Evening star., 1938-09-20
MISS FREDERICK
|SDEAD ON COAST
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Actress Who Defied Parents
to Win Stage Fame Was
So Years of Age.
~ the Associated Press.

~ tOc ASSOCiHteo STeSSs
BEVERLY HILLS, Calf, Sept 20.-
Pauline Frederick, 50, who defied her
parents to enter the theater and rose
to recognition as Americas premier
dramatic actress, is dead.
Physicians said heart attack ap-
parently contributed to the death yes
terday Of the once great star of stage
and screen. She had been ill Of
asthma since Friday.
Stately and dark-haired, although
she was graying in recent years. the
"girl with the topaz eyes" never found
domestic life the happiness she
achieved on the stage.
Married Five Times.
She was married five times. Three
marriages ended tn divorce, one in an
nulment.
Her first husband, Frank M. An
drews, a New York architect, divorced
his first wife to marry her in 1910.
The young actress gave up her career
for three years and then divorced An
drews, who had become bankrupt, to
return to the stage.
In September. 1917. the actress mar
1ied the late Willard Mack, playwright,
actor and director.
In August, 1920, she divorced Mack,
naming an unidentified woman" as
correspondent. There were reports of
q reconciliation, but in February, 1922,
Miss Frederick eloped to Santa Anna,
Calf. with a childhood sweetheart,
DR.. c. Alton Rutherford, Seattle
physician. He was her second cousin
She sued for divorce in Los Angeles in
September, 1924, charging Rutherford
had deserted her the year before.
Her fourth marriage lasted an even
shorter time. In April, 1890. she mar
ried Hugh Leighton of Greenwich,
Conn, hotel owner. In December
Leighton, sick with a nervous ailment,
propped himself upon an elbow in
Los Angeles court and asked for an
annulment, saying he had given her
$1,000 q month without getting even
a good kiss" in their eight months of
marriage. He won the annulment.
Although doctors had doomed him to
death within a year, she married Col.
Joseph A. Marmon, commander of the
18th United States Infantry, on jan
uary 2l, 1884 The wedding took place
at Scarsdale, N. Y, and the whole
regiment paraded to welcome the cou-
pie to Governors Island. Col. Mar
mon, So, had been a bachelor. She
was 40. This marriage, her NTH.
ended with the death OF the colonel
before the year was up.
Miss Frederick was II when she left
her home to 60 on the stage Her first
part was a small role in The Rogers
Brothers at Harvard" In 1902. The
producer. A. L. Erlanger. DISCHARGED
her. She became an elocution teacher.
Her father, the stern Richard C. Lib
bey, never forgave her and disinherited
her on his death in 1922.
Dropped Family Name.
Because Of her fathers disapproval
Of her career she dropped the family
name and became Pauline Beatrice |;
Frederick.
She appeared in many plays Among |
The most popular were Joseph and
His Brethren" Samson" and "The
Fourth Estate" Others included I'm
and When Knights Were
Bold"
Miss Frederick entered silent pic
lures in 1915 in The Eternal City,
Ind for seven years won Aim fame
before she went back to the stage. Her
picture work was reported to have
netted her $1,000,000.
After 1922 she alternated between
The screen and stage.
She appeared in several talking pic
ures, but expressed an increasing pref
lrence for the stage in recent years.
She once expressed a distaste for
The sordid, declaring: r
When 60 to the theater I want
10 be entertained and a little bi
don't want to be shocke
,r depressed"
Joseph Prato, her business manage,
aid funeral arrangements would ,e
completed today.