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Show THE OGDEN . STANDARD-EXAMINE- R CLITMTlAV MHDWIWP r. n IT TXTTT r LJ'.& f Buantxj MUUU n I I If ? rVa. U II is ft n f '1 lv lPfi Mrs. AresonL Wife of the Opera Singer, Wins Damages from the Woman Who Vamped Him and Now Frances White Is Sued for $100,000 by Another Injured 1ff' Wife . 1 , IV f v i jIjHjLILU t YV VX' ) MI N It I' T ry 4" J- - 1 t J . M ;,'X if Ji It fi H I S V - . ' ' a f ' ' If ' ; 4 ' ' - ' ' 1 f - if 4 -- c s ' ' ' k '' '' 'S 1 - ' 1 Xr V x--' .... .v iJ i ' V ' x ' ; x - " j- - j.v t . ' $Vl'' ' 'l - i' "3 X c 5, V i An Unusual Back View of Frances White "V-.- and, Below, Still Another Back View Revealing the Portions Which .Were Not Revealed in the First Photograph. Vamp' so well known In the triumphs for a while, and la the end loses the man she has .beguiled. While the injured wife finally gets ba;k her repentant husband, the vamp usually drops out of the picture without much, if any, punishment. But the courts have recently established that the Injured wife can go a step further in real life legal proceedings than the sce- nario writer usually makes her go in the movies. The courts have held that a vamp must pay for the damage she does in vamping a woman's husband. In a recent suit in the New York courts Judge Tierney laid down the law very plainly in refusing to set aside the verdict of a jury which had awarded $50,000 damages to Mrs. Lillie Aresoni against Jessie Ullrey, whom she accused of vamping her husband. Judge Tierney solemnly declared j 1 i J . from the bench: "The defendant (Miss Ullrey) invaded the plaintiff's (Mrs. Aresoni's) family and took from her the natural as well as the legal rights she acquired by her marriage. Nature dictates that the child of that marriage, who carries on the father's personality, shall receive from him all it reasonably needs to keep it from want in the uncertainties of life. This has been taken from it by the mother's damage as well as from the mother by the action of the defendant. "When the plaintiff married she became Vested with th6 right to the support and xiuV Stothard-Whit- e Frances Whit r IT vamping Mr. Stothard. Mrs. Stothard claims that fascinating Frances has practiced in real life on her husband her popular song hit, "I'd Like to Be a Cave Man's Kid." and thus has kidded away the affections of the author of the song, who i3 Mrs. Stothard's husband. Gossip along Broadway has it that the "big scene" In the THE W T 'i irof"4.''M;;;?" rJ :. Sfhill Cffi ' tfizj&i ?$i 'i '? ' 'iJ . S VV fi'P' VV' ' 'AVvSV l - ' tion. o. ;k v x ' ! ' Throurtout the long odious proceedings the Injured f u,f0 hh woa at cach trse Came and her attorney, Clarence M. Lewi, ha now only the lesal forraa'.ltlfs to 0 through in order to collect tho. judgment. In this oa Mr. Lillie Aretont I tho the "vamInjured wife. Jcslo Ullrey pire" and Knrlco AreBonl. opra singer. I .ho man whue affections the Jury have declared are worth J50.0QO. Th Areonl. a fw year ago. were New Yorkers in moderate circuraitanres and worked side by fide In a tailoring business. As he sat cros-lergeon th bench blith-lat a Aresoni garment stitching away sang snatches of opera, and often at neighborhood gathering he was called on to entertain tho party. He gradually acquired the reputation of having a vole? worth cultivation, and friends urge! tho Aresonla to send Knrlco to a music teacher So Enrico abandoned th tailoring business and devoted himself to doveloping hia voice.fi And Lillie worked doubly hard to support herself and Enrico and their child and pay for the expensive lessona. Finally the voice was pron6unced perfect. But something more was needed. Enrico had operatic aspirations. And to succeed In American opera one must have a European debut, he was told. A few months under a European master, an "study of languages, a premier performance in a French or German or Italian theatre and he would be ready to conquer the new world. All very wll. but where was the money to come from? Hia musio lesnons had already drained the Aresoni resources and Ullle Aresoni had worked her fingers to the tone to keep things going. But she did not deipalr at the new tax. If Enrico needed to go to Europe. ahe aald, to Europe he should go. And he did. He studied and mad a successful debut. He returned to America and filled operatic engagements. Between opera seaaons he did concert wxrk at various places, among them Atlantic City. And here Is where the Areaonl vamp steps in. Areaonl was singing on the stscl pier la Uia Summer of 1913. Among the crowd was one woman who wsv constantly la attendance, and who sought and obtained an Introduction to the Aresonls. This was Jessie Ullrey, the vamp. She II said to be the daughter of a Cleveland Jadge and the niece of an Ohio Congressman. She had been married and divorced. She professed to be In love with Aresoni' voice so she told Mrs. Aresoni. Mrs. Aresoni heard nothing more of her I sce- nario occurred last Fall when Fran ces was playing in "Jimmie." Just who acted as director and producer and editor of this real-lifmovie will not be known until the alienation case has got well under way. At any rate, it is said that the first d y e verification Broadway had of the rumor coupling Mr. Stothard and Miss White was when a theatrical paper burst forth with a front-pag- e of their engagement. And next issue of the theatrical paper the took It all back and asserted that Stothard was. already pretty well married! Not only had Mr. Stothard been married for three years or thereWhen abouts, but they had a baby almost companionship Of her husband. these were taken from her by the wron- a year old. But the gossips congful act of this woman she became entitled tinued to link their names. If there to all the natural and proximate damages was anyone on Broadway who dida't , following from such wrong. This includes know about the affair it was young damages for the loss of his society, affec- Mrs. Dorothy Stothard so she says now. tions and assistance, as well as for the Her mother, who Is well known in vaudewrong and Injury 'done to her feelings and ville circles, also heard about it, she says, character and for the disgrace and humil-- ; but thought It only a pasting fancy on the iation brought upon her. author's part, 'and for that reason did not 'Thd farnlly Is the foundation of our tell her daughter of the vamping that social structure. Disregard of marital Broadway said was going on. Then Broadway forgot all about It, for rights by the seducer has become so freIn our In that of country late years "Jimmie" went on the road and other shows quent bucH a case the favor of the court snould and stars and scandals came to occupy the be extended only when the application mind of New York's Main Street. "Jim, fcfcows a clear right to have it exercised. mie" finished its tour and Frances White This Is not shown. In the case here pre- came back to the white lights. Just where sented." Stothard was all this time isn't precisely Thus It appears that It Is no joke for a known or will not be known until the ramp to practice her wiles on the husband story is told In court. But Broadway did married woman If the injured wife not revive the rumors and Mrs. Stothard of gets together the evidence and goes to was still In ignorance of what she is now court to seek damages. asking $100,000 for. One of the newest and most Interesting It was less than a month ago that Mrs. suits of this nature was brought the other Stothard says she found out and then It day In the New York courts against the was only an echo of what Broadway had pert little stage favorite M1S3 Frances said last FalL She refused to give creWhite. Miss White has recently appeared dence to the rumors, but they persisted. In "Jtmmie" and "Tickle Me," the musical and the present legal action Is the result, comedies written by Mr. Herbert Stothard, ...Broadway waits with Interest for the par-ucuiars. the piaywngni. n is sars. It Is not the first time that Frances has the Stothard, playwright's wife, who X brings tfe damage suit for $100,000 . for figured In a matrimonial adventure. Onca I" A . " r f V -- -- weii-Know- twire was denied her applies- - v 5ioc "x'-i't-- 1 ' n . i before she played a leading part in an ! case only that time she was not the accused vampire, but the vamped. In March, 1917, she met Frank Fay, a vaudeville actor. In April she mar rled him. In June she started to divorce him In July she sued him for a 12,500 loan. And In the same month Fay filed suit against Frances's dancing partner, William Rock, in the sum of $50,000, for alienating his wife's affections vamping her, It was alleged. The actress got her divorce in Auguit, with '$25 a week alimony. And then, according to newspaper accounts of that time, she spent that sum each week in buytickets at the theatre where ing front-rowas playing, so that she might sit and Fay stare and make faces at her former husband, and so discompose him that she "crabbed his act," as stage cant put it. Whether Rock was sufficiently to suit the singer of the "Cave Man's Kid" song history does not record. From the external evidence of Mrs. Stothard's suit it would seem that he was not. The case on which Judge Tierney gaTe the opinion quoted at the top of this page Is somewhat different In details. It has made the rounds of the courts of Ohio, Pennsylvania. New Jersey and New York. The applied twice to be C1 It XX. X1anittJ0Bl Tttr Svrta. Im. alicnatlon-of-affectlon- w care-manni- vamp-defenda-nt W - sh ve until two later. when Enrico ar!n rann af Atlantic City. Thla tlm Mr. Aresoni was net with him. When h carr." horn h dliplayej a diamond ring hicn he said two old ladle had given htxa but "hum ti iivi uruippfti wax A pre lent f rrm tho vamp. Then Enrico tegan yr-ar- je- Mrs. Ar-uon- j - " V h couldn't arrange It by mall. He stayed away four or five day and returned the w , ill jt fc'4-- .-. ) .. . ( J X.-- ) 1 r w- - V y Mrs. Aroni aved what could. In Chicago Aresoni told hi wlfo that he had to go to Day to arton. Ohl con- a for range tract. No. ho Just without r ; f- , X money lavishly rn these trips. n ; t at stayed home. Enrico srenl tract - , town engage- ment. V t to get frequent out-o- f I V and Family. Vkv ''''V ' " i '; trom the Judrmnt and X,'V-- v-- C ' ' X' iV h? Who Is Bcinr Sued for SlOOfW ',www Luring Herbert Stothard, the Play wright, Away from His Wife , ! J 4 irf V K " ; r,''mmtc Mra, Lillie Aresoni. Who Sued and Recovered $50,000 from tho Woman Who Beguiled Her Husband Away from Her. con that the 1 All this made the devoted wlf wonSignor Enrico der. Her husband Aresoni, tho had changed hia Opera Sincer, eucrcs itemed to have gone to bit head. Still she did not uspet Jessie Ullrey. not cvrn when Enrico received a telegram from her urging blm to go to Cleveland, where an opera company was being formed. He had first cll for an engagement ae the company's leading tenor, she said, and the cost cf the trip would bo paid la advance. Enrico went. He came back, but without a contract. He admitted that ha had stayed at Jcssio Ullrey'a home while in Cleveland. Next, It waa alleged, the Ullrey woman lured the linger to Chicago sphere ahe started him in a music studio. He spent less and less time at home. He was ea frequently at restaurants with the vamp. Then came the great scene. Mrs. Aresoni and a friend took the baby to the studio on the little ont's birthday as a surprise to the father." The elevator ' boy was emphatically certain that Aresoni waa cot in; he did not want them to bother to try the door. But they did, and found It carelessly entered and found th vamping proceis In full swing. Just like the movies, but more so. Are?onl begged for forgive-ne- a and got iL Then he had a long engagement in California, went there, wrote his wife once or twice, and then became strangely sliest- - She Investigated, found cn-locke- d; weman was also In decided that she was well rid cf htm and tried to fcrget. Rut aha couldn't forget or forgive when she U arced that tbo faithless tetcr had obtained a decree of divorce from her la Reno on the ground of desertion. Bhe was ir.dfgr.act to diacover that be had sworn she had desertad him, whtn, la truth, AreonI hid left her penniless, with a baby to support, and had gone to California with the vamp. Then she began her damage njrey suit. The legal proce Call-Icrni- a, Wa tnnsuaHy tire- some and slow, tut Mrs. Aresoni and Law. ycr Lewis persisted and finally 'triumphed. The result was the urhoMIng of the Judg- ment for 150,000 and Judge Tiemey'a eloand incisive orlnlon quoted above, quent -It was a terrible thing to have to so through with-,- aald Mr. Aresont Tat X aaw it as a duty that I owed to ether w men, for I knew there must be many other wires who have been Injured aa I have, acl If they would all do aa I bad done there would be Irsa vamping and fewer htsahanda would be beguiled Into de erticg these who have been faithful to theca." In her answer to the wife's complaint the Ullrey woman aaserts, "1 had business transactions with the plaintiff husband for a ccnslderatle period cf time in tha State of California, where 1 lived with ray mother, tst these transactions resulted eicartrcciXr to nyic'f; 1 suffered a f.can-ctIcia and waa comr-alJeto institute criminal rsceslifiga against the pUia-lirr- e husband aa a result thereof." It waa cot a very proiutle enterprise for tho varnp. al d |