Show 0 o 0 o o a aa ao Q a And Will the Former Dolly Fleischmann Find Handsome OBrien O'Brien Jay r I 1 x s Worth the g Fortune Her Hurry to X J 1 y Marry Him Has Cost Heri tx c A 1 I 1 7 I El j I t tI I 1 3 y I Y F ti til l a SN I 1 a 4 F h I I 1 4 1 1 3 fi 4 1 ii 0 0 Y r T A r ZY S 'S f M h Handsome Jay OBrien O'Brien who represents to his newest wife a avalue avalue avalue value of nearly times his weight in gold THEN lIEN a woman describes her W husband as worth his weight ingold ingold in gold the remark is generally regarded as a harmless extravagance meaning that she thinks him bim an ideal love mate But Dut the former Mrs Dolly Fleisch Fleisch- Fleischmann mann Fleisch-mann mann has in her new husband Jay ODrien OBrien a husband who represents a cost to her o of nearly six hundred times what his body would be worth at the United Stags Sta s Assay Office i if every ounce o of its flesh and bone were the finest gold Mr OBrien O'Brien the gay idol o of fashion fashion- fashionable fashionable able polo fields and ballrooms on both sides of the Atlantic weighs in the neighborhood of pounds when he is not playing polo or dancing more than he usually does docs Call it a round two hundred In a computation where such large figures are involved a few pounds more or less makes little either difference difference either to Mr OBrien O'Brien or the wife who paid such a high price for tor him bim or anybody else In order to have bave Mr OBrien O'Brien for a husband Dolly Fleischmann sacrificed a fortune of which she otherwise would have inherited from the late Julius Fleischmann who died shortly after she divorced him five Thirty five million dollars Divide that by tho the pounds Mr ODrien OBrien weighs and you ou get the rate at which as it now turns out the for for- former former for former mer Mrs Fleischmann paid for him him- him the staggering rate of a pound If the new Mrs OBrien O'Brien thinks she got a good bargain when she gave up upa upa upa a fortune of for this hus- hus husband hus husband band o of hers she can truthfully say that he is worth many many times his weight in gold According to the Assay Office stand stand- standards standards ards a grain of gold is worth a fraction more than four cents The exact figure is something like Since there are grains in an avoirdupois pound a pound of gold it is worth If It the pounds of flesh and bone forming the man called Jay OBrien O'Brien were all pure gold his body would therefore have a cash value of But it cost the former Mrs Julius Fleischmann to take him for a husband as she the did and aud he therefore represents to her a value of nearly times his weight in ingold ingold gold old In all the annals of marriage and di divorce orce there thero is no record of any other woman who sacrificed anything thing like such suchs s tremendous sum as this in order to be rid of one husband and have haveL she thought though suited her better And is the former Dolly Fleischmann perfectly e ly satisfied with the tho bargain she sho shem mods when hen the ebe let a 11 fortune of S g uia ir cl S ber y y p u al l lu to marry Jay OBrien O'Brien Just Jui t no n soon as f n e 1 could i 5 NJ i a 6 sy m 0 4 Irene Fenwick one of the two previous Mrs Jay now OBrien O'Briens Mrs Lionel Barrymore That is the interesting question While there is no doubt that she was wasand wasand wasand and still is madly in love with her new husband there is every reason to think that she may wish she had not been so precipitate about marrying marring him If she had curbed her love for such sucha a tantalizingly little while if she had postponed her divorce for only a few months she could have had Jay OBrien O'Brien and also the great fortune Mr Fleisch Fleisch- Fleischmann Fleischmann mann had planned for her to have She could have become Mrs OBrien O'Brien with with- without without out sacrificing a penny of the that is now as lost to her as though she had never been the tho yeast east kings king's wife But Dut even Dolly Fleischmanns Fleischmann's shrewd womanly intuition could not warn her of the grim trick love and death were joining hands bands to play play-a play a trick that makes her life forever haunted by the tragic thought of of what might have been Such foreknowledge was impossible for her in the days when Jay O'Brien's fascinating personality cast its spell over her and made her think she could not endure living any longer with the ador- ador adoring ador adoring ing but elderly millionaire she was ceas- ceas ceasing ceas ceasing ing to love In those days a II share of the fortune Mr Fleischmann would leave when he died seemed a thing far oft off in the future future-a future a possibility so remote that even she with all her youth might not live long enough to realize it Julius Fleischmann was still in his early fifties and a man vigorous and well preserved The way he played polo and indulged in other strenuous a activities seemed to make his living a along along along long time a reasonable certainty pers certainty per per perhaps haps twenty thirty or even forty years ears Heed teed not the rumble of a II distant drum Dolly Fleischmanns Fleischmann's love whis whis- whispered whispered in her ear car And she could not resist the temptation She preferred the immediate joy of Jay O'Brien's love loveto to waiting what she thought would be a along along along long long time form fora for a fortune When Julius Fleischmann discovered that his young wife was losing her heart to the man ho he himself had introduced to her he went to unheard of lengths to hold her to him To the fortune in jewels he had al- al already al already ready showered her with he added an- an another an another other million dollars worth of diamonds pearls and emeralds lie had his liis bankers transfer to her securities y Hut But noa of he View gifts g ts drought brought the they rAm e of or continued allegiance that to he stems seems to have wanted v more than any any- anything anything thing else in life Then Julius Fleisch- Fleisch The late Julius Fleis Fleischmann the mann J-mann mann laid at the feet of his straying wife his last great offering otTering of love and hope It was a will that made her the heiress to the bulk of the fortune he had built out of t the h e pennies pennies o yeast cakes If you oU will c cling Ing I to me as long as Ij I j live he as h her e r you K shall be o one of f the riche richest t s 4 women rn e world ld Here inthe it all IS in black and white white-a WI II Ii that 0 is contest contest- proof a will tho give s you an d II a fortune ya o of f at least leas t 35 X k h Mi r N v 71 y tr But love ma mad d Zi e I D Dolly lIy Fleischmann rejected this glit term g otTer offer She c t bear to t think I Ift of delaying f t f r ti her ft flight Ig ht into Jay fr t O'Brien's arms any b 3 M 10 not longer not even for the sa kf 0 More future fortune fit t s fi fia a t x She sal 1 no Paris Palls t to 0 begin SUit s Bat for no di divorce And r s sas d t 4 Y as she sailed Julius Fleisch FIKh 4 mann more grieving og than hou angry tore up the he will that had been h his IS last b hope ope of v holding his wife The new one which was promptly drawn up cut Dolly off otT without a penny and was careful to mention that that she had already been well provided for That was the end of the long and desperately fought struggle struggle over Dolly Fleischmann in which love age and mil millions love lions had been pitted against love and youth The prize went as it sd 54 so often often does in struggles of this kind to the contestant who had youth on his side It was not until six months months after her marriage to Jay OBrien O'Brien that death sprang the trap into which love l lad had ad lured her and revealed with shocking clearness the full extent of what her precipitate marriage cost Before her divorce was a year ear old Mr Fleischmann the man whom every everybody body had thought good for many years of life suddenly died Death occurred just a n few months too late lale to give Dolly Fleischmann both the freedom from him she wanted and the millions he wanted her to have If she had kept her love in check only a little while longer if she had resisted Jay OBrien O'Brien's impassioned be be- be bc seething for a few short months more she could have had of of th the Fleischmann fortune and also the man she loved There would have been Leen no divorce no cruel wrenching of her for for- rI Dr 11 fl o V 4 L j multimillionaire multi yeast king and the beautiful Dolly he tried so j hard to keep from rushing into Jay O'Brien's arms mer husbands husband's heart She would have bave had her new love and also the great fortune Julius Fleischmann offered her herfor herfor herfor for remaining by his side as long as he lived Was Pas there ever a gre great t fortune more dramatically lost than the one which the former Mrs Fleischmann missed when she rushed so 10 eagerly into the divorce court a year ago The new Mrs Jay OBrien O'Brien has the distinction of possessing a husband who probably represents a greater cost than any other womans woman's But Dut will she find happiness enough elough to make him worth the she lost by rushing so impetuously into his arms Jay OBrien O'Brien is famous as a polo player a dancer and an international town about man about But up to date he has achieved no celebrity either in the mak making ing lag or the conserving of millions On the contrary ho he has the reputation of being one of the most reckless spenders who has ever dazzled the capitals of Europe and America with his extravagances extravagances gances Mr OBrien O'Brien ly iy not at all wealthy His Ilis IU I y Mae Mac Murray r the film beauty r who yoho divorced Mr OBrien O'Brien several years ago fame as a husband a man worth a pound is baseden based en- en entirely en entirely on what it cost his latest w wife fe to marry him just as she did She brings him a comparatively small perhaps fortune perhaps three or four millions in jewels and securities which the late Julius Fleischmann gave her before their divorce But so expensive are Mr O'Brien's tastes that many doubt if it this fortune will be enough to last him bim and his bride for more than a year or so If I this If-this this gloomy prediction comes true the former Dolly Fleischman will have greater cause than ever to be tormented by thoughts of what might have been This is Mr O'Brien's third venture into matrimony but the first fast one in which he has had a wealthy woman for fora fora a love mate His previous wives were Irene Fenwick and Mae Murray the stage and screen beauties both of whom divorced him and ami married some one else And what must be Mr O'Brien's reo re- reaction re reaction painful action to the painful fact that if he ha and his bride had postponed their love lovo match just a few short months he ho would have ha h had d to help spend instead he former Mrs Dolly Fleisch who would to-day to be one of richest women in the world if hc had delayed her divorce just afew afew a afew few months of a paltry three or four millions Must he not share all his wife's bitter regrets How can he help wishing that than he had not wooed her quite so impulsively impulsively and that that she had not been so eager to listen to his pleas The loss of his young oung wife was the great misfortune of Julius Fleischmann life She was the other woman named when his first wife and the mother of his three Children hildren divorced him She was the former Dolly Leach who about a year before had divorced Louis G C Heminway a wealthy silk manufacturer Her marriage marriage marriage to Fleischmann took days after his first wife obtained her divorce Their life together was happy until the fallo fall o of 1923 The signs of trouble came soon after Handsome Jay ODrien OBrien became a frequent visitor to the Long Island home of the Fleisch manns Fleisch-manns manns It was not long before he and the glowing Dolly bei began n to b be seen more and more together r C Their interest in each other became common gossip and everybody wondered what Dollys Dolly's husband would do about it it il But Dut the Julius late Fleischmann was liS willing to forgive forg e almost anything if he could only hold bold the young oung wife lie He persisted in his earnest efforts to keep her until she had actually obtained I a divorce in the French courts Even en then he had nothing except the most heartfelt admiration tp to express for her Doll Dolly he said only a few weeks before his death is the most beautiful and charming woman I have ever seen or expect to see But the millionaires millionaire's generosity great as it was did not stretch to the point o of allowing her to remain remain his chief legatee lIe He destroyed his old willand will and made a new one which did nothing for his former except wife wife except to make mako her new husband the costliest any woman woman ever had I |