthusiastic over the
probable success of one-way streets
downtown. r. G. Klotz. traffic engi-
sion. believes they should be tried
out. He so advised Commissioner
Oyster in report yesterday. He said
in part: :
Il do believe, however that making
9Th. 10th and 12th streets one-way
streets northward will result In con-
siderable congestion on the interven-
ing streets IN the mornings. The
traff1c. which now moves southwark
on the former streets in the morning
rush will be diverted to 18th, 7th, 9th
and 11th streets (all of which are oc-
,, cupied by car lines) AID superim
posed on the traffic, which already
uses those streets.
Thirteenth street Shift.
Similarly. in the evenings, the
traffic. which now moves north on
18th street will be diverted partly to
18th street and partly to .l4th street.
and here will be no diversion of traf-
fic f from l4th street to $compensate
1T may do no harm to try the ex-
pertinent and see how iteworks out,
but / do not think it piomises any
great success.
am StToHSly IN 1aNtr OF trying
the new one-way scheme .on the up
town streets proposed U'ack road and
Monroe street and Columbia road and
Harvard street,, becauS' here the
traffic in either direction seems to
be fairly well balanced ahrouEhout
the day, and the diversioa of traffic
from one street to the otSer Will be
pretty well counterbalanced. by the re-
verse diversion"
The special set of traffic regulations
to be enforced during the ahrine con-
vention provide for more Ian a dozen
one-way streets. They have not yet
been approved by the commissioners,
however.
Evening star., 1923-04-15
TIIE SUNDAY WASHINGTON C., April; 15 e23-PART

here to pay his fine, which, how
ever, has since been paid.
City Manager Rich yesterday af-
ternoon said that some time age
he issued a blanket order prohibit
ing the members Of the police
force from going beyond the con-
flnes of the city without his per-
mission. and 1t Is thought by him
that the officers had this order in
mind. which resulted in their fall
ure to produce Terrell Mr.. Rich
stated. however, that 1t was not
his intention to in any manner
conflict with the court and further
that the main purpose of the is
suance of such an order was to
keep the police from going out Of
the city In search of stills, he hav-
ing received many complaints
since he came here in September
of last year from citizens resar1-
ing the activities of the police IN
hunting stills beyond. the cor
porate limits Of the city.
Evening star., 1923-04-15

have passed with only two children
Killed each month. and during the
later month no children of school
age met death as result of accident
The schools are endeavoring to do
their part in this large problem of
reducing accidents, but statistics of
this city, as well as many others.
show that about 90 per cent of ali
children killed receive their injuries
in and around their homes. and not
in the school. The school can ONLY
supplement the teaching which
should begin in the home among the
very Youngest children. Every parent
should lay the same Importance on
teaching their little ones habits of
carefulness as they now give to in
struction in proper health habits
Our paramount aim today should
be the conservation of child life
Seventy-five per cent of the deaths
to these our future citizens would
never occur if they were properly
instructed in the home and school
and properly supervised in their
play."
Evening star., 1923-04-15
TIMBER BRINGS $1,250,00O.

JACKSONVILLE, Fla, April IL
Purchase of $4,000 acres of timber Ian,
in Hillsborough and Polk Counties f.
a consideration said to be in exces
of $1,250.0o0, was completed here yes
terday, it was announced today. I'll
purchasers are Mississippi lumberme1
who plan to build mill and carry u
lumber operations in q general way
They are n. +. Hatten. w. III. Hat
and r H Batson, of Hillsdale, Miss
More than half of the timber land pun
chased was owned by Jacksonville cap
talistS
Evening star., 1923-04-15
EX-POLICEMAN ARRESTED,
Second Taken in Alleged Theft of
Fur Coat.

Irwin L. Turnbull, a former chauf-
feur at police headquarters, and later
a patrolman. was arrested yesterday by
Detectives King and Cox on a charge
of housebreaking, in connection with
the theft of a fur coat from the
apartment Of Mrs. Anna Gormley, 1895
r street
Several days ago the detectives took
into custody Policeman Frank H.
CLANCY of the Sth precinct, on a
charge of grand larceny in connec-
tion with the same case. The police
say that at the time of his arrest
Evening star., 1923-04-15
|COURT SAYS, GO! MANAGER SAYS
DON'T; POLICE DON'T; CONTEMPT

corporation court judge has cited
them for contempt of court and
ordered them to appear before
him at 10 o'clock Wednesday
morning. Both officers were served
with the contempt charges yester-
day by City Sergeant Robert H.
Cox. Neither Judge Smith nor
Chief Goods would discuss the case
yesterday afternoon.
Terrell, who was indicted last
Monday by a special grand jury in
the corporation court for violation
Of the prohibition law, lives be-
yond the confines of the city. but
the judge wanted him brought
Evening star., 1923-04-15
Special Dispatch to The Star,

Special Dispatch to The Star
ALEXANDRIA, Va, April IL
city Manager Wilder M. Rich said
they couldn't go outside Of the city
without his permission and Judge
howard w. Smith of the corpora
tlon court ordered them to go into
Fairfax county and bring before
MIN Philip Terrell, colored, to be
iiiieu Soo Tor an alleged infractfon
y, the state prohibition law,
eT and or Police Charles f. Goods
the uilceman Leo Manger obeyed
city manager and now the
Evening star., 1923-04-15

CLANCY denied the charge
According to Detective King, Turn
bull admitted the charge that ha
been placed against him. The detc,,
tives say they have recovered III
fur coat from a place where it ha
been sold for $125.
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SCIENTISTS DISAPPOINTED
BUT MOST FOLKS AMAZED
BY DARKNESS AT MIDDAY
Due to Heavy Clouds. Only Few Successful Photo
graphs Made From the Ground But Navy Air
men Get Excellent Pictures of Corona and
Fleeing Shadow That Crept Down at
Moment of Totally

San Diego. Cal, Sept. lids
appointing to science, but thing of
wonder to ordinary folks; darkness at
midday, a colorful, magnificent. but
almost uncanny spectacle - this, in
brief, describes the total eclipse of
the sun, witnessed in San Diego and
its vicinity yesterday.
However, many Of the scientists
found consolation in the results at
tanned by means of photographs from
the airplanes that climbed above the
heavy bank of clouds that covered the
city.
Navy airmen. scattered over a wide
area and flying at attitudes varying
from 1000 to 10000 feet. succeeded
in getting excellent moving pictures
not only Of the corona. but also faint
photographs of the fleeing shadow
that swept down at the moment of
totally.
Great Bal Of Fire.
A great ball OF fire atop the sun
was sighted by Lieut.. Leland Webb
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JUDGE SENTENCES
HIS COUSIN TO S
YEARS HARD LABOR
Youth Confesses to Steal
ing Jurist's Auto
mobile.

Holdenville. Okla. Sept. 1f.-Five
years Imprisonment at hard labor!
With bowed head. George Crump
Jr., heard these words pronounced in
district court here by his cousin.
Judge George c. Crump.
Young Crhmp had conf ,ssed steal.
ing the judges motor car last August
while the jurist and his family were
spending their vacation in Colorado.
Entering court. the youth waived
all tights and requested his cousin
to attach the penalty.
Judge Crump hesitated and then
with deliberate tone, spoke the words
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ton IN the theft OF the car, pleaded
not guilty.
In default of bail of $500 each
they were remanded TO Jail foi trial
next month.
Foreman and Whitrell wer, arrested
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from an altitude of 10000 feet over
Point Hueneme. He reported that at
II ~ o'clock the brilliant shafts of
light from the corona, stretching into
the heavens for millions of miles, were
suffused in a soft glow that re-
sembled pale moonlight etched with
marvellous coiors.
The only successful photographs
made from the earth are believed TO be
ones made by Professor James Wor-
Ellington of London and DR.. Alfred
Burton, professor emeritus of astron-
omy in the Massachusetts Institute Of
Technology.
-Four Pictures Successful.
Professor Worthington stated last
night that four of the negatives de-
veloped by him were almost perfect
and would rank with the best ever
made during solar eclipse.
Professor Worthington and DR..
Burton headed an expedition at an OBJ
Servation station established north of
Santa Barbara. Weather conditions
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that will send young Crump TO the
penitennary.
The defendant was arrested last
week at Harrison, Ark, and returned
here.
L. b. Foreman and r A. Witrell.
who also are charged with implica-