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Show r'' TRIBUNE, SUNDAY MORNING, MAY 22. 1921. SALT Til?-- : vw. .np" Did the Follies Girl Try to Work Out in Her Own Life, the Theme of Her Greatest Stage Success It Pays to Flirt? ; 7 4 r: (' : 7; 1 ' -s 1V J1' . ' "v t . ) XI T-- 7, - f' W r , , h C1$ a:-- ' . . I Vi a. x A . i'i. I PH c rV$ . . Three Photograph v TV , ', t, tfMMSrQr j.r s of the Fascinating , Peggy Hopkins. 7 Mach-Marrie1 Maurice, the dancer. Is a popular Idol, and morer women pursue hlm time to bother with in a hundred years. If Peggy Interested him she must possess charms much beyond the average. Barton French, 'of New York and New port. Is a man of Quite different type. U his veins runs the blood of old Peter Stuy vesant he is accustomed to the polish and charm of the most graceful women of the s drawing-roomof Americas oldest and most aristocratic society. It Peggy fas dusted him she must, have more, and difwhich would apferent charms than-thospeal to a stage dancer like Maurice v But Mr. Joyces chlefest compliment is In his assertion that she had a love affair with Henry. Letelller, the French multi- -' millionaire. Here indeed was a triumph. Letelller picked for his wife the most celebrated beauty In Europe a girl whom that bther connoisseur of feminine charm, the late King Edward VII., had for one season picked as his "Summer girl. ". Letelller. is pointed to ns having had more affairs than any living man in Europe. If Peggy Hopkins won the attention and favor of this famous specialist on feminine charms she Is surely entitled to the blue ribbon. But never mind, the real question Is, Whose wife Is pretty Peggy Hopkins? . Everybody kne w thatamong Peggy husbands there had been a rich young lawyer, nrinlng and oil man named Sherburne Hopkins, Jr of Washington. Peggy was nineteen when she took on Sherburne Hopkins. It Is this Hopkins marriage which Mr. Joyce concerns himself with. Joyce has looked up Peggys divorce from Mr. Hopkins and asserts that he finds that It was no divorce at all It it was not a proper and binding divorce, then, of course, Peggy was a married woman at the time she married Jpyce the latter part of January in e Did Peggy flirt early and often and everywhere and does she now believe that It really pays to flirt? r If Peggy had not flirted Mr. Joyce would not have left her. And If he had not been disgusted at her flirtations he would not have determined to try to get a divorce from tier And U he had not been search-In- g about for a sound reason to base his divorce suit on he would not have dug up the illegalities of Peggys own divorce. Now if Mr. Joyce gets his freedom and gets back the million or more he bestowed on Peggy, and all because of her many and varied flirtations then the question arises- whether "It Pays to Flirt" -- And ihe- title of the. next play, of hers, le an odd circumstance A Sleepless Night Certainly Peggys flirtations gave her hus-- . band many a sleepless night And Mr. Joyces lawyers believe that they will give Peggy Hopkins more than one sleepless night before the divorce ault is over. It w ould be Interesting to get Peggys honest opinion whether her experience Indicates that "It Pays to Flirt or that It .really doesn't pay and usually leads to many "A Sleepless Night" for the girl who flirts. 'And. It. Peggy had many husbands and ' upon her. many admfrejHbey also were much varie1920. It probably does not very mnch. gated In kind and quality and nationality mstter to Peggy. Hopkins whether Mr. Thus It appears from Mr. Joyces comSo, according to Mr. Joyce, Peggy Hop-Sh- e kins ft a bigamist, Joyce Is tired of her charming company plaint that Peggy found herself very happy is, he asserts, preor not Peggy is not of a lonesome, brood- in the companionship of Maurice, the fatending to he Mrs. Joyce when she really Is still the wife of Hopkins. . ing or exclusive disposition. According to mous' dancer, and yet was able to enjoy This is how Mr. Joyces lawyers figure herself equally with the distinguished Inihe other unpleasant things which the out They assert that Peggy met Joyce has to say In hls divorce tellectual editor and proprietor of the great Mr. thing Joyce In May, 1919, but do not reveal complaint, it would appear that Peggy French publication. Le Journal, of Paris; the time, place and circumstances. Peggy makes friends easily and has, little diffiand one of the oldest of New Yorks aristoknew then, or learned shortly afterward, that her new admirer waa very rich, and it culty in feeling quite at home, especially cratic "400, Barton French, is mentioned is charged that she made up her mind to with men of money. Several of these very as having fallen to the charms of Peggy. Intimate friendships are cruelly named by And there were others, "E. James" and . marry him. Mr. Joyce, even to days, dates, places and "Evans Spaulding," so Mr. Joyce swears. The little obstacle of her being the wife such details ar't(rwhathapp6neaiTraPullv-butiirhas"h- f But thatncrtlmr oropportunttFtO"wf man sleeping car, for Instance, In the could be fixed up. Peggy was separated learn very much about them. from Hopkins at the time, and having no city of Venice. Peggy is a- flirt, Incidentally and probably quite unintenmeans of her own "was compelled to enhe says. tionally Mr. Joyce pays a splendid complito obIt Is Interesting to recall at this pomt ment to the charms of the young woman gage In the buslnese of that Peggy made her biggest dramatihit he thought he had secured tor a veritable tain a livelihood." In a play called "It Pays to Flirt and then wife. It it is true that Peggy had e string So Peggy, they say, induced Hopkins, her of admirers pretty well all over Europe ahd In a drama A Sleepless Night" husband, to bring the eult for divorce Now that is just the polnr Mr. Joyce from New York to Palm Beach, and had District against her in the Forty-eight- h Court of Tarrant County, Texas, "and to raises In bis divorce action that his wife affairs with the men he eweara she did was a tremendous flirt Did Peggy try to well, when he just missed tielng up Peggy take such proceedings as resulted in the entry of said fraudulent and void decree of llv; In real life the part she played in the for a wife he lost a remarkably fascinating woman. divorce so as to enable her to marry Joyce." . ettravaganxat PEGGY HOPKINS, whose figure ai a "Follies girl" are veil known, ha been talcing on and off husbands ever since (be was seventeen years old ten yean ago. Among the lucky men were at least two millionaires. And, of course, there was' her first husband, who started her on her matrimonial career by au elopement from her native town of Norfolk, Virginia. This first venture only lasted six months. According to the sworn statements In a divorce suit sow pending In the Chicago " courts Peggy also had many bere and there, more or less all over Europe and In America. - and the --richest of her husbands, James Stanley .Joyce, the lumber king, who declares . he has discovered that he la not, after all, the husband of the Peggy. On account of alleged Irregularities in ths divorce proceedings which were supposed to have terminated Peggys latest0revlous marriage, Mr, Joyce asserts that Peggy Is not his wife. And, worse yet,- he insists upon getting back about a million dollars which, in the joyous exultation of possessing this supposed bride, he had bestowed PRETTY ' d "near-husbands- much-marrie- - - - - T&ultl-millionai- -- jr play-ectin- (C) Its, latwullMMl nttui g las. 'i IP I tt ey. 'A It is charged that even before the decree was entered as of record in the -- Texas courts Peggy represented she had divorced poor dear Phllbrick "and suggested" that' she and Joyce be married immediately. The bill charges that the Texas divorce is fraudulent and null and void because neither of the parties to it had resided In the State a year or in the county six months before the filing of the suit, as rqj quired by Texas law. It is charged Hopkins filed the petition for divorce on October 10, 1919, charging desertion; that Peggy filed her answer Dealso charging cember 18, with a cross-bil- l desertion; that Hopkins made no further appearance in the case, and that the d oree was givenPeggy on January 1. Peggy took on the new husband, Mr. Joyce, on January 23. It Is also charged that the court made no finding with respect to the residence of either the plaintiff or defendant, and that both plaintiff and defendant ..."fraudulently . .. aaAcoUuaivelyconaplrfid to confer Jurisdiction on the court by fraudulently representing that the petiInhabitioner bad been an actual bona-fid- e tant of the county for the required elx months; and that, therefore, the District Court of Tarrant County bad no Jurlsdlo-tloin the case, and Its decree was and le wholly null end void, and, therefore, the Peggy Is null marriage between Joyce and and void." Mr. Joyce's attorney admits that he wae very much delighted with hie supposed n - - Qrot Bfiuia Bleb's .,, : v upset him when she tore around In her "temper," but when she also beat him up and scratched him and otherwise treated him with cruelty what was the poor man to think or to do? Yes, Peggy struck him and scratched him, he swears, and all these things are solemnly set forth and sworn to in Mr. Joyces long and circumstantial complaint in the Chicago courts. Peggy - herself has not had much to say bride and nothing wa too good He bought her magnificent furs, a' lot- of Jewelry, and presented her $300,000 Winter home In Florida, tion to considerable other valuab erty. Joyce confessi every way he knew of this property back again, which he valuee at a million dollar or more. But Peggy aeeme satisfied to take him at his word when he said It was a pleasure to him to have her have all these,thlngs. and she is too busy now to bother with a man who changes Ills mind about little things like furs and JeweU and Florida chateaus. But that is not all. According to Mr. Joyce, Peggy not only turned out to be one tremendous flirt, but be was surprised, shocked end saddened to find that those sweet lips could swear llkfi a trooper, he asserts. And another thing. . Peggy, he Insists, turned out to have an awful temper. In all the courtship he bad k.v AThihittnn $ had lam dap - , v yet. Her attonteyrWHHanr Klein, of No. that 120 Broadway, New York, remarked It was something of a baby trick to fall In love with a woman, marry her, hand presents to her, and then go running around trying to get them back again. He said that the $300,000 home at Miami. Florida, had a, string on It in the shape of a bank mortgage, and that when Joyje changed his mind about Peggy he had the bank foreclose the mortgage to deprive her of it. Mr. Klein says that his client will fight the eult brought by Joyce end will, at the proper time, bring an action for alimony 1b Whatever happen, Peggy la young and attractive, and she has many years of Ufa o uom ij iguuiivu ,u iwicg, u g,,,.,., 1, ahead of her and .there, ere many more and used such word as are usually printed millionaires In the, world, so the outlook In respectable newspapers by blank spaces. for her is not discouraging. But would It perhaps not have been betAnd all this for no good reason, he Insists. ter for Peggy If she bad not tried to work , And even that Is not elL deout in her young matrimonial experience It was- bed enough to have his own It mure little Peggy turn out to be fond of the title of her greatest stage suctoss other men, and it was shocking to hear her Pays to Flirt?" Perhaps some day Peggy cay those awful words, and it completely will write an article on this theme. brbhlfr : ,, ? -- Bmmi ? j |