Show ” : ' u ' " 1U u vr gfk - — ' Mb BftpriCW4 fc" $ dfce- gis-SiaM - s—r J- f V tTljc Sunday Myrninj Salt £nkc Tribune- July 23 1939 - 3 By Bert Andrews man she was offered $100000 by a only refrain from bothering him for 3G5 But she talked herself out of it in two tries at $50000 a try1 Now she'd like very much to have that rash and the question is: Can she talk herself back into it? Precedents say that she can’t But precedents mean less than nothing to this woman of variegated exploits who is bound to turn up on the first team when they set about Glamor selecting an aggregation of Girls For sne is none other than the remarkable Lydia Locke who has been among other things an opera star playing dramatic parts and whose spectacular career has included peace-lovin- ONCE g h£3V e Ali-TJi- marriages to: A grand opera star (This was the late Orville who sang with the Metropolitan and who stood the excitement a good many fh III! (He called himself Lord Reginald W Talbot She was indicted and tried after he was shot but won swift acquittal the jury agreeing that she killed in A Reno gambler a & V Harrold years longer than any Other husband of Lydia did She got the divorce) A millionaire organ manufacturer (He was Arthur H Marks who died a few weeks ago It was he who gave Lydia $300000 in cash and offered the additional $100000 for a promise which she didn’t keep She’s trying now to sue Mrs Margaret Martin Hoover Marks with whom he later found happiness — and peace and leave-me-alo- flsfsS quiet) A soldier of fortune ( By name Harry Dornblaser who ended his life with a bullet in Cleveland Ohio) A French shipping man (His name is Carlo Marinovic He’s in Paris at the moment far away from Lydia The marriage ended in a divorce) If the mere matter of marriages e doesn’t establish Lydia’s Glamor-Girating it may be added that her hectic life has included such highlights as an attempt to present an d adopted baby as her own a duel with a husky janitress over a dis- mif All-Tim- rl hand-to-han- d pute abouf eight days’ rent a bout with a chauffeur over a cents and a $25000 purse of twenty-fiv- e suit against Julian W Robbins banker who? automobile bumped her and broke her leg Lydia was born just about fifty years ago in the little town of Hannibal Miso souri of moderately parents who soon discovered two things: that Lydia had a remarkable voice and that she knew how to use it to get what she wanted around the house By the time she was sixteen there well-to-d- if And So the Lydia Locke Who Couldn’t Keep Still for a Fortune Speaks Up Again Five-Times-W- ed hen Millionaire Arthur Marks I)icl Recently lie I eft the Bulk of llis Fatale to Uis Third Wife Margaret Shown Ahovc 5R wasn’t anything around the house that she still craved and she took her voice onto the concert stage in search of bigger and better excitement She did have talent opera coaches of the time conceded that But more than that she had a flare for the spectacular that was to leave her and all about her with few monotonous moments At eighteen she ran into tall handsome “Lord” Talbot whose title couldn’t be found in any British reference book but who made it do in the gaming rooms of Nevada They got married after a whirlwind courtship and he was the only one of Lydia’s husbands who had as tempestuous a nature as she did a nature he manifested by beating her into silence occasionally Lydia objected and demanded a divorce They met in a lawyer's office The marriage was ended right there with a bullet After her acquittal Lydia settled “Lord” Talbot's estate and found that thanks to a winning streak of the previous few weeks he had left her enough to study opera in Chicago and in Paris Orville Harrold the grocery boy whose operatic career began when Madame Srhumann-Hoinheard him singing behind his horses one day came into Lydia's life next He felt he needed a wife with life pep and ambition and so he parted from the bride of his humble days and after a divorce married Lydia While she was Mrs Harrold Lydia battled with the janitress Neighbors stopped the fisticuffs and a bewildered filed by judge dismissed counter-charge- s the women At about this time too came the dispute with the chauffeur and the suit against banker Robbins The chauffeur had been sent by a neighboring store to deliver a package When Lydia wasn’t prompt enough in finding the twenty-fiv- e k rents for payment they had words She bopped him in the right eye with her good right hand and on the head with a slipper from her left foot The judge said later she did just right The Robbins suit was settled out of court While winning these minor fights Lydia was losing her singer husband He filed suit naming Mr Mark as corespondent She retorted with a countersuit Harrold said: “I don’t care who gets it as long as it is gotten” Lydia got it Then began the dizziest period of Lydia's life the phase that is echoed today in the latest of her many suits She married Marks who had been married At first once before he thought it a lot of fun to have a wife who had so much fun who kept so busy and who liked to be on the go without wasting too much time in repose But after six years he found that he couldn't stand the strain The story goes that he went to a famous sanitarium to be built up but that before the physical training experts had a chance to go to work on him his wife called The man who ran the place talked to the wife Legend has it that after the chat he talked with Marks and told him : V X V c “ou might as well pack up isn t anything we can do for you you need is a divorce” gelling it Just before six months had passed she confided to him that he was the father nnd Shown Romping with the Son He Iydia Adopted in 1922 Is i There What Whether this is true or not the Marks couple did decide to part and there were huddles with lawyers as to what share of his fortune she should have in exchange for the six years of her life that she had given him It was agreed that she would get $300000 cash on the Jinc an estate in Port Chester another house in New York and some smaller pieces of property that he had acquired Then they said goodbye and Marks retired or so he thought to a state of single blessedness where he could have the quiet his nerves demanded He was wrong Before long she was on the telephone nr present in person at his home and office to discuss a lot of details which she believed still had to be settled That was when he made the bid of $100000 for silence and a lot of it He put that $100000 in trust on condition that she would get it if she wouldn't come near him again and would not get her name into the papers in any scandalous manner both pacts being for a period of one year Most pcoplu thought that she was a cinch to get the money and that he was bidding pretty high for 305 days of calm but they were wrong at least about her The Inle Arthur Hudson Marks v 'V of a child which had been born to her since the divorce hhe li ml birth certifi- cate affidavits and other documents to prove it what' more f mm Mic Tempestuous Lydia Locke Hus Been Married five limes idow Defendant in Now Is Asking Permission to Name Marks Two Suits She Filed Against tire Millionaire Before His Death Marks didn’t appreciate being made a in such an unexpected manner and so he was mean enough to hire detectives to check up on the story that Lydia told They found that she had : ( 1) made a few slight mistakes the baby wasn’t born to her (2) it had been borrowed from a maternity hospital in Kansas City and (3) all the fancy documents were bogus Lydia stuck to her guns until the Kansas City authorities recovered the baby by habeas corpus proceedings Then she admitted that she had indeed made a slight error and she went to Marks to ask in effect: “llow does this affect thut $100000 parent trust fund?” He replied in words similar to these “I ought to take it all away buL I’ll tell you what I'll do If you'll not bother me for the remaining six months I’ll let you have half of it” It looked for a time as if she'd gi t that $50000 for she married )m nhla er and Marks married again and it seemed certain thnt both coiides would be too en grossed with honeymooning to fret about extraneous matters But — just before the second six months was up the new Mrs Marks got a poison pen letter and a copy of it was sent to Mr Marks A Federal Grand Jury indicted Lydia for sending the lettcWhrough the mails It was charged that iydia wrote the letter and that she had had her sister Frances Adams niail it The indictment was never brought to trial Neither was a $250000 suit that the new Mrs Marks brought against Lydia for datamation of character Hut Mr Murks considered that Iydia had forfeited the $50000 and he told her so Iydia effecicd an orderly retreat to Pan uficr this aeries of skirmishes Widowed by Dornblimer's suicide she next met and married Carlo Marinovioh the shipping man After a hectic five years they were divorced in While Plains in 1052 despite these side attract ions win not yet ihiongh wiih Arthur Marks She ami Marks had odoptrd a boy during their married life and a But Iydia short time before Mr Marks' death she had gone into court with two actions In one of them she demanded $75000 which she said she had spent on the education of the adopted hoy This nutter she told the court had been overlooked In the other in the divorce settlement she asked the courts to void the agreement she had signed when she ami Mr Marks were divorced in 1021 and shs pouted: “I signed that under duress” When Marks died at his Palm Beach estate he left Lydia exactly nothing and he cut off the adopted soil who was named in his will ns Newton Locke with 500 lie left all his estnte except only thnt $500 to his Widow Lydia was thoroughly annoyed by that She went into court again with a motion for permission to name Mrs Margaret Murks executrix of the estate a defendant in the two suits And not until the New York courts rule finally on her motion will it he known whether she ran talk herself hark into the fortune sha talked herself out of |