The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-04-06
AUCTION PROFIT
MAY DISAPPEAR
IN 100000 SUIT
Mrs. Brewster Is, Timely
In Filing Action
Against Husband

NEW YORK. April 5.-Eugene V.
Brewster and Corliss Palmer, whose
love affair has all the elements of a.
good musical comedy, including beau
tiful women, suburban estates and a
long run before Metropolitan audiences,
will now try to laugh off a joke which
Mrs. Eleanor Brewster has interpolated
in the highly. entertaining prodlc-
tion
Just as Brewster and Miss Palmer
were starting big auction sale on
Fifth avenue to dispose of her jewels
and furniture which might be described
as "theirs.' Mrs. Brewster, who isle
gally separated from the wealthy pub
Usher. movie producer and connoisseur
Of beauty, began suit in the supreme
court for 100000. That is the price
Brewster which she says have been
borrowed if not stolen, by Miss Palmer,
the beautiful blonde, defendant.
A Timely Suit
There is a peculiar timeliness about
Mrs. Brewster's suit. In fact, it might
almost be suspected that she chose to
serve the papers at an hour when Miss
'Palmer's diamonds and other jewelry
fully described in the auction catalog
would be on sale and incapable of
quick concealment. Their exact value
is not publicly known, but Mrs Brew.
ster apparently felt satisfied that the
money derived from them would reach
a long way toward meeting the invoice
filed with petition in the supreme
court, and reading, so TO speak:
ITO Corliss Palmer, DB.
For affections, in good condition
100000"
The household effects offered in the
sale were taken from the mansion at
Morristown, N j., in which. Miss
Palmer resided. The plot becomes
rather risque at this point for it must
be related that Brewster, himself, was
no such stranger in the place that he
had to search for the hat rack.
Meantime. Mrs. Brewster, who is
the second wife of the leading man in
the cast, has been residing in n mod
est little castle at ROslyn, long Is
land, known as the Chateau Des Laos.
This she derived from Brewster after
he had removed his own personal goods
from the household and had gurgled
a syrupy ballat about love in the news
paper spotlights of the big city.
Asks $4,000 Per AS AlimOny
In the separation suit, in December,
1922, Mrs. Brewster asked $4,000 a
year as alimony and after considerable
off-stage dickering, the information was
conveyed to the audience of seven mil
lion that Mrs. Brewster was to receive
weekly allowance and title to the
chateau as well | as other property.
Altogether, it was understood that Mrs.
Brewster would he in receipt of enough
wealth to keep the wolf not only away
from the castle moat but several leaves
down the road.
A month ago there was a sentimental
scene at Morristown where Brewster
had installed Miss Palmer. In this cpl
sode sung to screeching obbligato
from the trombones of the Metropoli-
tan press, the harried hero Of the play
smacked himself on the chest in the
manner of an Italian tenor serenad-
ing fat Juliet beneath a canvass
balcony ana averred that he was Miss
Plmers ever-lovin', moonin', croonin'
sweet old dady-tra-la. He would
marry her he said, if it took him for
ever to get q divorce from Mrs. Brew
ster, which was long time to wait.
but not an Over-estimate of the situa-
tan, considering that Mrs Brewster
refused to get divorce or provide him
with grounds for one of his own.
Miss Palmer was not a member of
the original cast but she has certainly
been the star ever since Brewster's APP
preciative eye fell on the photograph
of her blonde loneliness during the wag-
ing of beauty contest under the aus
pices of his movie magazine several
years ago. The first run of the Brew
ster love story featured his divorce
from the first Mrs. Brewster in 1914
and his marriage to the incumbent Mrs.
Brewster in 1911.
Miss Palmer was a Macon, Ga,
girl, whose life up to the time that her
picture was entered in the beauty con-
test, when she won the contest and was
invited to come here and receive the
prize, stars position in the movies,
she stepped right into the Brewster
scandals and the show seems TO get
sprightlier with age.