Show Pr Princ T T 1 Serge Killed il e DU During lg rp Polo l lG Game G ln c O 1 Second S 'S 1 Tragic y gic p i tl j S r u s Family a ri- ri Wi ily Within 1 y Year e eai l. l I Y Young ung Wife Collapses s At t Side I PA PALM BEACH 14 Fla la March Death AP I 16 AP Death h in a polo game I gave a ar final hal dramatic to touch ch today to the colorful life Hie story of year old ld Prince Serge one of the widely known vid marrying mar l bro brothers hers While his bride of less than thal six weeks the former t Louis Astor Van AIl Allen Alien n of Newport R. R I H collapsed at his side from the he shock hock of grief Prince S Serge rge dred died did I late ate y yesterday a few minutes after he was k kicked on the head by his hor horse from which he e had i fallen faIlen The fhe tragedy recalling the death of his Prince Alexis in m an automobile accident in Spain a a few e v months ago occurred at the Beach polo field about 20 mil miles south of oC here heie I Prince Serges Serge's wife wiCe socially pi eminent was the c i of Prince Alexis Ten Minutes l s sIn In the match between his Georgians Geor gians glans and the Texans lcd led by Cecil Smith Serge attempted a daring dating lie He cut hl his pony ony across the he line of play for a difficult reach His mount collided with Smiths Smith's and andren fell Prince Serge struggled to his Ins feet and was kicked in the thc head Ten minutes later latet- he died of a cerebral hemorrhage An inhalator r was used more than an hour in vain Although l informed at first that her tier husbands husband's Injury was slight the princess rushed to his side As 5 physicians continued to work over the it start started d' d dr r raining but the princess drenched to the skin stayed on the thc field until all hope was was' gone Most of the several hundred memo mem- mers mers mers' of bf Palm Beach society who were watching the game gam left without without with with- out kl knowing owing the he prince was dead el body was taken to Palm B Beach ach to await funeral ar Larl Larry Waterbury m of nf the original big four of polo who was pre present ent said the tragedy was vis purely accidental The fhe game WB a athe the he final and deciding one in fn the southeastern polo championship Continued on Page ge 2 Column Colum 3 Pl Prince Serge LUlled Killed I During ina Game Of Polo Second Brother Meets l Tragic Death Within With n Year Continued Continued From From Page One Smiths Smith's Texans were leading 4 1 to 2 in th the fourth chi at the time of or the tragedy Prince Prince Serges Serge's Serges first wife first wife was va Pola motion Negri motion picture actress T They The e were married in 1927 and divorced in fIt 1931 His us second second wife was M Mary ry McC McCormic opera pera singer who was wai married to him In 1931 and divorced divore ed ed hi in 1933 The The singer wept without restraint last night in Buffalo N. N Yf Y on learning Prince Serge had been kill ill ed cd Prince Alexis was was- the the former husband of COl Countess Barbara Hutton Hutton Hut Hut- ton H Haugwitz from whom he was divorced in Nevada shortly before ht hh was killed Prince David only survivor sur bf of the famous three brothers wart wan married to Mae Ma Murray Murr y mo motion motion mo- mo tion picture actress 1 in 1926 and dio di di- o 1933 He resides in Cali Cali- fornia ornia Educated in V. V SPrince SPrince S S. Prince Serge was born at of of- Georgia in Russia in 1902 His father General nl ni tes ts S aide camp aide p to the czar durIng during dur dur- ing the World War I Serge and Alexis studied at Massachusetts Massachusetts Massachusetts Mas Mas- Institute of Technology Later they went to California When he married Princess Louise Serge gave his occupation as president dent of of- the American Naphtha Oil corporation Prince Serge and his brothers have made news for more than a decade in this country and abroad He Ic was in the California courts in 1933 on charges he and another brother mismanaged their oil oU en en- en A receiver receiver- was appointed appoint ed cd and Serge was ousted as a di rector A jury failed to reach each a verdict as to his guilt Later he was indicted and freed on a charge of falsifying corporation records Sued by Pola Pol a Negri Pola Negri sued him twice after their divorce In 1931 she sued him him for for francs she claimed claim claim- II ed was entrusted to him when they 1 were married Last year she sued for the return of and a aset set settlement I was reported two weeks later Prince Serge was wac so fond of polo he Interrupted his recent honeymoon honeymoon honey honey- m moon on on Oll on the chartered yacht t to play l 1 y a at Flamingo Miami Beach r or ii Prince Serges Serge's year year old widow is the gle great granddaughter of Mrs William Astor Astorr who wIlo once ruled New York a and d Newport society The engagement of Serge and his former sister law was announced late in January after being rumored rumored rumored rumor rumor- ed for several months When he came to l Florida lorida for the winter the prince stayed at the Van Alen Villa at Palm B Beach cli ch where the body was taken last night Mrs James Laurens Van Alen mother mothe of Princess Louise was one of f those who saw the fatal ace acci dent PARIS PARTS March 16 AP Prin AP Prin Princess cess Isabel sister of Serge who died yesterday in a Florida polo accident suffered a nervous shock today upon receiving news of her brothers brother's death She was still ill from a nervous collapse suffered after the death last August st of Alexis in a Spain SpaIn aut SpaIn automobile automobile bile accident nt |