Show A LIFE OF ROMANCE The Checkered Career of Mrs Alice M La Grove CARRIE TURNERS BOHEMIANISM She Secures a Divorce from her Eminently Respectable Swiss Husband Because Their Life was too Quiet and Tame Special to THE HERALD Examiner Dlspatchl NEW YORK Feb 6A life full of romance ro-mance was ended when Mrs Alice M La Grove died on Monday at her homo in Brooklyn She was 3S years old She was the daughter of the late Isaac Singer the multimillionaire sewing machine manufacturer Mr Singer had at various times several wives by whom he had many children Alice was the favored one Mr Singer had her educated edu-cated in Paris where at the age of eighteen she became the pride of Parisian society This was not alone because of her fathers great wealth but on account of her beauty and charming manners as well A year following her debut in saciety to please her father she married W A P La Grove a man twice her age whose hal r was tinged with gray It was a characteristic character-istic French marriage the parents making the match The difference in age between the bride and bridegroom soon began to be felt and as a result shortly after the two came to this country a suit for separa tion ensued followed by an action for absolute divorce It was decided in the womans favor In the meantime Mr Singer had died The somewhat peculiar nature of several marriages had become a matter for the courts to decide The litigation liti-gation ended in his children being declared legitimate and the manufacturers millions were divided among them Alice the favorite daughter became immensely rich Soon after her divorce Mrs La Grove became be-came fascinated with the stage to such an extent that she desired to star and did star with a company of her own paying the entire en-tire expenses out of her own pocket She tired of this but not until she had met Frank Bangs the actor for whom she formed a strong attachment When she left the stage Bangs became more attentive to her and after a years courtship court-ship the couple at 9 oclock at night rang the door bell at the residence of the late Henry Ward Beecher on Columbia Heights and asked him to make them man and wife They took the midnight train for Philadelphia having telegraphed for elegant apartments at a prominent hotel The honeymoon was very brief for next mornings express from Philadelphia to New York was carrying Mrs Bangs with all possible speed to her home in Brooklyn with a determination of having her marriage mar-riage with Mr Bangs annulled on an unusual un-usual ground Suit was subsequently brought and Bangs putting in no defense it was decided in the womans favor Since then Mrs La Grove as she called herself after she had been divorced from Bangs has been living a quiet life in Brooklyn She leaves aside from a large estate sixty of her stage costumes with jewels valued at about one hundred thousand dollars Her funeral will take place on Saturday Actor Frank Bangs who played such a singular part in the womans life is lying at the Sturtevant house very ill Iroui pneumonia |