St. Louis Post-Dispatch from St. Louis, Missouri • Page 26

MONDAY. JUNE IT. is: zine PAGE 2D The St. Louis Post-Dispatch Daily Maga m. Single Again After ft Ait I Her Fifth Marriage Lydia Locke, the Hannibal, Girl Who Became an Oera Star, Wins Her Third Divorce She Was Acquitted of Killing.

First Husband Another Mate Ended His Life After Honeymoon. -v" rlJn I known as "Prince" Talbot, a Neva- CHAPTER SEVEN. AT the age of ten I began to -worry about my future. "For my part I would naturally like to make good artillerymen of my sons," my father used to say each time I spoke of my different plans, "but then you have your own life to lilt." It sounded magnificent. It meant in reality that in receirins my officer's commission I would be permitted to choose between several "eligible" regiments of the imperial guard.

The very thought that any one of their sons would cast his ambitions outside the military service would have struck my parents as distinctly heretic. The House of the Romanoffs expected its members to wear a uniform of some description and cared little about their personal predilection and heartfelt desires. v-''i: f' lv i LYDIA LOCKE. re 1 EAR MRS. CARR: La mer while at a dude ran i love, but I had not seen or of him until the other night.

Uprn arriving home after a dasc s-about 2 o'clock. I was told that had called and waited for until 12. Shall I call him ar.i him I was sorry to have him or shall I wait for further developments? Please answer srer, as I am leaving for my "HONEY." It would depend upon whf-- this young man had del.bers-? waited all this time to sre though he had the opportunity do so, or whether he had just co to town or had been reaching you. In the fcr-ner cumstances. I should let rra- another effort.

DEAR. MRS. CARR: Wh; could I learn to sew fr ct charge? Thank you. MRS. J.

K. At the Hadley Vocational Sch-cl EAR MARTHA CARR: is the Protestant home located in St. Lou a.ji what does one have to do to a child? We are a young couple of iron means, but feel we give child a good ome. We wcu'i like to adopt a child fro-: 3 months up to 2 years old. I i appreciate your help very MRS.

L. H. L. If you will call at the Aid North Var.dev--. ter, FRanklin 1870, you will be en all information and good suggestions.

EAR CARR: After r-- ine; the letter of "A in your column concernire ing violin lessons. I wouii Lk- help her. Please give her mv ratr.e and address. I. I have several other ofrs nx for this young lady and I hope will snd me a self-a J4re-si.

stamped envelope, so that I rr.r turn them over to her. EAR MRS. CARR: We ar group ef people of linv.tel means and want to rent a nis court foi the summer. Kc would you suggest obtaining en We are sending this by wire as ne are planning a meeting Saturday night. TENNIS CLUB.

This telegram ime much ti late to be answered in the column. .11 one of the officers of the Missouri Valley Tennis Association, MAin 416 0. DEAR MRS. CARR: you please give me a list i firms in St. Touis that hars i used canoes? V.

Write to the Mississippi Vallt? Boat Club. The Idle Furnace It is time to forget the furr.a'- for a little while and we are itrv grateful to do so, but fi-st ef a ashes should be removed and p.l soot and dust cleaned out of pipes. Then fill the firebox wra fresh, lump lime, to prevent sri retard rust. Leave the doo-s open so the air can circulate, ani by all means have the soct removed from the smoke pipe nt chimney and connections for faulty flues before cold weather comes aeain. ou rv coinc to tell VOU VERY FRANKLY WHAT I TM1NK TXC THOUIHUJ.l-0.

was very much interested in all he heard, but decided that he had to have additional corroboration of the facts. Marinovich's affidavit served the purpose. Altogether five men led the dark- haired and beautiful singer to the altar not to mention anything of thof-e who wanted to but never were given the chance. All want- ed to settle down with the glorious Lydia. Back in 190S, Lydia Locke first attracted wide attention by mar- ryicg Robert Talbot.

also MISS LOCKE at the Metropolitan. Miss Locke's hatbands, and MISS mm WHATACIOR.ICUS OAV fU CLAD rTDIDHT RAIN jL mm fei mfi I'M da gambler. They met when Lydia was on the concert stage, after she left her home town in Missouri. Lydia was at the time of their marriage still in her "teens, and a very headstrong young lady. As a gambler.

Talbot, who claimed kin- shiD to tha famous Talbot who fought with Joan of Arc, was ac customed to a hilarious existence. In his home, however, he wanted peace and quiet both of which he did not get. His pretty wife saw to that, and finally one day Talbot let his annoyance at Lydia go to his fists. The result was that a year after their marriage, Lydia found herself beaten up quite severely. The following morning she went to see a lawyer for a divorce.

Talbot was at the conference, too. Something went wrong. Lydia didn't wait for a divorce. She shot Talbot to death in the lawyer's office. THERE was a trial but nothing ever came of it.

so far as punishing Lydia. The jury listened to her story, saw the tears stream cowa her pretty face and acquitted her. Indeed, their opinion had it that Talbot had committed suicide. With the proceeds cf Talbot's estate in her possession, his widow went to Chicago and after that to Europe to study music. She met Orvilie Harrold.

the famous tenor, in both places. The upshoi of their meetings was that divorced his first wife, Effie, the httl country girl he married while a hoarse driver and before fame his way. and married Lydia Locke. T.yd'.a's exciting adventures were entirelv too much for Harrold. He couldn't understand why she engaged in a fist fight with a jamtress or mauled a chauffeur, and other episodes.

He sued her, naming as corespondent. Arthur H. Marks, wealthy president cf the Skinner Organ whose later marriage to the former operatic star was the most exciting of all her marriages. She promptly filed a counter-suit to Harrcid's action, and won a di- LOCKE in opera cottume. eL! COINC TO il HOT LATER ON, iUT WC WONT MINft THREE tf by that time married her fourth husband.

Harry Dornblasser, her secretary, and considerably her Junior. That was the briefest of Lydia's romances. Following their honeymoon. Dornblasser came back from Europe, leaving Miss Locke She followed him here and he promptly disappeared. Some months lat-r he endd his life with a revolver in Cleveland.

Ohio. In the meantime. Marks had taken another bride for himself, but was very much mistaken in thinking his troubles with his former wife were over. Just before the six months period of probation was up. the courts and newspapers were treated to another of the sensations revolving about Marks and his former wife.

A FEDERAL grand jury indicted Lydia for sending through the mails a "poison pen-' letter, which was described as "so obscene as to prohibit the publication of a single line." The letter, forwarded to Marks, accused his new wife of unmentionable conduct in Parisian resorts, and the charge was that Lydia wrote the letter. Authorities declared Lydia'j sister. Frances Adams, had confessed to mailing the message at Bellefontaine, O. Repercussions as a result of the letter resulted In Marks revoking his $50,000 offer to Lydia and a suit for 1250.000 by his wife. Mrs.

Margaret Hoover Marks, against the former singer charging defamation of character. Her suit was never brought to trial. The Federal vorce. Harrold adopting the attitude of "I don't care who gets it. as long as it is gotten." That was the longest of all of Miss Locke's marriages.

In short order. Lydia took her third husband. After six years of it. Marks felt himself on the verge of a breakdown. He gave Lydia a divorce.

He also gave her 0 3 in alimony, a house in New York, an estate in Port Chester and several other bits of property. And Marks supposed that at last he would hv peace. Put he was mistaken. He found that his former wife persisted in telephoning his hom and office at all hours of th night, calling to discuss countless little matters. On condition that sh w-ourl not bother him asain.

he placed J100.000 in trust for her. Six months later just when Marks had begun to appreciate h's new-found freedom up popped Lydia again. Lydia said Marks was the father of her babv boy. whose birth she had meant to keep secret from him. but who realized after thinking the matter over, that her recently divorced husband might wish to provide for his child.

There were birth certificates, affidavits, facts and other documentary evidence produced by Lydia. Marks doubted her, nevertheless, and after detectives he hired had investigated, they found that Lydia had actually borrowed the child for adoption from the Willow Maternity Hospital of Kansas City. Thereupon, the Kansas City author The idea of joining the navy had first appeared on my clouded hori zon around the year 1S78. when through a sort of fortunate misunderstanding; we obtained a cheerful and easy-going tutor in the person of Lieut. Zeleny.

Thoroughly incapable of giving: lessons or making: sour faces, he became putty in our hands, and we spent our usually gloomy morning's in listening to his highly colored descriptions of the gorgeous life led by the rugged men in the navy. To believe this excitable sailor, the fleet of his imperial majesty constantly went from one glamorous adventure to another, and an existence racked with thrills awaited a youngster aboard a Russian tattle-ship. 'Now, listen to this." Zeleny would commence, "it happened in shanghai He would go no further, for his well-fed body would suddenly shake with fits of laughter. By the time he would get back into condition to explain what actually did happen in Shanghai, wo ourselves would be rolling on the f'oor and giggling hysterically at the sight of the tears streaming down his sunburned face. Zeleny's contagious gayety determined my choice.

I dreamed of n-ysterious women driving in rickshaws in the narrow streets of Shanghai. I craved to behold the of the river Ganges. I was anxious to encounter wild elephants charging through the jungle of Ceylon. My mind was made up. 1 decided to become a sailor.

I "A sailor? My sen a sailor Mother looked at me in dismay, "You are just a child. You do not understand what you are say- i ins. Your father will never peri-it it." FATHER frowned. The navy did not arpeal to him in the least. The only two members of the imperial family who ever served in the navy did not do so well in his estimation.

His brother Constantin was considered a "dangerous radical." His nephew Alexis chased after the women too much. This attitude of my parents failed to weaken my determination. There was always a streak of stubbornness in my nature. Again and again I broached the subject. Finally my parents promised to settle this troublesome question during our coming autumn stay in St.

Petersburg. They thought that the splendor of the imperial palate and the beauty of the Sunday parades would fill my heart with envy for a brilliant uniform. They overlooked the fogs, the gray and dull days, the rawness of the air, the tension of the political moment. St. Petersburg made me turn my eyes toward the sea more than ever.

What was mere fancy of a dreaming boy in the Caucasus changed into a cry for escape in the north. And still, I doubt whether 1 would have succeeded in accomplishing my plan had it not been for the unexpected assistance the new Czar. Unlike his father, Alexander HI attached considerable importance to the part played by the fleet in the defense of the Russian Empire. Preparing to launch an ambitious naval rrogram he believed that the fact of his cousin serving on a battleship would give a good etam- TOBK, June 23. LTDIA LOCKE, the Hannibal (Mo.) girl who became well known to American opera patrons, continues to hold a sensational place in the day's news.

For the fifth time in almost 25 years, the erstwhile and now buxom diva, who has figured in several sensational episodes, including: the shooting of her first husband, finds herself unmarried, but her friends do not believe she will remain that way. In her customary exciting way, this woman still attractive went into the divorce courts in White Plains and marched right out again with an interlocutory decree ef divorce from her fifth husband. Her attempts to dissolve her last marriage had been a matter of official record since last AprU, when with a story of a raid she asked Justice Morschauser to dissolve her marriage to Carlo M. Marinovich, wealthy shipping man and member Ealkan nobility. Marinovich had been in Paris for some time, and was very happy, indeed, it is al.o said to speedily forward an affidavit that he had no intention all in opposing the severance of his marriage to Miss Locke.

He is still Paris, where he's taking things easv. just getting over the novelty and excitement which his marriage Lydia brought, Probably Marinovich's love for the sinrer before their marriage, male the sensational adventures which had befallen her seem as nothing. It was also predicted that it wouldn't last that Miss Locke's restlessness precluded a steady marriage. And. of course.

the prediction came true, but ac-1 cording to the former oreratic star, not she, but Marinovich was the cause. 11 was with a story of what hap- ened when she raided a Park avenue apartment, where Mari- nuvich resided, on a night a year ago in June that Miss Locke enlivened the solemn atmosphere in Justice Morschauser's Court tod obtained her divorce. On that night In June, according to the testimony introduced. Miss Madeline Collins, a private detective and the former opera a In 7 a ri vi- 'm Tar. As Miss Col- hns narrated, they found Marinovich with a woman.

"Oh. it's you. Vivian!" Miss Locke cried, recognizing the woman as one of her very dear friends. Miss Locke finished the job by rippmg off the silken garment wore, and the railing party left. Justice Morschauser, naturally.

ORVILLE HARROLD, cn rough frankness applied to all other cadets. Once initiated to my duties I was supposed to wrork harder than anyone else, the admiral reminding me often that a member of the imperial family must show an example to his classmates. This equality of treatment pleased me tremendously. I learned easily. The irresistible attraction of the sea grew stronger every day.

I kept all watches allotted to my service section, finding nothing unbearable in spending four hours in company with boys who becam.3 my friends and in the close proximity of the waves that rolled on their way to the mysterious land of my dreams. Continued Tomorrow.) rorjTtght. 193 -) Soft Finish, 9. Minimum BnjiaUc SI OO Overland Laundry Co. Phoo.

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mf CTHE former Grand Due Alex-cnder, nephew of Czar Alex-andcr 11 cf Rus, has told, in the previous chapters cf his Uje story, hew he was trained in early childhood to 'become cn army of ficer and how. ct the cje of 10. he left his heme in Tifus where his father was Viceroy, far his first visit to St. Petersburg. There He met his imperial relatives for the first time end witnessed the mar' riage cf his sisitr, Anastasia, to the Grand Due cf Mecklenburg-1 Schwerin.

He did net he mziv of his uncles and cousins, hut teo a particular fancy to little a ccuiin who was to become the list'. Czar cf Russia. The family re- turned to Tiflu, but humed bac to the capital uhen a tomb exploded in the alace uUng 0 officers and soldiers cf the guard, The Empress of Russia cied ana 10 months later Czar Alexander mar-ried Princess Touncvs'ava, who had borne him three children. The ro-vfil family was indignant. The Emperor uas assassinated by th: revolutionists and his eldest son Alexander, ascended to the thrjy.e companied by visits aboard battleships and to building docks.

5ach summer 1 spent three months on a practice cruise in company with the cadets of the Naval Academy, jmy parents hoping that the verity iof naval sciplin would change my decision at ment. How clearly I can see the duy when I left our summer palace of Michailovskv to start the career of a sailor. Our small chapel was, packed with relatives, aids-de- camp, and servants, and when the deep-voiced priest presented me with an ikon at the conclusion of a Te Deum, my moth3r began to cry. The beautiful words of a epe- cial prayer for "the wandering and the voyaging ones" made her exag-i gerate the perils awaiting ot-r youngster. "Let us go, let us go," said father nervously, and we drove to the port of Feterhof whence the yacht of Prince Eu- gene of Leuchtenberg was to tike I me aboard H.

M. S. Varyag. I Toward evening we arrived at i Twermine. a small lumber town in Finland, where the squadron of the Naval Academy lay at anchor.

I The Admiral gave the signal and the Varyag lowered its steam I launch manned by cadets or my age. They looked at me curious- ly. evidently speculating whether this unsolicited imperial adi tion to their crew was going to cause fuss and disturbance. A few words of welcome from Admiral Brllkin, and I w-as shown into my cabin. My dream came true but partial-j ly: although an indivisible pat of the navy from now on, I was still being separated from the ether boys and not permitted to t-unk with them in their Quarters.

Another shock of disappointment came at dinner time. Instead of joining the cadets in their mess-room. I waa told to take my seat at the Admiral's table in his private salon. This may have been to my advantage from the educational point of view, because while listening to the conversation of elder officers I learned many matters of importance, but at the moment I felt hurt. I feared that the cadets would resent my "exclu-siveness" and would deny me their friendship.

i The meal passed in an at.nos- th- ct us in different tones. Once in while I heard the sleepy voice of tha sentinel under the flag repeat- ing his usual. "Who is rowing?" I waa thinking of the new life thit was to start tomorrow. I visualized the faces of the cadets seen by me in the steam launch and was working out various plans to conquer their friendship. The broad strong wooden beams over my head reminded me of the iron discipline of the navy, but my childhood had taught me to obey orders and ex pect no favors.

I got up, open-1 my bag and took a small yellowish engTavinj representing a bearded man with a gigantic shield. It my saint PL Alexander of the Neva, the first Russian Grand Duke of that name, who saved Russia from the pillaging Tartars in the thirteenth century. Now I had two friends protecting my sleep: a silent saint and purring cnr. lavnruiam was shown to n. mi.starji pointed out with the same cf in to I ities came and recovered the child authorities, too, apparently lost in-through habeas corpus proceedings, terest in the "poison pen" charges although Lydia right up until they because Lydia was never brought to came and in the face of contrary trial, either.

evidence insisted the child was her Not lon? afterwards she figured own. in the news when the Baroness When Lydia still insisted on z'-r Muehlen. formerly Miss Helen phoning Mr. Marks and altogether Carruthers of New York, either fell making herself a very undesirable or Jumped out of her hotel room in person in and around his office and the Rltz-Carlton Hotel, her body home after helold her she had for- being found 70 feet below. Lydia feited the $100,000 trust fund, he had been ata party a night or two told her he would split 50-50.

if before in celebration of the Ba-she'd stick to the agreement for roness' departure for Europe, six months thereafter. When next she was heard of. she Marks had some reason to be- had married Carlo Marinovich in live mhm would because he had Europe. HOURS LATER ANYTHING WaONC, JACK? YOU'RE SO QUIET AND UNLIKE YOURSELF CUESS THE NEAT OTHERS ME A LITTLE NEXT DAY JACK WAS SO DEVOTES AT FIRST. IUT HE'S CHANGED.

NOT A WORD AbOUT ANOTHER DATE ri a i i r.e lw lu isuuuj. phere of tenseness, evervbodv mam-Logic and common sense de-1 uinins Uence an4 chaug5nlt manded my entering the Naval warcinjf gUac Several w-Academy, but a grand due was elapsed before gucceede(J not supposed to mix with the or-, those iciou aJl0n dmary boys, and so I had to do tnat I had no intention of reporting my studies at home under thetEeir casual remark, supervision of a special tutor, the faci a pl givun A lay on niv DcK listening to th, s.a. Hired and paid to prepare me hour3 beins souniied dlfferen for the examinations that were toship. oa the rlgfct Md oR I lay on my back listening to Ml i -H I ru N.EV".TAKI chances NO HAPPY AGAIN rTY5SA "f'Trf-i I' ufibucy Xvr iJ -I TirH IS MARVELOUS. SO MUCH nintfoVS LONC ACO, 0X4 hA fc) lTy oITT.

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