mffiwMMF d& : ' evening public ' hmm-pmtAxmka:s, vm Matrimonial adventures of kelly sisters ONCE MORE THRILL HEAR T OF OLD BR OADWA Y sfV &r- tmm IT... . " JLS -'j ,i V. XC & 'sjfr&K 'sv ''h ' & ,;iAi. f Eugenia Seeks Divorce Frem " Tange Pirate "After Seven a': iwsr ,;-i '" Years of Bliss, IVhde "Peggy, " treed hrern 1 urkish Prince, Is Rumored as New Bareness Fermey . . ' ml ?&: ;r t! m m 1 V: : m m et nil order for 510,000 n year for her TT BEGINS te leek as if theic Kelly girls simply cannot stay married. , Jnunhter. In 1012, Eugenia get only 1 True, Eugenia, bride of the "tnngo-pirate vemnncc," has been nmrricJ j Ct,)t"ll,1f";i(. Mrs. KcUy te!ll j,lstlce - only once; but her runaway match with "Al" Davis, via Philadelphia te itlanchnrd that $10,000 n juvir was ncc- . Elkton, was the climax of se sensational a scries of events that it might i r'n,y,f;I;B,(;y ",,." living At have been expected that love would last longer than seven years. tn', nemM. Mrs. Kelly's own income Her sister, once "Peggv" Kellv, then Mis. Prank Jay Gould, later nt tliat time was ir,000 n year. Un ite. Ralph Themas, new Princess N'eureddiu Vlora of Albania and, v f(?I'.'fIltI7t,u ..TVrl,feI?0 " "" "" rumor says, seen te he Bareness ronuey of Ireland, is mere accustomed K.igenln was absolutely unconcerned te the details of the wedding leremeny; yet even in her case friends ,"; I;,firin,,.r,J,Jf.1!' L!,.t'.1,,,ec,"nll,iip.!4. it . . .. , , , V t i. i i - i, ..it-.,. i,vi Hut as her ltrendwny fnrtuls failed te thought that she had met real romance when she was led te the altai b (,etm t() hpp Mip,Mirtf ,,j10 nnRiy broke the dark-eyed son of the Grand Vizier of Sultan Abdul Humid. down and there was n reconciliation be- r..i. .,. .i. i ,.,... i... .i i n! in I.-.. ..,-.,,.. in tween ninther and dnuchter. Euircnlu "Yl "c ,"voc,-," "" lasi "lent"' "" '."'" ' V'"1" "r '". , foiesw-ero Headway feiever-at least Albania alone, and rumeis say that hi? Pmcess is significantly friendly ), s),i jt ns forever and seemed te i with the Irish-Americnn Hamn who was once iust ulain Mr. Maurice he perfectly Kineerc about It. At tlmt ' ... T . . I. .1.. HUH. l. if ..m ........ line Mil" ui'ii-ii-u uvrseil i'l i'iin' philosophical observations for thebctielit of slrls who thought the glitter f Hrendvvny's white lights marked tfiei entrance te the land of romance Seme of these observation') were: Reche, of New Yerk. And new Kugenia has started suit for divorce fiem Al Dnvis. It is a terrible blew te romance, for Eugenia once dolled her mother and all the laws and conventions and declared that every girl .'heuld be allowed te cheese her life for hor her aelf and that sh" was perfectly will ing te give v her notorious lumpanien-. in Urond Urend Way's night life te live a "love in a cottage" idyl with the fov-tretter Who had wen her affections. Peggy's life has been mere varied than Eugen.a's, but Kugenia man aged te get mere than he. share of notoriety, due principally te hr 1D t :ile denied cmphntirr.Uy b Mr. Kelly. "Hoping a quieter home would help, aid Mrs. Kellv, "I took an apartment nt 110 Knst Sixty-third street. Magenta would lr.ive In me in the morning and; usually net return until 4 the ni'xt. I told her If "di" did net tome home ear lier 1 would lock her out. I Mini It and she Miinshcd tlin "las in the front deer. her wealth and all Kngenin told me , girl was net fn-hlen- able in .New rk unle. sin- vmicu at lca-t five I'utci every, nljht, and that took time. She ukis te go te the l'eaiix Arts, the Domine Heom. the Ileulcxard, the Kniherhef and Maxiiu'"." The nnmes of eural jeung men whip mentioned by Mr., Kelly as Eugenia's coinpanienn whom she did net nppreve of. Mr. Kelly -nld the found cut that thp gill nsseci'ited with Al l).ii. wh" s then living wiih his wii'p nt the pother's invoking the law te keep W&Xr,. .'K Jier daughter away from 'lie Bread- ' IM-ki.." Warner and ether llreiidwn ittMiuentcrs. , way cabatets of the old drinking days nnd from the lure that Davis, then a professional dancer, seemed te have for the girl. Peggy's romance ende 1 when her Puvis, once a wine ncent. Inter a dancer, wan arreted with .lay O'Urien at Christinas time. lOKJ, elia'rsetl with maintulninK a gambling heuec. but both iri dNeisrcel. Mrs Kellj -ai(l .ip told her d.Tishter princeling husband tore the orchid 'lie knew all iiUmt Iavi; that .she had from her girdle and threw them with S. ' t''tlJt, If!?,. J it ,,w' V nav:Ky Vis?t'-, Wcv 1 S -- Mk. ihn-.tli te "tt an at)CTtmt;nt of her own. 'i'he Kirl's mother testified that Kuge nia laughed at her admonitions. Shi' -aid "he gine the girl a S.'IOOO piarl i epe. nairig (.he hoped lugenia would he geed. ItiDttad the rope illtapiieaied, with Kpvernl thousand dollars' worth f uther jewelry. Mrs. Kelly was then fivins her daughter $73 a week for pocket menej, piijlng ull her bilN and buying htr clethets, but Ktigenia, she -aid, borrowed several thousand d pilars and then her mother stepped the allow ance. Mrs. Kelly stated her belief that the girl upent all her money mi her as as teciatci and their women friends, nnd even bought Dm is a $200 pelic deg. At a Sunday-night supper l i their aprtitments, Mr. Kelly testllied, one of the jeaiig men present, whom she did net knew drank three-fourths of n bettl of brand). When the party, ended Kiigenia tell l.er mother te was a dnis user, anil cenn Jed the iiitoima iiiteima iiitoima ien that for l." anv ene in the eitv , could get all the drugs he or she wanted. Eugenia Get $500,000 Under Father's Will Mm. Kelly i-aid the Supreme Court had allow ed her daughter $10,000 a j ear out of her Inheritance nnd that t-ne nan oepe'iteu mat amount in a W5 'sA m kiss tn an Oriental dancing girl Hn the stage of a Paris music hall. Eugenia's romance ended two years age, according te the aver ments in her divorce suit, but what specific incident wrecked it ha.s net yet become known. Davis and his "million - dollar liride," as Eugenia was called, seemed actually te be happily mar Tied and announcement of the divorce suit came as a surprise. They have n little daughter six years old, and they have managed te keep fairly secluded from the public eye for some time, se that Broadway lest track of them and thought they had settled te quiet and tespcctable domesticity after their early hectic careers. 'Broadway Missed Spicy Escapades of Kellys And Broadway certainly missed them. Time was when Broadway A,tlr1 i1,,.a,J ilnnn.irl l.nnr. r.lnr . r , trust company in monthly payments, p its morning papers in the eve- net wishing her daughter te be spending fcing and rending of some new sen- s:, day in cafes with "unfit" per- fcatlen in Mether Kelly's efforts te 0DS' Mve Eugenia from the "tango Jdrate" or rescue her from drink and cabarets, or else devour the latest escapade of Eugenia or a new slan Her suit brought by Davis against Mrs. Kelly, or of Davis and Eugenia being turned out of another cafe. It was all great ge'ip in these days. It really came tj a head when Mrs. Kelly haled Eugenia into a police court an 1 asked the magis trate te adjudge the girl incorrigible e that she, could be confined m an Institution of some kind. Eugenia was about nineteen yeai old then It was in 1015 and Davis was the husband of Rennie G!as, another professional dancer, he, by the way, was one of the women who helped Kodelph Valentine in the arly days when the pieent movie del was glad te get a job tangoing in a cafe. The. first revelatimis of the gay life Eugenia a living came in the testimony given m court vhn the fnether had her ariested, and here the present Princess Vlora appeared In support of her sister. The Prin cess was then Mr'. Themas a widow tef a year. Mrs. Hr'en I Kellj. ihe mother, Vas the widow e Kdwanl Kelh. one K prominent Mnaruler and ac'iemted with Jay tieuli Her appeal In Ihe peine vis te (strain Kugeiun. who va wra'thj in her own r..Tht, 'mm I. ibifi and as as as SoelatieiM of nighi life in New Yerk Parental persunMen having fal ul, Mrs Kelly haled her ilnuglitn before Magis trate Heuse In the Verkville leurt, charging her with liieeniglbllity. The mother's recital of KugenJii'fc behavior since the (,'iri finished her course nt the Sncred Heart Academy at Manhattnnville showed her outraged feelings. Huceiun. she felt, would be. , come siir;ed like the proverbial moth If the lievrred about the flame, she would brcome liiernllj depraved by her asso ciations and habits in the all-night restaurants and cifes, and would mil reallre her predicament until It was tee late That was the nn-nii Mrs I ft" 'Kelly K"lr fr ''", eitiiinc incisure e' ' TBI. . " iCaiiea caearei wis , Acme of Fashionableness V. '1 . . . . . 1 V On the ether hand, the girls counsel rtrled te show malice en tiie part of i tJftfl, leny, who whs tne guannnii et Ler ilauguler h property, worm nheut ),000. lie openly insinuated that Iff. ini.r nan Ninister meiires, tnnt i waiueii Eugenia ceminiiieii te an in- itlen, that I lie daughter was net re- la her ml share of the Income 'bytar latker. - These insinuation . le,Vf l.l AT . !i ' a rr 'tKVx Vi -i :tttSiAi:i "' ? r?.V-'ai l 3?- i ' s ' m :' Xisf v"',i ?'- J, M z'j. ! m 4?i &: mm mtS mwM '" r'Jd t : A1II v.V Wj-- .' sv, i,- s V S53 :ffl2U iii?K .i; 4: e m m W wm u.m "'.' liHvi Mrs. "Al" Davis, the former Eugenia Kelly, of New Yerk, who has filed suit for divorce from a recent photograph Mrs. Davis In a fancy dress costume lfe -'1?4' uiyJ-iA :-? aw" uiumtmtnHfifi , mnnirrtHinw mvs :?' Princess Vlora at the time of her separation front the Prince I . "TXri rs taw: I 4 hU nfi tysS nu4ffl SA tyt w M. W& a & i V"- mmimi M-v 4.0 s t r-'- -f.M ;..' S?"5'i 7& & .' JSn , wi ?"2 - T vWf ' : X: V day after the decree became final Kugenia left her home, met Davis and they took a train for Elkton, Md. Three ministers refused te marry them because of the divorce. But the Itev. Henry W. Carr finally performed the ceremony. Hack In New Yerk they found Sirs. Kelly still unrecenciled nnd threaten ing all Forts of trouble for Davis. Kugenia wanted her clothes nnd mother refused te give them up. He Kugenia get a writ of replevin. naekPd up n who any day may lese his title, his for fer fer tune and his castle in County Cerk. Princess Vlera'n choice of a potential Irish commoner in preference te s European crown has brought home te social onlookers of New Yerk and Londen the fact that her father, the late Eugene Kelly, was as Irish as he wa rich. This blue-eyed beauty married Frank Jay Gould, one of their heirs te Jey Gould's millions, when she was a reign ing belle e the 400. She divorced Murgaret and and eighteen motertruck te the nnnrtment. had herlhin, mum Hum nfter Mm hlrth of their .1! . J l. , . , . .1 1 I ...... W...V ..-.-... -. --- - emeeris ei me inw Miinsn in tne uoer and get her clothes. Then Davis hiicd Mether Kelly for I slander two suits, in fact but grad 1 iially the excitement sub'lded and the. i young couple went te the country te live. They kept out of the newspapers fairly well except when Kugenia was thrown fiem her horse nnd badly hint, 4 and later when the baby came m&zxwz- . " .ir.v.. v." ; t' v r-tii i : 'd&i?itji IV rt fS( ?'r?$M$. kMmrh "?' . w: ! j c y 'T ST . i ? A ' . &. I'HJi M y ?.!$&.$ f'V ''f'-ViM sssi v,r: m m .' l.i vj ea Wi m. k0 mm Mew 'rfiaMl Mrs. Gould as she appi lUlll ,n Svw erlt te contest the diveiie decree gr.imcu in rraiice te IranK .1. tieulil f. m "f H I vussm urn Hr4HSF SpVw w JJ Mrs. Davis at the Mineola Herse Shew, Leng Island ( "Hrnadwnj cafes ate (lie ih..n1 .tupd places of nmusenieiii I ew r aw in m I life. I'm thiuiigh Willi tin in fit nil 1 time. Jt took a geed deal in brim; ine te my tenses, but I'm through with all this 'wild-ents' husiiie-s. It Imnestly bores me te lears, knew what 1 nm talkiiig about. Mr" Irj miv delif.erntelv te make Bjrl drink. Thin ihej .lame, and after that i ul hiinllj luiews enough te write her own name straight. 'V,n !..! .. 1 tn rnfeu US I went te them will find that gossip tabs old story time after time. "The whole (reuble with the rafes nnd tango places In the dunking that the nil'ls de nil the time. I rmnn liers restated) by the court, f 84,000 pir, but untU Mrs; Ketil ppvih te the Are te. be burned and I l'nder her father's will Miss Kelly became benelirlart of a trust fund of ISOO.OOO. Tbn income from this was Anv L'lrl wlie wnntn In eel renl Tiiii i her us n n.iimlnn i,.l Kiinrt almost out of the rafis and the e.ihiiretf, wants ever night. Ne girl can afford te lese te de it all In a week .i ml then quit, her geed name. Jlrendway Is the griiMi ,Mier ruai sue waihs iineugii tin same or moie than one geed girls reputation u mhiii "Mi- j,nu'i 9 i i T and If any girl wants te knew what I mean, let her Mop and seriously thltiK this thing out te the end. . ".One thing I'm convinced of, and that thst every girl ha,et te have Aheic, the Princes in bobsled costume nt St. Merltz, Switzer land, where her romance with the Prince began something definite te de in her life or she makes an awful botch of things. "I don't iuie hew much money a girl has lulu riled, It's geed for her te earn loeiiej of her own once In a while, I'll, elell tillkeil of going te Klirepe OS a iiur-e, but 1 iluii't I 111 nit mother would let me de ili.ii. Hut there is one thing worth while fur mjiiiij one besides u.j m If: I wnni te ahew mother that there is semetiiing hi mi) that sue iau be I proud of I "A girl who gees out and fails te tell her mother exact I) wlieie she l-t I going und what she is doing will rue ! the day. I blnme my negliet of my 1 mother for all my mliei, .'.' saw lather and Knew fur hotter tban I what wes geed for me. (Inly mj eager- 1 ncss for ,i keimI time blinded me. "1 Nii eM ry girl could profit by my M'l'iieni e without going ihieugh I lie bit tonics of learning It for her n'f, I wuii I could writ" a book just ler girl-. I'd tell (hem hew geed home is, 'Hint book might sound liMinldie, but It would lei heart-realised truth, nnd I think I could make It convincing. There aren few simple truthsl'd like te hammer and hammer nnd hammer into every glil'n fun-loving brain, it's bet ter te learn new than when it is tee Inte. 'I (old jeu se' is pretty cold comfort when a girl is In trouble." Eugenia's Leng Rides "Alene" Are Explained In this repentant mood, mother mid daughter sought the blmple life in a mountain resort and everything wok lovely for a short time. , Then Kugnla,MsWiLte take leaf V .. sLmnsssBLBfr a t '-" - - - Mr i-?- s s -MVtM.t j h ?v V": LJ-ii J- Princess Netircddin Vlora of Albania, formerly Mrs Prank' V Gould, Mrs. ItalPh Hall Themas and Peggy I Ibwh , hni' ' Humer aayH may become liareneaa Fermey of ft Kind horseback rides by herself nnd letumed ;.eited and Hushed and totally changed, the. mother thought at iirst it was sheer geed health mid fresh air. Then -lie discovered that Al Davis had followed Then they dehcrlril the country life anil went te 'arn uud new the di vorce. The Princess Vlora, Kugenla's sister, III1S lltlll nil CVell mere mleil eareep ' ,. . . fcl..l-l I'll I, l fl III'IIIIIV I'Ok.ll', ll .1 nun i;ugenla's long rides "aleim" vvei.. ',, ';,, "" """""""" y uupieasaiii em n ned. . " '' '. . Mether and daughter returned ( v,. n ", .?sy Krl -'i' bht' "" r,,',l New Yerk. Kugenia went bad eavlv 'iwli.i" rl, "" T.""5' tlnP nl"1 " and diflintlv in il,i hrliSJ i-i.. "', I "rkisli prince. New she lias divorced 0 I Ifflll u n B..I te Al Davis" - Bennie Glass divorced Uavis. On the 1 110 I'rlnes. ihe-.Kv !.. , chanee tn become Queen et Albania, and will wed a dyed-in-the-areen Irishmau S.r&'J two children, Helen Dorethy, new twenty yenrs old, respectively. Next she martlet! Ilalph Themas, son of the sugar magnate. "Bobsled Remance" Ends in Marriage Her third marriage was the climax of a "bobsled romance" at fashionable St. MeriU in the Swiss Alps. There the lovely American widow surrendered te tin evetic charm of Prince Noured Neured liu Vlora, u Moslem by birth end edu cation, n subject of Turkey, a son of , the grand vizier te the notorious Suits" Abdul llniuld; himself a candidate for the throne of Albania, most turbulent of I'.'.lkan principalities. Their wedding came nt a time when i the Near Knst and all things pungentl oriental were the rage of European so ciety. Prince Vlora nnd his American bride fitted plctuisitiely into the general scene. Hut it wns net long before m clity began te whisper that all was ret proceeding smoothly in the Vlora house held. Their palatial home In Purls wa flooded with bizarre curies und pei f inner.; the Prince talked u.erc awl meie of Albania and its attractions; he seldom missed a performance at the Oljmpia or the Casine de Paris, whi-te slee-e.ved Levantine, maidens whirled and writhed in their native dances. A husband steering u bobsled down the snowy blepes of St. MeriU win admirable; but a husband who Hf pluudeil with feverish enthusiasm I In' daring exhibitions of dnueeis imports! fiem the dives of Constantinople, win a different ptcture entirely. The gossips; ugreed that the "bobsled unnance" vva.s all but en the rocks when the Merv went the teiinds that Princes' Vlora, Iier face pink with indignation, left the be of one Paris theatre be cause, the Prince suddenly seUed IiJ eeisagn bouquet of orchids and teswa it te the stage, where it landed nt th bare feet of the season's most dariaf Oriental dancer. Maurlie Huchc, with whom the Prin cess name is nuw linked, is ths en of .Tames lloethby Heche, soldier of for tune nnd third Itnreu of Ferne.v, aad Funny Wet It Hurke Itethe, dsughter ' i the Inte Frank Werk, eccentric mil- i lienniru sportsman, Hn mid his brother Frances inker- I ited from Prank Werk ?.l,000,000 escn. but only en condition that they tHke tb name of Werk, nuver sen their father nnd never visit Ireland. Vnr liraml- fnther Wink had never forgiven the man who "stele" his daughter, and after their divorce he spent his days liatlei Uurke lluehn nnd Ireland and trying te stamp out the twins' love for bell father and fntherlnnd. Maurice delied the will, lie weal Ireland, inw his father, kept Ihe iinu" of Iluikc Heche, Pnineis followed suit Other hell's of the Wetk estate, Includ ing Mrs. Peter Cooper Hewitt, rider daughter, leek no legal action. H'1 even today, ncceiding te legal autherl- int., uiry con hi go mm court sun in"1 flint the twins forfeit Ihe millions tliey have been viijejing from year te year in defiance of the will, Mnurlcc, the millionaire who risks hl fortune daily because he will lie Irian. was beset by match -making iiiumm when his father died and he became fourth Huren of IVriney. lie and It" 21.000 aires mid his uisile In fork n tempting catch. Hut Mnuiiee, adore of the debutantes, irnched 1'nris BiHJ nncaught, gazed into the blue fe ej Princess Vlora and iu their depths iM the anlrlr that Pv ir.llv'i. AM rhjht there the Prioress made her cuelcs',! 'sSttl m i.''..,jt bffe ,..n, ... .r -..fifftf ifttfv
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