Detroit evening times., 1941-09-21

a SO4NO. lpOE popular IN tap south dd-
- vses the overprivileged lover that II
he cannot be true 10 one or two he'd
better boz true to three
Colonel Frank Beck wealthy pencil
manufacturer of Shelbyville Tennessee seems
20 have done exactly that but IL brought him
only triple trouble
The songs advice sounds AN right when
Won Try II ON your piano. But when Colonel
Beck tired II IN his real love hfe the result
was not harmonious
However. that may have been because he
mixed romance with business especially The
rubber eraser end OF the pencil business which
is said to have peculiar psychological effect
on young ladies'
Seven years ago the Becks arrived from
BronxvUo y Y with uo title except the
customary one OF "damyankces
Mr. Beck established the Empire Pencil
Company and a. thoir estate shelby Pines.
the dark haired beauty known AS Mrs Estclle
Barton Beck was such q delightful hostess
that their popularity spread even 20 the capital
where Governor Preutiss Cooper conferred
upon the pencil maker the title Of Colonel
Only few weeks ago the couple was called
the first citizens of ShelhyYilc and then came
a series Of domestic explosions which stunned
society
The Colouers lady asked the court 10 at
tach the pencil business and To- eject her
.pousc from shelby Pines, in order 20 protect
her interest IN his property.
Frank is 90 years obi Estclle is "A and
the menace 10 her. rights is alleged 20 be
another and younger beauty Miss Frances
Foster aged % and recently promoted from
inserting crasers out ir the main factory TO
desk job in the front office where tho Colonel
could feast his eyes on her
This sounded like Ils' another divorce case
and just too bad until the Colonel made his
reply showing that 1t was something very
different
He said that she wasn't his lady AZ ALL
in fact he called her "a kept woman for the
past ten years" Ever since 1900 ne had a
perfectly legal II slighty-cstranged wife. Mrs.
Louise Beck, in New York
Louise. who is g. promptly confirmed her
existence by putting in a legal appearance
and asking 10 have her suit joined with that
Of Fstelle But Chancellor Robert f. Lee has
ruled that the suits be- heard separately
The fact that Louise wanted the suits
joined does not mean that she loves Estelle
whose real name is stella Mpntalhano OF that
she svmp9thi2cs with her Far from 10 Louise
wants 20 protect her wifcly interest against
stella Frances and anyone else 20 whom her
husband might be getting big-hearted.
Her interests are exactly the same as
Stellas except that Louise says Stella has no
legal basis for her claims as against the
Colonels real lady.
Thus Stella is placed in the embarrassing
position OF perhaps furnishing Information as
10 Becks financial affairs only 20 have Louise
use it TO her own advantage and against
herself
The situation reused Miss Montalbano to
reveal "A few more details OF her past. She
wife. but the victim of her own innocence
and trlstfulness when she was hardly more
than ID years old, and like Frances. was
attaching erasers TO the Beck pencils.
About the time she inserted her millonth
rubber the head of the concern promoted her
to the front office and then to lovc-ncst
in her innocence and ignorance she asserts
that she was led TO believe that this was not