Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1927-01-05 | Page 11 | Countess Dies in Obscurity

COUNTESS DIES IN OBSCURITY American Girl Arose to Social He Height Though Once Poor NEW W YORK Jan 5 Wy 5 By The Tue Associated The Press Press Th Countess who as Mabel Mabe ht rose from front a lI second cond rate rat New NewYork NewYork NewYork York boarding house hous to social eminence is dead in Budapest rays Jays the New lew York American to- to today today to today day Once she was th the greatest beauty New York York Newport York Newport e Pier so society lety ever er feted but her last days were pathetic and lamentable says say the Ameri Amen American American can A lingering Illness had re- re removed re removed moved all alt traces traCos of ot tho the beauty that won her social recognition and the th World orld war wor robbed her or of orthe the bulk of ot her finances l I SOCIAL SOCI Jac EIE IThe El The article tells how hov Mabel Wright spent all aU her Iler meager say say- sayings sav savings ings on summery dresses in prep prep- preparation preparation oration tor for a grand frand fling at Narragansett Pier and how she Bhe Immediately was accepted by so- so society so society clet No one troubled to ask ask- about Mabels Mabel's antecedents says the American Her beauty and grace paved the way for tor her and oh alt soon caught ht the th attention of ot Mrs Oliver II IL P Belmont Delmont then Mu Mrs William K Vanderbilt IAnnIE DIVORCEE IH Through Mrs Belmont Delmont 1 label Mabel WrIght met r sugar planter was mar mar mar- married clad ried to Mrs airs Belmont's Delmont's sister at I tho the time but two years inter the separated and shortly afterward married Mabel 1 Wright They were subsequently divorced and Mabil marrIed Count a member of ot on one or of Hungary's oldest families The countess was the mother of Count Edward who thre three years ago o married Charlotte Charlotto De- De Demarest mareEt De-mareEt marcel marest here at the municipal building an art hour before the time set for tor her per church wedding to George George- Burton Durton