Show c 1 J ir i v lesin e w Is- Is I C w i sI U Ur S r c Ia f Y p o 7 h Millicent Rogers Can Pretty Millicent Rogers Salm Saim I defied convention conven conven- tion and mar married ried the Heiress loves Dare you ou r do the same her challenge chal- chal Standard Oil lenge j Find ti i r a ArS r e f i i. i U Happiness Happiness' With Wi t the A y h t 9 j ta 5 S s ri v D X F o 5 rY I y q q f n t M 4 1416 wY y y 5 4 i. i r 1 n p r x y NF i S k S r F r R X i lY Titled Sheik q 4 T Ts of the Films Film s d dA r rh A r 4 O y r y Styled Self 7 b r r f I. I I D f. f Co Count un t Salm or t n a 5 iL was en engaged a ed to y 1 Mrs r s. s G Grace r ace t y S 'S Sands and s Mont l Io Montgomery tn t- t n Hunter j II f 4 gomery Coffin t l ar h i iS' iS f S' S w t if 11 4 f. f a r. r A r fi I r lr L r YS r 1 r 1 1 f I. I tt i i t r r. r 1 i s sQ L t Q ato Pi A AS S' S Milicent i i e t Rogers S Salm lm stepped into h her r limousine and glanced over her shoulder at the crowd that had gathered to look up upon n one one of Americas America's r r richest chest chestand K and most beautiful heiresses who had just married a dashing b but t finan financially broken down Count in the N New ew York City Hall she she sher flung out the challenge that she had done ilon what o other her American merican girls were afraid to do do the the unconventional unconventional tb thing ng married the man she loved Upon which Count Ludwig Ludwig Sa Salm ni von ti leaned l n d over and kissed his bride It was wasa a picturesque scene and a y significant remark as well a The daughter of Mr aI arid and d Mrs Henry Huddleston Rogers heiress to Standard Oil millions young enormously wealthy so pretty and so fascinating in manner t that she was the one debut debutante in New NewYork w Y York rk who captured the fancy of th the e w Prince of Wales has always been always t been conI considered con con- I a a typical atypical American girl Granted that the modern athletic arid ari rid d I daring young American girl can take al all aU 1 sorts of hurdles and obstacles in the th therace e race of youth how many many hany can ca'n she clear clea r in the match of love 7 C. C CONCEDED that the slim like boy e American maiden is a crack at al almost al- al most every sort of sport under r the sun yz how good is she at Cupids Cupid's game game when n the hurdles are so high that other other fah fair r American daughters have jumped only Y to catch their smart shiny boots an and fall sad and disillusioned to the turf 7 x Here according to those who have hav e followed Mary Millicent's c career reer since sine e the time wh when m an adorable baby sh she played with the heavy gold old wat watch h chain chat n of H. H H. H Rogers are arc the traces she must t clear in this sweepstake ke for fo r 3 happiness If the new little Countess Salm SaIm is t to o develop into a calm and happy m married married mar mar- ar ried woman her eager year twenty girl Irve ve must weather these seven ob ob- ob I IThe The knowle knowledge ge divulged the day I after her wedding that her husband i came to the United States with the thes' thes s' s avowed purpose of trading his title Jar r. r ra a a fortune l T The e fact act that her count is after t- t j S all only only- th the descendant of a more amore mor- mor ga t marriage ar 4 I bt art I r. r w x a y ip iF A o y Pe F y The Count is is s reputed to bet belone one of the sheiks that have ev ever r sent thrills through debutantes by way of of the cinema He is described as the worlds world's worlds world's premier premier r nd one o of the three most fascinating fascinating fascinating fasci- fasci fasci fasci- men of earth by y Susan daughter of of Alfr Alfred f d' d d the tile French publisher The startling revelation made the day after her wedding that sh she had marriage a veritable Don Dpn Juan uan and that that her own romance came only after a procession n of f former loves and heart complications sj The embarrassment nt o of of- loving parents to whom as s an only daughter daughter daugh daugh- ter she was specially devoted The The traditional hand handicap c p of having hav hay ing married a man ne nearly twice her age age and at that a divorced m man n. n Th The real realization that f fortune so endowed he hr r r with Nea wealth th beauty and exceptional charm that she who won the the fancy fancy of of England's m most t fastidious woman connoisseur t the e Prince ce of wal Wales s co could ld have haye had almost any man in the world if she had but but given fate a little l more ore time and chance Possible poverty pRETTY RETTY and vivacious hh Millicent Rogers whose cIe debutante b ball ll in 1920 was WS t the sensation of the s 's social cial season was brought up in n just about the same way as any as-any any young girl whose parents have spilling over millions and an an entrenched entrench en en- trenched trench d position in socie society y Only jOnly it was often remarked that Millicent was being reared a little little- littlemore more carefully than other delightful young persons of her age because her parents felt she had the tho responsibility of a a sp specially great fortune for for- tune to assume and then too she pos pos- exceptionally sensible mother and father Everything that wealth but also everything that love and careful training could give were given the only daughter of the from her birth It was laid as a tribute to Mrs R Rogers Rogers' gers' gers s sensible up bringing that the v 5 Prince Princ was was' was treated treated only as as' as of any of the ib- ib l- l L i l I I Il Et RS fh 2 q Y a score of looking good-looking youths who who fluttered fluttered fluttered flut flut- around her desirable daughter daught r and gossip ran high at thi this this' time that Mrs Rogers one of the youngest and prettiest mothers in New York society who had married for love herself when scarcely out of the schoolroom did not want Millicent l to be getting foreign notions in her head and that she would never be content with any but a dyed- dyed wool the real American romance That Tha was why it was no no surprise to the fashionable set at Southhampton Southampton two sum summers ers ago ago- when from the beautiful Rog Rogers rs estate came the announcement announcement announcement an an- of Millicent's engagement to looking good-looking Jimmie Thompson a chap of less social rating than the a boy at the time making his own way in the steel industry but young r and decent and American all eno enough to suit even Mrs Rogers' Rogers fancies WHO HO can say fate did not step in when the char charming ing Millicent's engagement engagement engagement en en- to Jimmie Thompson was was broken a year later Things happen in the twinkling of an eye One stroke of destiny and all the c careful re JI pl planning nning Or bf parents for their childrens children's lives can be undone As is known Miss Rogers met the Count only since Christmas On December 28 there was a meeting in Sherry's of the fashionable Monday Evening Supper Club Mil Millicent attended and likewise th the h handsome haired dark man in his late thirties known as Ludi Sly little arges of infatuation were were made by C CiO o u ri Ii t Sa Salm and his bride do dodged d ge d the Counts Count's be best s t friend the camera camera camera cam cam- era for sometime some sometime sometime time after the marriage ceremony cere- cere m mony o 0 n y but finally the they y were c caught a ugh t leaving a New NewYork NewYork NewYork York City hotel on a shopping tour both their friends that evening and exactly eleven days later th the beautiful young heiress and the Viennese nobleman nobleman nobleman noble noble- man who took her heart hearty by y storm were standing in front of bf f the county clerk in the Municipal Building in lower New York York giving giving their names and swearing that what their friends had hinted at was perfectly true It is easy for any parents to imagine with what consternation Mr and and Mrs Rogers Rogers' heard the news They had had wind of the seriousness of the infatuation infatuation tion of course In fact so serious serious' did they regard the affair that passage forthe for forthe the entire little family had been engaged for Europe that following Saturday But despite their enormous enormous disappointment disappoint disappoint- ment it is rumored t the would woud U I I Always too there will linger the memory th that t at one time the Countess was favorably looked upon by the Prince of Wales Vales who was greatly impressed with I her beauty and grace And then there is the affair of Jimmie Thompson just a boy making his way in the steel industry industry industry in in- without money or social prestige whom the carefully cloistered l adored in her first boy and girl boy girl love affair t d. d f 4 2 g rr t N O have forgiven their daughter well daughter well at least almost on the spot spot spot-if if it had ac not f been for the surprising news all all all' t the he newspapers bore the following mornin morning g With the breaking of the tidings th that at Europe's dashing vivant bon-vivant had played playe d at love in many directions came also t the h e news that although the newly acquired acquire it son law law hn-law was a sheik of the fir first st w water ter and in fact the Rudolph Valetine Valentino Valentino Valen Vale n tino tine of Austria his liens on circles of 01 aristocracy in in- Europe came came through a morganatic match between Prince Co Cot Cori- of Salm arid and anda a plain daughter daught er of Germany I Accounts of his movie-actor movie achievements achievements achieve achieve- e- e ments and his vari various us business enterprises enter ente enterprises r- r camp came thick arid and fast but perhaps ps the bitterest est pill of a all all' for proud parents parent s V r J. i. i Public Ledger Ler Company fA r bt 1524 b br v v v l i t r i iL A L. L a a U v v tj tt i fir i U iS t. t r 1 Will the green- green eyed goddess w of j jealousy e a Iou 8 y f tantalize the petite Countess r Salm when her husband meets again any anyone one of the many of of his erstwhile erstwhile erstwhile erst erst- while sweethearts sweethearts-he he was not only a divorced man but virtually virtually virtually vir vir- engaged to an American widow when he met the charming charming charming charm charm- ing Millicent l to swallow was the news made known through various loves ex-loves that Count Ludwig had come to this country making making making mak mak- ing no secret of the fact that he wanted a girl with a million and that he never laid his eyes on an eligible without asking Is she rich 7 But during his alleged seeking of a girl with a million it was hinted about he did not hesitate to to engage himself to the beautiful blonde Mrs Grace Sands Montgomery Coffin a woman of impeccable social position with a small competence Will the granddaughter of the great oil magnate be happy in h her hOr r marriage 1 Those who know the count say yes madly madly madly mad mad- ly ridiculously idiotically happy and its it's only over her dead body that anybody t will ll get him away from frem her For these love analysts raise the point th that t in marriage the rules hold as th they y do in life You cant can't have everything A woman must choose It is sad but notoriously notoriously notoriously no- no true it is pointed out that nature does not put all her eggs in her baskets and that itis the good providers staple sort of men who bore their wives to death even while they are suffocating them with kindness while on the on-the the other hand it is contended nature fortune or destiny has so arranged it that the man with the stimulating mind all ll the graces grace of society the ability to to constantly con con- amuse amuse and interest a woman often has little gold in his pocket they describe as one of the worlds world's greatest lovers mighty few of whom are left They name him as one of those rare men men- who men who know how to to live and who have the faculty of making all of life a glorious pageant It was Susan French woman writer and daughter of Alfred the publisher who described the count as as' one as-one one of the worlds world's three most attractive attractive attractive tive men her list of charmers including including including ing the Prince of Wales and an unnamed American for the two other It is his dancing that attracts so many women she avowed It was Mme Bobe proprietor pro proprietor pro pro- of a little hat shop who exclaimed exclaimed exclaimed ex ex- claimed What a lover that girl got If I had a million or two and he had wanted me wouldn't I have jumped atthe at atthe atthe the chance All the counts count's friends join in crying down the idea that he Jie was a fortune hunter He is is simply the kind of a priceless jewel who requires an expensive expensive expensive sive setting they declare and if any woman has the wherewithal to indulge in inthis in inthis inthis this sort of a jewel well jewel well certainly she could never as far as happiness is concerned concerned concerned con con- spend her money in better fashion Fr THUS HUS the gossip goes Millicent Rog Rogers rs has twenty-seven twenty thousand dollars a year in her own right if her father disowns diso her The count also abo has his career in the movies to fall back on But what the future holds for the granddaughter of old Hank Rogers neither the conservatives nor the modernists modernists modern modern- can really can really tell All of them are art wishing her well but older members of New y York exclusive circles cannot help wondering what sensation will come ne next t with with the younger set They tic tick off on their fingers Matilda 1 McCormick 1 coincidentally enough granddaughter of that other oil king John Join D D. D Rockefeller who defied convention by marr marrying ing Max l Osier a riding mas master maser er nearly three three times her age They discuss the late romance of a n Chicago heiress Helen Walker Valker who surprised ev everybody by giving ing mg he her heart and hand to a penniless sculptor Stanislaus son of an anold anold anold old world blacksmith Will Americas America's first first little flapper countess be able to do what that so many of her her- herbig big sisters failed to wrest to-wrest wrest happiness happi ne ness s from froDl a t title 1 I I J i |