Show 1 p Count ru i a w tom q ba baa a New Difficulty r That May Ruin the f String Strange 7 ti a 1 r x Her Brett Dancers Dancer's of Winning YN a y Y q II y W 4 Y Z a lq L- L 11 Ft 7 Five Years Fight to Square Accounts I are e W the M a ai i i r I ax a Who bir bi 1 aJ lY f 44 I a d Quickly y t rL C CSc Sc R N y K raA Tire Tirel Her 11 t 1 tt Y T TIR IR l f a t-fl t P A E r rt s t Mi w r r f ft y t i ii i i l lir t l ty n s iw fin k f fy t Ny NyLiE h LiE k IA 1 c r a 8 A 4 lq c cE E q r r a tax p t i t Gt y L Y h 4 t r rY 1 r rk L ar M sic w i a t r a w a mm p I v F i v r tY q The latest Mrs Mr Frank J Gould Could who was so 0 irritated in when she saw aw the b name of her husbands husband former fonDel w wife e plastered allover all aU over Paris in in flaming big letters letten i PARIS PARISI Edith Kelly Gould There POOR I- I IOOR seems to be DO no end to the troubles which have hare beset the pretty stage dancer Since sine the day years ago age when she was divorced from rom FraIl Frank J Gould the American millionaire and started angrily oct oat to t obtain from him hist the Anan cial cu cial support to which she sh believes she the is entitled Those Tho e years have been crowded with an n amazing series tenes of bitter legal battles between the former husband and wife w wife e Sometimes it was the disillusioned mil ml- millionaIre mil millionaire who scored the victory and sometimes the onetime love lore mate maw but the re result t of each contest only opened the way to a new one onee There was never any final never deCIsIon decision any ruling from judges or juries that betted the th controversy for all tune Only a few weeks ago Prank Frank Gould won the suit he h brought broucht in m the trench courts to have his w wife e forbidden to humiliate and find embarrass bun hun by dnn dane dane- dancing o ing mg on the music masic hall stage tage under the th name of Gould Now the former wife IS ISsUing issuing sUing Mr Ir Gould here for personal prop prop- property property property erty amounting to several hundred thou thou- thousand thousand thousand sand dollars R In beginning this suit Edith Edth Kelly Gould suddenly discovers herself con con- confronted confronted confronted fronted by a new and very extraordinary andone and one on that may prove disastrous disastrous disastrous trous to her hopes of getting even WIth her ber former forma husband by grabbing off a sized Sized good slice of his fortune Her ner lawyers regret 10 inform intOnD her that she is a woman without a country As Aa a result of ot her hr marriage and divorce she shu IS placed placed-in placed in the unusual position of ot hav hav- having lag ing no n nation she Me ah can legally can call her own neither neither England France nor the theU U States Edith Kelly was by birth a Q British subject But Dut she lost her citizenship in her ber native land when she soo married as an American Amerlan and she c cannot not regain JegI it un- un unless un unless less lesa sir she becomes naturalized naturalized- According to 10 the laws of the th Unil ed States her divorce from Mr Mr Gould robbed her ber of o tho American up she had gamed timed through her Yet only her passport is b an American one giving her ter name as Gould and Goold this name the French courts have ruled she ah must moat not use us V It is a most wn 1 situation andone and one oneL L that may cony add greatly to the th of ot Edith Kellys Kelly's latest effort t to tolled collect from her f former Mr Ma Goulds amry IHO anny of lawyers r 1 T a R p t DIY it t tt tr ta t r a made mad doubly ski skillful 11 f u 1 byaw by aw their long I 1 o n g service in his offense and defense dc- dc fence are expected to take good rood f advantage of the fact that that so s f far as legal local citizenship is con con- concerned con concerned Edith Kelly is a nonen In fact fact many thInk they eventually will sec sec- secy suc succeed y teed in m having her case thrown out of the courts f on the ground that she J holds a passport from rom a jS nation on which she no s longer ha has any claim and that it is made out In lu a name which she has been forbidden to use in m France It may be urged creed that for these very rea- rea reasons rea rea- reasons reasons sons she really had no right Tight to be al- al allowed al allowed lowed to enter this country Edith Kelly KeDys KeDy's s lack lac of a country is not however made Mr Goulds Gould's first line of defense Evidently his lawyers thin think best to hold it m reserve for possible use against the enemy later on In Frank Goulds Gould's preliminary answer to his former fonner wife's la latest t suit he contents con con- cont con contents t tents himself with contending that he IS ISan isan isan an American citizen and that moreover be married Edith Kelly not in m this coun coun- country country country try but m in England He argues that for these reasons she might as a well bring sUIt 8 ega nt him bun ir it the moon as here If there is any legitimate cause cans for dIspute he urges it is a matter that falls entirely within the jurisdiction of the American courts The rhe suit that was brought in m the Ver Ver- Versailles Vcr sailles court the other day is for tor francs franes Tb This s sum is 15 alleged to represent half balf of the value of the personal prop prop- property property property erty included in ID the Kelly Gould home hornat at the time of the divorce The former Mrs Gould argues that since Mr Gould is 15 a resident of Franco and since her marriage to him hun was made 1 without any an contract sh she is 15 entitled to halt toone-halt one hall this property End and has bas every right to lay claim daim to it in the th courts of thiS country What a curious legal tangle it Is b and what a rich harvest the lawyers en mi both aides will reap for their earnest efforts to ids unsnarl it Yet Tet it rt is little if any more HIT surprising sIng than some of the other previous situa situation bone tion which the years of dissension be- be between be between tween the former ortner husband and Imd WIle wife have baw brought With Frank Goulds Gould's recent successful attempt to prevent his wife dancing an n the t variety stage stag under his name came ram a Il rapid I 1 n of f mirth mirth- provoking firth provoking surprises that kept Pare lan laughing 1 for months According to the gossip of at f Puis Paris Frank Gould Co ld probably never wro- would have gona gon to thc tho th expense and trouble of ro- ro restraining re restraining straining his us ei second ex-second second wife from using us his family Q the th if it had bad hadnot not hot been for f r the insistence of his third wife The Th present Mrs Mr Frank Gould is h the tho former lormer LaacK J a k although of f Amen 3 r e The dancer fa n and andone one of the men z ra e er r lays af with whom t she shey at a ar y r i Paris music t ball under f a s iw iwa y the of Ary name kif q Gould until y Mr Gould had the courts put a a s t o p to 4 her embar- embar v a aa a a s rr r and his new wife lace this Rt F SY f fw w P hirth birth has lived here bere her in m France for many years She has nursed for a long time lofty social an am- ambitions am ambitions to Mr Ma and since her marriage Gould she has bas been relying on his mil millions lions bons to enable her to gratify y them But somehow things did not work out so 60 o well as Florence Florenco Lacaze Lacaza had hoped and exported expected Her IIer progress toward the social heights the she coveted was not the tho swilL and triumphant thing she wanted It to be be And finally she got to blaming the slowness with which she progressed and the many embarrassing difficulties she encountered to the memories of her husbands husband's unfortunate love affair with a amere amere amere mere stage dancer Wherever the she went in society she was continually hearing her ber name linked With that of the previous wife When some someone someone one pointed her out as rich Fran Frank Goulds Gould's latest wife we wit she was sure to hear some someone one else say Oh yes I saw the previous o one Edith Kelly Gould danCIng m in n a a music hall when I was m in London last month She's really really- really And then would follow various bits of gOSSip some sometimes limes complimentary to Edith Kellys Kelly's charm as ns a stage enter enter- entertainer entertainer tamer but usually not at all so to Mr Goulds Gould's judgment in m having baYIng gone behind the footlights for a wile wife All this was most aggravating to the tho former J Florence Lacare She is a proud haughty beauty and it irritated her ex- ex ex exceedingly to be b known not so much for lor her o own charms as because becan she was the lh successor of ot a chorus girl with whom Mr Gould had shared for several years a note unhappy life She loudly to her ber husband but but while he h was all aR sympathy ho be DO did not ece o what on an earth there was he h could do about It it He had bad won the last of the many ny suits soils which Edith Kelly Kelly- K Uy has bas been bringing against him ever since sineo their diva and e aced iid be b was to t go to any lengths length to Ton wm the next one oo the she doubtless would woold brink bring He H did dad not relish Edith tellys telly's tr use c of the ae Gould Could family ninny to advertise her bel- herself self elf m in the tho musIC Basic halls balls any belt better z than thaD hIS wife wife but but- his hia lawyers could suggest no WIrY way of his bis putting patting a stop top to it so long the At kept kepi out of f F France nce Mrs Ers Mrs Goold Gould Could at last lw had to resign her herself self to Ur the belief that f for the present noting could be b done done but her boy h heart roo ro- rc marred mamed full of o bitterness and she sh was to- to the fh they by t husband her patt to th to lay ch xi J v f a aA e A ary z zy y i 4 r i tir a c ci i x w wT T s st t sr r f fFrank Frank J Gould Could the central central figure in so 0 many matrimonial troubles that kept bobbing up to annoy her and make her social progress more d difficult At last the th opportunity came Riding one ne day in m her limousine Mrs Gould spied high up on the side aide sid of a building a poster postel that brought from her bel lips a gasp of indignation and amazement In letters larger and more mor flaming naming of o color than Mrs Gould bad had ever seen the poster announced ed the th appearance at the Alhambra Blu Music Hallof Hall Han of the th celebrated dancer MADAME EDITH KELLY GOULD The word Gould was Wa In the th most gigantic type the most flamboyant 1 edora of o aIL IL I shrieked Mrs Gould turned away her eyes to shut out oct the t hateful sight but it was no use Wherever she looked she saw moro more oI of those posters The proud name nam of o Gould seemed to have hav I been smeared on OB every nery very billboard and vacant wall in Pans Pana Abandoning the th shopping on which she was starting she drove straight home to toll ten her husband what she sh had seen HIS indignation boiled as hotly hoUy as hers Ho summoned hr his lawyers into confer confer- conference conference ence and instructed them to take legal at action action- at once to this have ha this v business stopped stepped 1 I A lr i g v v 9 1 ft pW 4 t w r I YAK j t n T s Edith Kelly Gould Could who lost her British citizenship when she married an Ameri Ameri- American American can ceased to be an American when he J divorced her and has no legal claim on i any other country ji The courts were asked ased to establish an automata fine of 50 50 for each tune time Edith Kelly danced under the Gould Guld G uld name and j for each time a theat theat- J also a fine of 00 e a e manager manazer permitted her ber to be soap so J ap apa I billed Goulds Gould's Goulds Gould's demand was based on the which a divorced French law requires mi He alleged almi al- al mie e wife to resume her maiden name that Edith Kelly was dancing in g X Pans Paris under the family name mine solely to yv 1 embarrass and aggravate hun him tS e Of course Edith Kelly opposed the tho th r snit vigorously Many think she would would if she the had not never have come to Paris r expected to get the chance to drag her herx x 9 former husband into court r t y Frau Frank Gould finally succeeded In m hav hay lug ing his former w wife e barred fr m l ly y hIS name In her ber stage work but his vie VIC VICtory viea a a ato to tory cannot have brought him anything like the satisfaction Edith Kelly got out outI f fa a I ot of the contest even though she was tech tech-e tech gL beaten In fact Gould and hIS present w wife e are thought secretly to feel that It would have been better for them ff-ay ff if they had never gone to law about p F those horrid posters d a If they had smothered their indignation indignation A Ao AL ALion o tion Lion very probably Edith Kelly would not rv v L have remained in 10 Paris Pans more than two 4 y or three weeks But as a result of the yi The Th beauty eb ea ut great publicity the row with her former kr H whom husband gave her she the remained several Mr Gould months She proved one of the th greatest 1 seems drawing cards the Alhambra ever had 1 3 likely and each time her contract was renewed never never- to she is said to have been given a large hear theine the thelast ine of at salary i last of During all this time to the intense I disappointment and embarrassment of 1 the present Mrs Mrs- Gould ParIS Pans talked of little else The papers printed columns about the case the cartoonists and car car- cari caricaturists had bad no end of fun with It it Edith Kelly Icily had a brilliant lawyer who fully understood the th value to her of this publicity Dunn During the trial he made many sarcastic comments on Goulds Gould's wooing of the th dancer He called the at- at attention attention at attention ot of f the court to the fact fad that the marrying of o actresses is rather a habit with the th men of the Gould family He said he believed one on of ot them had married mamed mameda a bareback rider mI in m a I circus Therefore be he could not nt see se why II a Gould who danced should be a dIshonor to the th family traditions tradition And And besides besides he wanted to know isn't Gould a II fairly common name Even the th efforts of o Goulds Gould's process servers to serve the th papers paper in t the th SUit put money in Edith Kellys Kelly's pockets and added to the fie embarrassment of ot her former for former mer husband and sad his has wJ wife wit e E Edith suc- suc succeeded sac suc succeeded seeded in dodging them for tor a long time time tim and when one finally reached her with the summons to court it while was was while she sho was tilting sitting in m her bathtub A situation combining the risque and the comic so curiously as this was just the thing to stir the th interest of Parisians and make them eager to see seo the pretty dan dancer er whose privacy had been Invaded In this way by a persistent process server erver Now Edith Kelly KeDy is 3 making one on more mOn mortry try to get some som of the th Gould money money to which she sh thinks s she sh is entitled but she has serious senous d doubts about the success of her suit snit since s she abe d discovered that she sh IS ISa isa ua a a country She fears that Prank Frank Goulds Gould's shrewd lawyers will find tind some som way of ot turning this tact fad to her disadvantage ther Certainly they will try to find a II way lf if the present Mrs Gould has anything to say about matter and matter and undoubtedly she will hava deal to say just as she she- shedid did matter of the fhe- posters poster 1 |