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Show I WloilieH (M On I Mm And:HoW' Handsome Lionel Atwill Loved and Lost in Real Life Just as He Had Done " on the Stage. At the Right: Mr. and Mrs. Atwil) ' In a Scene from "Deburau," Where ' In Mane Duplessis (Elsie- MackaJ Atwill) Anxiously Anticipates the , Arrival of Her Sweetheart, Duval, While Deburau (Lionel Atwill) Makes Violent Love; a bceno Which Mr. Atwill Says Is a Parallel fr.-. to His Own ' Real-Life Drama. , hi '"TX ', 'nJ How Handsome Lionel Atwill Loved and Lost in Real 211 AM f ''6Ua - Life Just as He Had Done k3J I '"J'l 4 At the Right: Mr. and Mrs Atwij ' " liSCffl ;".' W-i;A.i't'"',. In a Scene from "Deburau," Where. WtS', . $ 7 Cl A, 5CSf , Sjr S r' ' ''' '"i.i ,3 n Marle Dunlins (hlsio M.uka7 "' i i If! f 7 (TP t , - nVMYV ' V' . Atwill) Anxioasly Anticipates the 'A v " iim, U I llk JkJlU(C f TN " '. 73?V Jrn, l At-? Arrival of Her Sweetheart, Duval. , J " V 7 ; VV I 1 4 '- ;T ' ' . While Dehnrau (Lionel Atwill) Z1- - ft ' . ' VNj , VV t "V .- 1 H , 4''iJi :A Makes Violent Love; a Scene f U , k. A J " ' ir Nfc: - r , ; which Mr. Atwin J? s V f - ?V NK, i J J' ' V m'', ( . ' ,J A: 1 - 'K't;f' Zt-i', J ilWJ 1 Wl-- IU.tie 1 loncll Atwill, the "Great V Jj- jj" I ' ? . " T ' - ' " V " 'if" ' v ' t J .J i LV J Lovet," as tiie Trusting Husband In Another , t ,5 5, 0 . , " " , ' ? " - - 4 ' - f L IT One of Ha Rent Productions A V ' ' " ' ' ' " '' ' ' " ' , j "J i f lOtfEt ATWITJL is called the eat ,'t ff? ' , I " - . - U ' . ' ! V ' ' ''fA -fe 1 ''T L lover" of the stage. . V " 'l " v " ' - H . t ' ' r " ? . I 71 ' ln pp1"16 he is eacfy th ,fV(' -1 v ',r hi . s, i i -w, A ( , , o x .. i -f . v v. , "V,. r', ';f 4 5 '1 in I Jjy type of younf man that American women i ' . " - , T 1 - , 'f '' ' 1 1 f 4 :N- a y - ! ' uocl3fe the Prince Charming of their 4 ' J r ' V J. i- ' , '' 1 , ? ' 4 " ' f , ? 1 ' " ' S ! V drewui, tU somewhat vague ideal they en- BV"ti , , , "n- p . " , " 4 ' ' . J ' -' ' y 1 f i ' ' t' - Above-Elsie Mackoy Atwill, VW-v iA sMl1' ,n theit juoat secret ftQMgfats; th - i ,, s x V, , fa ' ' . , ,r , , 'j h ' , vk ' , the Beautiful Australian r! SVITj ivt.'x3mg all too seldom attained unftge 4, ' ,.) v -, fj ,4 , - 4 , . ' . rrS Actress-Wife, Who Walked (Vfc JTV of tto oerfect lover ,p V -, , v t. , i . 1 . v r " tv ' , ; jr Out on Her Husband with UTTL 3V He is tail and broaxSahoulde.red with the ' C t , ' " , vm f - s " " 1 t i " ' , -1 - Mai Montesole, a TA olear ejoa of the athlete and the swinging, f to n lV'. s ' , , , V; " ' J " a i . h i t t Heretofore Obscure Actor. TVm' JLki ey yoe of the dancer His features are - s i 4 . L v - , A ka cWi'-cut and handsome and although in -,r 4 4 - .v5" " ' w 1 1 j .j J-' 13 ' some lighu, tnere seems to be a sprinkling L,' 5'', ' ' , '4 4!.f ? (P- , "k.' t 4- .;' 1 A Montesoe laughed again and sad , . S .. org; on hu tempJe feminine 1 W - S-'f.t . ,fj t t fe., t, - l Jr he didn't W but Redmond aid 4. ttAN fv; who watched him and sighed as he f . S t ' .Vvv,.?v 's ." 4 A H (W I ; , J . r, that Mrs Atwill was spending the V , 2,4 leads m "The Wild Duel," "Hedda ft . - V , ' . ' V X N , ' 4 R.K,m Wth MrS- Eedmond- rhen WSi-' C.er, ' "A PoH's House" and "Another ' t ' t . J N- , , , - V j , - ' ' ' "YoTfnJ 1 M , ., v .V fF' Shoes" knew instinctively that he L t .t".. 5P, 1 ' " 0 -i f - . IX wTUt f J b!rd' Mo?tesoLe " he. 8a.ld- ?WS L'.Virt is a rler Taiash mortal He will never Iv14". , . IS " A ' - , - " !'Y1, - ' f at. unclean red spider spinning fJ Mdforthepastten.a . V.' , V , ' V ' SSET !UTff1 Ln!-.n Mr AUvul has diawu the crowds; - , ' .!:.. ..L ""S v , k ' " . t woman out of your hfe and go after another." W aV- tho fctrnnine cro-d A woman would no aV -widn 1 ..uyau w," ' 'v svj---- bnddenly the men were mixed up m a mass of M kj b .?y tooro th rk of qu ttlng his presence than ' - Z. r ' V - " " - v J M ai? ,1 j J?ut, m the midst of the scuffle Vv ! V-'- J sho'd try to s- breathing! more money than Atwill and Mary Fowler put ,a j O ' !? 1 ' " " -! suddenly for them to stop. Jf ' ; f frl And nr-w a woman has "Walked out" on himf together She recently inherited a few tons of ,! , .lMMs , C ' They separated and poured themselves drinkq 0 nWn trt foil,- an i.T t t I f t I I Above: Elsie Mackny Atwill, 'K the Beautiful Australian rWL Actress-Wife, Who Walked f(& Out on Her -Husband with JfX Max Montesole, a . . 3fc? Heretofore Obscure Actor. 7M I Va" IU.tU!Mne I.ioncll Atwill, the "Great ' Lti J Lovet," as tlie. Trusting Husband In Another f jjS One of His Recent Productions. I IEL ATWIIi is called the ""great - I I lover" of the stage. I AW. 7- "" 'n appiarance he is exactly the- I Jjjs ype ' voun? man that American women ! 4 ' aiocak for the 'Prince Charming of- their. ! IJ drewia; tl somewhat vague ideal they en- ,-jIvCJ'V - sluiue in. theit jnoat. secret tbQUghts; the trx farsuJlmg. all too seldom attained image JTV of tlio nerfact lover. He 'is tall and broatr-shouldered -with the T olear eyus of the athlete and the swinging, KS ey yo'e of the dancer. His features are lifV cioaj'-cut and handsome and although in 1 ' some lighji tnere seems to be a sprinkling i of jpy. on .his temples, feminine inatinee AN f 'V; who watched him and sighed as he W,-?- ii leads in "The Wild Duck," "Hedda-YljC'f "Hedda-YljC'f tiiiAier,' "APoH's House"- and "Another. fi Jdn's Shoes," knew instinctively that he LyLyj 13 a rler Taiiish mortal. He will never 'H ' look' old. fj Accord'RV for the past ten yeare ever tj j"j tinea, he iuioejn.in Amenca, and before rjr?r' that, whin he was treading the boards in v A S?) Ltniinn Mr. Atwiil has drawn the crowds; Vt tho frmnilne' cro-.d. -A woman-would no ip rooro th:r.k of iu;tting his presence than ' So Lionel went on whipping the play into . shape and Elsie attended rehearsals, and when Max wasn't on the stage he wa3 with her. And the husband forgot to remember that love never is willing to wait. Four days before the plav was scheduled to open m Baltimore, Elsie didn't come home. At-will, At-will, with his friend, Claude Beerbohm, nephew Pretty Mary Fowler, Who Eloped with Max Montesole as His Third Wife and Who, with Hei Baby Girl, Ruth, Now Plans to Pursue a Career Independently. 7 A - 7V,r' V , ' Montesole laughed again and said if' 7 he didn't know, but Redmond said . . J' that Mrs. Atwill was spending the k JT night with Mrs. Redmond. Then VsP Beerbohm spoke up. ; rri ''You're a foul bird, Montesole,'.' he said. tsN Tou re a fat, unclean red spider spinning (1 Afj your web to entrap a giddy woman. You're a liar UVv and a cad and a scoundrel. You left your wife fH and babies for another man's wife and a fortune. FY Yt And when you get the fortune you'll kick the viJJ woman out of your life and go after another." Suddenly the men were mixed up in a mass of VSt! fists and feet. But in the midst .of the scuffle VJ T Atwill called suddenly for them to stop. Jl They separated and poured themselves drinks in and settled down to talk as calmly as thev could. M M Montesole said he was willing to go on with the M ' V rdny, but Atwill told him that he wouldn't have ' XI him in his play under any circumstances. - (J SJi Elsie Mackay Atwill and Mrs. Redmond ar- o R rived at Douglas Manor" at noon. And for a ldCl' Becond time there was a conference. Afterward Elsie said good-bye to Atwill and he watched her vanish down the driveway. . WM It was a few days later 'that his detective .found W Elsie and Max were dining together every eve- RrVSN f iV res,teuura,nt on Central Park West, Ul V and that Montesole had rented ' an apartment in B V Sixty-eighth street for "himself and wife." When Lionel and his detectives burst into the room one ft night they found her there with Max. .Later, f I ' when she filed an affidavit in answer to n.s suit LV for divorce, she declared Max merely was help-' TO ing her to pack her trunk, and that the house- (' Wfj keeper, as well as Eugene Walter, the plavright Vm unMTtb S1lf lSid ,that she 1 hRd K unfaithful to her husband and asked for $360 a ;e'k,al'7'y and $7,600 counsel fees.-Atwill P stated hat he would not pay her a cent l h MarJteeXrtTd w!?" 'The thing seems doubly funnv " she wont nn '' U because I eloped with Max. I met hfm wh en f 4 J tot "who' r 'iCe ft!t, the second lrXt Mjf sole, who divorced him in England, as well and W bitterly opposed his daughWs f endship ' with L& my huhsabVa6ndn," t l"B?.,n? T M' be left alnnA ri 11 y' 1 des,ro now only to the futu re'of mv chMd ? a"d t0 .. 01 oman walk out oa M,Sl P -f more money than Atwill and Mary -Fowler put together. She recently inherited a few tons of nuggets and gold dust from a brother at Kal-goorlie Kal-goorlie or somewhere in Australia. - It was ten years ago that Atwill, who was then thirty, came to America with Lily. Langtry. to play "Dick Marsden" in "Mrs. Thompson." He already had had ten years' experience on the' English stage. - With his wife he moved'to Beech-hurst, Beech-hurst, Long Island, and lived eighteen months in an unpretentious' two-6ttfry' frame house.- Atwill starred in a-successlon of productions nd eventually arranged to play the lead in "Another "An-other Man's Shoes. A ydiing Australian girl had been cast for the heroine of the play. Shel was unknown in America. and Atwill .objected to .. her. But his objection was overruled by the manager, and the girl came to rehearsal. Within two hours the 'star had taken' her to tea. Inside of two months his wife was suing : him for divorce and getting .it,. uncontested., with alimony and the custody of their six-year-old son. . The Australian girl was Elsie Mackay and ; when she; married -Atwill -he built her a $40,000 - . - home in Pouglaston,. Long Island. They seemed ..very contented and happy together. A few months' ago when' Atwill was preparing for production of his play, "Deep in the Woods, he dropped in upon, a rehearsal, of "The School for Scandal." He was so impressed by Monte-sole's Monte-sole's work in a small part that he offered him a ! place in his own play.. .They.hecame friendly ; and soon Montesole was spending his week-ends at "Douglas Manor," the Atwill home. ' Then, one night, Atwill saw his wife's gray eyes resting upon Montesole, and he knew calamity hovered over him. He called the pair together to-gether and said to them, in effect, "I want to ', know if you are in love with each other!" "Yes." said Elsie defiantly. "I love him, and ha loves me !" "Yes. Quite so," said Max. "All right," said Lionel. "But wait a while. Let's not do anything impulsive. See each other all you wish and you'll find out very soon if it's real love. 1 don't blame vou, Max, for falling in love with Elsie. I did that myself. And if ' you can't help it, Elsie well, you just can't! "But let's get the play over first. After it's opened on Broadway we'll have another talk. You'll wait, won't you? Then we can make up our minds about the future." ?'-'? ! V ' J sai d try to stp breathing! ! ' !- f ft- A'nd now a woman has "Walked out" on himj I ,r f K K Not only has this astonishing thing happened jy I' to.thi.'licrtit layer" but an even, more incredible w ft circumstance was the feature of the occurrence. .R 'nJs2 for thi woman who walked out on him was his 1 Wi. ilvJ 1 ! jfiwwV And, to cap the climax, the beautiful Elsie j aN Mackay Atwill turned her back on her husband . ! A?' '1,Vs another man, one practically unknown ; y 1b5 an"' no waV distinguished, and with no claim J W&J J whatever to' being a "great lover." - . j 1' ' i !'-9 clun was 'ax Montesole, an obscure stage i I ntrson who has been playing small parts on n I '"'-'1way fr the past three or four . years. In j Vi j ! vim to accompany Mrs. Atwill on her amazing l f-1 'Swdkout'' he was obliged to leave , behind a ! I hxminf :md talented young wife, Mary Fowler, HiX ' 1 9 J "-lrv Fuller, already has made a success ! I I i& ' on th" 5tf-' Also he Jef t Eleanor .Ruth, a baby ' ! eirl, e!ghten monthii fid. I s$d" - v Kin Macka:.- Atwill', while 'she .was walk- , tS ft ing wr.lked sj far that !t lakes a week to reach yi(V(4 he- ra;, she i in London. Max Monteole - a;?c Is in London. They crossed the ocean on- j Ihe same . ffiip, though once on the docks at Liver- . 1 Vvi P' indigivanc Eiie emphatically denied that"' AV ;rl there e-r had been anything improper in their 'P r5lationship. But Lionel is suing for." divorce " , fl a.W naming his wife's companion as co-respon- ij' Jl dent, while Mary Fowler Montesole has said that IJ she. too, will resort to the courts for freedom. -" The story of Elsie's walking out is as dra-niatic dra-niatic and as full of unexpected thrills as have Y been any of the plots unfolded by either herself ili'iFi or her husband back of the footlights for the en- uft teitainment of the public. JlilV v. And, curiously enough, the story isn't what ''Av tne people call "original stuff." It's prac-' , vAV tifa"' a repeat for the entire cast of four, ''; . though that makes it none the less bewildering -V to the "great lover!" A-PJV Atwill, himself, was won away from his first ; Wlfe' beautiful Phyllis Relph, an English actress, Jii by Elsie Mackay. And Montesole, who won Elsie rV rlrJ away from Atwill, already had been married I1 V"J twice before he eloped with Mary Fowler and ' O merried her very much against the wishes of 'jt l""- family. Furthermore, every one of the jX iY C quartette is plentifully supplied with money ex- ' 'sA ' M cfcj'ting Montesole. But everybody is saying that -" it makes no difference in his case for Elsie has j , , J . ,lf .nix wmmmsm .- ;'.;;-. .. ' Y' k A . v.. ! . ' .. 1.f....'f'.1-': - .';..i.x . -Vg . f ' '. - - y . 7 - ' ' ' TiPwurnrT Fr-'tllfft Pert If. :.'V ' ' ; 1 Max Montesole, the Obscure Actor, W ho After Ik Accepting a Part In AtwiH's New Play, Ran Off to Ixndon With Mrs. Atwill, Leaving His Own Actress Vife and Iiaby Behind. A of Max Beerbohm, tho caricaturist, and Sir Herbert Tree, celebrated actor, tried to locate lo-cate her by telephone. And when thev could not reach her they ran? up Montesole and asked him to come to Doug-laston. Montesole came, at five o'clock in the morning, with an actor friend named Redmond, Red-mond, one of the cast o? "The Green Hat." Beerbohm said, "I didn't think you'd have the nei-ve to come here," but Montesole 1 laughed and poured himself a drink of ! Scotch from a bottle on- the table. "Mr. Montesole," said Atwill, "you've been my guest in this house. You've been my friend. ' I gave you a part in my play. I You've eaten my food, you've drunk my ti. liquor. And you've stolen my wife. .Where is she?" - - |